SLAUGHTER AT THE STREAM.
SICK OF THE SHRIEKS
LONDON, Sept. 15
A field artillery gunner relates the terrible struggle on the 6th, when the Germans tried to cross the river. The British guns and picked . rifle shots commanded the river. The Germans swarmed along the opposite riverside. Their first party built.a pontoon bridge and were rushing across when a ghell smashed the bridge, and the pontoons with their dead and wounded freight were carried down stream.
The same thing went on all day, until the British were sick of the sights and the shrieks.
The Germans managed to cross at one point, and the Allies rushed on them with rare joy and bayonetted them into the river.
A whole battalion was captured here. They simply couldn't face the bayonet, and threw up their armi.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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