. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. ously with the assault on Neuve Chapelle. After describing the impatience of the British222 A VIVID PICTURE OF WAR soldiers as they awaited the signal to open the attack,and the actual beginning of the engagement, the narra-tor continues: hell broke loose Then hell broke loose. With a mighty, hideous,screeching burst of noise, hundreds of guns spoke. Themen in the fronttrenches were deaf-ened by the sharpreports of thefield-guns spittingout their shells atclose range to cutthrough the Ger-mans7 barbed wireentang
. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. ously with the assault on Neuve Chapelle. After describing the impatience of the British222 A VIVID PICTURE OF WAR soldiers as they awaited the signal to open the attack,and the actual beginning of the engagement, the narra-tor continues: hell broke loose Then hell broke loose. With a mighty, hideous,screeching burst of noise, hundreds of guns spoke. Themen in the fronttrenches were deaf-ened by the sharpreports of thefield-guns spittingout their shells atclose range to cutthrough the Ger-mans7 barbed wireentanglements. Insome cases thetrajectory of thesevicious missileswas so flat thatthey passed only afew feet above theBritish trenches. The din wascontinuous. An officer who had the curious ideaof putting his ear to the ground said it was asthough the earth were being smitten great blowswith a Titans hammer. After the first few shellshad plunged screaming amid clouds of earth anddust into the German trenches, a dense pall of smokehung over the German lines. The sickening fumes of 223. There Is Nothing to Report. A VIVID PICTURE OF WAR lyddite blew back into the British trenches. In someplaces the troops were smothered in earth and dustor even spattered with blood from the hideous frag-ments of human bodies that went hurtling through theair. At one point the upper half of a German officer,his cap crammed on his head, was blown into one ofour trenches. A HORRIBLE THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES Words will never convey any adequate idea ofthe horror of those five and thirty minutes. Whenthe hands of officers watches pointed to five minutespast eight, whistles resounded along the British the same moment the shells began to burst fartherahead, for, by previous arrangement, the gunners,lengthening their fuses, were lifting on to the villageof Neuve Chapelle so as to leave the road open for ourinfantry to rush in and finish what the guns had begun. The shells were now falling thick among the h
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