COST OF GALLANT CHARGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 171, 28 December 1914, Page 4

COST OF GALLANT CHARGE.

■NINETY PER CENT. LOST. ?« Dunedin, Tuesday. H A Dunedin lady has received a letter M from her' sister, who ifl a ttcd Cross 'M nurse, and who was driven from Ostcnd ',l to Paris. The letter, which is dated 1 November 5, mentions the terrible havoc ■? wrought in the ranks of the London . Scottish when they made their glorious ■* charge, against the Germans. "At one , station," says the nurse, "where we halted, a member of the London Scottish came up and a -l:cd if we could post or get a letter posted to his mother in England. We took it, and he told us he 1 was going to join the remnant of the : London Scottish.. After their baptism of fire, 200 men out of 2000 came back. It I was fearful to hear his account. God only knows what our great and bravo men are doing, giving, and suffering." The letter proceeds: "Only ten days before I had stopped a night at Abbeville where the London Scottish were , \ I quartered. At the table d'hote all sorts • were having food, and on my right threa ! offioers, Lord Kitchener's representative, ! and a member of our Royal family, ~ j whom I was helping to get through to - Paris, got into conversation. I told them j I who I was, and I found that personal j, friends of mine in London were personal sj friends of theirs. I took messages for ■>, them, and one in particular from Maj6r -j Green. He said: 'Tell them it's hard to. ;■; wait, but wdien we are called on we will '; give a good account of ourselves. He - is one of the officers who was kiDccL. * Only five officers came out alive.' The writer adds:—"We have to cook - and do our washing as best we can at times The French are sweet to ns, ana there is great rivalry to even wash our > • collars, free at that, when we can get it done, but it is so difficult."