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TRIUMPH FOR SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS

kptured Guns Turned on Germans

„ and N 2. Cable Assoe. &tvwv Loadon» April 13 "Bfitoft Gibb3» correspondent at ' € 7H Uartei3 iv Fra »<^ gives s Monday's filing. The

colonels charged ahead of their men *nd captured the first line without a casualty. They afterwards fought through-a wicked machine gun fire and gathered hundreds of prisoners Many guns, including some 6-inch howitzers, and a vast haul of ammunition, were captured, and the South Africans reversed the captured guns upon thp. enemy. The attach was a triumph for the South Africans and revenged the tragic epiaode of tho Del ville Wood figlmino-

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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6853, 16 April 1917, Page 3

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TRIUMPH FOR SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6853, 16 April 1917, Page 3

TRIUMPH FOR SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6853, 16 April 1917, Page 3