ALGERIAN STRATEGY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 136, 11 February 1915, Page 7

ALGERIAN STRATEGY.

HOW A DUNE WAS CAPTURED. ( Reed 8.55 a.m.) PARIS, Feb 9. After the Frenchmen's fruitless efforts to capture the strongly held great Dune, twenty-four Algerians concealed behind the bellies of their horses appeared in front of the German trenches at nightfall. When the Germans were about to capture the horses, the response was a sharp cry and they gpftopeVl Uvck tcwajrds \he Fvenclh lines whereupon twenty-four grey forms rose from the ground, and threw themselves into the trendies. The German second line wavered, but did not fire, for fear of hitting their own mien. Reinforcements arriving the French captured the Great Dune with slight losses.