GERMAN GUARDS CUT TO PIECES
STORY OP THE FIGHT AT BOIS BRULE Paris, 'April 18. Official.—"Details of the capture of the Bois Brule, in the Champagne region, in March last, show that a German Guards .regiments occupied a strong defensive position in the wood. 'Die foremost of. the French trenches was a hundred yards distant. A Trench regiment surprised tile defenders of a trench three hundred yards 10115, and killed all except three, who wore taken prisoner. "A general attack was made noxt day on all sides. Hie battle lasted the whole day. We were' completely successful. and occupied tlio wood, Wo counted several hundred corpses of Germans. "The following morning the Germans made a strong counter-attack. They wore Algerian blouses taken from our The ruse failed, and a withering machine-gun fire _ decimated' the attackers, hundreds being killed. "Our troops -fought with magnificent dash, having learned that the German Guards had been torturing tho wounded. "As a result of the battle over twothirds of the Guards were destroyed. AVe lost three hundred killed. We advanced a mile on a 650 yards' front."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2440, 20 April 1915, Page 5
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182GERMAN GUARDS CUT TO PIECES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2440, 20 April 1915, Page 5
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