FRENCH AND GERMANS MEET
GERMAN BATTERY.CAPTURED Received this day, 8.50 o'clock Paris, Friday Two French battalions at Spincourt on the river Ohain on Tuesday afternoon sustained an attack by a considerably larger German force. They were compelled to retreat, but were reinforced during the night by infantry and artillery The Frereh counter-attacked and won a brilliant success, the Germans abandoning the battery of three mitraillußes and several ammunition wagggons, and leaving many wounded behind them A French battery on Thursday surprised German dragoons and took a thousand prisoners, who were wounded the day before, including nine officers. The German column in the region is now retreating
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 5
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106FRENCH AND GERMANS MEET King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 5
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