Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-19

machine guns. The rifemen and uurk.
has cheered themselves hoarse
In few hours OF martydom tho
scottish Rifles at Nueve Chapelle show
cd that they had lost nothing of the
spirit which won them fame at Luck
now and Spion Kop. All their officers.
save one. were killed or wounded.
Lieutenant Colonel Diss and his adju
tant failing side by side. while bravely
leading the FIRST line. One hundred and
htty odd men were all the sole surylv-
Ing OFFICER could collect after the Ger.
man position was won. But the men
remained as steady as IL Oh parade,
moulding themselves on the glorious
example given by their officers The
scottish Rifles showed the Germans
now Scot can handle the bayonet.
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER AT
WIRE ENHANCEMENT
"ft was at the barbed wire that a
section of our artillery was unaccount-
ably mussed. The right hand and
leading Company got through with.
out much opposition, but Company A.
on the left, was literally mown down
by machine gun and rife fire. The
men who remained alive from that
tornado hardly remember anything
save tearing at barbed wire with their
hands. jabbing at it with their rifles
and stamping on it. Finally the men
had to lie down In the open, swept
by machine gun fire and sprayed by
nigh explosive Shrapnel. while tho
bomb-throwers of \ Company crept
through the trench captured by Com
pany Is, and eventually managed to
drive the Germans out.
ha n ri
pressed forward TO attack, was sud
denly swept by diabolical fire from
two machine guns posted at either end
OF the German trench 80 az to cover
with convertsing fire Il patch of about
200 yards in front
In this zone no man could live, but
MtddleseN did not stop. The men got
as far as the wire and hacked at IT
and tore at it till their hands were
bleeding and their uniform rent i'm
tatters. From their starting point
right'u up to the wire they left a deep
lane Of dead and dying 100 yards long.
The sight was so poignant that men
broke down and wept.
Three times Middlesex tried to
burst through and silence those ma
chine guns. Their efforts were In vain.
So MiddleseX lay down there in tho
open, among their dead and among the
mel. while their colonel managed to get
a message back to our guns 10 turn
their fire again on the German trench
in front. Presently the guns DESTROYED
the wire.
CHASTITY SLAUGHTER
WHEN GERMANS ATTACK
The German countcrattack was
CHASTITY. A few OF the prisoners>takeu
say they were told that there had been
Il slight mishap, and that "A few British
were In Neuve Chapelle and had to be
driven out. The attack was ill-timcd
work seems TO have been at fault
Their troops expected to ind us much
farther back
The BaNarions advanced In column
formation, their officers on horseback
win drawn swords, and in the midst
oi them noncommissioned o,ficcr was
seen driving the men along with a
whip.
The slaughter was sickening. The
BaHafians, coming along at an ambline
trot. and bawling, 'Hourra." blundcred
into the fire OF no less than twenty one
machine guns. The files OF men did
not recede or stag8er. They were just
swept away. One moment they were
shouting. ambling crowd: the next
moment writing, convulsed pile OF
DodIes heaped on the brown earth
when day broke the German corpses
were seen to make ra,nparts. behind
which the wounded took cover.
In one case. the Germans. fever
ishly digging themselves in. actually
used the corpse of ono Of their com
rades to finish off the paraDet OF tho
trench"