The Mons Retreat.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 21, 11 September 1914, Page 5

The Mons Retreat.

i - .(), Oil : ■ f! rCORDON HIGHLANDERS SURROUNDED AND SHOT. NO QUARTER FROM CERMANS. Tries'and Sydney Sun Services. ; f& ,a.m t ) „ - LondqtfJ Soptejhfber 10j . The Gordon Highlanders were tiding-' from Mons in the darkness, when a jshot came from the field. It was believed it was fired by a French picket, {ind the force stopped and en/leiiydVi'tjHl to explain. ' .• ' , The' Germans "surrounded and shot every num standing...,

BRAVE COLONEL CORDON AND HIS HIGHLANDERS.

(Received T 0.5 a.m.) London, September 10

A private in the ((onion Highlanders states that during the retirement from Mods the regiment was marching in a narrow road, believing they were approng theFe o hi7e"sb dlieenfaof .sis proaching the French lines. Shots were fired on the left and Colonel W. E. Gordon ordered the men to the right and went alone to the other side, calling out: "Anglais." Meanwhile the other party, who were Germans, worked to the rear. The Colonel, realising his error, returned and placed himself in the front of the men. who stood helpless in the darkness. The Germans fired at close quarters on all sides. Dawn disclosed groups of dead everywhere. The Colonel lay dead apart from his comrades.