El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-29
GERMANS run
FROM BAY0NET
English Soldiers Say Bullets
Fail, But Sharp Steel
ScareS Germans.
M ROBERT ELsTON.

OF n British bayonet clarEe IN which
the Germans were stabbed in the back,
was related by a wounded soldier just
back from northern France
.aTbev can stand fire. can those
Germans We were picking them OH
like vvinxing. and still they came on
ssTben when they got within shout
ing distance, we received the Word 10
cbs-0a Our officer was a Splinter
bur We were out Of the trench and heel
in- after him. all Of us shouting
.,rbe Germans seemed struck They
inst stood and gaped as we came
chasing down. their mouths wide OPEN
as II they were wondering what tne
blazes we were up 10
when we. were in % OF 30 yards OF
then, there was an alteration. They
knew then what we wanted. and they
inst threw down their rifles, turned
~bo7r+ and set the pace Some Of them,
as thev went, chucked off their packs
and a few even tried 10 pull of thelF
But we had 'eml I never knew I
could run before, nor the other chaps,
and we pinked the OIishIefs IN 1i.e
When we cot winded we came back
the same vvav- and it was so; they were
living on their faces, bayoneted in the
back" -,
A
BLACK Watch. all wounded who have
Just arrived in London from the mont
were surrounded by crowd OF admir-
ers and loudly cheered-
Two were wounded in the hands and
the third in the legs and have been in
valided home for period-"the shorter
the syreeter." they remarked. as they
are ali very keen TO get back TO the
fighting line --.
. g. TrrnmHn let 100 OF them
have a pop at a bottle shooting range
and there'd be nae glass 1yln, re-
marked one Of the men,
eft was at Mons that the Black
Watch came into action We Travelled
( 246 miles in five and half days pc
{ fore we came TO grips one OF the
/ trio explained. "and you can guess we
were not feelin' fresh when We started
our shootin' match
I'VE had packs on our backs weigh
ing 90 mounds In these we carried
| something 20 eat as well as bullets ]
had a tin Of jam in mine. and next
day 7 found a German bullet in the
| tin This must have got in when
ducked TO a voney-there was no time
{ to dig trenches"
How the watch Went Through.
/ Here the corporal took I'd the MARIA
! tive. 7 want TO let the public know
| how the Black Watch went through II
Well. IL was a terrible bit OF Work, put
our fellows stuck TO their ground like
men-the men OF the bulldog breed
I that the Riddles sing about at school
The Germans were as thick as the
Highland heather. and by sheer weight
/ forced US back step by step But we
had our orders. and every man stuck
I to them. and until the orders came not
a Twin man flinched-
I'VE stuck there popping off the
] Germans as fast as we could. and all
: around US the German shells were
bursting. And I'm the thick OF It all
We were singing Harry Lauder latest
/ ave, laddie." he added, 1T was
, grand. all around US were the dead
] and dying. and every now and then the
/ Germans shells would burst. and as We
! peppered away at EN- we sang about
| 'ROamin' in the Eloamin' and The Lass
| Of Killiecrankie-'
AT times the odds at 800 yards
were not three TO one. but . TO one
/ A lance corporal Of the Connaught
! rangers stated
/ The disconcerting thing in battles
! nowadays is that you may be fight
I ing for hours on end and never as mucn
Z as see an enemy 10 grapple with
Ten Hours in Trenches.
| I'VE lay for 10 hours in the trenches
i last Saturday with rifle fire dropping
/ around US like raindrops in heavy
! shower. The roar Of the guns was al
ways there, like the thunder that you
! can hear in a big storm, and you could
! see one long line Of little white puffs
/ Of smoke away on the horizon every
I time the Germans fired. Beyond that
you couldn't see anything. and il was
I only an odd sting in the arm or leg. or
! head from a bullet that made you real
I ize that you were in battle.
"The way the Germans sacrifice
! their men for the sake Of making an
I impression is appalling One position
| on our left that we would have fallen
] back from in any case, because IL was
I dominated by a battery which we
/ couldn't locate. was advanced against
3 BY the German infantry. under a heavy
I fire They came on in one long, never
| ending stream. while our rifle and gun
/ fire tore hideous gaps through their
Z ranks
XIII 1900: Lose 20.
Z The Red Cross men say that in front
I Of that position alone 1900 dead and
I wounded were picked up after the fight
I was over. Our loss was not more than
/ 20 in all ranks.
: What we are all wondering is. how
| long the Germans can keep up this
B sort OF thing. l have seen our cav
airy thrown into confusion merely be
I cause the horses SHE'D at the heaps OF
D dead bodies they had TO tread over
I when attempts were made TO clear our
I front OF the advancing Germans"