The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-05

thcy were the means of putting 10000
Germans to their fate on Sunday morn
ing. ! VIII never forget that day, as
OUR regiment left a town on the F'rcnc.
frontier on Saturday morning mt
O'Clock and marched Till , A. az oil
sunday into Belgian town. was
about to have an hour in bed, at leas,
n lie down In shop. when was
awakened to 20 on guard at the gen
efaFs headquarters, and while I was
on guard captain of the crack French
cavalry came In with the official re-
mort Of the 10000 Germans killed.
The Scots Greys early that morning
had decoyed tho Germans right In front
CT tho machine guns or tho French and
they Just moved them down. There
WAS no escape for them, poor devils.
but they deserve II tho way they go
on. You would be sorry for tho .poor
Belgian women having to leave their
homes with young children clinging to
them
Bombardier \, E. Smith, who was
wounded by n bomb. dropped from
German aeroplanc, In a letter. dated
from Netley Hospital to a friend III
Edinburgh. says:
Those bombs have proved great
success In tho war. as they find the
enemy's ranges very accurately. The
bomb. when dropped, leaves a thick.
black, smoky line TO enable their gun
hers TO take the exact range. Wa were
IN good position, but suffered loss The,
enemy could not And us until the aero
plane came on the scene. Then we had
=, rather hot. The gunners had to leave
the guns, hut later saved them all Of
ter being reinforced by other guns.
The Germans have funny way in
lighting. Their infantry when advanc-
ing. fro from the hip and come on I'm
masses, Splendid targets for our guns
AS soon as one lot gets moved down
the gaps arc as soon filled up with
fresh men. They are IN terrible num-
hcrs-about ton to one in some places
Nearly ali the mons wounds are shrnp-
mel, ana heal wonderfully. Men almost
crippies q day or two ago. are going on
splendidly since being treated here"
Lancc-Corporal Spiers. Kings own
Scottish Bordcrers, who has been in
vhlidcd home from the front, stated
Yesterday, That he and twenty other
Eorderers were cut off from tho reui-
ment, but fell In with tho Sulrolks. In
tho retrtnt they had to cross u river by
2 narrow plank while under fire, and
he fell in. lie had 10 tramp thirty
miles In his drcnched ciotnes. He says
that while he and others wcre wheel
ing on ambulance, on which lay four
OF the Borderers and another soldier
they were fired on by the Germans. but
fortunately none Of them were hit.
"A wounded private OF the Royal
Munster Fusillers (the DIRTY Shlrts")
tells the following story OF the fight
ing on Friday week, when, for somo
reason or other, he says:
I'VE were left in the lurch. and had
to bear the brunt OF the whole German
attack. while the rest of the brigade
fell back.
They came al Us from all points
horse. foot, artillery and all. and the
air was thick with screaming, shouting
men, waving swords and blazing away
a. us like blue murder Our lads stood
": TO them without the least taste OF
fear. and when their cavalry came
down on us we received them with fixed
bnyonets in front, the rear ranks firing
away as steadily as YOU please. All
round us we saw them collecting until
there was hardly Il hole lit for wee
rouse to get through. and then 1t was
that the hardest fight of all took place.
for we wouldn't surrender and tried
our hardest to cut through the stone
wall of the Germans.
ut was helrs own work, but I can
sny that we mover hosted the white
flag, and If the battalion was wiped
out, as they say, 1t fought to the last
gasp, and the Germans have no more
than dead and wounded men. il that's
any satisfaction to them. The spirit
OF our lads that was brand that you
couldn't help being proud of them, and
they accounted for grand lot of the
Germans. First Of ALL l got wee
taste of q punch in tho ribs with q
sword, and then / got a bullet in
me, but (when / was able to see what
was going on the men were cutting
their way through the Germans in the
yrandcat style You over set eyes OH.
] was floored for / can't tell you how
long. but when I got back my senses
the Germans had gone, leaving only
heaps on heaps Of the dying and the
dead, our boys and the Germans being
mixed up like anything.
some of our boys who had got away
told mo that the Dirty Shlrts' had been
almost cleaned up by the Germans, but
had made the Germans pay dearly for
their brazen impudcnce in thinking they
could cut OFF an Irish regiment with
out having to fight"
man of the First Dorsets, who had
been badly wounded in the head by a
sword cut, indorsod the view OF other
soldiers that fear OF their officers
makes tho German rank and file sub
nit to hardships and suffering that lis
quickly breaking their spirit.
You can see the officers goarding
the men on in tho firing line with pistol (.
shots and sword prods whenever they
appear to be giving way mt any point,
and however they may want to run
away from our fire, they have to keen
coming on for fear OF their officcrs'