TERRIBLE ATTACK.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5348, 3 February 1916, Page 6

TERRIBLE ATTACK.

CHARGE OF MEN IN MASKS

An officer of a Highland regiment, returned wounded from the front, says the London correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian,” gave me a few of lus impressions during the attack. Ho said: “When I think of it, the thing that most sticks in my memory was the awfulness of that attack. From where I was at one time I could see the whole sweep forward. As far as I could see, there was a waving line of bayonets, but the terrible thing was our getup. We were wearing ga> helmets, with the big goggle eves and prolxxseis sticking out like a snoot. It’s a sort of blue colour, and'that must have intensified its look

‘‘ Every man shouted as he charged, and the shout comes through the helmet as a queer sort of noise. What flic Germans must have .srs>n was all these bristling bayonets and these terrible masks. No wonder they cleared out as well ns they could from the front trenches. There could have been nothing like it in the history of the world. “After it was over it was strange to see our men. who in the heat of tire fight were working like demons, using up their own field dressings, which might have been needed at any moment, for the wounded Germans.”