CONFUSED FIGHTING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 827, 4 October 1916, Page 8

CONFUSED FIGHTING.

SMALL PARTIES ISOLATED. LOST IN NO MAN'S" LAND. "The Times" Service. LONDON, October 3. "The Times" correspondent at the western headquarters gives instances of the confused nature of the fighting which is proceeding. There is, he says, an indescribable waste of shell-holes, ragged trench lines, in which isolated parties of soldiers, sometimes over-eagerly, push beyond the advance and become lost in "No Man's Land." Nearly all return, straggling back at intervals or hiding in shell-holes or empty trenches until a British advance enables them to rejoin their units. Sometimes Germans stray into the British lines.