Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05
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M FRANCE, Aug. 5.-It is one " thing to stand beside or lie in
 front of the British guns and watch them hurl their daily tons ot hate into the German lines. It is quite something else again to be a German and have all this hate hurled at you.
 The British remember the days when they were all but gunless and the Germans turned upon them then torrents of explosive fire. Today, and every day, they are paying off that old score with a compounded interest that would make the heart of a usurer beat with joy.
 German prisoners tell more and more of the horror of existence within their lines when the British guns are in angry mood. They tell also of the growing strain upon body and mind of the life they are compelled to live as deep in the bowels of the earth as they can grovel, after fighting for the safer places at the lower levels. All this is having its effect upon the enemy mor- ale, but German military discipline has been such through the last 40 years that its influence still holds the em. peror's armies together in worthy fighting units
 Captured letters and diaries taken from dead or prisoners depict condi- tions in the German lines in language so simple as to be most convincing. It is doubtful if any such letters ever pass the military censor and reach the intended destinations in Germany. They dwell too similarly upon the hell" of the preponderating British guns.
 Corporate Story
 It was a magnificent battle spectacle to watch day after day the British ar tillery preparation for the fighting at Messines ridge on June last. It is far more interesting, however, to read the story from the other side" as told in the translated copy of German corporals dairy from May 2S onward. Here it is:
 May 2s-The English have become more active in the Wytschaete salient At 6:35 we proceeded by forced marches to Menin, where the division assemblies. We reach the support lines at Confines and are at once greeted by round of shrapnel. On We 50 to emergency and alarm quarters, lying in the meadows as it is too dangerous in house. In the night the firing was almost insupportable, yet slept toler- ably well.
 May 30-Three gas alarms as some gas shells are fired and gas is dis charged against our front line. Heavy fire all night. One cannot get to sleep.
 May 30-In the evening the firing rises to colossal intensity; in the night it swells and with the morning be- comes drumfre
 June All day intense artillery, partly drumfire. We are all the time lying on the Gui vive, it is terrible.
 Describes Bombardment
 June 2-We visit the reserve posi- uons. It is an absolutely terrible cor ner into which we have come, a reg ular rat-rap. I doubt if we ever get out safe. We move off and take up our quarters in cellar on the chateau road. From p. m. the English com mence an intense fire on back areas and batteries. AS We are lying just in front of battery we are under heavy fire. Every minute we are ready to bolt. So the endless afternoon passes in anxious waiting. At ic O'CLOCK the English suddenly shift their fire fur ther south. It rises to drum and fin. ally to hurricane fire. At II o'clocK the signal for barrage fire goes un forward and in the internal uproar which now sets in from our batteries and the enemy's we are obliged to man the signalling stations. The English have attacked our left wing but are unable to advance. The internal con- cert goes on until past midnight.