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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 10 September 1914, Page 7

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| CAVALRY HURLED BACK ATTACK ON IRISH GUARDS. LONDON, 9th September. A wounded Guardsman, describing the seven hours' fight at Compiegne, said that as soon as the German guns and infantry had rushed into position on a hill on the British right, ''the German cavalry advanced in a huge mass, hoping to ride down the Irish Guards, who were nearest to them. When the shock came it seemed terrific. The Irish' men did not recoil. They flung themselves across the Germans' path. "We saw the German horses impaled 6n the bayonets of the Guardsmen in the frojit ranks," says the narrator, '^.then the whole force of infantry and cavalry became mixed in a confused heap, while shells from both armies dropped near the tangled mass." CAPTURING THE GUNS. (Received September 10, 8 a.m ) LONDON, 9th September. " Continuing his account of the fighting at Compiegne, the wounded Guaidsman said ; "The German horsemen got clear, and fled. Some, who were horseless, were bayoneted where they stood, and then the Guards continued, their advance. "The Coldstream .Guards were now j leading, with the Scots in reserve, "and the Irish in support! Meanwhile, "taking advantage of the fight between the cavalry and the infantry, the German artillery had taken up a new position, and maintained a _ deadly fire from twelve guns. Our infantry and cavalry advanced simultaneously against the new position, carrying it in the face of a galling fire, and captured ten of the guns". The German infantry and cavalry supporting it did not wait for our onslaught, but bolted, pursued and decimated by heavy infantry and artillery fire. When our men secured the guns there was hardly a German left alive or un wounded." -^ BRITISH "HARDSHIPS A PERFIDIOUS DEVICE. (Received September 10, 10.30 a m.) PARIS, 9th September. The British troops endured great hardships during the retirement from the Belgian frontier. They ran short ■of food, and for five days subsisted on raw carrots, unripe fruit, and other field stuff. At one point, a Guardsman states, Germans with Red Cross badges drove up what seemed to be an ambulance van, which contained a machinegun, wherewith they mowed down the British like grass,