GERMANS LURED INTO VILLAGE OF DEATH.
RECKLESS ADVANCE CPON LAND MINES. BATTALIONS OF DEAD AMID THE RUINS. Paris, November 16. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent states that only one village in North France was between the firing lines. The French general ordered a retreat. The Germans, noticing this, hurriedly ponred battalion after battalion into the village, whereupon an explosion shook the countryside. The French bad mined the village, and several battalions of the enemy were dead amid the ruins.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 7
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