1800 GERMANS ANNIHILATED
DISLODGED FROM A CAVE Paris, October 18. The French troops for several days ..were unsuccessful in an attempt to disledgo 1800 Germans hidden, in. a cave at Soissons. Eventually 1200 Algerian sharpshooters, with bayonets between their teeth, crawled io the trenches during the night and hurled themselves on the Germans. Only eight Germans escaped alive.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 5
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581800 GERMANS ANNIHILATED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 5
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