THE ALLIES' ENTRENCHMENTS

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5726, 1 October 1914, Page 2

THE ALLIES' ENTRENCHMENTS

GERMANS TRY TO KEEP THEM AT ARM'S LENGTH.

SMASHED BY THE ENGLISH RIFLES. London, September 29. The Times' militarry correspondent says:—"Our entrenched lines are gradually approachng the German position, and this accounts for the nervous anxiety of the enemy to keep the Allies at arm's length. "At one point the Germans made 22 attempts on our lines, six in great force, and nearly all were smashed to pieces within 450 yards of thfi English rifles. Only one came within 150 yards." The French worked a successful ruse at one spot in the battle front. The infantry supporting the batteries were placed at the edge of a wood in order to draw the German fire. The soldiers constructed a dummy cannon from a handcart and the trunk of a tree, the forepart being hollowed out and oiled with powder. A Taube aeroplane reconnoitred, and puffs of smoke completed the illusion. The Germans opened a furious cannonade and finally overturned the tree.