GALLANT SENEGALESE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 90, 1 October 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

GALLANT SENEGALESE.

A SPLENDID CHARGE

The Germans have been compelled to relinquish the precarious hold obtained by them on the heights of the southern flank of the Sonvaux Ravine. The French wrested the ground from the enemy in a counter-attack with practicaly no loss. The enemy afterwards endeavoured to drive the French out by spraying the trenches with burning liquid and following this manoeuvre up with a strong attack. Masked batteries of French machine guns at the mouth of the ravine worked terrible execution amouy the attacking force. The Senegalese tioops then left their trenches, scatte - ed the German remnant, and took over 200 prisoners.

Proof of the terrible losses suffer- i by the Crown Prince's army in the Argonne is foun din tho statements of prisoners that two of the regimerts engaged in the operations have been incorporated in others, having lost more than half their effectives.

Prisoners also state that stones of fictitious victories have been circulated nniong the men by their officers, one such story being in i'<p ec-.t that the Allies had made overtures tor peace.