GERMANY'S IMPERIAL GUARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14049, 20 July 1916, Page 3

GERMANY'S IMPERIAL GUARD.

ROUT WATCHED BY KAISER. BRITISH CAPTURE OF OVILLERS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, July 18. The .Petit Journal says the Easier witnessed the British capture of , Ovillers, in which the Prussian Guards' battalion contested every house, compelling the British to be besiege the ruins ot every house. LONDON, July 19. - The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent describes the grand fight for Ovillers. After a furious bombardment the Brigade advanced on three shies. The defenders, with conspicuous valour, engaged in a desperate ha'nd-to-haud struggle among the broken walls and cellars. Many of them had not tasted food for two days. Everywhere are corpses lying unburied. The bombardment wrecked two strong fieldworks barring the entry to the village by the Bapaume road. Our troops found here a frightful barricade of 800 German corpses. Out of an entire Brigade of the Imperial Guard : 126 survived, many suffering agonies of hunger and thirst. Some died of poisoning after drinking from a' filthy pond, and others went mad and were fighting each other. Our men formed up and presented arms in honor of the sorry remnant of Prussia's proudest troops marching to the rear.