DIED WITH THEIR DOG.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1916, Page 6

DIED WITH THEIR DOG.

GALLANT MANCHESTER MEN. ' 1 MOWED BY MACHINE -GUN S. (From Captain C. E. Eean, Australia Press r.epre-.-ntative- v.'ltli the Coir momrcaltii Fcrces. C'Dpyr'giit b. Crown). • ' ' British Western Fran! July 4. "I cannot lepve tho great afield oi' the River Sonime v'lhoi'f making fume reference to tlie fuel that the Army which is fighting is, to a great extent, a new army. Many of these new corps have, since the fighting started, won themselves f.ime which will last as long as their country's history. Amongst other troops in the German Army against tliem is the reserve division ortlic Prussian Guards.

"Th " new Army is fighting side by side with the oldest'and most famous regiments of the British Army. An officer told me to-day that lie had been over ground where one of new Army regiments, a battalion of Manchester*. attacked yesterday. They advanced over the open under a mixed rifle and ma-cliine-guu and shrapnel fire, very similar to that through which the 2nd Australian Brigade charged at Cape Helles. The whole course of the attack- through the long grass-was marked with them. One little 1 " group of half a dozen men, with the regimental dog, .vera still lying together, where r.omo machine-gun caught them. Every man was dead. But after a long advance they won their trench, and the Germans lying killed amongst them showed how fierce was the f, r /'. r wherein they fell."