The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-25

luck, like the Munster Fusiliers, as fine
body of men as ever shouldered ri
Hes. Somehow or other they got left
I'm the lurch the other day, and the
Germans closed all around them as we
fell back"
one OF the Connaught Rangers who
nave returned wounded to this country
gave the following account of fighting
with the Germans:
1T was a grand time we had, and |
wouldn't have missed 1t for lashins of
money 1t was near TO Cambria when
we had our best time.
Pie Germans kept pressing our
rear guard all the time, and at last our
Colonel could stand it no longer, so the
word was passed round that we were
to give them hell and all There were
at least five To one, and we were in
danger of being cut off.
With that up got the Colonel.
Rangers of Connaught,' says he. the
eyes OF all Ireland are on you today,
ana | know you never could disgrace
the old country by allowing Germans
to beat you while you have arms in
your hands and hearts in your breasts.
Up, then, and at them, and If you
don't give them the soundest thrash
ing they ever got you needn't look me
in the face again in this world or the
next
And we went for them with lust
what you would know OF prayer to
the Mother of our Lord to be mercful
10 the loved ones at home If we should
| fall in the fight. We charged through
| and through them until they broke and
| ran like frightened hares in terror of
hounds"
Ran Away to List.
| Corp Sam Hasiam" contributes a
| note of pathos:
| The other day / stopped to assist a
young lad of the West Kents who had
been badly hit by piece of shell. He
hadn't long TO live, and he knew il, too.
| asked him IL there was any message
could take to some one at home.
THE poor lads eyes filled with tears
as he answered, I ran away from home
and listed year ago. Mother and dad
| don't know I'm here; but you tell them
from me I'm not sorry did it,
| When | told our boys afterward
about that they cried like babies; but,
mind you, that's the spirit that's going
to pull England through this war, and
there isn't a man of US that doesn't
think of that poor boy and his example
every time we go in to fight"
A Kingston bombardier in the r. F..
A.. at the front in letter to his sis
ter giving description of the fighting
on Aug. 26, says: After the engage
ment German Red Cross wagon came
by our infantry, and, of course, we did
not fire at it, but when it got to the
head OF the battalion in the road the
Germans opened fire with maxim guns
which were in the ambulance"
. THE gunners had all been killed by
shrapnel," says a corporal OF the Ninth
There were the guns, with no one to
look after them, and good chance
that the Germans might get them. The
horses were safe enough, but there
was no one to harness them.
Capt. Grenfell stepped out. We've
got to get those guns back he said.
Who's going to volunteer for the job p
He had a couple of dozen OF us before
he had finished speaking. Since our
chaps have seen him in the firing line
they would go anywhere with him.
We'll, we went out. There were bull
lptg nNinn all arnunH nd chra, Il
bursting all over the place. but Capt.
Grenfel was as cool as if he was on
parade. It's all right he said. They
can't hit us. Come along
I'VE got to the guns all right, hitch
ed up the horses. and brought them
back, and only three of our chaps were
hit. It's wonder the whole lot of us
were not wiped OUT
Lance Corporal of the Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders. who was
wounded at Mons and is i'm hospital at
Brighton, in n letter to his sister at
Reading. says: Il was shot clean
through the thigh with a bullet, but all
the same l consider have a charmed
life or certainly / should not be alive
to tell the tale. AS / was crawling
along on my hands and knees to the
base bullets whizzed all around me and
shrapnel fell within a few feet. / had
my kilt pierced on no fewer than eight
occasions, and everybody who has seen
| the holes says what q marvellous es-
| cape | had.
! II escaped without an additional
scratch, even though 1 had my gun
shattered to pieces in my hand. But /
was not yet out of the wood. The Bel
| gian hospital, to which | and a large
number OF my wounded comrades were
| conveyed, was pitilessly sheled by the
Germans, and many deaths occurred
around me- men being killed in their
| beds. The Germans, I may add. fired
| on the wounded at every opportunity.
Their conduct was brutal in the ex-
| IRENE. The one satisfaction which is
ours, however, is that the German loss
was terrible"
A disabled infantryman, now in hos
pftal, records the following pathetic
incident in a letter which appears in
The Aldershot News, describing the
/ A.