GROUND HEAPED WITH GERMAN DEAD
ENEMY'S FURY TEMPORARILY EXHAUSTED. WHOLE BATTALIONS BLOWN TO BITS. ! (The Times.) LONDON, April 26. The Times' correspondent at Headquarters says the ferocity of the fighting and the slaughter' of Germans is unparalleied.
Tlie repulsed counter-attacks at Gavrelle resemble massacres, the ground being heaped with dead, and our artillery blowing whole battalions to bits. The Germany fury is temporarily exhausted, but renewed concentrations presage a further attempt to recapture the village.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14283, 27 April 1917, Page 3
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