985 SHELLS KILL 2 HORSES.
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The Paris La Liberte's war correspondent says 60 per cent. of the German shells fail to explode; 985 shells fell on a single battery, killing only two horses.
The extent of invisible fighting in the war is shown by the revelation of an artilleryman now resting with his regiment. He entered the battle line at the beginning of the war and after ten weeks of continuous fighting has not seen a single German.