GALLANT ATTACK BY ZOUAVES
CONCEALED GUN POSITION CAPTURED. (Rec. October 18, 3.35 p.m.) Paris, October 17. The French on October 7 twice failed to rush an entrenched liill on the Mouse near Hardeanvillc, being driven back by concealed guns. The Zouaves offered to take tho position, and the other French troops and batteries withdrew - . There was a plantation of young fir trees, mingled with bushes, growing at the foot of a hill. Each Zouave cut down a bush-fir, and, carrying tho tree, cropt up the. hill at dusk. Whenever tho sentries' backs were turned they gained a few yards. A sentry, who eventually saw tho glint of a bayonet and chaliengod, was bayoneted. The Germans in tho trenches awoke too late, and the Zouaves bayoneted them, and the artillery allowing the French to occupy tho trenches.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6
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136GALLANT ATTACK BY ZOUAVES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6
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