NEWS FROM THE FRONT
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY. TRYING TO THE NERVES. LONDON, Sept. 4 (a.m.) A Lance-Corporal of tho Connaught Rangers, who is wounded, states: "The disconcerting thing ill tho present fighting is that wo seldom see the enemy. We lay for ten hours in tho trenches last Saturday, rifle bullets falling liko rain drops, but we only saw a line of white puffs of smoke on the horizon when the Germans fired. It is a big test of a mart's fitness to put up with this for a day without losing liis nerve. We were fighting for three' days before we set eyes on the Germans. Then we had plenty of hand to hand fighting. The Germans sacrifice men for tho sake of making an impression in an appalling fashion. One British position was dominated by a. Germain battery and clearly could not bo held for long, yet the infantry attacked it in a long never-ending stream. Our rifle and gun fire tore hideous gaps in their ranks and tho Red Cross men afterwards picked up in that position above sixteen hundred Gorman dead and wounded. il'lie British loss was only twenty. Wc are wondering how long the Germans can keep up this sort of thing."'
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 8
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207NEWS FROM THE FRONT Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 8
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