LITTLE BROWN RASCALS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 141, 17 February 1915, Page 3

LITTLE BROWN RASCALS.

WHAT THE GEEMANS THINK OF INDIANS. “DELINK OE POSSESSED.” Lit l nnan st-UiVr:*’ Iclier.' - . ;• is 1.-i : sls.• • by the Frankfurter Zo'tuug. sun - /. - ; r. J ‘he German Army is begiuing to realise the fighting qualities of the Indian droops. One soldier writes;— “To-day for the first time wo had to fight against the Indiana, and the d«\sl knows those brown rascals are not to be under-rated. At first we spoke with contempt of the Indians; to-day we learned to look at them in a different light.

‘'For three days we lay in our trenches under an uninterrupted shell fire from the British, and wore lacking in the barest necessaries, as only at nightfall could we obtain provisions. Water we had enough of, both above and below us, but we were hungry. The British seemed to have a diabolical pleasure in showering shells on us.

“When for three days it had rained shells, the British thought wo were beaten to jelly. They had then in store for us a visit from their brown allies. “The devil knows what the British had put into those fellows. Anyhow, those who stormed our lines seemed either drunk or possessed with an evil spirit. With fearful shouting, In comparison with which our hurrahs are like the whining of a baby, thousands of those brown forms rushed noon us as suddenly as if they were shot out of a fog, so that at first we were completely taken by surprise. “At 100 yards we opened a destructive fire, which mowed down hundreds, but, in suite of that, others advanced, springing forward like cat- and surmounting obstacles with unexampled agility. . ■

‘■'ln no time they von; in <v;r trendies, and truly these brown enemies wore not to lie despised. With butt-ends, bayonets, swords, and daggers, wo fought each other, and v : c had bitter hard work, which, however, was lightened by reinforcements, which arrived quickly before we drove the fellows out of the trenches. ’