PICTURES OF HORROR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 7

PICTURES OF HORROR.

AWFUL RESULTS OF SHELLFIKE;

'.< EVEN THE BRAVEST TREMBLES. '".'

... : "Times", and •"Sydney Sun!J Services. (Received November 27, 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 26. A German 'soldier's diary, referring to the effects of shellfire, , .says:—' . '' "When shells; are dropping in front, • behind,' arid to the right. And ;left, v to remain in expectation "of death or injury, -without being able to. make.] any resistance and to: hear the screams, of the wounded who cannot .receive Attention'in the narrow trenches, .is a sensan tipn applicable only to those who? have' experienced it." ' •■ ■ :•. Another jsoldier who retreated under a terrible .shell and rifle fire* says: "You could just imagine it was hell opened lip and pouring out fire from a thousand praters." '-'' . "'""■ "' . *' ;''.'', ''■ '

A Bavarian .non-commissioned officer writes:— ■ :-,:•*:•■■■.

"Many villages are in ruins, and are like slaughterhouses. Dead, horses and bodies of men torn to pieces in

pools of blood' form a picture of ..'horror. The enemy's shellfire is and, through all,; we hear the cries of the wouiided'. Even, the : bravest of us tremble's, and men tell their rosaries continually. Only One above can, help : W' V : "' ''.'' ' ■ • •