TRIUMPH FOR SOUTH AFRICANS.
TURNING CAPTURED GUNS ON
THE ENEMY
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, April 14.
Mr. Philip Gibbs, official, correspondent at headquarters, gives prominencce to the South Africans' share m Monday's attack. Colonels charged ahead of their men and tliey captured the first line without casualties.
Afterwards they fought a Avicked ma-chine-gun fire, but gathered m hundreds of prisoners and many guns, including six-inch hoAvitzers, and a A*ast haul of ammunition. They reversed the guns upon the enemy. It Avas af triumph for the South Africans, reA T enging the tragic episodes m Delville Wood.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14273, 16 April 1917, Page 3
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