CUT OFF BY THE FLOOD WATERS
TRAGIC FATE OP ISOLATED ; . GERMANS Paris, November 23. The inundations east of Dixmude cut off 1500 Germans on the night of November 18. Some' of them attempted to escape by swimming at daybreak, but the Allies picked off one after another. , By noon the water had risen until there remained only a narrow strip of land, The French commander ordered a pontoon bridge to be built to succour the survivors, Dut it was too late.' The islet disappeared, andl when the French' approached only, forty were alive.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 5
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93CUT OFF BY THE FLOOD WATERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 5
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