Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-28
BRITISH WOUNDED
ANXIOUS TO GET To
THE FRONT AGAIN
Despite Their Injuries, They Are
Cheerful and Want to Shoul-
der Their Guns
By Assoeinted Press

London, Aug. is. $40 a. m.-The
Rouen correspondent of the Daily
Mail describes the arrival of British
wounded there and gives their stories
of the fight. He says the appearance
of the wounded was terrible but not
narrowing. They were, despite their
wounds. not miserable but instead
appeared cheerful.
"They had all come from the fight
in the neighborhod of Mons, where
two French army corps had success
fully held off the enemy or Sunday
and Monday. The British, the cor
respondent says, had taken the field
Immediately on their arrival after
several days march. They arrived
just in time to stem the German on
rush.
ALTHOUGH sorely in need OF rest
held their ground with splendid cour-
age. earning general Joffre's warm
praise.
Not many of the British have bad
wounds. Many have only broken
down from the hard marching and
will be we'll again in few days:
Most of theose who were able talked
with picturesque profanity about their
bad luck. One described how his re-
giment, ordered out of Mons on Sun
day morning, came under fire i'm
mediately. They had no trenches or
cover of any kind and were obliged
to lay down all day and pop up their
heads occasionally to fire. When
night fell they did their best to make
trenches.
Another British regiment was
luckier. They were entrenched and
although the Germans bombarded
them for nearly "a hours they had
very few casualties.
Wanted More Fighting
Some curious rumors are current
in the British lines. the Nails cor
respondent continues. One of the
soldiers told him the Russians had
reached Berlin and were driving the
Germans onto the British lines, so
that we can crumple them up.
Some of the British soldiers are highly
irritated because they did not see
enough fighting. One said:
II hardly saw a German. l came
on one German infantryman while
marching through a village and he
began talking to me, saying YAH
Yah or something like that. What
did I do? I ran my baynet through
him and would do so again.
There is much difference of opinion
among the Britishers as to che ac-
curacy of the German gunnery. One
of the soldiers said regarding TINS:
"They had a bunch of their big
but they shot badly. If they had shot
straight l would not be here for we
were posted right under the big tank
Shell after shell whizzed over head
Every time they missed we cheered
but each time we waited for the next
shot pretty anxiously."
Bayonet Charges
A fussilier told the Mails cores
pondent of street fighting in a col
liery town. He said:
1T was mostly desultory fighting
but there were stirring bayonet charges
by the British. The Germans don't
like that sort OF thing. They quit the
neighhorhood as soon as 1t starts.
"One time we ran up within see
ing distance of a huge mass of the
enemy in close formation. Our
machine guns did them up properly.
When we catch them like that they
don't ask for two helpings."
One of the hussars spoke en-
Enthusiastically of the work of the
British artillery.
There was one battery, or rather
half a battery, in rather an exposed
position he said which was doing
a lot of damage to the Germans, so
they trained several of their batteries
on II in an endeavor to silence it.
1t was a fight between one David and
half a dozen Goliaths. One by one the
guns were silenced until only a single
gun and a single gunner remained.
He went on doing the best he could
firing steadily and calmly and would
have gone on until he dropped except
that an officer called him back and
YOU can bet he went back unwillingly."