“BLACK DEVILS OF ENGLISH!”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 5

“BLACK DEVILS OF ENGLISH!”

GURKHAS ECSTATIC WITH EXCITEMENT TO FIGHT. ■ e ' WITH KNIVES BETWEEN TEETH SURPRISE GERMANS. . ». (Received 9.25 a.m.) y Paris, October 30. The Germans call the Gurkhas “black devils of English.” In the fighting on the Yser some trenches on the British flank were empty, and the Germans occupied them. The Gurkhas, who were in reserve, saw am opportunity, and their excitement amounted to* ecstacy. Many threw away their rifles and charged cleared the trenches with their knives. On another occasion air-scouts located a German ammunition store seven miles from the shore and miles behind the German entrenchments. A Gurkha detachment obtained two gunboats and steamed into the mouth of the Yser river and by a silent march reached within a mile of the ammunition convoy, where sat two German sentries. The Gurkhas sheltered in a

wood and six comrades wriggled on hands and knees with their knives between their teeth, and surprised and killed the sentries noiselessly. The detachment then approached the camp which was only awakened by a great explosion, followed by countless others, as shells and shrapnoll exploded. The Gurkhas regained the gunboats safely.