IN THE FIRING LINE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16665, 25 September 1914, Page 7

IN THE FIRING LINE.

S CHARGE BY IRISH GUARDS.

UNDER FIENDISH FIRE.

IN THE MARNE BATTLE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, September 23.

A wounded non-commissioned officer relates that during the battle on tho Marne, the Irish Guards were selected to dislodge the enemy commanding a position.

The Guards, under a hail of shrapnel, reached a knoll eight hundred yards from the enemy, who maintained a heavy rifle fire. Leaving a force to hold the knoll, the rest of tho Guards crept round the Germans' left, and gradually edged oh the German trenches. The whole battalion then lined up at a distance of two hundred yards for the final rush-

" The ridge was crowned with German machine guns, firing continually," he continued. "Wo fixed bayonets and charged under a fiendish fire. With a wild whoop all reached the trenches. The Germans desperately attempted to reply to us with bayonets, then wavered and broke. "The centro ran like hares, throwing down their arms. We bayoneted and shot them down in dozens until the exhausted Germans,, who did not escape, surrendered."

THE WHITE FLAG

TREACHEROUS GERMANS. LONDON, September 23. Another Irish Guardsman, who has returned home, wounded, reports that the Germans in the battle on the Aisno hoisted a white flag, and the British, advancing to eecuro prisoners, were subjected to a terrible fire from concealed batteries None were üblo to walk from the field. HERO OF MARNE BATTLE.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Bordeaux correspondent states that General Caveluen, not General #au, brought up

200,000 men to Sir John French's left and determined the German retreat after the battle on the Marne.

GERMAN STAMPEDE IN BELGIUM.

BELIEVED BRITISH AND FRENCH HAD ARRIVED. (Received September 25, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 23. Mr Donohoe, who is with the Bsfc gian Army, telegraphs:— The Germans stampeded out of Termonde, Saingelles and Lebbeke southwards, believing that the Anglo-French Army had arrived. The mistake arose through tho Belgians using French and British field, guns. The German Staff was about to dine at Lebbeke on Sunday. An officer arrived with fragments of shells, and after a hurried consultation the regiment was ordered to retreat. The staff rode helter-skel-ter to Brussels.