SHRAPNEL AT 150 YARDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 6

SHRAPNEL AT 150 YARDS

CANADIAN GUNNERS AT THO ST. JULIEN FIGHT (Reo. May 5, 11.10 p.m.) London, May 5: 'A Canadian soldier who was at tho Battle of_ Ypres states that the. nerves of all .his comrades were intensely strung as the Germans approached, ancl when, their chance came used their rifles' anyhow, as clubs, or as bayonets. The St., Julien Road was a scene of confusion, with dead and dying horses. ' The Canadians fought bitterly as they retired along it. Near by was a battery; he_ believed it was the Tonth Montreals, firing into the advancing Germans at 150 yards. The shrapnel simply drove holes in the closely-formed ranks, hundreds of Germans going down with every, round.

HIGH PRAISE FOR THE CANADIANS. "EYE-WITNESS'S" EULOGY. (Rec. May 6, 0.30' a.m.) London, May 5. The "Star" declares that the Cana« dian Recording Ofiicer is a new brand.-"Eye-Witness"' regrets that the gallant British regiments were not blessed with sucli chroniclers in the days of Mons' and 'Le Cateau. The stoy of this fierce furnace, not only breathes tho names of regiments which .fought and died, but proclaims the names of colonels and majors who died as Hereward tho Wake died, in a ring of foes. When will their glory'fade?. Not so long as a patch of British earth' is trodden by British feet. The Canadians won more immortal glory. There is no soothing syrup in ths Canadian story; no pap, no piffle, no puerile optimism, no glossing over the dark, desperate agony in which Canadian courage stood liko a rock of granite.