The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-09-04

respondent says, had taken the field
Immediately upon their arrival aftel
several days march. They arrived
Just in time to stem the German on.
rush.
Although sorely in need of rest
they behaved like freslA troops and
held their ground with splendid
courage, earning Gen. Joffre's warm
praise
Not many of the British have bad
wounds. Many have broken
down from the hard marching and
will be well again in few days.
Most of those who were able talk
ed with picturesque profanity about
their bad luck. One described how
his regiment, ordered out of Mons
on Sunday morning, came under fire
Immediately. They had no trenches
or cover of any kind and were OBJ
liged to lie down all day and pop up
their heads occasionally to fire.
When night fell they lid their best
to make trenches.
Another British regiment was
| luckier. They we're entrenched and
although the Germans bombarded
them for nearly twenty-four hours
they had very few casualties.
Another of the British wounded
said:
1--WE marched into Mons Sunday
about 10 O'Clock in the morning and
were just about to be billeted when
marching orders came and we were
off again. We were to advance under
cover of artillery fire, but the enemy
was doing a bit of artillery work,
too, so we threw up trenches and
Struggled down to wait for what
ever might happen.
1--WE did not wait long. The Ger
man gunners were over a ridge two
or three miles in front and their
shells came whistling around us. /
got my baptism of fire and at first
did not like it. Fortunately most of
their shells burst behind us and did
no harm. We thought they might
stop when it got dark but they kept
it up as hard as ever"
Some curious rumors are current
in the British lines, the Nails cor
respondent continues.
One of the soldiers told him, he
says, that the Russians had reach
ed Berlin and were driving the Ger
mans onto the British lines $50 that
we can crumple them up" Some of
the British soldiers are highly ir-
ritated because they did not see
enough of. fighting. One said:
II hardly saw a German infantry
man while marching through a viii
lage and he began talking to me,
saying: ia. Ja,' or something like.
What did l do? l ran my bayonet
through him and would do SO
again"
There is much difference of opin-
ion, among the Britishers as to the
accuracy of the German gunnery.
One of the soldiers said regarding
this:
They had a bunch of their big
guns trained on the gas works at
Mons, but they shot badly. If they
had shot straight l would not be
here for we were posted right under
the big tank. Shell after shell whiz-
zed overhead. Every time they miss
ed we cheered. but each time we
waited for the next shot pretty anxi-
ously."
A fusillier told the Mails CORES
pendent of street fighting in a col
liery town. He said:
1T was mostly desultory fighting,
but there was stirring bayonet
charge by the British The Germans
don't like that sort of thing. They
quit the neighborhood as soon as it
starts.
"One time we ran up within see
ing distance of huge mass of the
enemy in close formation. Our ma
chine guns did them up properly.
When we come close to them like
that they don't ask for two help
ings."
One of the Hussars spoke enthusi-
astically Of the work of the British
artillery.
There was one battery or rather
half battery in rather an exposed
position" he said, (which was doing
lot of damage to the Germans, so
they trained several of their batter
les on 1t in an endeavor to silence It.
1t was fight between one David and