GERMANS MARCH INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH.
STORY OF THE ROUT OF THE PRUSSIAN GUARD. A THOUSAND KILLED, THREE THOUSAND WOUNDED. (Received November 19, 1230 a.m.) Paris, November 18. In a description of the smashing of the Prussian Guards at Zoonebecke, the Times' correspondent says the Germans shelled our trenches with lyddite and shrapnel for eight hours. It was impossible to send relief until nightfall. The Germans massed the Prussian Guards, and drove us back by sheer weight of numbers, trench by trench. The British defended stubbornly until the Prussians came within 60yds of a point at which our artillery was hidden. Suddenly the British lines dispersed on either side, leaving a huge gap through which the Prussian Guards poured, wildly cheering. Into the jaws of death came the finest of the Kaiser's troops. From a distance of 50yds our field guns belched forth hell pointblank. The Black Watch savagely charged for a mile. A thousand of the enemy were killed, and three thousand wounded. The British artillery followed up the retreating Germans, and shelled their line a mile further away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15770, 19 November 1914, Page 7
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181GERMANS MARCH INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15770, 19 November 1914, Page 7
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