SCOTTISH REGIMENTS CHARGE.
GUNS SILENCED AFTER SPLENDID DASH.
PARIS, October 28
The Allies, on Friday, tbo 10th instant, executed an attack on Haubourdin.
British and French columns moved along tlie bank of the Lys in a thick mist, which enabled them to escape detection until the French cavalry debouched on a great paved road running parallel to tbo railway from La Bnss.'o to Lille. A German battery enfiladed the road and railway while peat bogs on either sido were commanded by German entrenchments. The latter wero insufficient to stop tho cavalry and infantry, which left tho roadway and advanced along pathways through tho marshes. The artillery, however, were una bio to follow.
Tho British General, for tho honour of silencing tlie Gonnau guns, choso a Scottish- regiment.
Tho Scotsmen mado s.bort rushes, using tho ditches which crossed tbo marshes every hundred yards as cover. When within charging distance, they fixed bayonets and charged to tho skirl of tho bagpipes, and bayoneted the artillerymen at tho guns, despite barbedwire entanglements, designed to protect thorn, and murderous fire from ma-chine-guns.
Tho Scotsmen then broke tho breeches of tho guns. It was all over in ten minutes, and tho Scotsmen retired to tho main body, enabling the French guns to gallop on tho metalled road in safety.
SCOTTISH REGIMENTS CHARGE.
Press, Volume L, Issue 15112, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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