BAYONET CHARGES
DISLIKED BY THE GERMANS. SHOCK TROOPS IGNORE BULLETS * LOSSES TWENTY TO ONE. (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m). LONDON, June 2. Soldiers of the Guards Regiments who joined Highland troops in fierce bayonet charges on Flanders hills, said that tlio German shock troops' attacked regardless of everything except cold steel, when they immediately fell back. One member of the Guards Regiment said: “The shock troops, all big fellows came over, completely ignoring our bullets. They wore armour-plated waistcoats, but they ran when we advanced with bayonets 1 . Their ordinary infantry was poor, many mere children 17 years of age, who said they did not want to fight.” Another Guardsman said that the German losses were 20 to 1 compared with those of the British. Arrivals revealed that 100 F warships and 200 merchantmen cooperated in the defence and evacuation of Dunkirk.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 201, 3 June 1940, Page 6
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