WARMER WEATHER.
AUSTRALIANS' VICTORY AT
LAGNICOURT.
A FIND FOR THIRSTY MEN
lAustrallan and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 1. Mr. Philip Gibbs says: — Sunshiny spring weather has replaced the cold amd the wet mud has become dust. Describing the Australians* light al Lagnicourt, he says :— On counter-attacking they found many Germans ih the dug-outs and great stoves of beer, cigars, and food — a- find for thirsty men. This "mopp'ng up battalion," as it is technically tailed, mopped up the beer and fat cigars with their mouth at a bottle of beer and one I hand on the bayonet, while the others I continued the hunt for' prisoners. Two hundred Germans attempted to .surrender under the white flag, but were shot down by their own machine-gunners. The Australians inflicted appalling casualties on 3000 Germans caught behind their own entanglements. Five Australians found themselves cnt off, and hid m tlie German lines. They remained five days foodless and waterless till they found a gap m the entanglements and escaped.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 3
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