PICTURES OF BATTLE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 245, 19 November 1914, Page 8

PICTURES OF BATTLE.

lKir ALUNU IMt IKILUSfc KlVfcK. RAMPARTS OF FLESH AND BLOOD. With the German Army before Metz, September 30, by courier to Holland and mail to New York.—A five-day trip to the front has been taken bv the cor-

RAMPARTS OF FLESH AND BLOOD.

With the German Army before Metz, September 30, by courier to Holland and mail to New York. —A five-day trip to the front has been taken by the correspondent of the Associated Press through the German fortresses of Mayence, Saerbruecken, and Metz; through the frontier region between Metz and the French fortress line from Verdun to Toul, into the actual battery positions from which German and Austrian heavy artillery were pounding their eight and twelve inch shells into the French barrier forts and into the ranks of the French field army, which has replaced the crumbling fortifications of steel and cement with ramparts of flesh and blood. Impressions at the end are those of some great industrial Undertaking with powerful machinery in full operation and endless supply trains bringing up the raw materials for fabrication, rather than of war as pictured.