The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-08
FALL BY HUNDREDS
UNDER SHRAPNEL
German Soldiers Are Moved
Down by Whitening Fire
of British.
STORY OF HEROIC CAPTURE
Nine Men and Trumpeter Take
Forty Prisoners and
Two Guns.

! Especial cable 10 The Times DiSpa tch.
f; LONDON. NoNember 1.-THE majo OF
a british field artillery battery. In a let
! ter. gives the following account Of the
capture of forty Germans and two ma
/ chine guns by nine men and a trum-
| peter:
J I'VE got the order to go off and Join
81 battery under Colonel Careys orders.
We came Ell route under heavy strapnel
] fire OH the road. gave the order to
| walk, AZ the horses had hardly had any
! food for a couple of days, and also
! wanted TO steady the show. can't say
] quite enjoyed the 'swunk' Of walking
along at the head with old - behind
me, especially when six shrapncl burst
! right in front of us. We got there Just
In time, rushed into action. and opened
| IRE on German counter-attack at
short range. destroying the lot az far
AS could sec. We then moved slightly
10 another position to take on q valley.
| down which they were attacking. ana
wore 1T II the whole day, firing about
900 rounds into Quantities OF German
ATTACKS and counter-attacks.. They can
| not STAND the shrapnel. and the moment
got ono on them they turned and bolt
1 ed back to the wood. got on to their
| trenches. One shell dropped IN.
SHELLS AND BULLETS HUN:
SO 1T GOES, ALI. DAY
II was enfiladinE them. and they tore
| ont OF the trenches. and go on. each
| trench in turn. and fell i'm hundreds
| Also through the rangeiinder Cox saw
! Id nit machine gun and they had
| abandoned ii and another. SO Ii wen;
on all day, shell and bullets humming
round. but only one of my statf horses
MT. Our infantry advancing, and retlr-
inE--others advancing and coming back
Germans doing likewise. a heliish din
! OF shell fire. and me pouring in fire
wherever could sec them.
J Al last got six shrnpnel into a
! wood and cleared r heap or them out.
and got into them with shrapnel. II
is awful. The sergeant major put his
! hand up to his head and said: oh, sir
It's terrible That seemed TO settle
them. and al last we saw the infantry
| advancing TO their position without re-
Sistance. Now was my chance. | de-
termined to set those machine guns If
could. as otherwise the infantry
would. SO left to command,
and got the trumpeter. serEeant-ma jor
and six mon with six rifles, and went
forward to reconnoitre,' as reported
to the general by .-- after had
gone,
| 1T was weird ride, through thick,
black woods, holding my revolver
4 trumpcter behind. and the Others fol-
lowing some way In the rear We
passed some very bad sights and knew.
the woods were full of German s, who
were AFRAID TO. get away on account
OF the dreaded she'll fire. We got In
front of our infantry. who were going
10 tire at u.s. but / shouted Just in
time. 81
A""At last we came to the edge OF the
woods. and In front OF US, about 200
yards, away, was a little cup-shapel
copse, and the enemys trenches. With
machine guns q little farther on. 7
felt sure this wood was full of Ger
mans as mad seen them go in earlier.
started to galiop for it. and the
others followed. Suddenly about nfty
Germans bolted out. nring at us.
GERMANS SUDDENLY
1 YELLED AND DOLTED
u loosed off my revolver as fast as
could, and ----- looscd off his rifle
from the sadie. They must have thought
we were regiment OF cavalry, for.
except few, they suddenly yelled and
holtcd. ! stopped and dismounted my
lot to fire at them to make sure they
didn't change their minds. held the
horses. as ! couldn't shoot them like
that myself.
II then suddenly saw there were
more In the copse--so mounted the
party and galloped mt It, yelling. with
my revolver held out.
AS we came to 1t, saw ii was full
of Germans. SO yelled hands up, and
pointed the revolver at them They all
chucied down thei rifles and put their
hands up. Three officers and over forty
men to ten OF us, with six rifles and a
revolver l herded them away from,
their rifles and handed them over 70
The Welsh regiment behind u.s.
tore on with the trumpeter and the
sergeant major to the machine guns.
Al that moment the encmy's shrap-
mel, the German infantry who'd got
away, and our own howitzers, think
ing we were hostile cavalry. opened
nre on us. We couldn't move the beast :
ly things, and 1t was too hot alto
gcther. so We galloped back to the
cup wood, and they hailed shrapncl on
us there. | waited for Il lull, and
mounted all my lot behind the bush es
and made them sprint as gave the
word TO gallon for cover TO the woods
where tho Weigh company was
There I got -+. who under
stands them, and an infantryman who
i volunteered to help. and ------ ran up
TO the Maxims and took GU, the breeci,
mechanism Of both and one. OF the
belts and carried away one whole
Maxim. We couldn't manage the
! other.
/ The Welsh sked what cavalry we
/ Wee. ! told them We were the staff
of TIC ------- Battery, and they checred
US, but said VIC were mad. We got
back very slowly on account OF the
gun and the G:"n wild With excitement,
and VIC have got the one gun complete
ana the mechanism and belt OF the
other.
The funniest thing was the lit,le
helmet off his head and waved /, In
the air. shouting: I've got IL. wild
with excitement. lie is an eXtraordi-
nary brave boy
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