A HELTER-SKELTER CHARGE
FRENCH INFANTRY AT BATTLE OF . CHAMPAGNE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright - Paris, October 5. During their recent charges the French did not stop to take each wbrk, but sped'on until further advance was impossible without further artillery preparation. Then they dug in, usually linking up a line of shell craters. The attack on the isolated fortifications followed. The commanding height of Butte do Mesnil, sis hundred feet high, resisted .. until yesterday. _ The machine-guns on the summit continually enfiladed the French lines. The capture greatly consolidated tho French position. Many machine-gun , positions were cemented and armoured, and so covered that the attackers wore unable to distinguish tho source of the deadly stream of bullets:
After a siege listing a week, tho position was carried with tlio bayonet.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 5
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127A HELTER-SKELTER CHARGE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 5
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