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lily Describe Fighting in
Which They Took Part.
GERMANS FEARLESS
Disregard for Life OF Prussian Sol.
diers Amazes All-Fight for
Days Without Seeing
Enemy.
GERMANS FEARLESS
(By Robert ElstOn.)

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London, Sept. 24.-Modern war ma
chinery, especially the tremendous
long range of the guns, makes fight
wounded back from France, because
the soldiers, for the most part, can
not see. the enemy.
Among the last contingent of
wounded arriving in London is lance
corporal of the Connaught Rangers
who gave the following personal i'm
preston Of the fighting.
The disconcerting thing in battle
nowadays is that you may be fighting
for hours on end and never as much
as see an enemy to grapple with. We
lay for ten hours in the trenches last
Saturday, with rifle fire dropping
around us like raindrops in a heavy
shower
The roar of the guns was always
there like the thunder that you hear
in a big storm, and you could see one
long line of little white puffs of
smoke away in the horizon every time
the German fired. Beyond that, you
couldn't see anything, and it was on
ly an odd sting in the arm or leg or
head from bullet that made you re-
alize you were in battle.
ut is big test of mems firmness
for soldering if they can put up with
that for whole day without losing
their nerve. We had been fighting
for three whole days before we set
eyes ON German, though we were
under fire all the time After that
we saw them more frequently at
close quarters, and they we had plen-
ty OF hand to hand fighting.
| The rangers were very lucky in
deed to get off so lightly as they did,
Tor We were continually harassed by
the German cavalry and artillery. At
one point we were annoyed SO much
by a battery of horse artillery that
| Kept coming too close that the men
were obviously getting tired of tia. and
at last we got the order to go for
them. We crept up slowly to where
the battery was posted, and when
within few hundred feet we sprang
TO our feet with yell and swept down
on the Germans before they had time
to look around. They couldn't stand
1t and fled, leaving their guns behind
| them. Later, the enemy began to
press forward in such strength that
we could not hold our ground, and so
we fell back, after destroying the
| guns as best we could.
THE way the Germans sacrifice
their men for the sake Of making an
| impression is appalling. The posi-
! ton on our left that we would have
| fallen back from ineany case because
| 1t was dominated by battery we
could not locate, was advanced against
| by the German infantry under neavy
fire. They came on in one long,
never-endlng stream, while Our rifles
and gun fire tore hideous gaps
through their ranks. The Red Cross
men say that in front of that posi-
ton alone sixteen hundred dead and
wounded were picked up after tie
tight was over. Our loss was not
more than twenty of all ranks.
What we are all wondering is iow
long the Germans can keep UP this
sort of thing. l have seen our cav
airy thrown into confusion merely be-
cause the horses SHE'D at the heaps OF
dead bodies they had to tread over
when attempts were being made to
clear our front of the advancing
Germans"
In letter to his friends at Bris-
toll. Sergeant T. Cahill. an Irish
/ soldier serving with the Expedition
airy force, says.
THE Germans give us no rest nigh !.
or day, and those of us who have
come through it will never forget tC
| our dying day what it is to have to
| fight here. 49,. The Red Cross girls,
with their pretty faces and their
| sweet ways, are as good men as most
| OF us. They are not supposed to VEN
ture into the firing line at all but
they get there all the same, and
devil the one of us burst turn them
away.
"Therell be lots more fighting here
! before We get through, but you may
be sure we'll come out right in the
| end.
"The French are fighting hare ali
around us with grit and go that
will carry them through. Have you
ever seen little man fighting a
great big hulking giant, who keeps
| on forcing the little man about the
place until the giant tires himself,
and then the little one, who has
kept his wind, knocks him over?
That's how the fighting around here
strikes me-. We are dancing about
round the big German army here, pu,
our turn will come.
"The Germans are now up 10 all
sorts of tricks to hide their batteries
and much of their effect is. due % the
il fact that shells drop about your ears
when you are least expecting them
........ 1t is favorite trick to KEEP
a battery well masked for hours, and
then when Our in fantry are deploy.
!, ing. within range, without the least
}, notion OF what is coming. the Ger