OPERATIONS ON THE FECHT
iDA&HEsG ATTACK BY THE " FRENCH.' ~ {Kec. otuiy 16, 9.25=. a.m.) PAIUS," July. 15. ~ 'A. communique from the French- Eye"V\»ness states that operations in the viiley of tie Southern Fecht have been boldly conceived, and dashingly carried oijt. Excited* Alpine troops,_ mountaineers from Savoy and Dauphine, aiid battaßons, of the line made a faring attack. The or&rash was . ixresistible v Tie, Jna-. jcnrity ,lrenc!b!e£. qmc£ly "captured, "while "on Hill 830 the infantry, piercing the line, slid- down the declivities and took the trenches in the r6£r-, 'prisonering two companies. . . After the entire position at Braunkppf was. carried, the French were, impeded for. several- days-, by machine-gun,' fire against • tfe slopes, nritil desperate trench figiting made them .masters of. the situation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 16 July 1915, Page 5
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