FEARFUL SLAUGHTER
HOW A GERMAN ATTACK WAS HURLED BACK Paris, Ootobor 26. An officer, writing to the paper, "Liberte," narrates the fearful slaughter which took place during the recent tighting in. the Argonne district. An infantry regiment and a battalion of chasseurs, entrenched, hold an important strategic highway, and fifteen thousand Germans essayed to storm the trenches with the bayonet. The French, with five quick-firing sections'firing at the rate of sis hundred 6hots a minute, opened fire, at short range on the massed columns. It was hcrrible to see the solid masses fall. Many were killed on the parapets; others reached the trenches, where there wore hand-to-hand bayonet encounters, until the French' artillery reinforcements forced the Germans to retreat, leaving thousands of dead and wounded.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2292, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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125FEARFUL SLAUGHTER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2292, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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