Our warships shelled the fortifications and silenced the batteries; and our troops made a gallant charge, but were repulsed with heavy loss, and had to fall back.
The two large ships then drew in and shelled the ravine, apparently silencing the batteries.
It was impossible, however, to secure any real rest here, for the camp was shelled intermittently both during the day and the night.
For some hours before the Battalion moved off to take up its position, the Huns shelled the area with gas shells.
This time, however, it was a blessing, for it deadened the sound of moving troops, and certainly saved the Battalion being heard and shelled by the enemy.
Our guns were lifted from the front trenches and shelled the supporting trench, in the manner laid down by the best authorities, to prevent the Germans coming up.
The enemy sometimes shelled our trenches, but never heavily, and the Canadians enjoyed a comparatively peaceful summer month.
Philosophe was a dirty place, but had the advantage of being much less shelled than the neighbouring Vermelles, and we were not much molested.
Throughout the day the enemy shelled various parts of the back area, and in this respect Headquarters came off worst, being more bombarded than even the sunken road.
There was no fixed time for the assault, but the hill was to be shelled by our Artillery until 2.
Three days later the enemy shelled Foncquevillers heavily, apparently with a view to a raid, or possibly to deceive us into thinking that he did not mean to retire.
Barber's post could be withdrawn, the suspected area was heavily shelled by our gunners, and no attack developed.
Brigadier moved his Headquarters into Mericourt, and the Boche, presumably thinking the village was now as full as it was likely to be during the day, shelled it vigorously with gas and High Explosive.
We were all well dug in, and consequently did not lose very heavily when the following day, the 2nd of July, we were shelled continuously for several hours.
Ypres, which I had seen shelled so heavily time after time without its semblance of a city being destroyed, was at last indescribably in ruins.
Before we reached our car the German batteries shelled madly at the very point we were to pass, but considerately stopped firing by the time we approached the spot where the shells were falling.
The Germans shelledthe road vigorously as we kept on, but luckily the shrapnel fell behind us, and we were soon back in Ypres.
From morning until night of the day before the Huns had shelled it.
Not long after our visit Furnes was viciously shelled by the Huns.
Ypres, we heard, had been so heavily shelled the day before that the entire town had been evacuated.
Budworth's observers sent back word that some of our heavy guns were shelling a farm that he had instructed should not be shelled by his batteries.
A hospital corps sergeant told me the Huns shelled the Zonnebeke road, beside which we were chatting, every time they saw a transport on it.
About 12 o'clock a regiment of the 3rd Cavalry Division, on the right of the Bays, were shelled out of their trenches, and the Germans succeeded in getting a footing in them.
All forenoon the Huns shelled our front line from the Menin Road to the north as it passed the Hooge Château and circled the Bellewaarde Lake.
Of all the attributes of the Belgian people, their persistence in making back to their homes in a shelled area, as soon as the shells ceased falling, was the most prominent.
Poperinghe was being shelled daily, eleven townsfolk having been killed on the afternoon before.
If they haven't shelledyou yet they will, all right, don't you worry.
They were young troops, and for young troops nothing is so trying as being shelled without being allowed to move.
As for the villages round them, they are, I presume, shelled merely in order to make them untenable.
They discovered near Langemarck an armored train with the result that it was shelled and thus forced to return.
The Austrian artillery shelled the heights, and the Bavarians finally took possession.
They got into the first line of German trenches which the Teutons shelledto such an extent that the remnant of the attacking force had to retreat.
There was also fighting at Schoorbakke, north of the Yser loop, where the German trenches were shelled by French artillery.
Hence the British here retreated to a new line of trenches west of the Bellewaarde Wood where the trees had been shelled until they were part of a hopeless entanglement rather than a forest.
If we were shelled the men in the huts could at once drop into the deep trenches and be safe.
In a very few moments our position was being shelled by three guns, but with the only result, as far as we were concerned, of having one man wounded by shell-fire, though the firing went on slowly till dark.
Then suddenly a gun was opened on us away from the southwest, and we were shelled for a short time from both sides.
