A FIENDISH WEEK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 182, 9 April 1915, Page 2

A FIENDISH WEEK.

Private' Stewart Chisholm, of the Black Watch, writes: —We have had a , fiendish week of fighting around A . I We bad to. force our way step by step ! and I am only telling the honest truth i when ! say that every inv-h we march* | ed was coloured red with the blood | of cur own man and the Germans. It l was like passing through a graveyard j where an earthquake had turned up all i the corpses and left them :'.ying above ground. As we picked our way through I the long lanja of dead that, never seem|on i< have any turning, we noticed amors'; thorn now and then wcuuded men, who begged hard for water or forr.e assistance in doing up their bandars. It pitiful, and we were so helpless. We were behind the Royal Irish Fusiliers, who were clearing the enemy cut, and it stirred ua greatly to watch ; th>3 way thoy tackled the enemy.- The work they had was terrible, and the Germans suffered awfully a!\ the time. We o.:w them fighting' their way up '•ne I< lis - , winding roan that seemed as icng -:s the rood to Tippecsry. At every turn and behind every tree lin-: ing the roads the Germans wjsre post-1 ed, asd the Royal Irish bua to rush j them out. It was slow work, but;lhey j never'seemed to tire, and after a. day] of tho hardlsst fighting I have ever see?}, they cleared the Germans out cf tb e lost position, and then the town J was carried with a general rush, the Royal Irish tjaing the first to enter. I Probably gome other reg'monf could I have got in easier, hut because ef the hard time they had bad the Royal j Irish Fusiliers were given the honour I cf entering in and raising the British] flag. We are now working in a differ ant part of the country and are mak.in,".: good progress. Everywhere wja he-r that the Germans are wearying cf the struggle, and some of these days they :. j bound to collapse. They ap-. near to hwe plenty of men, but even flirt don't enable them 1c stand, agninp.t the awfnl losses they sire suffering.