PUZZLING PLANS.
APPARENT WITHDRAWAL. FEARSOME GERMAN LOSSES. luifrufian and S.Z. CabU Auociatitn. LONDON, October 3. Mr Philip Gibbs writes:—"The German plans on the Somme are puzzling, and look as if the enemy were making a gradual withdrawal, masked by sharp counter blows to check the quickness of our advance. "Not many Germans were left alive in the iirst and second trenches defending the old monastery at Eaucourt. They were heaped with corpses killed during the 12 hours' bombardment. Most of the enemy ran at the approach
of the British bayonets. The Germans appear to be strong at le Sars at a little quadrilateral redoubt near by. The enemy's losses have been fearsome, and the men taken prisoner cry out against the massacre, blaming their commanders, their air service, and their artillery for their awful state."'
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 828, 5 October 1916, Page 7
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