A RACE TO DEATH.
AN UNDERGROUND TRAGEDY.
Received March 31, i.45 a.m . Paris March 30.
Official: Sappers in a mining gallery in Argonne discovered Germans count.eri:i'ning. The French hurriedly decided to block the gallery with sandbags and to explode the chamber immediately. Meanwhile, the Germans gave the alarm and evidently arrived at a similar decision. They returned and placed explosives in the saps. There was a race to decide who would finish first. 'lhc French won and fired the mine, and the German sappers were hurled into the air a moment later.
A RESOURCEFUL AVIATOR.
Amsterdam, March 29.
The success of the Hoboken, Antwerp, air raid was largely due to an Englishman mounting a captured Taube aul pretending to chase the two aeroplaiiss of the Allies.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19150331.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 31 March 1915, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
126A RACE TO DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 31 March 1915, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in