TERRIBLE CONDITIONS ON WESTERN FRONT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 883, 8 December 1916, Page 7

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS ON WESTERN FRONT.

RAINS TRANSFORM COUNTRY INTO MORASS SOLDIERS' STERN FIGHT AGAINST HARDSHIPS. Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 8. 9 a.m.) LONDON, December 7. Mr I'liilij) Gibbs states that ;i white, moist fo<r overhangs the West front, and the men are like ghosts. They arc having a hard time, without comforts, shelter, or rest, and are enduring cold and the foul conditions following the November rains. They are having a sheer fight for life against natural hardships. The inhumanity of the weather seemed more important to them than the with the enemy. The Candians had hideous adventures at Courcclette, the men bringing np supplies falling into ice-cold water, but during the recent fighting they carried on unbeaten, despite the surrounding morass of misery.