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to the right, and captures, after fleres in fighting with bayonet and knife, a section of trench there, only to be cut off in the upshot by the Germans in the intact trench. On their left the Leicesters have gone through with a rush.
Handy mon with the bayonet, hardly a man in the battalion, the 2nd, that does not de his work
de gallantly, indeed, did the "Tigers bear themselves this day that, after the fight, the Divisions! General
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In five week trench warfare recently
AFRICAN LINE. managed to get a message back to our guns to turn their fire again on the Ger- with drawn sword in thicis midst. A pou-fraction of our total casualties in the in column of route, an officer on horseback aingle British Division lost 1,257 men
killed and wounded, a not inconsiderablć an trends in front, and presently our commissioned officer was seen driving the four fierce days of Neuve Chapelle. gans opened fire and destroyed the wire men along with a whip, as though they the result of the staggering blow our In the meantime a bombing party of the had been a herd of cattle. Middlesex hd cleared some Germans out The slaughter was sickening. In front my dealt the Germans there, the casual- of the environs. The Germans had boon of one of the brigades the Bavariant ties in the trenches have been very consid- ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE. shiping from a cross-road and had signi- coming along at the anabling trot adopted Neuve Chapelle are compensated to this erably diminished, so that our losses at fied their readiness to surrender. On by the German infantry at the assault and extent, More than this, as Sir Douglas: noticing, however, that the bombing party hawling Hourra in the approved Haig pointed out in his Order to the First consisted only of an officer and 'eix men, fashion, blundered into, the fire of no Army issued after the battic, our success- they ducked down in their trench agaau fewer than 21 machine guns. and reopened. fire. The bombing party
The files ful surprises of the enemy totally dis where just swept away; One moment one had the shouting, ambling crowd before south of the La Bassee Canal and pre- one's eyes; the next moment, where it from our front to send against the French vented him from withdrawing troops had been, Iny a writhing, convulsed pile in the fighting at Notre Dame de Lorette. to their objective, a large orchard north-When day broke, amid the rattle of Lastly, to quote Sir Douglas Haig,
The Middlesex were now able to get on of bodies heaped up on the brown earth
the east of the village, where serious resist machine gun and rifle fire, the German Germans a proof of his superiority in
British soldier has once more given the ance had been anticipated. The Devons corpses were seen bad
to make ramparts got in there already and made mince behind which the wounded took cover fight, as well as of his pluck and deter- meat of the Germans, There the Middle-In one case at least the Germans, feverish mination to conquer." are stayed and consolidated the position.
ly digging themselves in were actually seen to use the corpse of one of their comrades to finish off the parapet of their trench.
visited them in their billets to congrata pushed on and pelted them out, info th of men did not recede or stagger. They organised the forces from Ypres to fur
late them on the good showing they made. The Leicesters come in for Bro from the German trench which has been left intact. It is a bad gap in our attacking line, and
it must be closed.
URODIGIES OF BRAVERY,
open, where the machine gun oficer of the Middlesex was waiting for them with bis Maxim.
Five of the Garhwalis officers are dead now, killed in the first line after prodigies of bravery. In this fight the hattalion
"All during the fighting the co-operation between the treaches and our batteries is to lose 30 officers and 350 men killed and wounded. The Germans have started to
had been greatly impeded by the con- shell the Garhwali trenches.). But the tinual interruption of telephonic com- All through the German wounded man, though without officers, are atrady. munication owing to the destruction of crawled into the British-lines, where they These stout little hillmen have seen the the wires in the incessant rain of bullets. officers full, fearlessly exposing them- The Signalling Corps displayed the well cared for and sent down in our ambulances. The Gurkhas stood up fer remember that, and it keeps greatest bravery in going out repentedly on the parapet and enfled to the Germans Lelves. them arm.
into the thick of the fight to repair the to come on. A man in the Rifle Brigade, Now the Leicesters are going to effect wires, which were cut again almost as who had crawled out of the trench, Game a function with marooned Garhwalis. Aon as they were mended Artillery ob- back with no fewer than nine Germans
servation was rendered difficult owing to gingerly tailing behind him on all fours. bombing party is creeping down the com
the Batness of the country.. munication trench to pelt the Germans into the open, Cricket in good training for bomb throwing, and the "Tigers Aling their tombs into the crowded Ge man trenches as fast and true as though they were throwing down a wicket. the Germans are driven out into the open As
they are hvor bayoneted or slashed with th kukri. The captain lays out five Ger mans with his revolver.
THE LAST EFFORT.
