Evening star., 1914-09-23
FIGHT FOR HOURS
UNSEEN ENEMY
English Wounded Tell of Bull
lets and Shells Dropping
Like Rain.
BATTLED THREE DAYS
BEFORE SAW GERMANS
Kaiser's Artillery Officers Ar.
Shrewd in Masking Batteries
and Surprising Foe.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON. September 14.-Modern war
machinery. especially the tremendous
long range Of the guns, makes fight
ing nerve-racking, according to the
wounded back from France, because
the soldiers, for the most part, can
not see the enemy.
Among the last contingent of wound
ed arriving in London is a lance
corporal of the Cannaught 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.
there like the thunder that you hear
in big storm, and you could see one
long line Of little white puffs of smoke
away in the horizon every time the
Germans fred. Beyond that, Sau
couldn't see anything, and it was only
an odd sting in the arm or leg or
head from bullet that made you rea-
lize you were in battle.
Test Of Soldering.
1T is a big test of mems flrmness 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 a German. though we were under
fire all the time. After that we saw
them more frequently at close quar-
ters, and then we had plenty Of hand
to-hand fighting.
"The rangers were very lucky indeed
to get of so lightly as they did, fol
we were continually harassed by the
German cavalry and artillery. At one
point we were annoyed SO much by 8
battery OF horse artillery that KEEP,
coming too close that the men were
obviously getting tired of 1t, and a,
last we got the order to go for them
We crept up slowly to where the bat.
terry was posted. and when within 8
Few hundred feet we sprang to oul
feet with yell and swept down or
the Germans before they had time tt
look around. They couldn't stand II
and fed. leaving their guns behinl
them. Later, the enemy began to pres
not hold our ground, and SO we. fel
back, after destroying the guns as bes
we could.
THE way the Germans sacrifice theil
1hSh toi luc sake OF making an I'M
preston is appalling. One position o,
our left that we would have falleI
back from in any case because it wa,
dominated by battery which coult
not be located was advanced agains
by the German infantry under heavy
fire. They came on in one long, never.
ending stream. while our rifle and gu1
fire tore hideous gaps through theil
ranks. The Red Cross men say tina,
in front Of that position alone sixtee1
hundred dead and wounded wer,
picked up after the fight was over
Our loss was not more than twenty o
all ranks.
What we are all wondering is how
long the Germans can keep up thi.
sort of thing. I have seen our cavalry
thrown into confusion merely because
the horses SHE'D at the heaps of dead
bodies they had to tread over when at.
tempts were made to clear our front o1
the advancing Germans"
Apt ulustxations.
In a letter to his friends at Bristol
Sergt. T. Cahill, an Irish soldier serv.
ing with the expeditionarv force said