BATTLE OF SOISSONS.
- MOST TRYING ITME OF WAR. HOW THE BRITISH FOUGHT. LONDON, Sept. 21. Mr Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, cabling from Ohalens on Saturday, says: — "When a great storm was raging at Soissone on Thursday and Friday, flooding the trenches, the British forces had the most trying time of the war. Tlie storm tried their nerves and souls to • the last point of human endurance. Several who' left the trenches on special missions looked as if they had been through a torture chamber. They-suf-fered .nameless horrors, being chilled to. the bone and shaking m every limb. Nevertheless, there was no grousing..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3
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103BATTLE OF SOISSONS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3
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