AUSTRALIANS' WONDERFUL EFFORT
A FEAT THAT WILL LIVE IN
"HISTORY.
(imiTiD mm associatjoh.—cowmoht.)
(ABBTSALIAK-HKW ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION,) SYDNEY, This Day.
Captain Bean, the Australian official war correspondent, cabling on the T6th, describes the Australian attack on the Hindenburg Lino as. a feat that will live in history as long as history lasts. Under machine-gun fire and through such wire fortifications a» were hitherto unknown,they seized Wo lines of trenches and captured the village of Reincourt (three miles east of Bullecourt) and pushed 2000 yds beyond the Hindenburg Line. Here their wonderful effort spent itself, and the ranks were thinned down to a handful of men who were unable to keep down the machine-gun fire and sniping. The Germans, heavily reinforced, drove them back. Though the Australians did not succeed, the extraordinary gallantry of the attack had a marked effect on the progress of the troops elsewhere.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 8
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146AUSTRALIANS' WONDERFUL EFFORT Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 8
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