HOW THE GERMANS LIVED ON MESSINES RIDGE.
CROUCHED IN HOLES AWAITING THEIR DOOM.
CONFESSION OF HELPLESSNESS AGAINST THE BRITISH. Eeuter ' (Received 11 p.m.) LONDON. July 3. A correspondent on the British front gives an extract from a letter written by a German, found on Messines Ridge. " For fourteen days there has been a dreadful fire day and night. We crouch together in holes awaiting our doom, wearing gas masks, as the English fire gas shells and hundredweights of aerial torpedoes. Trench work is impossible with the shrapnel falling all night. So far our division, which is composed of three regiments, has lost 3400 men in barely three months. We are quite helpless against the British. We cannot sit or lie down, and our artillery cannot fire by day. We all hope we will be taken prisoners, otherwise we will all go mad."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16583, 5 July 1917, Page 5
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