GERMAN GUNS ON SOMME.
2100 CANNON AGAINST THE BRITISH AND FRENCH.
In a dispatch issued through tha.Exchange Telegraph Company, Mr Henry Wood, the special correspondent of th* United Press of . America with the French armies, writes; —
The German, artillery concentration on the Somme fronyiow consists of 85C pjiiiiion facing tl^^snglish, 650 facinf the French nortsPßf the Somme, anc 600 facing the. French south of tht Sommci — a total of 2100. ennnon, m comparison with the 2500 guns which liac" been concentrated for the attack agains Verdun.
Following 1 the capture by the Frencl and English of 500 guns from the Ger mans since the beginning of the >Somm< offensive, Allied aviators have been abli to establish the fact that the German: have adopted a systematic policy of plac ing their . artillery at \o, greater distant than formerly behind the lines for th( purpose of preventing! the capture oi guns by surprise attacks. 11 The Germans have also adopted tin policy of placing only one or tyro gun; qn encli emplacement instead of ar cintire battery, for- the purpose 'of 'reducing the losses of gung with the capture of an emplacement. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 8
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