WORSE THAN ANY DRINK MADDENED DREAM OF HELL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 8

WORSE THAN ANY DRINK MADDENED DREAM OF HELL.

SPECTACLE MOREi FJ^JB&i' THAN MUNDi^qULD PIOTURE. March IC The enemy is still holding ioUt 'm Achiet le Petit and Bw^uo^?' though "'I believe liia residence isyTiOt* fiit&fi Wi%? From Miat I saw to-day, watchlftg our bombardment -.of the line to ' which be retreated, it . seema certain he will -be compelled to leaver m ai'' hurry , ;-' j'u'b# --.as: he left Loupart Wood the night before -task I'?'1 '?' '';-. ■" As I -went <ovei*- the -bat'tlelields' 4 to-day,'' it became visible to me- that the 'enemy had** suffeted'-'fche' *mt»t devilirfi .torments m the ground from which he i** how i*etreating. All north of t Couroelette, *up by- Miraumont* »rid"-Fy a fi&hd belo^vLoupairt,' this wild cha<>9*a#y«d sb-'^rptiurned by* the shell fire • that ohe's 'gorg I ** riseg^ at the &ight-£>?"fcfl^||^^^ of tho mother eitfm, ***#h|dh. '■$&' .I' sbf&vra. with* bodies .of? deicd (^^aii^'Sc^ifers.^ TKey half buried their o6miade*, W 'by' high ; expl^iv«^4ti&m<^ aWve the aoll' fififiXk_ ovf ac^efai tpi the sky; --.*..-.-;.-.-,.-:-. -fifi fi .; •f.-vM, ; *- -.-. A SHAMBI^-C<EI^R(^PS.' --fi I stood ' to^arj^inf a raivihe^ it^%hjSu the Regina tr^nhT^lea'*^^ and Miraumont, and not' a&y ' ni6rbid dream of an iAbwntfae-ij»ddene(L' dream, of hell cou-ldSb-l nßS^e 36A*M ti«w what I stared~*t efewtding-^iere^wijtfiHhe rain ' beating' ' «me; '■< acroea. v the field, and the roar of guns on every side, and the long, ryudiing^whistles ot 'heayy. shells m flight over Loupart- Wood. - .The place was-a* shaml)l^ i 'p{-^erman. troops. ThOT bad. h^ ?ffitoifl#e**giitf -Vsm^ placements here and *•* -■ ■ 'depprv-'ougout: under cover of earth banks, bitt our guns had found tlysm ,out and jpoured fire upon them. -fltAtt^tl^^mß^ killed and ctit to before <**r^'«ftfer, death . The bodies and fragments lay m every shape a-nd Shapelessness of; death, "m PV»4d^^f m broken trenches, or on the edges^a^^eep^pSads, 'iixyshell craters. TJi^ ,wq,tj<s* yi^id green about them, or -red as- blood with the color of high', explosive? gases. Some of our dead lfty ,aniqhg- them, 'but^iif -<>f ' 850 lying hereabouts, '7oo. were -drerma-n soldiers '•'*''**■»*. . . * .■ ' r ■ SHELLS IM.V& NOPHING^ ALIVE. ' Thia gunfire of ours continued to-day as yeatei^day^aiid Igives Jio.thing alive or wlwle, and yrhsn i£iJß concentrated -on a place like l^ ttjja^lr '•'.«£ deliberate m smashing lfc • y^Here; it had . flung up machine arid v !made rubbish heap* <ef- -'easenients - and guns. It had broken Jhpn^ri&d^of rifles into matchwood and"flttrig'up the/kit® the men from the deep dugouts, 'littering the earth witflv puueiies-andf helmet»*.arid bits of clothing. W;here.L. stood-* waa only one patch of gi'ound "on .the great battl^eld. It' is all like that, though ejapwhere thS*dea<L..are not' 60 thickly clustered. Fw^miles -jt j B pitted with , ten-foot cratetSr---^terminglpig, : ■* "and leavingi not a yard of earth . untouclifed. W??. °^ S reai obsdenity, killing* for all inttef the : legend -of War's . * glory j arid romance. , . . TJie secret of the German retreat is hereon this grouhd. To save-them-selves from another shaAbles, they are falling back to new; lines, where; they hope to be safer from -our massed aitillery, but as I saw i^,to»-da,y Your gttnfire is following them -cloeely and^^ forcing tihem bacJCr at a. harder , pace, and killing them -«ts go., fi The horror of war is still cl^/^ thfe^ will never end till the wa^f ; ends, • though it may be long, O Ixwdyfrom ppw.