WAY STILL FAR TO GO.
WARNING NOTE SOUNDED Mr Phillip Gibbs, continuing his story, writes: " Passing over the parapets I saw the whole panorama of the battleground. It was but an ugly, naked plain, rising to Hulluck and Haisne on tho north, and falling to Loos on €lO east, find rising again to Hill 70. 1 saw two men clad in khaki carrying a German pas cylinder, whistling as they passed. The ' German trenches ' run across tho open ground, with the dead still heaped about them in a mass of horror. Down below in tho town of Loos they wero digging out the dead from deep cellars, removing them for burial and piling up German helmets, letters, weapons, and a great store of booty. One warning must be written. We made a successful advance, but there for the pre.-?.nt it ends, and the peoplo at Home will be bitterly disappointed if they expect to read of the capture of a town every time they sit down to breakfast. , "Wo achievo a magnificent success, but the way is still far to go before the end comes." ■ j i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 6
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187WAY STILL FAR TO GO. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 6
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