Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-04-10
CRACK REGIMENT
ST|RS Up RUM0RS
London Scottish Had to Be Rescued
BY Two Regiments Of Reg.
uiarS

oJ Two regiments OF ReQ.
ulars.
LONDON, April 6-The New YORK
Tribune prints the following mail
dispatch from London
The charge Of the London Scottish
territorial regiment on the Ger
man trenches at lpres several
months ago has given rise to ugly
rumors. Despite the fact that Sir
John French said that this regimen,
the first OF the territorials to go
into actiOn-had done conspicuo. 9
work, the officers and men who have
returned from the front have spread
abroad the impression that the ga
!ant conduct" was in reality -Four.
fushing'
AS a result, the London Scottish
are now spoken OF as the greatest
"grandstand' players Of the British
'roops; and the gossip has it tina.
S!r John French hoped to gloss over
the scandal, and at the same time put
heart into other territorial regi
ments, by recOunting the glOriou.
deeds OF the first to take the field
Considers Itself Superior.
The most trustworthy story yet
told was related py member OF the
British service, who asserted that it
had come from officers VINO partici-
nated IN the rescue OF the London
scottish. or this territorial regi-
'nent, which includes many London
1ank clerks and others who consider
themselves above the ordinary terri
torial levies, he said:
The London Scottish received or
7ers to take trench facing the DO
''t1on which they were occupying
mere was much concern among Off
GERS OF other regiments as well as
Or the general staff itself to see how
these territorials would act under fire
The charge was made. A few OF
the London Scottish fell, but the res
lment swept victoriously on to the
German trench mad put the Germans
there to rout It was so easily and
quickly done that the territorials be-
came 1mbued with the idea that they
could take any number Of trenches
Nearly Annihilated.
Instead Of holding the trench they
captured, as ordered to do, they went
tor the next one, not seeming to real
1Ze that they had taken only one end
OF the hrst trench, but as soon as the,
had SWEET on the Germans in til
other section Of this trench NOV.
over into the one just captured by tn
territorials and opened a murdero,
hre from behind. The territort
we're thus caught between two fires.
and the 'grandstand' play had
brought them face to face with ann
hilation.
"At this juncture the Seventr-ninth
tamerons Highlanders and the Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders were or.
dered to the rescue, and a bloody
night took place. I have been told
by officers Of the Seventy-ninth Cam
erons that they lost more men in that
one action rescung the terTtoraIs
than in any other single enta.emen,
or the war. IF you ask a m;lnbcr of
this regiment. what he thinks Of the
London Scottish you will he lucky
II you escape with a drub.ing.
Makes Fine READING.
The great deeds Of this regimert
OF terrttOrials may be fine reading
for their admirers in London. but the
men who know the circumstances of
the tght, and know how two regular
regiments had to go to II g rescue. do
not join in the acclaim with which
the territOrials are received"
The London Scottish o., London's
pride, and it is the ambition of every
Young clerk of Scottish descent TO
join this unit Of the terrific ia, force,