BRITISH FEATS OF ARMS
VICTORY WRESTED FROM DEFEAT
BAYONET V. MACHINE GUN
(Rec. ( October 5, 5.6 p jn.)' London, ■ October 4. The "Times" Paris correspondent declares that every Englishman holds the instinctive faith that what is more important than the gun is the man bsiiind it. Among tie many lessons taught by the Battle of the Aisne none is greater than that a machine-gun, no matter how powerful, is insecure against man's two hands, and every battle in the last issue is won by the bayonet. British soldiers have put the doctrine of the machine-gun to great shame. They made charges which were impossible by all the rules of the game, and'wrested victory from the very teeth of defeat. A soldier describing a bayonet charge after an artillery duel, says: "With nerves a-jingle and tempers on edge, the men rush at the foe with cold steel, and at last it is man to man. Suddenly the sound of loud, continuous laughter is heard from a soldier who has passed the borders of restraint. It is no longer dull courage, but a blaze of anger that sweeps the ranks like lire, striking terror by ite very native ferocity. Ma-chine-guns have no reply to such a zeal of paesion."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 5
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207BRITISH FEATS OF ARMS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 5
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