BATTLE AT HOOGE
OFFICER'S GRAPHIC HISTQRY BRITONS PUT UP A DANDY FICHT. By Telegraph—Press Association— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) r . London, September 16. 'An officer of the Liverpool Rogim.ent told a graphic story of the recent battle foughi; at Hooge. Under one hundred British wounded and unwounded men who 'frer.e sheltering between tlio lines when the enemy was pressing home an attack found themselves against a 'battalion of Germans, and were asked to DiU'render. The corporal in command surtly refused, and soon tho littks band were fighting for dear life. ' "Tho Britons put up a dandy fight, time after time smashing the enemy's attack to ( smithereens. In -the end their ammunition failed, and the heroes, reduced by one half, resorted to the bayonet against a new and furious assault. The Germans charged like a hurricane,- but the men stwtffirm. Finally brute force told, and the weary survivors died where they stood rather tliau surrender. Their resistance saved our line at a vital point." •• "
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2570, 18 September 1915, Page 5
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164BATTLE AT HOOGE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2570, 18 September 1915, Page 5
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