ARTILLERY DRIVEN OVER DEAD BODIES.
REMORSELESSNESS OF THE GER
MAN TROOPS.
PARIS, August 25. Terrible stories are told by the French wounded who aro m tho hospital at Vichy regarding the fighting m Lorraine. . ■ .
The- Germans, they -say, fought from wide trenches at Circy. The French bullets killed hundreds of the enemy, but as one man fell another stepped into his place. N "Our bullets," said one French soldier, "rained death until the trenches were full to tho brim of dead bodies."
When the German artillery hid to advance it passed over dead bodies as though over solid ground. The sight was horrible, and no better illustration could be given of the remorselessness of the Germans. < ...
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13516, 20 October 1914, Page 3
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