FEARFUL SLAUGHTER
GERMAN ASSAULT ON THE TRENCHES * '' HAVOC WROUGHT BY FRENCH ARTILLERY (Received October 27, 8.40 a.m.) PARIS, 26th October. An officer^ writing to the paper Liberte, narrates the fearful slaughter in the Argonne district. An infantry regiment and a battalion of chasseurs held an important strategic highway. Fifteen thousand Germans essayed to storm the trenches with the bayonet. The French, with five quick-firing sections firing at the rate of six hundred shots a minute, opened ,fire at short range on the massed columns, It was horrible to see the solid masses fall. Many were killed on the parapets ; others reached the trenches, where there were hand-to-hand bayonet encounters, until the French artillery reinforcements forced the Germans to retreat, leaving . thousands of dead and wounded.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 7
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125FEARFUL SLAUGHTER Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 7
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