RUPRECHT'S RECKLESSNESS.
PORTION OF BOURLON REGAINED. [ BRITISH POSITION NOT AFFECTED. ENEMY CAUGHT ON BRITISH BAYONETS. Received Nov. 27, 8.30 p.m. London, Nov. 26. After again splashing Bourlon village with 'blood, Prince Kuprcclit regained a portion of the village, but General Byng's strategic advance on Bourlon ridge is in nowise changed. The night is reported to have been quiet, after a hand-to-hand struggle ia the streets of Bourlon, where the British ttjspped the Prussians with cold steel. The enemy fought well. They hurled themselves against tlio British, who formed half-way across the village, catching them on their bayonets as they came. German corpses litter the village and battlefield,
THE BARBARIC HUNS. BURNING, PLUNDERING, AND ■VIOLATING. Received Nov. 27, 5.40 p.m. London, Nov. 20. Mr. Robinson states that the fighting at the Bourlon Wood area is very savage. The country is being burned and plundered, the churches destroyed, and every grave violated by the barbarians. FRENCH 'POSITIONS ORGANISED. London, Nov. 2fi A French communique repurts: There is great artillery activity on tha right '{rank of the Meuse in the region north of Hill 344, where we have organised conquered positions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1917, Page 5
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188RUPRECHT'S RECKLESSNESS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1917, Page 5
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