BATTLES ON SUNDAYS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 26, 1 April 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

BATTLES ON SUNDAYS.

Many writers have remarked that the Germans seem to select Sundays for their fiercest attacks on our line, but in so doing they are only copying other enemies we have met in war, their idea, no doubt, being that, owing to the English observance of Sunday, we are more likely to be caught "napping" on that day than on any other. As a ™ a 4 te .' o / fact a serious massacre of British troops, whilst they were actually in church unarmed, took place in Ceylon about 150 years ago; and this is the reason why British troops at home even in peace-time always take their sidearms to church with them, whikt at many foreign stations they also take their rifles. It is remarkable how many little battles were fought by the Duke of Wellington on a Sunday. Salamanca was fought on Sunday. July 2nd, 1812; Vimiero, Fuentes d'Onoro, Orthez loulnuse and Vittoria were also contested on what were known as "Wellingtons Red Sundays." It way on a Sunday afternoon that he issued his immortal order, "Ciudad Rodrigo must be carried by assault this evening. ; and Waterloo was also, of course contested and won on a Sunday. To come to more recent >times, aur ercat attack cfi Tronic's trenches at Paardeberg wax made on Sunday, September 20th.