WANTON DAMAGE.
GERMANS WRECK MINES. TERRIFIC ARTILLERY FIRE. LONDON, October Ifi. The "Daily Telegraph" says the Germans ar6 'cheating havOc iri the coal mines, "-evidently' wreaking vengeance before retreating across the Belgian border. The entrances to three of the biggest iriines in the Courrieres district have been destroyed, arid the machinery blown up. French artillery swept, positron after
position, the fire being terrific. Ihe Germans occupied a wide area, and their batteries Mere ineffective. The French batteries, after an half-hour's continuous firing, cleared every foot of the German trenches.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 217, 17 October 1914, Page 9
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