The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-25


 without result and then the beEEars dashed for their horses, and naturally my men were a. bit surprised, so that the beggars got their horses unstsked and were just in the act of mounting them when shouted Fire at the horses, and down went four of them: the other two made straight off as they thought, but they ran into their own obstacle, so we shot the horses nrsts and as the men opened fire we soon did the same, killing and Wounding 2. Then I made a search Of the houses, and in a cellar found one more.
 We'll, his was short shirt, as when we were partly down the stairs he dr- ed a shot, so that we did not take any notice of his whining. simply blew his brains out from a range of about , yards; he was not worth talk Ing as a prisoner, the skunk, so we left him there for someone else to deal W1tl1. AS we were coming out of the house noticed small we door was shut that was open when we went in. so | had to investigate and found another one. We'll, he was, I should say about years old, so IStook him sorely puzzled what to do with m. and the two wounded, one of whom was an officer. As had to go sIbol1fs another miles further on, I decided to strap the lot of them with the reins of the horses in the cellar with. their ehum who was dead, so we got them together, and then found that one of the. poor beggars was nearly gones so left him outside as I could do him no good
 | Well, we got to our destination without any further trouble and then came back, and, as we thought tol sec if there was anything any good on any of the horses. When we re- turned, to our surprise, someone had l been there before us and took every tning that was of any use, so we took the boy back with us, and he was So frightened We were going to shoot him. made my report on arrival and then off we went again. We did iplenty of treking again then until l Sunday, the 18th when we lstay-tar5 I lose some men that day We sent out a burying party, and we found seven and two others we had in the trenches. 1 making g dead and a few wounded l Then we got shifted round again to l another place and the same night | the Germans made an attack on i,z but we didn't give them much chance. I and they jolly soon retired, as our 1 artillery started dropping shells into
 them from all over the place.
 Then the next day it was quiet. but I the following day, about a. m, they started coming for us again. We let 1 them come tor about 15Os yards when they halted for their chums to come out of def1le, and when they got up I to advance we opened with rnarT1iTe guns and rapid rifle fire, and we nov nov I ed them down like rotten sheen. and I the artillery starting as we'll eoodness Il only knows how many they lost Tkey were lying about in heaps and one
 beggar got up to go back about three 1 hours after the others retireis and T dare say if he stopped one bullet I he had about six put into him.
 During this scrap T had a man shot down on either side of me- and am
 sorry to say both were really bad ca lses, as, after firing, they continued .i to look over the top, instead of which they should have lowered their. heads to reload, and the conseouenca xvas
 they were both killed outright. We
 lost men that day, and the Ger
 mans, with rifle and machine gun fire
 alone, must have lost quite 300 to 400 I without, whatsthe artillery did to their sI rear and supports. Now we are hay
 ing bit of a rest in the trenches as st half my Company are in the advanc- ca trenches, and we are in reserve but we are expecting in a few davs
 time to be making a move from here
 but no doubt it all depends q erea1
 deal on the Russians, as by our hold. ing on to places like this the Ger
 mans cannot afford to send any hack
 or otherwise we should fall on thefl
 rear, which should not be s1rprisef
 will happen before long.
 Now I think have given you a Fl fairly accurate account of what has
 occurred with my Regiment lately. "a.
 previous to the, advances, we were
 in an absolutely tmpregnabIe position on the Aisne. The houses are in Z
 terrible condition. as they have turned
 the places completely upside down and they take, a. fendish deliEht i.
 setting the farms. etc., on fire tus
 before dark, in fact, at present, there
 are the remains of 3, large farm stiI smouldering about 50 yards frou where we are. Yesterday a. co11nI. of ssJack Johnsons'' burst about twf
 yards in front of us, but did no dam
 age.