INDIANS UNDER SEVERE FIRE
FOUR MEN CLEAR A GERMAN TRENCH XBec. November 22, 4.45 p.m.) fri tj- , Parls ' November 21. Uho Indians for several days faced a terrific assault in the La Bassee region, and their ranks wore thinned out daily by artillery and machine-gun fire. A company of Gurkhas were terribly worried from a German trench two hundred yards distant. Four of thoir ■number : during the night crept away. Just lieloro dawn there.was a sudden cry of terror from tho Gorman trench. There was a brief struggle with tho invisible toe, who slashed and stabbed tho Germans until they became panic-stricken and fled in fear. The four Gurkhas re-, turned unspathed. Daylight revealed silent mitrailleuses "and the gashed bodies of fifteen of tho German defenders. ;
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2314, 23 November 1914, Page 5
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126INDIANS UNDER SEVERE FIRE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2314, 23 November 1914, Page 5
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