HEROIC ENGINEERS.
FAUE CERTAIN DEATH. Paris, Thursday. A wounded private is; the Cuirassiers relatss that the Cuirassiers and British Royal Engineers retreated across the Aisns at Soissons The Germans were endeavouring to rush masses across . the bridge by which the Allies had retreated, when several Royal Engineers dashed at the bridge and laid a charge, hoping to blow it up. All. were killed before the fuse could De lighted, but another party of engineers crept up to th 3 bridge, despite machine guns and German sharpshooters hidden in a clump of trees. The whole place was an inferno. First one engineer mado . a rush at this gate of hell, attempting to light the fuse,, but a volley from the sharpshooters shot him down. A second, a third, and a fourth ran the gauntlet, all being killed. Altogether elaven were shot down, then the German rifle fire slackened, and the twelfth raced across and lit the fuse. German riflemen killed him as the bridge was blown up
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 705, 19 September 1914, Page 5
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166HEROIC ENGINEERS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 705, 19 September 1914, Page 5
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