Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-27
.MOWN DOWN LIKE SHEEP
BY ENEMY'S ARTILLERY
Canadian, Who Participated in Re-
capture OF Guns at Ypres,
Relates Experiences.
$500 SENT AGAINST 1000
Forced to Retire to Trenches, Where
They Dig Themselves In, Until Re.
newing Attack, When Germans
Are Ousted From Positions.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch. ]
LONDON, April 26.--The Evening
News publishes an interview with IA
Canadian who participated in the re-
capture of guns at Ypres." describing
his personal experiences in the action
In which. according to Sir John
French's report, the Canadians saved
the situation"
After breaking the line on our left, ..
says the Canadian, in the story told to
the Evening News, I'VE received or
ders to stand by the side OF the canal.
Then we were ordered to proceed i'm
mediately to tho north of Ypres We
set Off without food or water-with
nothing. in fact. except our wet equip
ment each man taking 400 rounds OF
ammunition.
1--WE waited at this point until nearly
midnight. when two battalions formed
up in line by half companies. in cx-
tended order. We received the signal
10 break through and charge the enc
my. who were about 800 yards away
I'VE were at once mown down like
lot of sheep by the enemy's artillery
some $500 OF us had to attack n wood
where there were some 1000 Germans
The place was full OF AIaxims. Before
our attack some shells were thrown
irto the wood.
RETIRE TO TRENCHES
WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN
we drove them from their trenches
In irony OF the wood and went right
through, about 500 yards to the other
SIDE. Then We were surrounded and
hau TO retire to the trenches which we
mad taken. Here we dug ourselves in
remaining until Friday morning. the
enemy Smelling us AL the time with
shrapneL We filed our Saturday morn
ing TO make room for rc-enforccments
In our advance We had been en-
iiladcd by a heavy fire from both sides
Ia spite of this. we moved the Ger
mans down before us, and recovered
three howitzcrs which the French had
LETT behind them in the wood. These
We blew up. and then rccapturcd our
own ~. a; this point We surrounded
sixty Germans. and bayonctcd forty
hNc OF them. one German officer in
front blew out his brains.
I'VE could not estimate tho number
OF Germans slain. bu, we saw their
searchlights throughout the night
looking for the dead
1T was certainly the most awful
time ever known. They seem 10 have
l
ming, but We got them on the run
We had the Prussian Guard in front
OF us. and they ran like rabbits.
The Germans did not seem to inind
where they fired They were con.
tinuously Smelling the dressing sta
tons with the Red Cross fans over
them.
MANIM Al MOUTH
They had certainly planned the at
tack most carefully \ Maxim gun
was pointing AT tho mouth OF alruos,
every trench. on Saturday morning
some of our men. who were complete
~ surrounded. were wiped out. We
were forty-cight hours without food
some were scventy-two hours We
lost most OF our officers, and the dress.
ing stations were full OF wounded hut
II was fine TO see the troops-Indians.
French Lanccrs and British troops
going mp 20 hold position which We
had won for them. one little chap Of
our lot who was parson, fought like
the hest OF them, and captured a Ger
man twice as big as himself"
Another Canadian stated TO tho Eve
ming News correspondent:
We were marched off about 10
o'clock and covered about seven miles
We passed over a hin on which some
of our artillery was firing. AS We adj
vanced. We were met By the fire OF
German machine guns
AT dawn We were on level ground
about seventy yards from the German
trenches. In the dim night We
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