DESPERATE BAVARIAN ASSAULTS

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

DESPERATE BAVARIAN ASSAULTS

PLOUGHED THROUGH AND THROUGH. A COMPANY SURRENDERS. Paris, July 9. Between Belloy and Estrees the Bavarian 17tn Division suffered seriously in six successive assaults. French machine gun batteries ploughed through and through two regiments. A Bavarian company was surrounded in a building at Belloy Berney and surrendered.

A GREAT DESTRUCTIVE MINE.

A SEVEN MONTH PREPARATION. IT WENT UP.

Australian and N. Z. Cable Association. Received, July 10, 0,55 a.m. / London, July 8. A wounded sergeant gives a graphic description of a monster mine which was exploded at Beaumont Hamel. It took crack Lancashire miners seven months to excavate the exploding chamber which was as big as a picture palace. Fatigue parties were always being wanted to carry earth out and carry explosives in. They used to ask- the miners, “Ain’t your d —d grotty ever going up?’L The sergeant added “But by Lord it went up all right on the Ist of July. Half the village got a rise. The air was full of waggons, wheels, horses, boxes and Germans.” THAT NIGHT OF NIGHTS. PREPARATIONS FOR THE PUSH UNIMAGINABLE ACTIVITY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received July 10, 8.50 a.m. London, July 9. Captain A. 1.1. Dawson, novelist, in an article dealing with the wounded on the Somme, said only those commanding units can imagine th 6 night before that memorable Saturday, can imagine the tense crowded preoccupation of that night ot nights, the crowding in of men along the muddy burrows of that vast warren, endless carrying of ammunition, bombs, tools and the thousand and one activities in the midst of the wild inferno of bursting shells, soaring enemy lights and the deadly tick-tack of the Bocbe machine guns. 'What:, of the wounded—dazsd, bleeding, 'fainting and mortally thirsty?” • ; '