The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-10-23
irish GUARDS
STAND Charge
Wait Rush of Horsemen
With Bayonet.
Go Into Battle Singing "God Save
lreland"-Lose Many
Men.

encounter with undying glory.
1t is the story of what those saw
who were not themselves on the fir.
ing line and who awaited with appre-
hension and wonderment the coils
ion between the gray hordes of the
Kaiser's horsemen and the thin, but
answering line OF Britishers in
Khaki. who. with bayonets fixed.
made ready for their oncoming. These
same Britishers had jovially shout
ed their adieux to French troops who
had been retired from their imme-
date neighborhood, and in the brief
interval before the crash came the
watchers could see officers walking
up and down the lines. cracking
jokes with their men, and otherwise
assisting to maintain their excellent
spirits. | am told that when the Ger
man cavalry was only 200 yards
away one man momentarily put
down his rifle and begged cigarette
from a comrade which he coolly lit.
Then they prepared to receive
cavalry" and did it in better order
and with much less excitement than
if they had been about to witness
the finish of a St. Leger. Three regi.
ments OF German cavalry. splendidly
horsed. splendidly equipped, charg-
ed a regiment of Irish infantry. The
men who had been joking and smok.
ing rose up to meet them "a bristlint
bulwark of giants, holding weapons
of steel in steel grips.
For a few minutes there was an
awful chaos of horses, soldiers gray
and soldiers yellow, glittering lances
and bayonets, the automatic spit OF
machine guns. the flashes of mus
kerry Admidst it all, the men in
khaki stood immobile. Grimly, and
without budging, they threw back
at the bayonets point. in utter de-
moralization, the troops of the Kais-
er, the men who terrified the peas
ant villagers OF Belgium and France
They wanted something to put on
their banner, and their casualty list
will show that, "if blood be the
price," they achieved their aim.
French soldiers tell me that, rising
from the ranks of the Irish, just be-
lore the crash came, there reached
hem the strains of songs they had
never heard before. A French soldier, |
,obbling along with a bandaged face |
md bullet in his neck, ventured |
o repeat from memory the begin |
ling of tune which / made out to |
re that of God Save Ireland" and |
have gathered that whistle To
1e, Said /" was another of these
trains.
The generosity of Mr.. Thomas At
ms earns for that adaptive gentle
IAN tributes of surprise and admira-
ion from the French soldiery. He
ants to give everything away-his
am, his canned meats, and many
Their delicacies wherewith he is pro-
ided. He believes in sharing with
is pals
In a cafe, the landlady said to me, ,
We like the English soldiers, but
he Scottish and Irish are not good ,
EN-. They won't pay for what they
ave. Now, this was a slight on men
my own race. and | asked the good
itronne what sum she had lost by :
JASON of their faulty comm ercial in :
incts. Twelve francs, was told, 9
presented the total. "Then," said ,
Il will pay you your twelve =
ancs," and | was about to do so :
hen some French soldiers who had q
zen drinking in the restaurant :
God up and said. mo, you won't. T
this be true, that the Irish and s
'otch do not pay their bills. it is d
ue. also. that they do not run when q
e Krupps are turned upon them.
hey are cooler than we, and the Z
fear them" After that, the =
ndlady, whose husband was fight n
g at the front, refused to take any 9
oney.
And now something about the
amiest side of the war Those of h
at home who. thanks to our glori- y
is navy, know nothing of what war 4
cans, need. perhaps, a reminder O
ch as visit TO the Continent will h
lickly give them. saw ladies to- [,
ly--ladies who lately held places O
provincial society like our own |,
dies Of the manor. destitute and h
'gging their bread. N
The war has ruined them. II has v
ade them line up with the children Ii
the cutters in order to get bread.
amember this, and. while hoping o
at England will remain as safe to- I,