The evening world., 1915-03-01
"GORDONS' SAVED
FROM MASSACRE
BY THE RANGERS"
800 Connaught Men Rout
1900 Germans in Des-
perate Charge.

GLASGOW. March Private
Robert Mc0resor Of the Gordon
Highlsnders. writing to his father.
who lives at No. Al Great Eastern
Road. Parkhsad. gives the following
thrilling account Of an engagement
with the Germans:
II am after leaving the trenches.
whore We have been for about ten
days. ana We are now enjoying q well
earned rest at -. You may have
heard Of the severe lighting by this
time. II wa awful. and am sorry
to say many OF our poor fellows will
never come home again.
''one night w were informed that
the Germans would mako an attack
on our trenches. 80 not an eye was
closed that night. About 4 O'Clock
In the morning wo thought II was q
false alarm. and We settled down TO
enjoy forty winks. when their artil-
lery opened fire on W.
"Howiing and screaming shells
passed over US until We heard tha
throbbing OF an aerOplane. Then Q
ssarchllght played on IN. followed BY
the dropping Of bright balls which
brilliantly III up tho whole place. and
In a few minutes the shells got W
and were coming plump into us. One
shell came right into our position
and knocked over twelve OF our fell
lows. They were practically torn
asunder. and the whole side of the
trench was torn up. Our own guns
were blazing away. and think found
hA N fhA D All q
their hro got slacker and finally
ceased. This sort Of thing was kept
up till day dswned.
Then We saw the Germans ad.
vancing as unconcerned as II or
parade. On they came In close form.
alton. and there must have been ter
to one against us. We fired n fast
as we could. but they seemed to come
out Of nowhere and never halted
When they were getting too close W.
charged. 1t was our only chance
When they saw US leave the trenches
they halted for \ moment. but after
wards came on 10 meet W.
IT was stab and hack. hack and
stab. You could hear the smash oi
gun against gun, the thud, thud
thud. but beyond thla there was ar
uucanny silence broken sometimes b,
an oath or groan. How long thii
went on l hardly know, but Il seeme ed
years to me. We drove them bach
about one hundred yards. Our ON.
GERS saw the Germans reinforced and
sounded the retreat. but we couldn'
retreat, as that would give them I
chance to NOW us down with machine
guns. The Germans. now greatly In.
creased In numbers. came on again
and our fellows. only about ono hun.
dred and seventy left. got ready e
meet what seemed certain annihila.
tion.
"But just at that moment We heard
the sound Of singing, and the sons
was God Save Ireland II was ths
Connaught Rangers coming to ouI
relief. Well. ] have seen some reck.
less irishmen In my time, but nothins I
to match the recklessness and dsrlns
OF these gallant RangerA They tool
the Germans OH the left oank.
The Germans now would probably
number about 1000 against 100 Con.
naughts and about ITO Of us, but hat
they been $4,000 I don't believe In IN,
soul they could have stood before ,th,
and all the time kept singing 'Oo,
Save Ireland One huge. red haired
son OF Erin having broken his rif,
got possession Of n German oflicer'l
sword. and everything that came n
the way OF this Eiant went down,
thought Of Wallace. -Four hundred
and seventy Germans were killed and
wounded. and We took seventy pris.
oners.
HAD II not been for the Irish
wouldn't be writing this, and Whsr
Il comes 10 hand to-baAd Jobs tAer
10 nothing IN the whole Britlsh atmy
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