SUPREME PLUCK.
' A DASH TO DEATH. r ■ • . (Reed.2.lo p.m.) GENEVA, Feb 14. A thrilling episode occurred in the Vosges at Colbonhomm'e, when forty Alpine Chasseurs were cut off. They refused to surrender ,and using their skis they dashed down the snow slope and commenced a desperate bayonet struggle in the German trenches. AH the Chasseurs died, but they killed at least eighty Germans.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 140, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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63SUPREME PLUCK. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 140, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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