A SURPRISE THAT FAILED
GERMANS FALL IN HUNDREDS Paris, January 21. The Germans on the 4th attempted to surprise the French defending Lassigny (twenty-five miles north-west of Soissons). They posted seven thousand infantry behind a railw.iy embankment, while the cavalry, hidden near a river, endeavoured to turn the flank. A withering fire, stopped the cavalry, and the infantry surged over the railway and advanced in a mass. The French withheld their fire until the Germans began to ascend the slope at 6hort range. Then every rifle, machine, and field gun was worked at .the utmost speed. The Germans fell in hundreds, until they fled/ Moanwhile the •cavalry were being'similarly cut up.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2366, 23 January 1915, Page 7
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111A SURPRISE THAT FAILED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2366, 23 January 1915, Page 7
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