THE BRITISH FORCES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2465, 6 October 1914, Page 3

THE BRITISH FORCES.

THE MAN BEHIND-THE GUN. London, October 4. The Times' Paris correspondent declares that every Englishman holds the instinctive faith that more important than the gun is the man behind it. Among the many lessons taught at the battle of the Aisue, none was greater than that a machine, no matter how powerful, 3s insecure against a man's two hands. Every battle in the last issue is won by 'the bayonet. The British soldiers have put the doctrine of the machine to great shame. They made charges which were impossible by the rules of the game, and wrested victory from the very teeth o fdefeat. A solelier, describing, a bayonet charge after an artillery duel, said: With nerves a-tingle anel tempers on edge, tlie men rush for the foe with cold steel. At last it is man to man. Suddenly the sound of loud.and continuous laughter is beard from soldiers who havo passed the borders of restraint. It is no longot dull courage, but a blaze of anger that sweeps the ranks like fire, striking terror by its very native ferocity. The machines have no reply to such zeal of passion.