A BARBARIC FIGHT.
HOW THE BAVARIANS WERE
CAUGHT.
(United Service.)
LONDON, April 29. Mr. Thomas tella a wild barbaric story, verified by experienced officers. A Bavarian battalion 700 strong drove out some of our men holding a captured trench, and pursued them so keenly that a Lincoln regiment was able to cut them. off. . The retreating- party thereupon turned .and faced their pursuers, and a fierce combat ensued. -Tin rifle became a spear and a club. Scarcely a man thought of shooting. Both sides relapsed to a date before gunpowder, and some eveni threw away their rifles and wrestled to the death, or picked up stones, shouting war cries suitable to the stone age. Not a Bavarian escaped, and very few surren> d<ered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 3
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