HOW THE GREAT DUNE WAS CAPTURED.
FINE STRATEGY OF ALGERIANS,
(Received Wednesday, 8.55 a.m.)
PARIS, Tuesday.
After the Frenchmen's fruitless efforts to capture the strongly-held Great Dune, twenty-four Algerians concealed behind the bellies of their horses, appeared in the German trenches at nightfall. When the Germans were about to capture the horses, in response to a sharp cry, they galloped back to the French lines, whereupon twentyfour grey forms rose from the ground and threw themselves into the trenches.
The German second line Avavercd and did not fire, fearing that they would hit their OAvn men. Reinforcements arriving, the French captured tho Great Dune with slight losses.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14208, 10 February 1915, Page 5
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