HAD 400 MILE-THROWERS.
HOW GERMANS CROSSED THE OTSI"3 SOUTH OF LA FERE. AMSTERDAM, April 12. Describing how the Germans? succeeded in crossing the River Oise south of La Fere at the beginning of the offensive on the Somme front, the war correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says : — "Four hundred .heavy mino-th rowers were brought to one spot, and joined together, so , that they could be fired by electricity at the same time. Immeddiateilyi after tJhe (mine-throwers had been dfiecharged, bridges, whiich liad been kept in : readiness, were thrown across the Oise and troops stormed the southern suburb ' of " Chattily, killing or taking prisoner the enemy troops there." —^— — — —^— i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 5
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108HAD 400 MILE-THROWERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 5
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