FIGHT FOR TRENCHES.
ENGAGEMENT AT GUINCHY. GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED. Received Tuesday, 10.40 p.m. Paris, Tuesday. The Germans on Sunday morning threw a column at the British position before Guinchy. The massed attackers did not reach our trenches. A counter-attack was launched while the remnants were retiring in confusion, and a few minutes later the British were in one of the longest German trencheß hacking, hewing, and weilding clubbed rifleß. Six thousand British were engaged in the fight. The casualties were considerable, those of the Germanß being much the heavier.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 746, 17 February 1915, Page 5
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89FIGHT FOR TRENCHES. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 746, 17 February 1915, Page 5
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