WAR INCIDENTS'
AVALANCHES OP TROOPS THE RETREAT AT MONS. (Received September 7, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 6th September. A letter from a wounded 'Gordon ■Highlander descrih.es the retreat ab Mons. "We were fighting by day and retreating by night," he says, "until we . came to Cambrai on Tuesday night. I dare not mention that place and close my eyes. God. it was awful! Avalanche followed avalanche of fresh German troops, but the boys stuck to it."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 8
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75WAR INCIDENTS' Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 8
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