THE ATTACK ON SAINT ELOI.
REINFORCED GERMANS ALMOST' ENVELOP BRITISH.
POSITION RETRIEVED TWELVE HOURS LATER.
(Received 8.15 a.m.)
PARIS, March 16. The Germans, smarting under (ieneral Rupreeht's defeat at Xcuve C'hapelle, violently bombarded Vpres and Saint Eloi on Sunday. The Wurtemberg Aimy Corps, strongly reinforced from Liege and Ghent, advanced upon Saint Eloi in dense masses at nightfall and threatened to envelop the British, who yielded ground under heavy fire, but, reinforced during the r.ight, retook the village and most of the outside trenches on Monday morning. A message from Copenhagen states that the last eight Prussian lists show 33.142 casualties, including 11 airmen killed. A Paris communique reports further progress north-east of Souain. The French mines shattered the site of a German defence in the Bois lc Trctre.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 5
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