FIGHT FOR A QUARRY
A SOLDIER'S LETTER
;v -i-i ;: V-.,i'- . .. llj Tel^iirapli—Pross/Association— Oopyxiglit ' (Roc October 12, 0.5 am) London, October 10 ;-:-'A/'; 'soldier's/; letter •' published ....iri-the ;;/i^tiardiff r "Express" ; :state£^^liat:ili^theTei- , ; * •'• "icoht battlo. tho British who- attacked ' .were worn out by their"exertions. ; ; Tlio Colonel ordered the gasto. be ' .' ■loosed to give tho nflemen ■ a chancc. -. ; This ,was successful - : .;for./'a,' ; tiine, ; ' but .the. rain the'-fumes-.-kept 'low, 1 , / and had not. dispersed when the British • '. attacked t'he-quarry. .Thoy found that tlio shells had not penetrated, tho dugouts. Swarms ,of ■ Germans came .out, .'r ahd tho British' fell bacfe. . -,
More gas was loosed, and -then, the J.'ißritish'/pluiiged.-in; rtaljirig.'ithe/ quarryi 1 ; ' fifteen hundred men, and six guns.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 6
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112FIGHT FOR A QUARRY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 6
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