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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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>\>t about, torn to jjieces by explosions of shells orbombs and bearing but small rosemblance tothe living beings they had once boon. Suchwas the field of battle on which Briton and(Jennan strove for mastery. Slowly but surely our men pushed on, theguns j)reparing the way by a curtain firo aboutIT) yanJH aliead of our attacking linc^. It Kpt^aks volumes for the a))ility (if ourgunners that Duty should liave been able tocarry on this advancing curtain of crashingHheiJH continuously and without injury Ut ourfollowing infantry. It was f;ueer, said asoldier who liiid been through i\m attack, toH(H) the shells bursting in Iliitit. of one ; tin- line 4U8 THt: TIMES HISTOUY OF THE WAR,
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V) Z < u < XH Ovi U S H 03 Q OO CdQ U.O cdU z cdbu Q USH THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. 409 was j list about 75 yards ahead of us, flinging upthe ground and smashing everything. It waswonderful how the gunners kept it just aheadof us.* To the artillery, indeed, a great share ofthe success of the British arms was due. Theenemys position had been subjected to sucha fire as had svirpassed all previous efforts.From June 27 onwards, said a correspondentof The Morning Post (on the authority of anartillery oflScer), we had fired an average ofhalf a miUion of shells per diem. This, of course,was spread over the whole position of theenemy, highly concentrated against the partsto be assaulted, less against others. On July 27 our cannonade was so fierce as tosiirpass all previous efforts, and yet, althoughit might have been thought impossible for mento have lived under it, there was still a suf-ficient number of German infantry left, andthere were still sufficient of their machine-gunsin pl

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