TRACLE AT TRONES WOOD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6378, 19 July 1916, Page 4

TRACLE AT TRONES WOOD.

Rescue of West Kents. London, July 16. Mr Phillip Gibb says : " The .'•termans dropped high explosives through the naked trees at Trones Wood, opening great craters. Our men used the pits as refuges for the wounded, who crawled backwards into the shell holes. The unwounded crawled forward in the same way, keeping their bombs ready, and thus they captured the wood. " A queer miracle happened. A number of dirty, evil-looking English boys crawled into holes ahead and shouted : ' Hello, lads ' The others sobbed, big - tears coursing flown their grimy faces, These were 300, Weat-Kcnts who, (Under dm officer, had been isolated by Hie WWjpsfc