WAR INCIDENTS
IRISH TROOPS AMBUSCADED SURVIVORS' DIFFICULT ESCAPE. (lIMES AND SYDNKY SUN SFtIVICES.) (Received September 8, 8 a.m.) LONDON. 7th September. A dozen Dublin Fusiliers! at Boulogne state that a hundred of their regiment, while marching along the road, were subjected to a terrific hail of bullets from thousands of Germans ambushed in the fields on both sides. Scores were killed, and the esca-pees hid for cix day.* in a barn. They buried their uniforms, dodged the Germans, and reached Boulogne. They are fit, and are rejoining their regiment at the front.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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92WAR INCIDENTS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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