FRENCH INFANTRY CHARGE GERMAN GUNNERS.
LIKE PIKE SNAPPING UP GUDGEON.
ENEMY STUNNED BY FEROCITY OF BOMBARDMENT.
(Received September 30. 1 a.m.)
London, September 29. In the Champagne the Germans were stunned by the ferocity of the bombardment and its complete devastation. The trenches were full of German bodies. Everywhere huge craters had been formed by the collapse of subterranean defences under high explosives.
The French wounded describe how they charged the German gunners. ''We leapt upon them like pike snapping up gudgeon," they said. "The gunners were completely dazed and did not try to use the gVins. One of our companies captured a battery of seventy-sevens. The gunners raised their arms in despair. What troubled us most was the prisoners, who clogged our communication trenches."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16036, 30 September 1915, Page 8
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