These troops had not been shelled either during the actual attack or in the preliminary bombardment, the enemy doubtless not having discovered their position.
The enemy then shelled Aveluy; the gunners replied by shelling Pozieres.
He retaliated by shelling Albert; the Division on the right immediately shelled Courcelette.
The enemy had the last word, for he then shelled Martinsart, where he hit a horse, a mule, and a limber loaded with grenades, which fortunately did not burst.
The master-cook was shelled in his kitchen on most days of the week; but beyond asking for a party to repair it when it had sustained any damage, he made no complaints.
While searching for these guns, a German 8-inch howitzer battery got on to the 18-pounder section, and shelled it so effectively that it was forced to withdraw temporarily.
At times the bombardments were severe, Divisional headquarters being ultimately shelled out of their house in Rue Sadi Carnot, and being in consequence moved to Steenwerk.
As a result, men who were working or living in an area that had been gas-shelled were often infected by the fumes many hours after the shelling had subsided.
The communication trenches were improved to give covered access to the front line, and, where necessary, were diverted to avoid particularly shelled areas such as Turco Farm.
It was shelled so heavily that approach was seldom comfortable; while, having once entered, to make a graceful exit was equally rare.
The following day the right brigade was shelled out of its headquarters, and had to move back to an embankment west of Athies.
There was the road from Athies to Fampoux, and Fampoux itself, and the road from Feuchy to Fampoux, which were shelled almost every hour of the day.
Both the troops in the line and the brigade in support were heavily shelled during the day, lachrymatory shells and 5.
We came to the little poste de secours and the officer told us they had been heavily shelled that morning and he sent out an orderly to dig up some of the fuse-tops that had fallen in the field beyond.
We made for the church which had according to custom been shelled more than the houses.
I went straight up to the convoy at St. Omer, and had tea in the camp from which they had been shelled only a year before.
They will keep, either shelled or in the dry pods, for winter.
Though the city was shelled by the French, not a piece of glass in the cathedral was broken.
The others were still in their old emplacements a mile or so farther forward, being shelled terrifically by the Austrian twelve-inch batteries, but having extraordinary luck.
The French Commander said that our town was due to be shelled before long as we were getting in range of the German guns.
The bitter almond and the hard-shelled sweet almond are both used and we are not aware that any particular advantage has been demonstrated for either of them.
There are, of course, other soft-shelled almonds which are worth planting and are being considerably planted in localities where they do well.
The Texas Prolific and Drake's Seedling are abundant bearers and profitable because of the size of the crop, although the price is lower than the soft-shelled varieties, Nonpareil and Ne Plus Ultra.
The Rebs shelled our quarters last night, and kept us huddled in the ravine until some were asleep.
The Rebs shelled our quarters at night and we were ordered back to our old sleeping ground.
There is also an old French lady here who frankly fled from Paris to escape the air-raids; now someone has taken all the joy out of life for her by suggesting that Etretat might be shelled from the sea by a German submarine.
Rattentout was shelled and two Frenchwomen killed.
The road to the centre of the Anzac position; heavilyshelled by the Turkish artillery from the first day.
If the enemy could have shelled it, Quinn's would not have lasted five minutes.
Turkish reserves sheltered behind it, and were frequently shelled by the warships.
The Germans in their turn were violently shelled by the French guns, but succeeded in holding out in Frignicourt until the 11th.
Continuously shelled by the Germans on the 7th and 8th, it fell on the latter day into their hands.
He told them he had scattered shelled corn in the grass, so that the birds would not be tempted to fly over into Leonard Dawson's cornfield.
Their supplies had been shelled on the way, and nothing had got through to them.
The tracks towards the line were shelled on our way up, but we came safely through.
Recently the farm was shelled and the Berks Colonel, then in occupation, quitted it in favour of a two-storied house called Carvin.
By now that village was being severely shelled and bombed, and in danger of becoming surrounded by the enemy.
Though fully seven miles behind the line, Arras was shelled throughout the summer with very heavy shells.
