BODY ON BAYONET.
;: TWO HUNDRED . LIVES FORGONE, i The Petit . Marseillais;.;publishes.'.a* grim story of the Avar in the Vosges, narrated by ■an officer of the Chasseurs Alpine..', A French lieutenant set out in the dawn to locate the > enemy's telephone station. Leaving .his own trench, ,he crawled forward unaccompanied as far ■as the ap- ] aproache3 tq the German lines.'Sfie; wad' allowed to come up to them and was shot) dead. When the light grew stronger the Germans • hoisted- the -corpse;-/' on , their 11 bayonets for his comrades to see'.-' .Without' 1 an order or a word of any kind' the entire French company leaped from its trenches '■< and rushed forward. j. The attack was stf sudden and impetuous that the; wire entanglements were - broken i down, and aJ» the Germans -in ; tin trench were* bayoneted, the bodies.of 210 oi,the enemy being found in it later. ■;' ;.f-.%:-vS s '';'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15906, 1 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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147BODY ON BAYONET. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15906, 1 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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