INCIDENTS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 58, 5 September 1914, Page 7

INCIDENTS OF WAR

A GALLANT STAND. (HUBS AND BTDNIY SUN SERVICES.) (Received September 5, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 4th September. The South Lancashire Regiment made a heroic stand in the recenl fighting. It occupied an exposed position, where it was raked by machine guns There were momentary signs of wavering, but a major rallied the men, shouting "Be Englishmen!" And Englishmen they proved themselves to be. One soldier carried on his back for 800 yards his young wounded subaltern. The latter died on the way, but the would-be rescuer's only comment was "Now 1 am deaf in one ear with the dreadful racket of those guns." NERVE-RACKING NOISE. LONDON, 4th September. A sergeant-major, in a letter from the front, says : "The worst about this war is not the fear of losing one's life, but the hellish nerve-racking noise. Townsmen accustomed to traffic stand it much better than countrymen, and those recruited from the big cities are by far the fittest. A London lad told me it was no worse than the roar of the omnibuses." EXTRAORDINARY* MARKSMANSHIP. (TIMES AND SYDNBY SDN SERVICES.) LONDON, 3rd September. A correspondent, who has returned from the front, states that the markmanship of the German artillery is extraordinary. In range-finding and shelling trenches they are past-masters, and they excel in preparing for infantry attackb by vigorous gunnery. Their shrapnel literally clears out the trenches. The fire is directed by aeroplanes, which are superior" to the French, because they are able to remain longer aloft. SPY INSTANTLY EXECUTED. PARIS, 4th September. Colonel de Bpnhomme recounts that, despite the rapidity with which the French guns changed their positions, their locality was immediately known to the enemy. He subsequently discovered that a railway crossing-keeper by secret telegrams kept the Germans informed. The keeper was instantly executed. TURNING THE TABLES. LONDON, 4th September. Advices from Ostend state that an American attached to the American Consulate in Brussels' narrates that seven* teen English soldiers, captured near Waterloo, were marched to the nearest restaurant and compelled to act as waiters while their captors were eating. The Germans soon, became intoxicated, and the British, seizing the Germans' arms, slew several and escaped.