Heroism and Outrage

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 27, 18 September 1914, Page 5

Heroism and Outrage

AT THE “CATE OF HELL,” LIGHTING A FUSE.

ENGINEERS DIE ONE BY ONE DESTROYING BRIDGE.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) Paris, September IT. A wounded private in the Cuirassiers relates that the Cuirassiers and British Royal Engineers retreated across the Aisne at Soissons, the Germans endeavoring' to rush the masses across the bridge. Several Royal 11/iigineers dashed at the bridge and laid a charge, hoping to blow it up, but all were killed before, the fuse lighted." Another party of engineers crept up to the bridge, despite machine guns and German sharpshooters hidden in a clump of trees. The whole place was an inferno. First one engineer made a rush to this gate of hell, attempting to light the fuse, but a volley from the sharpshooters shot him down. A second, third, and fourth ran ,the gauntlet, but all were killed. Altogether eleven were shot down. Then the German rifle fire slackened, and a twelfth raced across and lit the fuse, but the German riflemen killed him as the bridge was blown up.

WOUNDED SERGEANT AND BRAVE FRENCH BOY SHOT.

RIDDLED WITH BULLETS: STABBED WITH BAYONETS.

[' v (Received 9.10 a.m.) ~ ‘ ' Paris, September 17. r— u Senator Paullist relates that the while occupying Lourclies were systematically drunk. A hrencb scigciiut who was lying 1 in a house wounded was maddened at a Gcrman lieutenant’s insults to a French woman, and he seized a revolver and shot the lieutenant, whereupon the captain ordered his arrest. Fifteen miners accused of firing on the Germans were taken in couples and shot. Ihe wounded sergeant lay on the ground awaiting his < turn, when -him e Despres, a‘youth aged fourteen, gave him a glass m water. The German captain heat Despres'with the flat of his sword, and said he would he shot with the rest. Finally, only Despres and the sergeant remained alive. the lad s es wc.i(• bandaged, and he was made to, kneel. The captain waited a few minutes and ordered the bandage lo he remove! , _ am said: “You wanted to give the sergeant a drink; give him a bullet! Give him a bullet instead, and your life will be spared if you kill him.” The hoy pretended to aim the rifle, but turned and killed the captain instead.- Despres and the sergeant were immediately riddled with bullets and stabbed wit i bayonets..

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