MR P. ROBINSON’S ACCOUNT.
THE GALLANT DRAGOONS. [ijONBON times service-- copyright) Received, this day at 8.4 b a.in LONDON April, P. . Mr Price Robinson added —Twelve hundred dragoons had a really gorgeous fight at Hangard on March (list. The officers described them as eager, going off like scalded cats. Throe waves dashed through the wood, despite tremendous diavoc wrought by I'lresh German) battalions. The Dragoons took' many prisoners' and captured machine-guns. Seeing the whole reserve regiment of /the enemy pouring out‘of Villers enabled the cavalry and artillery to attack at daylight open • ground. One battery fired 1509 rounds and another over two thousand all finding their marks and they staggered the disorganised enemy, whose reimnant staggled backj, leaving the ground covered with dead. A German authority from the front Splits the total losses at 250,000, and #ates the French made a rampart of German bodies as bigh as a man.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1918, Page 3
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