HOLDING TRENCHES.
LONDON, June 10. Earl Stanhope, who is just from the front and is returning to-day, said he was not revealing a secret in saying what every German staff officer knew —that the’ French, broadly speaking, held trenches with a few rifles and the support of 75=millimetre guns; we held ours principally by rifle fire. The first system was expensive in ammunition, the second expensive In life. It ought to be publicly announced broadcast that every slack wasted day at the factory meant so many lives. If the Government and public men generally spoke the whole truth there would be much less difficulty in getting recruits. Munitions were a necessity. Gas ought also to be realised. As the Germans had chosen a wicked method of warfare, and had become outlaws, they must be treated as vermin and stamped out.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3196, 16 June 1915, Page 25
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140HOLDING TRENCHES. Otago Witness, Issue 3196, 16 June 1915, Page 25
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