REVENGE FOR REVERSE.
THE GERMAN WAY. UNDEFENDED TOWN REDUCED TO RUINS. (Received October 2, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The Germans on Sunday, morning gained some ground, and then. the French brought up many quickffirers and checked the advance. The enemy kept up their effort gamely, but clearly failed. On Tuesday afternoon they attacked again, and this time there was no French battery within a mile of Albert, but, to the astonishment of the French gunners, the Germans began systematically shelling Albert, an open, undefended town of 8000 inhabitants. The town collapsed like a house of cards, and was soon a burning- ruin. Meanwhile the roads were crowded with women and babies, while some of the in-
habitants, who were aged and too feeble to walk, were trundled along in barrows. The.'German-revenge for their reverse was complete. [Albert, or, as it is sometimes called, Anere, is a small town in the Department of the Souime, 18 miles north-east of Amiens.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 204, 2 October 1914, Page 7
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