TRIUMPH FOR SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS
kptured Guns Turned on Germans
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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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