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

View of Battle Field,

From a point of observation on a hillside above St. Mibiel, the great battle field on which n .German army is endeavouring to break through the line of barrier forts between Verdun and Toul and the opposing French forces could be surveyed in its entirety.

In the foreground lay the level valley of the Meuse, with the- towns of St. Michel and Bannocour nestling on; the green landscape. Beyond and be- ! hind the valley rose a tier of hills on: which French, at this writing, obstinately hold an entrenched position,; checking the point of the German wedged while French forces from north and-south beat on the sideof the triangle* trying to force it back across the Meuse and out from the vitals of the Freach fortress: Haas.."

Bursting shells threw up their columns of white or black fog around the edge of the panorama. Cloudlets of white smoke here and * there showed where a position was being brought under shrapnel fire. An occasional aeroplane could ,J>e picked out, hovering over the lines, but the infantry could not be discerned even with a field glass, so cleverly had the armies taken to cover.