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T • INCIDENT OF VIGOROUS FRENCH ATTACK IN ALSACE. An account by the French' Eye-Wit-ness of the French successes in Alsace and the fighting at Metzeral in June, says: On June 15, after a violent and searching artillery fire, the assault was delivered from two sides of the valley of the Fecht. The battalions or Chasseurs had brought with tliem their ■ bugl® bands. 'At the appointed hour they sounded the charge, and the Alpinists and mountaineers from Savoy and the Dauphine advanced to the attack. ' : The. band of tho line battalion which attacked Hill 830 played the "Marseillaise" with such vigour that, the big drum was broken. It was brought back oil-the shoulders of a. German prisoner. While the bands were awakening the echoes of the valleys. of Alsace with French airs the German field and machine guns entered into action. The dash of our troops was such that they couid not be stopped, and the greater part of tho trenches on the Braunkopf quickly fell, into our hands.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2556, 2 September 1915, Page 5
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