GRIM TRENCH BATTLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 262, 15 April 1915, Page 7

GRIM TRENCH BATTLES.

CHARACTERISTIC FIGHT IX AUGONKE. A MAJOR'S HEROISM. A supplementary official statement issued by the "War Ollice recently, telling of French successes in the Argonae, gives the details of one of these engagements, which, it says, occur daily and show the splendid ardour of the troops. "Action began in a ravine near Fontaine Madame at 8 o'clock in the morning, live companies being charged with the attack. We exploded three mines under trenches of the enemy, while oui artillery.crushed them under a, hot (ire. Three 'minutes later our column debouched from branches of trendies and stormed the German works. "We penetrated in three different quarters, killing all the occupants of the trendies, 7."> infantrymen and about ISO pioneers. We took four wounded prisoners. At 8.30 o'clock we had gained at least 3,>0 yards of the enemy's

trenches. "This brilliant result cost us rather heavily. We had hardly time to organise our newly captured positions before the Germans, who had been reinforced, counter-attacked, and a desperate fight ensued. They filled with bombs" the trenches which they had lost, but our men were ab'c to reamtain themselves by hurling back at the. enemv bombs passed to them from the rear.' Twenty times the enemy attacked and reached the border of our lines, but each time they were repulsed. "At noon our men still were desperately holding to their position, which resembled an inferno under the fire of heaw Herman artillery ami a hail of hand grenades. The vicinity looked like a newlv-furrowed field. What formerlv were trenches were hardly visible.' At ?. o'clock the lighting' continued, at that time being marked bv ! a hiMT.net attack of an entire I'rench i battalion, but this failed to stop the j Germans, who met the charge eo arng-

i twins. •'•'Oik- hv one our i"'"' * vi '''i' i'" : ' "" : of tin- fiMit. X'»t n nv-n remained in 11,0 Iron-lies v;lin win 'i"t V.ilVd or wounded. A major. wl;n. :-ineo movnim;. li;„l rem,a mod at Hie load of ' "ion, j„ n „„,1 „,„„ a naranet In jW <>i.c?«v-n.-ouionl to fn'sli troop.; vine!. l':wl .|n™ n'vriv.-.l fro,,, tl.c rear. He l."fl "" j sooner done so tl,an lie Ms WW }>y j a hnllrt in 11.0 hon.l. W« tl.rn rntiri o,] to our first, nn-itnm. liavnii inflicted torrililo loaf's on the enemy. j Wo nad time to lrrin" back to tHo roar ~11 our wounded. n"' 1 onr rlavs task 1,:,.,, r oenmr>lisVd. Tl„. Hermans l,ad ! | 0 oone-fvato on IMsyart of the front;. ' ~1,0<,m, V- ,'s for tl'o eomVjat. Teinfnmi ~-ents vlv"li villioiit our attiir-i; tliey ■ rmlll , ~.,,,. F( .v,f. ONCVIUTP." ■

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