AUSTRALIANS TURN CAPTURED GUNS ON ENEMY.
GERMAN ABUSE OF THE WHITE FLAG PUNISHED. CAPTURE OF PATROL PREVENTS GIVING OF ALARM. Australian and N.Z. (Received 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 27. The Australian correspondent, Mr. Gilmour, describing the fighting in Wednesday's advance, says:— officer relates that on one "pill box" the Germans hoisted the white flag while they continued firing with machine-guns. Our boys went mad, and shot them down like rabftts. Prisoners indicated that a number of officers were hiding in a dug-out 400 yds ahead. This meant going into our own barrage, but our men surprised a battalion commander, five officers, and a number of privates. Scores of machine-guns were captured and turned against the enemy. Another officer states that just before the start they found between the first and second Australian lines a wandering German patrol. The men were promptly captured before they could give the alarm, which would have drawn the enemy's fire upon the thousands of soldiers lying thickly down the ridge-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16657, 29 September 1917, Page 7
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165AUSTRALIANS TURN CAPTURED GUNS ON ENEMY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16657, 29 September 1917, Page 7
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