CHARGE OF FIERY TURCOS.
. 'j'-*:" No.; enemy, couid" have^. stood,, before > tthem^hiitifor thomujjderou6;:Bre,sf theii :• mitrailleusee, (^laidras.) •',You-oa4i..;ha,ve ;no idfefc ■? of the :■ nuuiber .of .these arid the !. w^,y ,thfty..^spit.V:Jt ; was, thase t .^riot rifle :- fire or;shells^ which; kept : us.baclc^ Thre« i ttitnes our. fellows got .vwithin 1 twenty .-.01 ; , thirty yards, of the Pjruseiao^Guard,, and L ;.were beaten hackby.^h^^^ad that was 1 pumped at them. At last the Turcos .would not be denied. With terrifying cries they swept on, the dead falHng m > heaps" as the machine guns crashed and s rattled. They were like a wave that is - 1 driven on over the land with irresistible
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13540, 18 November 1914, Page 4
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106CHARGE OF FIERY TURCOS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13540, 18 November 1914, Page 4
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