BATTLE ANECDOTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 240, 24 September 1914, Page 5

BATTLE ANECDOTES.

BRUTAL ABUSE OF WHITE FLAG (Received 24. 9.0 a.m.) London. Sept. 23. A wounded Irish Guardsman reports that the Germans in the .battle of Aisne. hoisted the white flag, and the British, advancing to secure the prisoners, were subjected to a ter rible fire from concealed batteries. None weic able to walk from the field. IRISH GUARDS AT MARNE. HOW THEY DISLODGED THE FOE. A DESPERATE BAYONET CH ARGE.

(Received 24. 10.15 a.m.) London, Sept. 23

A wounded non-commissioned efiicer relates that at the Battle of Marne, the Irish Guards were selected to dislodge the enemy from a commanding position. The Guards, under a hail of shrapnel, reached a knoll *O9 yards from the enemy, who maintained a heavy rifle fire. Leaving force to bold the knoll, the rest crept round the Germans 'eft. and gradually edged the German trenches when the whole battalion lined up at 260 yards and made a final rush. The ridge was crowded with their machine guns, which were firing continually. but we fixed bayonets and charged under a fiendish fire, and with a wild whoop reached the trenches. The Germans desperately attempted to reply to us with bavonets. and then wavered, bioke in the emit re. and ran like hares, throwing down their arms. We bayoneted and shot them down in dozens until the exhausted Gormans who dal not escape surrendered.