CLOSE QUARTERS AT YPRES.
BRITISH DRIVEN OUT OF TRENCHES.
A BRILLIANT RECOVERY.
(Received November 27, 10.20 a.m.)
LONDON, November 26.
During, the recent fighting at Ypres German guns found the range of a British trench, and the British were ordered to quit, preventing our battery from checking the advance. Several hundred German infantry and gunners prepared for a hand-to-hand fight. The Germans charged in close order, and when they were within twenty-five yards the final rounds from the guns practically annihilated the Germans.
The : battery then decimated the' German reserves. . .*; .. ■ '..■:.,■■'■■ ; •;
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 7
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90CLOSE QUARTERS AT YPRES. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 7
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