WHEN THE GUNS STOPPED.
HOW THE GERMANS WERE SAVED. The Ribe Stiflstidende, the principal newspaper on the German frontier, whose excellent connection with German military ; circles has been repeatedly demonstrated, I has received the following from a German officer, who was present during the great [ French offensive in Champagne from September 25 to 27:—"The Germans in this | fighting," says the officer, came within an i ace of total disaster, and were fully pre- ! pared to leave their second line. Their 1 artillery was unspanned, and the infantry was ready to march off when the bombardj ment suddenly ceased. Had it lasted anI other two hours the situation, which was then indescribably critical, would have developed into a complete rout, because the Germans were in a state of utter and unprecedented confusion, and almost hors de combat. The sudden silence of the bombardment impressed everyone as a miraculous escape unparalleled *in the annals of war."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16121, 8 January 1916, Page 8
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