The sun., 1916-09-10
GERMAN DEAD FILL
GUILLEMONT FRONT
One Corner Of Village Liter
ally Covered With Vie
tins OF War.
Spsoili cib'. D.spd,rh 10 THE SrS


LONDON, Sept. e.-British correspond
ents az the somme front IN France send
dispatches that give illuminating side.
Nohts uc"n tho great hattie and the tra.
mendous efforts that are gaining ground
for the Entente Allies.
The London Times correspondent de-
sor!bes the physique OF a batch OF 700
German prisoners. and says on the whole
they were a formidable looking lot OF
men.
There were many young and over
grown among them. and some well over
, 40. but the larger part were sound
and s.alwart." he telegraphs. 1T In by
no means the ;est looking among the
Germans who always Rsht the best nor
Is II the puniest VINO ar. most ready to
surrender. Again and again parties Of
three or four Of our men nave rounded
UP far larger patches OF Germans.
In the matter of physique. however.
the surprise Of the war is the French
solder. Individually and en- mass- he
Is as magnificent to look at as lac has
shown himself AS a fighter. | have seen
no column OF French troops on the road.
no party Of them In the trenches or any
whore who would not nave been con-
~spicIousiy line in any army IN the
world"
Above Ginchy thirty men and two
officers held Il trench for two days" says
the correspondent OF the Daily Mail
They we're thought TO be quite lost
when a messenger struggled back TO
give news Of their position and to bring
relic. TO them.
His eyes were staring and hiS lips
parched. hut he was sa,ne Neither he
nor HIS men had touched water for
twcnty-four hours. and their nibbles nj
rat!ons had hrcn hardly satisfying. but
what mattorci was that they had hus-
banded their bombs against any attack
and had wholly bluTed the enemy.
"One Of the difficulties OF sending re-
lief to this piucky handful marNoned in
a position too far forward 10 be properly
supported was to find the exact latitude
OF their trench. The landscape OF the
ba.,ieNald changes like shifting sands
and anywhere II Is a difficult thing not
TO lose yourself in shell holes and TIE
wabb,ing trenches are as confusing az
an unknown town OF contiguous cres-
cent?. You mav see men amid a reging
artillery battle pull out their maps and
take their back bearings with studied
care.
"One corner Of .Guillemont is i'm.
p ssab,e and hardly percept!ble as a
road surface because Of the number OF
dead OF both sides that lie stretched
upon 1t and hay lain so. some for weeks.
some just fer a day. The front OF Gull
lomont nor'hcastward ls bedded thick
with German dead. Most were killed
by our shSii fire. hut many were hit by
no biz OF SHE'LL. Half stripped they lie.
quite robbed OF lie by the mere rush OF
gas and air from the stunning explo-
s!ons.
"Wh'la our stormlrg troops fortified
themselves on the far side OF the VIII
la"o md li"Nt watch upon the torn hill
side In front here and there a German
terrified By the shells falling about him
would Jump or crawl from cover and run
the Sant.et Of our snipers, Here again
az above rOziNres our marksmen shot
man after man.
"Hore at any rate the heavy gun has
been the master. II has killed, cOwed or
cut on or ruined and at the same time
has saved guarded moves on our front
ute Il self-actine shield. Such a duel
~ heavy guns has seldom II ever been
fought.
"St.ll. we fire even more and much
heavier shells than the enemy, That In
and will be the chief reason why We are
| moving forward and the enemy Ia NOV
ing backward"