DELVILLE WOOD.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14147, 26 July 1916, Page 5

DELVILLE WOOD.

DEATH TRAP FOR BRITISH AND

GERMANS

SITUATION At"hIGH WOOD

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received July 25, 6.30 p.m.) London, July 24

Mr Philip Gibbs, writing on Friday, says: "The Tommies call Delville Wood Devil's Wood, and it really is a devilish place. It has proved a death trap and Germans.

for liritisl

The fi girting continues hotly at Delville Wood, and also at High Wood, previously cabled as Fbureaux Wood, lyirig north-west*. The Germans have the advantage of defence in Delville Wood, and have placed machine guns behind a bariicade of great tree trunks, while sharp-shooters are hiding in the foliage.

The South Africans had not time to dig in before the German guns swept the Woods. The troops are now more

secure

The situation in High Wood is unchanged. We still hold the wood linking it with Longueval. Thus High Wood is the apex of a salient thrust like a spearhead into the German position.