TWO MINUTE BATTLE.
British Pleadquxf.tkrs in France June 16
The war’s latest development is a two-minute battle. It took the British just that long to capture threequarters of a mile of trenches on Infantry Hill, east of Monchy le Preux, Thursday morning. The time for “ going over the top ” was set for 7.25. and at 7.27 rockets signalled the fact all along tlie line that the objectives bad been taken. The British stole out of their trenches in broad daylight without a single shot of artillery preparation having been fired, rushed across No Man’s Land, surprised the German garrison at breakfast, and took three officers and 175 others prisoner without the slightest effort. It was only after they hap accomplished all this that the British barrage was placed behind the German positions in order to. cut off any possible relief or’ immediate counterattack from that direction. There were only two British casualtiss. Two enemy machine-guns captured had not fired a single round during the attack.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1917, Page 1
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