THE DUSKY ALLIES.
OBLITERATE GERMAN - DETACHMENT. ENEMY PURSUED FOR SIX MILES. (Received November. 6, .9.20 a.m.) PARIS, November 5. A.-.combined force of Moroccans, French" colonial infantry, and Indian troops, confronted by a deadly German fire, resorted to tliejr favourite tactics of disappearing in. ditches, behind hedges and bt-Hw obstacles. After a
quarter of an hour, the Germans, imagining their opponents to have been annihilated, advanced within a hundred yards, when rifles and quick-firers obliterated a whole detachment. The Allies swept the enemy out of Hoilebecque, Messines, and Wurtem-, burg. A battalion was driven into the muddy beds of the Lys, and surrendered. The German casualties totalled three thousand.. The Allies captured many prisoners, six guns, and an entire ambulance division. The enemy were pursued for six miles.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 235, 7 November 1914, Page 9
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