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INCIDENT OF VIGOROUS FRENCH ATTACK IN ALSACE. An account by the French Eye-Wit- ■ ness of the recent fighting at Metzeral in June, says: On June 15, after a violent and searching artillery fire, the assault was delivered from the two sides of the valley of the Fecht. The battalions of Chasseurs had brought with them their bugle 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 the line battalion which attacked Hill 830 played the "Marseillaise" with such vigour that the big drum was broken. It was brought back on the shoulders of a German prisoner. While the bands were awakening the echoes of the valleys of Aljtoce /with French airs, the German field and machine guns: entered into action. The dash of our troops was such that they could not be stopped, and the greater part of the trenches on the Braunkopf quickly fell into our bands.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13211, 30 September 1915, Page 2
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