GERMAN REPULSE ON THE SCHELDT.
SUB-LIEUTENANT'S GALLANTRY,
Ostentf, Oct. 5.
Sub-lieutenant Hiernaux, in charge of a battery, gallantly .prevented Germans rushing a strategically important bridge over the Scheldt connecting Ternionde and Gaembrun.
With a battery carefully hidden he swept the troops off the bridge. A seoond party of Germans, .wrapped in mattresses, advanced, and were shot down. A third attempt failed, and then the
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 5
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64GERMAN REPULSE ON THE SCHELDT. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 5
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