BRITISHER'S GREAT CHARGE.
SIX MILES WITH BAYONETS. 6000 GERMANS KILLED. Paris, Monday. Details of the British charge at Ville le Capelle show thai the British artillery bombarded tne German position from dawn till three in the afternoon. A bayonet charge was then ordered, and the British gleefully quitted the trenches. They advanced cautiously for a n-ile, using all passible cover, and after annihilating the Germans in two lines of entrenchments with little less, made a short halt, followed by a splendid final dash on the main position. They got the Germans on the run, and after covering the trenches, which were full of dead the charge was maintained for six miles, perhaps the longest on record. The Germans lost 6000 killed. The British proved immeasurably superior in the open field. ;
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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130BRITISHER'S GREAT CHARGE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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