St. Pol station was shelledto ruins; Hazebrouck, Chocques, and Doullens were nightly targets for German bombs.
Regina Trench itself, being on a forward slope and exposed to full view from Loupart Wood, was shelled almost continuously by day and also frequently at night.
Once I knew him to return to a trench, which had been quite heavily shelled while he was there, because the Germans started on it again.
Monchy, the hill-village which had cost us so many lives to capture, was heavily shelled by German howitzers both day and night; below its slopes lay several derelict tanks.
The post would be shelled or trench-mortared at intervals.
Parties were often shelled on the way up, or else were lost and wandered far.
In the old days conventional targets such as roads, trenches, and villages within a mile or two of our front were generally shelled at times which could be guessed and when such places could be avoided.
Their line bent back awkwardly, and when the enemy shelled the houses on the Calonne road, where their right flank rested, they showed signs of withdrawing and leaving our C Company 'in the air.
Lord Dundonald had a battery which shelled the Boers "until at mid-day" an order to retire was received.
To date (25th November), the Boers have on three occasions shelled the town and camp at night.
Roberts shelled the Boer force and pushed regular approaches to insure victory and save life.
Out of the shelled zone in the early morning the shattered companies of expended divisions came marching back from the front.
When our soldiers came out of the battle, whom should they see standing in the mud of the shelled zone but the khaki-clad Salvation lassies, smilingly passing out doughnuts and hot coffee--free.
At the docks their giant strength and their good-natured team-play were supreme; but they were in evidence all the way forward to the shelled roads which they were repairing back of the front where their kinsmen had their place in line.
An effort to encircle 250 while it was being shelled was blasted back.
Some of the woods which they occupied were shelled until they could see from end to end through the remaining limbless poles of the trunks.
I have seen groups of replacements, who had had so little training that they hardly knew how to use their rifles, moving up through the shelled area to find the battalion in reserve to which they were assigned.
The isolation of units in slippery ravines and woods, and the depth of the shelled area, required two nights for relief.
During its period of waiting it had two battalions severely shelledon the way to assist the 35th Division in an attack which was countermanded; and of course its engineers had been kept employed on the roads.
The enemy's ample artillery shelled our echelons in support, causing losses and a certain amount of inevitable confusion, as they were forced to take cover and deploy.
On February 27th, Major Butcher, supported by the Inniskillings and Australians, attacked Rensburg and shelled the enemy out of it.
The result was that both upon the 19th and 20th the Boers were shelled out of successive positions with considerable loss, and driven altogether away from that part of the Magaliesberg.
They were shelled off of it, however, by the guns of O Battery, and in their retreat across the plain they were pursued by the 10th Hussars and by one squadron of the Inniskillings, who cut off some of the fugitives.
Under the direction of Hacket Pain, who commanded the nearest post, guns of J battery were brought out into the open and shelled the portion of the kopje which was held by the Boers.
De Wet had two days' start, but so swift was Knox that on the 27th he had run him down at Vaalbank, where he shelled his camp.
The enemy shelled the shattered train until after five hours Captain Nesbitt, who was in command, and his men, some twenty in number, surrendered.
You guessed he had been the one chosen to get the gifts sent to the men of his company, and as he plodded on past the shelled houses, I heard him whistling.
Both armies have used them, both have shelled them.
These books throw an interesting light upon the question of shelled churches.
The French always shelled Mouchy at three; they put grenaten in Houthem every evening at six; they concentrated their fire here at eight.
We left Lyck with its pillaged houses and shelled walls behind and swept across the open country.
I saw the under officers scampering down into the bombproof and their guns transformed into big gray leafless bushes, the boyish soldiers ran into hiding behind the blackened brick wall of a shelled house.
Somewhere on that road we must have crossed the Belgian frontier, for after passing through silent, shelled Maraid we drove into Houthem, Commando of the Second Bavarian Corps.
At the same time the mother went out and soon returned with a large basket filled with ears of corn which she shelled and pounded in a mortar, thus making meal for bread.
