Second Rorke's Drif
BRITISH LACK ARTILLERY,
GERMANS CHARGE THE VERY MUZZLES. TERRIBLE ABUSE pi' THE RED CROSS. Received 30, 5.5 p.m. Boulogne, August 29 (morning). An eye-witness likens the last stand of the British gunners to Rorke's Drift. Seven hundred British took up a position on high ground near Tournai, with 22 field pieces imd two garrison artillery guns. One company of the Light Infantry entrenched.
The German shrapnel made good practice from the north-west of Tournai, which the British effectively returned, meanwhile awaiting the arrival of the French amny, corps. The situation bwame critical when the rhlans, inning been reinforced, charged down tho streets leading to the British, position. They swept round the flanks, and with desperate bravery [charged the very muzzles of the British | guns.
•Survivors state that tho Germans mounted quickfircra on Red Crosa waggons, and so were ablo to get dose to the gunners, whom they shot in both legs.
Summing up the episode, the narrator says: "The Germans won't he so cocksure next time; we'll give them hell!"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 81, 31 August 1914, Page 5
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173Second Rorke's Drif Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 81, 31 August 1914, Page 5
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