THE BRITISH AT GOMMECOURT.
HOW THE ADVANCE WAS MADE
STIFF HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 2, 10.50 a.m.)
LONDON,
March 1
A correspondent at British headquarters states : "Nothing, was left at Gommecourt except tlje foundation of the chateau, where enormous subterranean rooms had been dug, each sufficient to house half a battalion.
Tho German rearguards consisted of iselected men, jncluding guards, each regimental sector contributing thirty to fifty men, with half-a-dozen non-com-missioned offioes under one officer.
There was stiff street fighting at Puisdeux, but the Germans were unequal m hand-to-hand fighting. Our men also had a stern conflict at Nightingale Wood, where men fought from ti%e to tree. The initiative resource of the north countrymen caused serious losses to the Germans.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14236, 2 March 1917, Page 3
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