BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.
MAGNIFICENT BRITISH STAND
AGAINST ODDS OF FIVE TO ONE
DIVISION REDUCED FROM 15,000 TO 2800.
tTT CABLE— PREPS ASSOCIATION— COPy/MGHT (Received Dec. 2, 12.80 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. lieutenant Aubrey Fletcher, of the Grenadier Guards, who was wounded »nd is now in England, relates that his <division of 15,003 was ordered to hold * front of eight miles at all costs till reinforced. He says: "We were faced ty -about 75,000, including some of the Kaiser's crack regiments, and the Germans occasionally broke through by sheer weight of numbers, but were alTtfays driven back. We held them for *«n days. When help came, of 15,000 Guards only 2800 remained. My own "fcattalion of 1000 lost 800 men and 28 «r 30 officers.'?
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 2 December 1914, Page 8
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125BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 2 December 1914, Page 8
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