PRETTY BUSINESS WITH THE BAYONET.
BRITISH ADVANCE IN SHARP RUSHES. MAXT GERMAN!! EAGER TO GET CAPTURED. (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 28. An officer who was wounded in Flander?, in an interview, gaid that tlia struggle began in real earnest on Friday. The British had the usual dose of heavy shells ail day long. Early on Saturday the fight began under a hurricane of shrapnel. The infantry advanced in short. Rharp rushes. Tho German trenches were 400 yards distant. The British went at it with rare spirit and did tome pretty business with the bayonet. Many Germans who were captured throw down their rifles in their eagprnehs to get captured. The most surprising thing of the whole business was that many of them were old men of the Landsturm and Landwehr, but there «a» plenty of young blood. They seemed crushed and exhausted, and welcomed a chance to surrender.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 5
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149PRETTY BUSINESS WITH THE BAYONET. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 5
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