The Washington herald., 1915-01-31

him draw his revolver-a report, and the
French leader sinks from his horse. A
fearful encounter followed. Lance
against lance, man against man, tand
every now and then revolver reports:
Suddenly, I see my Sergeant surrounded
by Frenchmen. We hue him out and In
a few seconds young enemies are lying
on the grass that Is dyed red with their
blood Our Sergeant Is safe and We go
rushing on. Most Of us have lost our
lances or left them sticking in our enc
mics. Now We take to our sabres, We
are all intoxicated with rage and want
revenge for our fallen comrades. Shout
der to shoulder, over the corpses OF men
and horses-we don't know what We are
doing in our rage-"Halt. what is thatg
The trumpets arc blowing to rally-We
hurry back, the enemy after us at a dis
tance of. about 80 yards, shouting Hur-
rah. for they think they have put us to
flight and are ever so pleased. Little
they think what is going to happen. To
our right the corner OF a wood, there,
under cover 1--WE did not know 1t our
selves), machine guns. which at once
begin their gruesome work and man
for man is mown down.
We stop-out with the carabines and our
bullets are showered over the enemy.
Now that they remark what havoc We
have made among them,-they try to get
OF to the left But companies OF in
fantry, at not more than 20 Owards dis
tance give them a worthy reception. The
German rifles shoot slow and sure.
We see the men and horses rolling in
blood, there is no escape for the enemy.
They try 10 get back across the Marine,
as they came. but that is guarded by 4
German machine guns which keep their
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man has fallen from his horse. Those
who advance are shot by our rifles.
The whole engagement had barely last
ed one hour. In this space Of time, 5000
enemies lost their lives. II was a CHASTITY
sight-Wherever you looked. nothing but
dead and wounded. groaning and scream
ing, l almost lost consciousness. Our
squadron had TO shoot the badly wound
ed horses. There were about 200 Of them,
the rest were dead. On the French side
not hundred horses remained uninjured.
Frankfurter Zeitung.
November 3rd, 1914
The Fierce Fighting Near Nieuport.
CWritten from a feld-hospitaLD
80. You want to know what il is like
up there-well, / can hardly describe II.
The Belgians. French, and English have
made their entertainments. I'm the dunes
before Nieuport. A splendid position,
built out with sheets Of steel on top, COW
cred with sand and grass. SO that moth
ing could be seen. We had a perfectly
level country before US. mostly marshes
and meadows. with a great many water
bitches about 3-15 m. wide. Every night
We went on from 3Oo-5O0 m. and then
made new entertainments. On the even
ing of the Goth inst. we had proceeded
like this. about 700 m. without having
many losses. Before US canal about 90
m. wide. and a hundred yards beyond 1t
the hostile positions. l was sent on with
3 men on patrol. to see whether a stone
bridge. across the canal was occupied By
the enemy or not. We got there without
seeing any of the enemy about. l left
my 3 men on the bridge and crept over
to the far side. about 100 yards without
shot being fired. I then walked back to
my men and said, We could smoke a Gig
arctic. the fellows had all gone off. But
We had hardly struck a match, when a
shower OF fire was begun for US four. We
threw ourselves on the ground and crept
back to where our company was digging
its nightly quarter. and heard there that
one OF our buglers had got a shot
through his head That was the result
of the terrific firing. I met the man here
in hospital. he is in Berlin now. He was
shot in the left eye. through his head.
and out the right side Of his neck. He
was quite gay and had no pain whatever.
We lay in our new trench till about 3