STORM Of SHELLS.
BIG GUNS BELCHING FORTH. GERMANS SEEK TO CHECK THE ALLIES' ADVANCE. {Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) I LONDON, Sept. 5. The United Press correspondent states that m an endeavor for the moment to transform the retreat into a stand-off artillery battle, the Germans are unloosing big guns far m the rear on all points of the British advance. They are supplementing the strong line of heavy machine-guns along the Canal dv Nord. A storm of shells is methodically dropping along the present front line, and 1 the extensive use of gas and the flooding of valleys and woods indicates {': t Hindenburg is seeking to obtain • ■•■. initiative at least m the matter of his own retirement. The troops m the Manancourt district ai-e held up at the Canal, not only by machine guns, but by heavy shells, which permitted the Germans to essay a counter-attack, which, however, was repulsed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 3
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