SLAUGHTER.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2701, 21 April 1915, Page 2

SLAUGHTER.

A TERRIBLE NIGHT FOR THE ! I GERMANS. ' Paris, April 20. ] Details of the Montmare fight show , that the Germans received peremp- ' tory orders to recover the ground at < all costs. They managed to reach the i entanglements of the now French ] t.i filches at-several points by repeat- l e<l night attacks, and before, daybreak the French, worn but unflinch- | ing. hurled hack tea great waves of ( steel an<l fire. As fast as one attack < was beat-en off fresh contingents rush- \ ed forward. Only by superhuman \ courage and endurance the French | held the ground. The Germans ad- 1 vauced for a final attack at daybreak . singing "Die Wacht am Rhine.'"' They were allowed to ■ reach within twenty i metres.,when a large number of mik < railleuses jpoured a terrific fire. Tl/e ] Germans in ;; every direction went } down "in hundreds and , fell back shat- \ tered. A couple of French battalions sprang from the trenches and com- ; plejei}- tho rout with the bayonet. T Ihp enemy's josses were appalling.