BARRICADES OF CORPSES.
GERMANS' FEARFUL LOSSES. LONDON, March 26. Reuter's correspondent - at British heidquartei's says : — ' Yesterday a British infantry bayonet charge broke the enemy ranks and secured 120 prisoners. One battalion of the • 24th Division captured a post in a great quarry commanding one of the main lines of tho enemy advance and fought to the last man. delaying the enemy and piling up corpses in a semicircular * barricade breast high around the quarry. Fulfilling the traditional crush-through tactics, tho ; German infantry is pushing forward unsupported by artillery, tho High Command trusting to overwhelming weight to break down all resistance, and affording a unique opportunity fur our field guns to spray the human swarm's. Yesterday^ at Higli Wood and Delville Wood, the machine-gunners simply carpeted the earth with corpses before . retiring. Before long the Fatherland must be asking the price at which the offensive is being waged.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 6
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