The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-09-19

our handkerchiefs for the same pur-
pose.
Noise seems to count for a lot
with the Germans, for their cavalry
have a trick of laundering along ia
a way that the horses hoofs make
the most awful din you ever heard,
giving the impression that the whole
earth is shaking beneath their tread.
Added to that there are the wild un-
canny shouts which they indulge in.
They are finding that 1t takes a
lot of shouting to shift the British
troops, and / expect they viii change
their tactics soon"
One Of the Cheshires, shot in both
legs, scoffed at the idea of our men
heing downcast by their task.
You should have seen the mob OF
laughing, cheering comrades that
saw US of from camp on Thursday. :"
he said. They weren't dowDheart-
Ell by long chalks, and If tie Ger
mans think all the fight has been
Knocked out of them they are NAV
ing biz mistake. There's plenty OF
go in our lads ye..''
England has every reason to be
proud of aher infantry declared an
artilleryman. They fought like
men from first to last. and whoever
says a word against them hes. IF
you want testimonial of our Tom
mics ask the German prisoners.
s'Our men fought their corner and
faced the hardships of active ser
vice without a murmur, and IL they
were forced back by fearful odds, YOU
can take it from me that, the Ger
mans weren't in any fit state of mind
to boast after the fighting was fin
dshed.'
81 never had time to think" ex-
claimed a Lancashire Fsusilier. The
Germans didn't give US much time
for that, and we didn't want time,
either we were SO busy picking OF
the enemy.
The last sight / caught of the
Germans there was squadron or
lancers that had been caught in the
open, and had every one of their
horses shot down. They lay there
behind rampant of dead men and
horses, doing as much damage as
they could with their carbines, while
our artillery and infantry kept pour
ling lead into them as fast as they
could. guess they hadn't much
time for thinking either"
1.-The mistake the Germans make,
said Scots Groy, lis in assuming
that you can go on for ever taking
no notice of your butchers bill. Men
are not built that way, and some of
these days the German machine viii
break down because the men who
work it make no allowance for the
Limitations of flesh and blood"
Another man stated, Zone Of our
men who was holding his water-bot-
| tie to a wounded German was shot
dead close TO Mons on Sunday An
-other stopped under fire to light a
cigarette, when bullet struck him
on the fingers, and one hand viii
have to come on
Among the wounded is a sergeant
gunner, who has been so badly in
jured in the jaw that he cannot
speak. He wrote on a pad on his
knees he following account Of his
experiences:
1.-The 18th, SIND and both were at
Journal, and German shells fell like
rain. Soon the 18th had only one
officer left.
II was on the flank with my gun,
and fired sixty rounds in forty min
utes, but we wanted support, and
could not get it. 1t was about five
hundred English trying to save a
flank against, i should say ten
thousand Germans, and as fast as
you shot them down more came"
| But for their aeroplanes their
guns would have been useless /
was firing for an hour from ], 500
yards down to 700. You can tell
what IT was like
An r. A. VI. c. man said that the
sergeant was the last man to leave