MOST DEVILISH.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 8

MOST DEVILISH.

FIGHTING AT THIEPVAL. LONDON, October 1. Mr Philip Gibbs, writing in the '"Daily Chronicle," says:— "Some of the New Army men describe their adventures with the enemy at Thiepval as a most devilish experience. The enemy took six hours to get his barrage iixed, as he was not quite sure of his own soldiers' whereabouts. The barrage was colossal when it came. Many of our men lay about wounded. It was difficult to get them to safely. The work of digging in at night on tfee captured line was a brave job.

"In the Hessian trench a private soldier met two German officers, and 22 men. He emptied his revolvers at them, and then picked up German rifles and tired at the group, who lied. The British soldier chased them, picking them oil' with abandoned rifles until only one remained unwounded. He brought him in a prisoner."