THE TERRIBLE GURKHA.
SPLENDID DASH OP INDIAN TROOPS (Reo. November IT, 9 p.m.)' Paris, November 10, .' The Indians are fighting with an en* thusiasm and dash which has electrified their British companions. The Gurkhas at night continually discard their rifles and armed with their kurbis (knives) creep from the trendies, signalling by a system known only to themselves. Silently killing the German sentries they make openings for the' British troops.
Twenty Pathans south of Tpres overpowered the German sentries noiselessly one night. Then the rest of the party crept forward, suddenly flung fireballs into the air, and dashed into the trenches. For ten minutes the Pathans hacked and slew the half-awake and wholly bewildered Germans, who were sleeping preparatory to a night attack on the British trenches. i ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 5
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128THE TERRIBLE GURKHA. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 5
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