HAVOC OF FRENCH FIRE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11619, 10 July 1916, Page 5

HAVOC OF FRENCH FIRE.

A BAVARIAN CAPTAIN’S STORY. GERMAN MORALE NOT PROOF' AGAINST IT. London, July 9, . j The Daily Chronicle’s Paris correspondent says a Bavarian captain I who wa« taken prisoner says that everything possible was done to strengthen the defences. The number of machine guns was tripled. It was expected there would be an attack on June 38th. For three days more the bombardement continued with increasing violence, and -onv moral and physical resistance began to diminish. We counted 900 shells a minute. The French must have discovered a new explosive. I have never seen such havoc. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS. Amsterdam, July 7. Various frontier reports state that the Germans are rushing reinforcements, mostly Bavarians, numbering I.lo*ooo, via St. Quentin, ■ - Twenty-six trainloads of yvounded i traversed Liege on Thursday,