HOW BRITISH MEN DIE.
EPIC OF HOOGE.
HUNDRED HEROES' FIGHT.
Times and Sydney Sua Services. London, September 16.
An officer of the Liverpool Regiment tells a graphic story of the recent battle round Hooge. " Under a hundred British, wounded and unwounded, were sheltering between the lines, and when the enemy was pressing home an attack found themselves confronted by a battalion of! Germans, who asked them to surrender. The corporal in command curtly refused, and soon the little band were fighting for dear life. The British put up a ' dandy' fight. Time after time they smashed the enemy's attack. In the end their i ammunition failed, and the heroes, who were reduced to one-half, resorted to the bayonet against the now furious assaults of the Germans, who charged like a hurricane. The men stood firm, but brute force told in the end, and the weary survivors died where they stood rather than surrender. Their resistance saved our line at a vital point."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 7
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