Battlefield Stories.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 104, 25 September 1914, Page 8

Battlefield Stories.

*UP, GUARDS, AND AT THEM!" IRISHMEN'S FIXE FEAT OF ARMS. London, September 23. A wounded non commissioned officer relates that in the battle of tile Marne the Irish Guards were selected to dislodge the enemy from a commanding position. "The Guards, under a nail of shrapnel, reached a knoll, 8(IOyds from tho enemy, who maintained a heavy ride fire. Leaving a force to hold the knoll, the rest crept round the Germans' left and gradually edged to the German trenches. The whole battalion lined up 200 yds away for the final rush for the riugc, which was crowned with their machine-guns. Firing continually, we fixed bayonets, charged under a fiendish fire, and with a wild whoop reached the trenches. The Germans desperately attempted to reply to us with the bayonet, then wavered and broke in the centre and ran like hares, throwing down their arms. Wo bayonetted and shot them down by dozens, until we were exhausted. The Germans who did not escape surrendered." WHITE FLAG TREACHERY. BRITISH FORCE VICTIMISED. ' London, September 23. I An Irish Guardsman, who was wounded, reports that the Germans, in tile battle of the Aisne hoisted the white ! (lag, and the British who were advancing | to secure prisoners were subjected to a ■ terrible fire from concealed batteries. J None was able to walk from the field. ( The Bordeaux correspondent of the | Daily Telegraph states that General . Caveluen, not General Pan, brought up 200,000 men to aid Sir John French on the left and determined the German retreat after £ue battle of the Murne.