DESPERATE FIGHT AT HOOGE
WOUNDED SOLDIER'S STORY Br Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Boulogne. August 3. A British wounded soldier gives details of the fight at Hooge. The enemy attacked a little before dawn, but were thrown- back three times. They advanced again, and, after an intense fight, managed to obtain a somewhat insecure footing in two of our first-lino trenches. Ero long a. number of Territorial regiments chaaed the Germans out of the position at the bayonet point. Then the Germans used flame-projectors. About 40 per cent, of tho wounded are suffering from burns. Tho percentage of deaths was exceedingly small.,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2532, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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99DESPERATE FIGHT AT HOOGE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2532, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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