A DESPERATE FIGHT.
GERMANS' GREAT EFFORT. FRENCH REPEL ATTACKS. Australian and N Z. Cable Association. (Received November 18, 12.50 p.m.) PARIS, November 17. M. Marcel Hulin, writing in the "Echo de Paris," says:—After a bombardment of extraordinary intensity, 35,000 Germans, with asphyxiating gas and tear shells, attacked the French positions at Pressoir and Ablaincourt on Wednesday. Despite the use of flame throwers, the enemy was unable to debouch, machine guns and the seventy-lives mowing down the attackers. The attack was most violent at Pressoir, where the enemy outnumbered the defenders tenfold. The Germans forced the French to retire a little, but an obstinate resistance enabled the defenders to send up relief, and to drive the enemy out of the village.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 866, 18 November 1916, Page 2
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120A DESPERATE FIGHT. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 866, 18 November 1916, Page 2
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