WHEN THE BIG GERMAN GUNS HAMMER AWAY AT THE FRENCH FRONT. This drawing, sketched from life by the German artist, Fritz Grotemeyer, on the German war front in France—the name of which has been carefully withheld—shows a detail of the artillery actions which precede and accompany each new offensive movement. A German battery of big guns has been installed behind, a ruined church and its graveyard, and they are being served with all possible haste, their heavy fire being directed against the unseen French position probably some miles away on the other side of the church. It is just in this manner that enemy positions are reduced and rendered untenable by artillery fire prior to infantry advances. This drawing might easily be an accurate representation of one of the actions which took place in front of Verdun; it is by just such actions that the great battle is being waged.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1359, 11 May 1916, Page 14

WHEN THE BIG GERMAN GUNS HAMMER AWAY AT THE FRENCH FRONT. This drawing, sketched from life by the German artist, Fritz Grotemeyer, on the German war front in France —the name of which has been carefully withheld —shows a detail of the artillery actions which precede and accompany each new offensive movement. A German battery of big guns has been installed behind, a ruined church and its graveyard, and they are being served with all possible haste, their heavy fire being directed against the unseen French position probably some miles away on the other side of the church. It is just in this manner that enemy positions are reduced and rendered untenable by artillery fire prior to infantry advances. This drawing might easily be an accurate representation of one of the actions which took place in front of Verdun; it is by just such actions that the great battle is being waged.