The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-30
BRITISH COL0hIALs
MAKING HISTORY.
Hy ". S. FORREST,

pages HH4e D@EH dhus1 10 6flliSB
colonial history III the battle Of
Tho sonirne.
Available records of this great /
struggle show that every one Of |
Britafns overseas eontingents has
chosen some particular elevation. |
valley. village or wood whose name /
will live like Americas Eunker bill. t
The Canadians carved their niche |
81 fame al courcelette. II was the |
French Canadians here who bril- |
liantly carried ont their part Of the
general ssaff's set program and then
pressed on, storming the fortress
village, filled to the brira with Ger
mans. Competent military authori-
lies say it Was simply Canadian
valor and impetuosity that put
Coureeiette behind the allied lines
within an hour, whereas 1t has been
expected TO mold out week. His
tcricaI versions of the battle OF the
somme can never be written With
cut the story OF the Canadians dash
through and over the complicated
defenses the Germans had built at
Coureelette, The taking Of Regina
trench, named in honor of Regina,
Saskatchewan. is another feat and
name THAI will find print in every
record of Canadian lighting. The
Canadians at Ypres is another chap
Ter which has nothing TO dc with
the Somme.
The troops of diminntise New
Foundland have selected No
vember day for annual national OBJ
gervance. The scene of New Found
lands triumph in the struggle viii
probably be named before many
months Hierogiyphical military
maps describe the scene as "F39es.5
to 40A132.a That's all the ioca-
tion ii has so far but what happen
cd in that trench filled with New
Foundland's enemies is what New
Feundland has to be thankful for.
The thinned New Foundland bayo-
nets that reduced it to ditch Of
dead fought eounter-attacks to a
siandstia while German artillery
harrage smothered life on the
ground between them and their
original line. Troops working on
The right in conjunction with the
pien from New Foundland we're un-
able to carry their part Of The
trench The victorious North
American islanders therefore fought
their way into every corner OF the
stronghold and cleared it. They
held the trench and have got /.
yet.
Pozieres Is a word that means
lot to the burly Australians. The
Aatipodal whiriwlnd which came
slowly up the rising ground IRON,
ovilIers-Ia- Bolsselle and gained its
highest velocity in the sheltscarred
ruins OF Pozieres win long be re-
membered by the forces who tried
70 keep the village, Even Austria
ians give the Germans credit for
The most extreme of extrme efforts
. hold this keypoint of the ridge
that overlooks the Baupame pia-
teau. But extreme efforts didn't
stop the Australian giants who
fought with b9mbs. bayonets. fists
and teeth in and out of every house
m the village, Magnificent physi-
que is what won Pozieres. said an
authority from the front. that
added 10 perfect courage and a
whole lot Of determination.
Delyille Wood is already a his
torical South African name. Histo-
ry at pelvine Wood runs back to
July Is. when the South African
fighters fell back out of the wood
en- the decimated ranks of Scottish
Hignlanders who had held their
wrecked trenches there for four
days. Outnumbered six to one the
Africans and their killed coinpa-
triots rallied. stopped the enemy's
rush. broke him and drove him
back to a line which the enemy has
tried but has never taken. Delville
Wood is so firmly driven into South
African history that it will never
come out.
The little village of Flers figures
most prominent in New Zealand's
history of the somme. Sweeping
through this village. in conjunction
with supporting troops, they BOMB
cd and hayoneied their way into
and up and down tho German main
third line and held their gains.
What was once few square
miles of peaceful undulating eoun
tryside. miniature hills ana wooded