BRITISH BOMBARDING DEDEAGATCH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14743, 23 October 1915, Page 7

BRITISH BOMBARDING DEDEAGATCH.

Press Association.—Telegraph— Copyright. Received October 23, 2.15 p.m. LONDON, October 22. Sofia announces that the British Fleet is ombarding Dedeagatch, on Bulgaria’s Aegean coast. CHAMPAGNE BATTLEFIELD VISITED. A RAVAGED DISTRICT. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES.' Received October 23, 2.30 p.m. \ PARIS, October 22. A correspondent who visited tho Champagne district for three days states that on tile ground recently won by the French as a result of their fire a large area is absolutely swept of vegetation. Over three million shells were dropped in a small district in three days, excavating pits five to 70 feet deep, and some 150 feet wide. The whole countryside is covered with white powder, the result of the explosions. Many German prisoners are insane. The French have heed engaged for days clearing up the battlefield. Tho excavations showed the Germans’ war stores, in which were revealed dead Germans, sometimes a hundred together, as if a new Pompeii had been unearthed. 'The Germans had woven the whole place with barbed wire. Tho French spent two months preparing the attack. Some of their trenches were wide enough for two horses. The French advance was made witJa comparatively small losses.