South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-06
HOW IRISH GUARD
MET THE GERMANS
Here's the Story of the Stand
Of KHAKI Clad BritiSherS
Against Onslaught of the
Kaiser'S HOrdes of UhIanS.

HAVRE. Nov. 6.-This is the story.
as il has been told. OF the way in
which the Irish guards at f. met
the charge Of three German cavalry
regiments and emerged from the en-
counter with undying glory
II Is the story OF what those saw who
were not themselves IN the hrIng line.
and who awaited with apprehension
and WOndernent the collision between
the grey hordes of the kaiser's horse
men and the thin, answering line Of
Br1tishers in khaki. Who with bayO-
nets fixed, made ready for their on
coming. These same Britishers had
jOvially shouted their adieuX TO French
troops who had been retired from
their immediate neighborhOOd. and in
the brief interval before the crash
came the watchers could see officers
walking up and down the lines, crack
ing jokes with their men, and other
wise assisting 20 maintain their excel
lent spirits. ] am told that when the
German cavalry was only 200 yards
away one man mOmentarily put down
his rife and begged a cigaret from
"a cOmrade, which he cody lit.
Then they prepared TO receive cav
airy" and did II in better order and
with much less excitement than If
they had been about to witness the
finish Of "A st. Legar. Three regiments
Of German cavalry. splendidly hOrsed,
splendidly equipped, charged a regi-
ment OF Irish infantry. The men who
had been joking and smoking rose TO
meet them. bristling bulwark Of
giants, holding weapons Of steel in
steel grips.
Men i'm Khaki Stood Flynn.
For a few minutes there was an
awful chaos OF horses, soldiers grey
and soldiers yellow, glittering lances
a FaNr H1a 10. -
machine guns, the flashes Of musketry.
Amidst it all the men in khaki stood
immObile. Grimly, and without
budging. they threw back at the bayO-
nets point, in utter decentralization,
the troops OF the kaiser. the men who
had terrified the peasant villagers of
Belgium and France.
They wanted something TO put on
their banner and their casualty list
will show that, If blood be the price,
they achieved their aim. French sol
diers tell me that, rising from the
ranks Of the Irish. just before the
crash came, their reached them the
strains Of songs they had never heard
before. A French soldier, hObbling
along with bandaged face, and a bull
let in his back. ventured to repeat
from memory the beginning of a tune
which / made out TO be that OF God
Save Ireland. and l have gathered
that Whistle to me. said T., was an
other Of these strains.
Tie generosity of Mr. Thomas At
kins earns for that adaptive gentle
man tributes OF surprise and admira-
ton from the French sOldiery He
wants to give everything aWay-his
jam, canned meats and many other
delicacies wherewith he is provided
He believes in sharing with his pals"
Like the English.
In a cafe, the landlady said TO me-
Eve like the English soldiers, but the
Scottish and Irish are not. good men.
They want pay for what they have"
Now this was slight on men of my
own race and I asked the good pa
trOnne what sum she had lost by rea-
son OF their faulty commercial in
stincts. Twelve francs, 1 was told,
represented the total Then" said /.
II will pay you your l. > francs" and
I was about TO do so when some
French soldiers who had been. drink
ing in the restaurant stood up and
said. NO. you won't. If this be true
that the Irish and Scotch do not pay
their bills. il ia true also that they do
no run when the KTuppS are turned
upon them They are cooler than we.
and the Germans fear them" After