STORIES OF BRAVERY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 708, 30 September 1914, Page 5

STORIES OF BRAVERY.

A PLUCKY HIGHLANDER. GERMANS BACK TO BACK. London, Saturday. A force of Germans surprised 150 Highlanders with a Maxim, guarding a bridge. The Germans/in overpower- ! ing numbers, crept near and killed all the Maxim's crew with the exception of one Highlander, who rushed out under a hail of bullets and carried the Maxim on his back across the bridge. He then sat down alone, pouring fire at the enemy, who broke and fled to cover, leaving scores of dead. The Highlander was killed, 30 bullets being found in his body when he was picked up. The arrival of reinforcements caused the enemy to abandon the attack. An artilleryman who is in hospital at Leicester saya that a German regiment was swept away in a mad attempt to cross a stream by fiendish artillery and rifle fire. The remnant of the Germans gathered round the regimental flag, and refused to Burrender. They stood back to back until the last man went down with the flag iii his grasp. There was no shouting when the flag was captured, the French and British soldiers passing it bareheadeii in memory of the brave men who had defended it. A French soldier at Dinant killed a Uhaln for molesting his Bweetheart. The Frenchman escaped, but on hearing that the Germans threatened to devastate the village returned, surrendered himself.and was immediately shot.