A TREACHEROUS DEED
BRITISH SOLDIERS BOUSED TO FURY
LONDON, 23ra April. Mr. Beach Thomas, describing the ' new British offensive, refers to the great concentration of new German reserves and batteries on both sides of the Scarpe to meet the renewed attack. "One officer," he says, describing the attack, "rushed his men past the German curtain of fire, and then paraded them up close to his own barrage. The moment the curtain lifted the men were in the enemy's trenches. They bayoneted the whole garrison save a handful of prisoners. The Germans fought to the death. One group, nearly surrounded, held up their hands, but as the British, rose from the shell-holes the machinegunners behind, pretending to surrender, opened fire in all directions. I never met British troops coming from battle with such passionate words of fury. "Much air fighting prefaced the battle, and pix of the German machines >. igaro brought down,"
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 7
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151A TREACHEROUS DEED Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 7
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