DRIVEN FROM THEIR TRENCHES
IRISH GUARDS DISLODGE GERMANS ■■'■_■. CHARGE UNDER HEAVY FIRE London, September 22. A wounded non-commissioned officer relates that at the battle of the Maine the Irish Guards were, selected to dislodge the enemy from a' commanding position. The Guards, under a hail of shrapnel, reached a knoll eight hundred yards away from-the enemy, who maintained'a heavy riflo fire. "Leaving a force to hold the knoll," he said, "the rest crept round the Germans' left, and gradually edged towards _tho German trenches. The whole battalion then lined up at two hundred yards for a final rush. The ridge was crowned by their machine-guns, .firing continually. We fixed bayonets and charged under a fiendish fire, and, with a wild whoop, reached the trenches. The Germans desperately attempted to reply to us with the 'bayonet, then wavered, broke in the centre, and ran like hares, throwing down their-arms. We bayoneted and shot them down in dozens until we were exhausted. The Germans who did not escape surrendered."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 5
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167DRIVEN FROM THEIR TRENCHES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 5
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