STIRRING STORY OF FRENCH VALOUR
DESPERATE STAND AGAINST ODDS APPALLING LOSSES OF THE ENEMY (Rec. April 20, 9.25 p.m.) Paris, April 20. Details of the fighting at the Bois de Montmare (in the Woevre), when the Germans delivered fifteen attacks on the French front, stated that the Germans received peremptory orders to recover the lost ground at all costs. They managed to reach the entanglements of the new French trenches at several points by repeated night attacks. Before daybreak the French, worn but unflinching, had hurled back ten great waves of steel and fire. As fast as one attack was beaten off fresh contingents would be rushed forward, and only by superhuman and endurance did the French hold their ground. The Germans advanced to the final attack at daybreak, singing "The Watch on the Rhine." They were allowed to reach within twenty metres (25 yards), when a large number of mitrailleuses poured a terrific fire. The Germans in every direction wont down in hundreds, and fell back shattered. A couple of French battalions than sprang from their trenches and completed the rout with the bayonet. The enemy's losses were appalling.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 7
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190STIRRING STORY OF FRENCH VALOUR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 7
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