THE BROKEN ATTACK
ON DOUAUMONT FORT. HAVOC OF THE QUNS. . EXHAUSTED GERMANS .' RETREAT. « FRENCH FIRSTLY ESTABLISHED (Received 2.45 p.m.) PARIS, February 2S. M. Briaml. tlic French Premier, contihuinghis srecount of the German check at Douaumont; (published oil nage-5),----said that the French ' heavy' and light artilJer.y. . ploughed bloody furrows through the'enemy's closed ranks. Finally the exhausted- and gradually thinning German armies gave way and abandoned Champ Neuville, Poivre Hill and Douaumont. \Xe resumed the advance and remained masters of the field, the heroic Frenchmen having re-established themselves in formidable positions.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 51, 29 February 1916, Page 2
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