TALLY-HO" IN THE TRENCHES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15872, 11 April 1917, Page 8

TALLY-HO" IN THE TRENCHES.

With the British Armies Afield, February 23. To the hunting call blown on. a bugle, clerks and stenographers, part ot a London battalion, on Tuesday. at dusk raided the Germans between Hill 60 and the Bluff. They took 119 German soldiers and one officer with seven, machine guns, and destroyed a mine shaft and numerous dugouts in which j^ er ® were several hundred men who refused, to come out. A British officer remarked that the Londoners carried out tho raid with the same methodical thoroughness that they formerly cleared up a day's mail. Tlie zig-zag nature of the .British, lines necessitated tho attackers lining up on the open ground. Tho ' city chaps" stood calmly, merely tightening their helmets as they awaited the blast of tho hunting horn, while shrapnel from German guns were bursting about them. At the sound of "Tally Ho, they charged, bending in a 500-yard circle about the Germans and shaking hands at*tho junction point of their circlo behind the enemy's line. Their German prisoners stood agape at such incomprehensible conduct. « The prisoners were all of the loom Prussian Regiment.