A GALLANT EIGHT HUNDRED
GERMANS FOUGHT TO A FINISH A HEROIC STAND (Reo. October 7, 10.45 p.m.) London, October 6. A wounded private of the Warwickshire Regiment tells the story of a heroic stand by eight bundled FrancoBritish infantry, who, on September 19, woro occupying a farm building on the Aisne. A German division, with cavalry and artillery, in a night attack cut through the British cavalry outposts and surrounded the eight hundred, who retreated to tho stable of the farmhouse. The German artillery smashed tho stablo wall. A battalion of infantry then sought to rush the pJace. The defenders fired until their ammunition wae exhausted. The Germans finally, faced a handful of men with bayonets in the corner of the stable', and they shot them from the doorway. MeanwH'e 200 of tho defenders were packed in the farmhouse. The Germane fired at the windows until the roof crashed in, burying the survivors. Only twenty out of the eight hundred were captured unbounded.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 5
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163A GALLANT EIGHT HUNDRED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 5
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