An Easy Prey.
FIELDS HEAPED WITH DEAD.
BATTERIES BLOWN TO BITS
(Press Assn.—Reed. 12.35 a.m.)
LONDON, Sept. 15. There was very hot fighting at Vareddas. three miles northeast of Meatus, on Thursday. Sumi-permanent entrenchments were erected by the enemy with a view to a definite stund, but their threeinch and five-inch guns were badly placed, and the French were able to blow the batteries to pieces from the opposing ridge, leaving the German infantry in front of the batteries an easy prey. Very few of the infantry escaped, and tlie fields on both sides of the village were heaped with German dead.
Piles of unexploded shells in wicker basket?.; were abandoned near the batteries.
Trees which the Germans hoped y. ould nerve as shelter were torn to pieces by the French artillery.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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