PERCIVAL PHILLIP’S STORY.
NEUVE E(.‘LISE FIGHT
THRU S'/' FOR. UAILLEUL,
(Received This Day, at 12.55, a.m.) LONDON April 16. Mr Percival Phillips says Neuve Eglise changed bauds three or four timer, before hi; voluntarily gave it up lasi
plight;. Some of the bitterest street fighting occurred there. Our machine guns took :i heavy toll on the incoming Germans, but some got through and when sufficient number had gathered they swept again through the streets. Our men were for days witWout .sleep. Our line now makes Bailleui a sharp salient, somewhat like Yores in the old days. The Germans are bombarding the town in an effort to make it untenable. Tmppist monks of Merit Descats refuse to abandon the monastery, going to their prayers under fire. The enemy employed twenty-two divisions in this fighting, wherof fifteen were concentrated astride of Bailleul.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1918, Page 2
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