"SCOTTISH! SCOTTISH!"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 8

"SCOTTISH! SCOTTISH!"

THE DELIRIUM OF 'A CHARGE Thus a wounded lan«M»rporal of tie London Scottish, on the delirium of a chargo "with, the knife." After advancing through a- beet field in a hail of shrapnel :'■■•■ "Then the fun began. The -Bavarians were in front of : us. They call them the crack corps of the Kaiser. They fixed bayonets as if ready to charge; that was enough for us. Automatically —I forget whether we had orders or not—our boys clicked the knives on. The Germans oame at us; we could see the; glitter of their blades in the moonlight. ' . "/'Steady, men,' I heard our sergeant speak. One volley we fired dead into the thick of them, and almost immediately after we were up and eurging upon them in fieroe hand-to-hand encounter. "That was a moment worth living. I seemed delirious. You seemed wildly 1 intoxicated—the sort of elation you get when you charge through and score on a football field after. bullocking your way through the other pack. 'Scottish! Scottish I' The yell echoed again. Madly, blindly, unthinkingly we dashed upon them in fierce hand-to-hand encounter. 'Ah! the exhilaration! My blood leapt-within me I I was an animal. My one idea was to get at them. It's almost sickening to think of- now; but it's different when there's a man in front of you with a bayonet and you know it's either he or you. You become a devil; you shriek, .you yoll. Kill him or bo killed! Oh! in. a charge it is life beyond life."- '.....