FRESH GERMAN TRAGEDY.
A SHAMBLES AT MONCHY. BOCHES DELIVERED !MTO OUR 5-3 AMDS. ■ Router's '-Telegrams. . LONDON, April 17.' (Received April 18, at 8.35 p.m.) Reuter's correspondent with headquarters, reporting to-day, says that the Germans could not have timed their effort to retake the -village of Monchy more opportunely. The very moment we were ready to advance they were massing in the two •adjoining woods. They were hotly bombarded, and their advance from the south was beaten back before they were within 150 yards of our position. The Germans emerging from the Vert and. Sart Woods were caught by our bombardment. Shells devastated their ranks. They gained our front trenches before the village After fierce hand-to-hand fighting, the British were ordered to allow the Bodies to enter a long narrow trench as thickly as they pleased Then they were terribly enfiladed and withered, and fled in disorder Thev lost 2500 in killed alone. One officer claims that he shot 40 before they bolted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16982, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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