A SUCCESSFUL COUP DE MAIN.
ENEMY REDOUBT CAPTURED. TRENCHES FILLED WITH CORPSES. Received 8-3 5 p.m., June 26. PETROGRAD, June 26. A communique says: We carried a redoubt by a coup de main, three versts south of Zminy, on the Styr, and bayoneted the garrison after a fierce resistance, capturing two heavy guns. Many German attacks on this front were repulsed, the enemy falling back owing to his growing losses. We captured 80 0 unwounded prisoners, half of whom were Germans, and fifteen machine guns. The enemy trenches were filled with heaps o: corpses and men suffering from bayonet wounds.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 149, 27 June 1916, Page 5
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100A SUCCESSFUL COUP DE MAIN. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 149, 27 June 1916, Page 5
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