SING SONG ENDS IN A BAYONET CHARGE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 107, 12 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

SING SONG ENDS IN A BAYONET CHARGE.

• MTSIC HALL SHOW" 1U YARDS FROM THE ENEMY. A lively incident during the recent lighting in which the Leinsters participated is described by a private of that regiment us the charge of the Mam, Mulligans. "1 have been out there for ten months,'' he said, "and, though the Germans in the beginning were jafraid of the bayonet, it looks now as if you can't give them too much of a gmwl thing. If we have learned a few tricks from them they have certainly learned a good deal from us. "They played the devil with us; at Givenehv, but when the order came for the Mail Mulligans to charge we put the bayonet through them a- if they were so many sausages. We /lad a piano in our trenches, anil just before the word came to go at them we were having a little sing-song. It was a little munic-ha-ll chow, in which were doing a revue entitled 'Tempt M<" Not.' The German trenches were only ten yard* away. One ol our v.a.-, hinging 'I d" lik«- >our cyt's,' and when it cam'' (>• I ht* elmrus hi- Ger man.- joined jn. Half-an-hour later we wi-l'e sending them od to sleep viitli t?ie bavouet."