A FURIOUS SPECTACLE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 129, 3 February 1915, Page 7

A FURIOUS SPECTACLE.

vVhal a spectacle is y bayonet j charge. One would think that human i passion is incapable of surpassing the mingled sensations of fiery courage and incredible recklessness which animate the assailants. Hcnmer desperate the defenders, it is reserved for their adversaries to exhibit the most fearful pasrons for which even war can hold Itself responsible. After a soldier has seen some of 1 is comrades shot down beside him (perhaps amongst them a brother, a cousin, or a dearly loved friend) —the one savage hope which takes possession of his soul is to come hand to hand with the murderer. Already the Germans have had more than one taste of the British bayonet, but as they have openly admitted tba,t cur rifle-fire is “altogether hellish,.” it would appear that no terms remain in which to describe the wholesale dread with which they have come to regard the “thin long lines of cq!{] ffey steel.”—M, M. F.