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35403	Gibbs, Philip	From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917			.txt	text/plain	160767	6968	79	might not lack for shells nor the men for supplies on the day of attack. Menin gate, where new shell-holes mingled with old ones, and men walked the German lines, so as to bewilder the enemy as to the point of attack, ceaseless pressure of men and guns, by escaping to a new line of defence Behind the lines the German officers and men lived comfortably in French Our attack to-day was preceded by great gun-fire, and the enemy has abominable, when it is in the fields of battle, that men fight for days rather like the early days of the Somme battles, when our men fought our men went forward to victory, English troops advancing with their old and others--men who fought a great battle in the Somme fields that day under a heavy German counter-attack, when 160 men covered the poured up great reserves of men and guns to smash our assaulting lines.	./cache/35403.txt	./txt/35403.txt