RECAPTURED TWELVE TIMES.
Paris, Oct. 15. For three weeks Roye (the most westerly point of the German lines) has been the scene ot the fiercest hand to hand encounters. The town and surrounding villages have been taken and retaken at least a dozen times. When the French recaptured Roye the- twelfth time, they, surprised a German camp among the low wooded hills, and attacked it in the half-light of dawn. The Germans, in their confusion, were unable to locate the direction of the attack, with the result that a thousand cavalry and a battalion of infantry were taken prisoner. Typhus has broken out in the German lines northward of Soissons.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1312, 17 October 1914, Page 3
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110RECAPTURED TWELVE TIMES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1312, 17 October 1914, Page 3
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