BRITISH HEROISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 8

BRITISH HEROISM.

t . JJEEIiS AT WMmm. 1 _ .. ® "' > SCOTS GUARDS' GREAT FIGHT j MONUMENT OF CORPSES. ; *" (Rcccived May 31, 1.5 m.) London, May 30. • A correspondent with the British headquarters details among the jallant deeds at Festubert the case jf a company of Scots Guards with , two officers, who were too far ahead md were cut off on the Rue de 3aillaus. A few days later their bodies were found, soaked with rain and blackencd by the sun, araid piles of German corpses. On the jloodstained grass lay broken rifles md twisted bayonets which testiied to the desperate struggle made dv the Scots against overwhelming )dds. The Welsh Fusiliers made a brilliant dash through the densest lyddite fumes, due to British shells, md hurled themselves through breaches in the German parapets. Lieut.-Colonel Gabbett died from five bullet wounds at the beginning of a charge. Major Dickson, the second in command, fell a moment later. A desperate bayonet struggle resulted and the Germans were cleared out of the trenches. German artillery then plastered the Welshmen with high explosives. Nevertheless company after company reached the captured trenches. A party of Welshmen rushed another trench. Although only four bombthrowers were left they bombed the < Germans out of a cottage and held the advanced post until ordered to retire in the evening. ' Sergeant Barter, of the Welsh Fusiliers, went out on the 16th with seven bomb-throwers and bombed a 'number of German trenches, occupying one 50fly-if lone They took 102 prisoners /,■ 11 ..a. and returned scatheless. , ' The Eighth Royal Scots Territorials kept their place throughout the thickest fighting. The Fourth Camerons advanced at nightfall and found themselves facing a deep, ditch. Some swam and others used planks left by the Germans. The Germans throughout shelled the Highlanders from houses near by. One company lost its direction. Another was virtually destroyed. All the" officers were' killed. One company struggled on and captured the rearmost .German communication trench. ( The ' Warwicks Border Regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, the Liverpools, the Inniskillings, and the bomb-throwers belonging to the Grenadiers all performed great: deeds.v.,; • -r-

SURGEON Wd BELGIUM. . .4SW ZEAUI IDf.Jf APPOINTED. . (Receives . May 31. 1.35 a.m.) ' .. } ]||I , , London, May 29. Mr. H. D. Gib its, the well-known New : Zealand/ goffer, / has been ap-: pointed chief surgeon of a- Belgian ■ • field hospital. ,