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Incidents at Mons.

DEADLY' EFFECTS:;Q,F" GERMAN

ARTILLERY.

London, ■ ; September: -1

Wounded members of the "West Ke-.t Regiment state that South Ai'r'cu was a game of skittles compared with Mons. The Germans came in great masses. It was lik*» shooting rabbits, only that as fast as one was shot another replaced him. Rifle-bullets caused a very small proportion of the Englishmen's wounded,; whereas the effects of the shells were terrible.

ERIT IS H . VIGTO RIA G ROSS HERO GONE TO HjS'bOQWh'- -. ',''

London, September 2

During the fight at Mons, a handful of Britishers held a canal bridge against overwhelming odds. Tha Germans, a hundred yards away, wer® preparing to rush the bridge, when an angineer-sergeant saw that if they succeeded a section of the Britisher* would be cut off. So little time was there to dynamite the bridge thatthe sergeant was only able to employ a few inches of fuse. He ran forward and destroyed the bridge, but the sergeant's head was blown off, and, as an eye-witness said, "another Victoria Cross was saved."

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 5

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Incidents at Mons. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 5

Incidents at Mons. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 5

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