STRATAGEMS THE GERMANS DID NOT KNOW.
BRITISH REMEMBER LESSONS OF SOUTH AFRICA.
ENEMY ADVANCE IN SOLID, SQUARE BLOCKS.
(Received August 29, 7,20 p.m.)
London, August 28.
Sergeant Loftus, in a letter from the front, says When the British artillery opened, the Germans replied. They did not know 01 the shelter trick we learned from the Boers- The German infantry came along in solid, square blocks, standing out sharply agaiD*=t the skyline. We could not help hitting them. The Germans rushed like, mad at our trenches. Some of the British continued, the volley, but crack shots indulged in independent firing, another trick learned from | the Boers, Finally we mowed down the Germans, with bullet and j bayonet."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15701, 31 August 1914, Page 6
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