The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-01
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put their guns out of action. Rider
1883 horses came on and passed be-
tween us, but not a lance. They had
sucn gruelling in few minutes that
they scattered without any formation.
leaving more than half OF their 'regi-
ment behind in killed and wounded
we gave lusty cheer as they rode
off.
soon our orders came to retire.
put we picked up our dead and con-
signed them to their last resting-place
with tears streaming down our faces
--ofhcers in one grave and men in
another They were buried in. glory
Next day I was added to the list
OF wounded. I was shot in the should
er."s ~
Germans Can't Shoot.
Several hundred wounded British
troops are arriving daily in London.
AT the railway stations they are al
ways greeted with cheers, and money.
flowers and delicacies are showered
ON them.
i was at Mons on the bridge across
the canal there, right in the thick Of
It," said young infantryman. 1T
was there that got this bullet in
the thigh. But got the chap who
did it,
We did not have much shelter
where was. We just had to do the
best we could. The fire was fright
fully heavy, but you know they cam
not shoot for toffee, and waste an aw
full lot of ammunition. The artillery
are the best but even they can't shoot.
It's numbers that does it-nothing
else.
CAS- soon as we shot one lot down
another came up. That's what hap
pened all the time. Their losses
must be enormous.
Shoot" contemptuously echoed a
big infantryman, whose head was
swathed in bandages Germans shoot!
Why, they could not hit this station
at thousand yards"
Germans Like Rattering Ram.
The Germans were like a great, big
battering RAM" said another. They
did not seem to mind how many were
killed, and sometimes their men we're
simply thrown. away At one place the
German infantry filled the streets and
were simply moved down by our guns.
1t was terrible punishment" -.
The first Red Cross train that ar
rived at Waterloo carried officers.
First of all, those who were able to
walk were assisted to alight. What
ever their pain, they disguised it by
smiling, and several were smoking.
Some had their heads enveloped in
bandages; others wore sings. Many
walked with limp, and several placed
their arms round the necks of r. A.
NJ c. men, and were assisted to We
hicles. One man walked with the aid
of a crutch. Another had been hurt
on the jaw, but he was smoking a
pipe with great relish.
With expedition the officers whose
injuries were not severe were placed
in taxicabs, motor-cars. and private
omnibuses.
Then the stretcher brigade turned
its attention to the officers who re-
NAMED in the wards" of the train.
Pillows and blankets were placed on
the stretchers, and a procession filed
up the platform and entered the train.
The first officer brought out was
reading a newspaper and smoking a
cigarette. The next man, too, was
smoking. His injury was to the leg.
A third had his knees drawn up. All
except one were looking CHEEKY.
Ambulance wagons and buses were
waiting, and one by one the wounded
were placed on beds and driven to
the hospital
All in Best Of Spirits.
The r. A. M. G. and ambulance
corps were still engaged in tending
the injured officers when a second
train, plastered with red crosses, ran
in at the adjoining platform.
Soon the soldiers were fockfng out
of the carriages. The first group to
walk to>the cars mostly wore sings.
There were bandaged heads, arms
and shoulders, but the soldiers them
selves were in the best of Spirits and
Jumped into the buses with the friski-
ness of school boys.
Some of the wounded, however, were
more seriously injured. One man lay
on a stretcher, which was allowed to
rest on the ground for some time, and
a doctor examined him and felt his
pulse.
Others, too weak to move much,
were lifted from stretchers into vans,
where they we're made comfortable
On mattresses and blankets, with soft
white pillows for their heads. aRugs
were wrapped around them, and SO
they made the journey to the hospital
with a minimum of Inconvenience.
AS party of the wounded were be-
ing driven through Moorgate street
they were heartily cheered by large
crowd of business men. The flower
girls threw their blossoms at the sol
diers.
Lar Daintv Passnort.