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[Page 18]
[Sketch of four German soldiers, in bunker with a bomb (60 lbs) ready to drop on top of them, captioned: When the Tadpole drops]
The Effect we Hope For]
Our artillery further annoyed Fritz on the 11th & during the night he had another shock. At 10 oclock (PM) the loud bomb explosions began to reverberate through our lines & on standing to we perceived the uneven space dividing our trenches from the Germans was left as bright as day by flares while machine guns rattled & rifles cracked & bombs crashed intermittently. It was our bombardment keeping the German sentries awake. Looking over the parapet we saw on the German front for about 100 yards a dense cloud of fumes & dust rising in the light of the flares. As each new bomb burnt a fountain of earth & parapet flew upwards & the Germans failing to root out their tormentors by means of machine gun & rifle fire sent their red & green flares streaming skywards as an appeal for artillery aid. It came in the shape of shrapnel which gave our lines a good peppering & with a final salvo from our howitzers, the night resumed its normal conditions.