The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-12
ENGLANDs NEW RESERVES AC- OUlTTED THEMSELVES WITH
 GLORY IN FIRST BRUSH.
FOUGHT WITH COOL COURAGE
Despite the Fact That Germans Were Enabled to Outflank Them-Heavy Attacks Are Directed Against the British Lines.


 London, Nov. ll.-10:20 D. m.-The official press bureau issues the fol- lowing descriptive account, which has been communicated by an eye witness present with general headquarters and which continues and supplements the narrative published on November l 6 of the movements of the British force and the French armies in i'm mediate touch with it:
 Before the chronological record of ! the course of events is resumed short description will be given of the rart in the battle played on October 3l by the London Scottish. The oc- casiou is a special event because it forms an epocn in the military his 1 tory of the British empire and marks l the first time that a complete unit Iof our territorial army has been ] thrown into Q fight alongside it's sister units of the regular army.
 'On Saturday October 31. being or dered to take up a section of the fir l ing line to support some of our Cayal- ry and having advanced to its posi- ton under neavy fire from fled guns. ! howitzers and machine guns. the bat l talion reached point where further movement forward was impossible. 1 There 1t maintained itself until dusk when it proceeded to entrench.
 Prom nine o'clock that night until ? a. m. Sunday the Germans made numerous attacks on the Scottish l line, all of which were repulsed by rifle fire. At a. m. they made their great effort and assaulted the front and left of the position in great force. A considerable number succeeded by a detour in getting around tne flank of the regiment A large proportion 1 of these were engaged by the com. panies in support and reserve while others penetrated between the first and second lines of trenches and as sailed our firing line in the rear. While the fighting with rifle and i bayonet was going on. both in front and immediately behind the firing line, d reserve company still farther behind made repeated bayouet charg- es against the enemy who mad got around, and so prevented the entire eny5lopoment of the battalion. Be ! hind the firing line the scene of com bat was it by a blazing house, which l the Germans had set alight
 At dawn it was discovered that the large numbers of the enemy had. ac cording to custom, worked round both Hanks with machine guns, and a re tirement was carried out This was effected under a cross fire from ma. | chine guns and rifles.
 Naturally in an encounter of this nature the battalion suffered a heavy | loss, but though unable to maintain its position it acquitted itself with gallantry and cOolness in a situation of peculiar difficulty and following the national motto of Memo me i'm Ipune lacessit,' inflicted far more dam age on the enemy than it received
 "To turn to the general narrative: 1 On November 1 the full violence of | the enemy's attack again fell on our left, their main efforts being still directed slightly south of Ypres. Such was the force of the onslaught and , the weight of the artillery supporting it that our line was temporarily driven back It was soon r2adiusted, however, and by evening the situation in this quarter was the same as it had been 24 hours earlier.
 "The Germans had, during the pre- vious night, re-taken the village of Messins and had also captured Wyt. schaete. By II a. m. our cavalry working in cooperation with the l French, drove them out of the latter place by a brilliant bayonet charge, but we did not occupy it. A few of the prisoners taken at this place were only r years of age and said that they had had no training and little food. Some of them had never fired rifle before.
 During the action around these two villages tho Germans moving across our front suffered very great ly from the massed fire of our horse artillery at short range but though they liteally fell in heaps they still came on with admirable determina- ton.
 South of the I.ys a heavy battery was knocked out by our artillery fire