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SAXONS RE-TAKE CONTALMAISON.
A TERRIBLE PRICE PAID. WHOLE BATTALIONS PRACTICALLY W.’PED OUT. Received 7-10 p.m., July 10. PARIS. July 9. A Saxon division re-took Conta - maison. We are holding the cemetery and the confines of the village. The enemy paid an awful price for their success. There were only thirty survivors of the second battalion of the Second Guards, while the third battalion of the second, and the tenth of the ninth lost fifty per cent., the Guards leaving 3000 dead and several thousand wounded.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 11 July 1916, Page 5
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85SAXONS RE-TAKE CONTALMAISON. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 11 July 1916, Page 5
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