Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-01
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LONDON, Oct. Modern var ma /
chfnery. especially the tremendous (
long range OF the guns, makes Tight I
ing nerye-racking, according 10 the
wounded back from France. because
the soldiers. for the most part, can
not see the enemy
Among the last contingent Of
wounded arriving IN London IS
lance corporal OF the Cannaught
Rangers. who gave the following per
sonaI impression OF the lighting
The disc0ucerting thing in battle
nowadays is that you may be hght
ing for hours on end and never as
much as see an enemy 10 grappie
with. We lay for ten hours in the
trenches last Saturday. with rife IRE
dropping around Us like raindrops IN
a heavy shower.
The roar OF the guns was always
there ike the thunder that You hear
in a big storm and you could see
one long line Of little white puffs OF
smoke away in the horizon every time
the Germans fired. Beyond that, you
couldn't see anything. and il was only
an odd sting in the arm or leg OF
head from a bullet that made you
realize you were in battle.
1T is a big test Of mems hrmness
for soldering il they can put up
with that for a whole day without
losing their nerve We had been
fighting for three whole days before
We set eyes on a German. though we
we're under Ere all the time. After
that We saw them more frequently
at close quarters. and then we had
plenty OF hand TO hand fighting.
The rangers were very lucky, in
deed. to get Of so lightly as they did,
for we we're continually harassed by
the German cavalry and artillery. At
one point We were annoyed so much
By a battery OF horse artillery that
kept coming too close that the men
were obviously getting tired Of II,
and at last we got the order 70 20
. for them We crept M slowly 10
where the battery was posted. and
when within a few hundred feet We
, sprang to our feet with a veil and
swept down on the Germans before
! they had time to look around They
/ couldn't stand il and fed. leaving
their guns behind them. Later. tbs
E enemy began 70 press forward in
T such strength that We could not hold
our ground. and so we fell back, AT
ter destroying the guns as best w
e could
n THE way the Germans sacrifc
U their men for the sake of making al
Z. impression is appalling. One position
on our left that we would have falle
back from in any case because
& was dominated by a battery whic
we could not locate, was advance
7 against By the German infantry al
der a heavy fire They came on
one long. neyer-ending stream, Will
IS our rife and gun fire tore hideou
~ gaps through their ranks. The Re
Cross men say that in front OF tn;
n position alone sixteen hundred dea
n and wounded were picked up aft
the fight was over. Our loss was M
more than twenty OF all ranks
: What we are wondering is no
long the Germans can keep up III
" sort OF thing. | have seen our ca
a airy thrown into confusion merely
~ cause the horses SHE'D at the heal
i Of dead bodies they had TO tres
4 over when attempts were being mat
to clear our front OF the adyanciE
Germans"
In a letter to his friends at Bristt
Sergeant T. Cahill. an Irish soldi
serving with the expeditionary fore
SAYS.
le The Germans give us no rest mig
IA or day, and those OF us who ha
:" come through il will never forget
IS orr dying day what il is to have
fight here The Red Gro
= girleens. with their purity faces al
III their sweet ways. are as good M
as most Of us They are not 81
H. posed to venture into the firing Ii
De at all. but they get there all I
same. and devil the one of us dun
- turn them away.
re- Therell be lots more fighting he
before We get through but You m
~ be sure we'll come out right in {
a. end
THE French are fighting hard
10 around rs with a grit and go Ii
win carry them through Have Y
ever seen little man fighting
great big hulking giant who kee
on forcing the little man about I
place until the giant tires himss
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