THE VERMAND-VILLERS ATTACK.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14145, 24 July 1916, Page 5

THE VERMAND-VILLERS ATTACK.

IMPETUOUS "RUSH OF FRENCH COLONIALS. EXTRAORDINARY JUMBLE OF PRISONERS. (Reuters Telegrams.) Paris, July 21. The positions captured on the Ver-mand-Villers line are of great strength. The French colonial battalions attacked at some points so impetuously that they overran three, lines of trenches without loss.

Elsewhere they were less fortunate. Soyecourt, the (Labyrinth, and Star Wood, were carried by assault. The village was surrounded-on three sides^ Two whole enemy companies defending the redoubt near Vermand-Villers farm were captured, as was also a company belonging to a regiment brought from Verdun.

Among the prisoners there is an extraordinary jumble of Wurtembergers, Saxons, Badeners, Bavarians, and Prussians. They are mostly between the ages of seventeen and twenty.