Sharp Fight on W. Front Five Nazis Killed London, Mar. 21.
"Last night a British patrol had a very successful encounter with' an enemy patrol, and after a sharp fight five of the enemy patrol were killed and one captured," declares a communique issued by the British headquarters in France.
"Our troops suffered no casualties," the communique adds.
A French special correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force describes the encounter as "violent."
"This exploit," he adds, "brilliantly avenges the fate of their comrades who recently fell into a German trap almost at the same point."
The latest French war communique also makes brief mention of this encounter.
"On the British front," it declares, "there have been encounters between patrols which ended to the entire advantage of our Allies.'—Reuter, Good Substitutes for
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