BRITISH TRAP ENEMY AT TRONES WOOD.
SIX HOUsRS' HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. [Reuters Telegrams.] LONDON, July 13. French correspondents state that the battle of Trones Wood has probably been the most obstinate of the war. The British and Germans were in equally tenacious mood, and there was a mass of trenches. The British, by a brilliant attack, carried most of the wood. The Germans made several furious counterattacks, and then the British batteries opened, and there was another British charge. During a terrible melee the Germane were reinforced. Finally, after six hours' hand-to-hand fighting, the British neatly trapped the enemy by advancing in crescent formation, and forced the Germans to run to escape annihilation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 167, 14 July 1916, Page 5
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