The Worcesters, the East Lanes, the Sherwood Foresters, and the Northants, It was now clear that the preliminary advancing from the Rue Tilleloy, followed to any successful advance must be the The Worcesters had a destruction by artillery of the three Ger. up the attack. fine "scrap with the Germans in an man strongholds the two on the-Pietr Neuve Chapelle, the last stronghold of Layes. But the weather allied itself with orchard round a farmhouse due north of Road and the bridgehead over the River the position held by the Germans. The our existing difficulties. The clear atmos
"with a phero provailing during the first day of Worcesters had their tails up vengeance. They chased the Germans up the fighting, had given way to mist, im- and down that muddy field like terriers peding the artillery observation work and The day wearing on. The attack has after rats. They puraged them with the making it increasingly hard to dis dragged badly at this point, in the line bayonet round the trees, One German-tinguish friend from foc, amid a network- The Seaforta, with kilts flying, are dis-bolted into the farmhouse and was found of tronches which in some places were-al patched to execute a flank attack on the trying to propel his portly form up the 60 yards apart. German trench. From the front the 3rd chimney. He was pulled out and made London Regiment, a Territorial Battalion prisoner. of the Royal Fusiliers, delivers a splendid charge. The men come tearing across the pitted adds strewn with dead, bayonets well down checking as they go. They sleep me as they plunge along, but who cares in such a charge under the eyes of the elite of the Army The Regulars cheer them as they swing past, and they carry in their stride the last German strong- hold and the gap is closed. As the sun sinks bloodreds behind the grima skeleton that was ones the village of Neuve Cha- polle our men dig themselves in on the new line we have won between the village and the Biez Wood,
STOPPED BY BARDED WIRE. You who read these lines may never havɔ hoard of the Scottish Rifles, as the 2nd Battalion of the Cameronians likes to be designated. A fine, prond corps, the old 99th Light Foot, the Scottish Rifles do not advertise," as they will tell one in the accent of Lanark or of Aberdeen, but they are the only regiment in the British Array
that can lay claim to three Commanders in-Chief and two Field-Marshals, Lord Hill, Lord Wolseley, and Sis Evelyn Wood, to wit. In a few hours of martyr dom the Scottish tiles at Neuro Cha pells showed that they have lost nothing of the spirit which won them fame as Luck- now and at Spion Kop. All their officers save one were killed or wounded, the Colonel, Limtenant-Colonel Bliss, and his adjutant falling side by side, bravely lending the first line. The losses among the men were in proportion. A hundred and fifty odd were all that their sele sus viving officer; a second lieutenant of the Special Reser, could collect after the German position had been won. But, though all thoir officers were gone, the men remained as steady as on parade, "mould- ing themselves," "as one who went all
THE GERMANS ON THE RUN, By 1.30 in the afternoon village and environs were in our hands, but the advance was still delayed by the drag ging of the brigades where the batte fions had been held up by the barbed wire. The conditions were ideal for a further advance towards the Aubers Ridge. The Germaus were on the run, The total demoralization of the prisoners proved thht. Few of the dead found up to that hour were fully equipped. The prisoners were panic-stricken. They were not second-class troops, either, not pot-bellied, bespectacled Landwehr or Landsturm, but Line upstanding young Westphalians, elean, and in good uniforms. Most of the prisoners seemed heartily relieved at their capture The Border Regiment bases Prussian Colonel. He was
to be taken. Of his own initia tive he formed up his men, bawling at thom in the most approved Prusian har rack-yard style, and marched them off through the British lines. The Borderers say the men seemed more stared of their. Colonel than of the "hated English."
Nothing could be more characteristic of the difficulties of fighting in these flat plains dotted with groups of isolated houses and scamed with the network of trenches than the delay caused to pur advance by the resistance of small parties
With hopes high and courage undaunt against the German line protecting the ridge. The 2nd Scots Guards, the 1st Grenadiers, the Borderers, and the 2nd Gordons, with their Territorial Battalion, were amongst the regiments the ons taking part in the
assault.
With incredible tenacity, using grenade and bayonet, part of the attacking troops worked their way right up to the houses about the Moulin de Pietre.:
ed, our troops went forward again.
Here it was that the eth Gordous lost their colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel Maclean. A subaltern, hearing that he had been killed, bastoned to his side and found him still alive, lying in the open behind the trench with a bullet in his back and sinking fast. He was suffering grievously. The young officer fetched the Colonel some morphia, which cased his pain,
later,
The victory of Neuve Chapelle has welded the British Army in the field even unites in mourning for the brave me thin closer together than before The Army died, as in admiration for the countless devils of individual heroism the figh brought forth and satisfaction at the im pertant results achieved. No one rejoices more at the splendid manner in which the Army stood the test than Sir John French; who in a stirring Special Order to the First Army, expressed his fervent and most heartfelt appreciation of the magnificent gallantry and devoted tenaci ous courage displayed by all ranks." With his eulogy will be mingled the warmest thanks of England
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It was the barbed wire again, a section of German trench which cur artillery had nacountably missed. The right-hand leading company, "B." got through with out much opposition, but "A Company on the left, was literally mown down by machinegan and rifle fire. remained alive from that tornado hardly remember anything save tearing at th barbed wire with their hands, jabbing at it with their Filles and stamping on it. Finally, the men
Just before dawn the next morning the had to s down in the open swept by i
machine-gan fire and sprayed by high Germans made their first attempt to explosive shrapnel that bursts with a hide.deprive as of our capture. Their coun-wind added to the general discomfort.
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