A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11189, 3 March 1915, Page 5

A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER.

GERMAN TWENTY TO CHE BRITISH.

GRAND RECORD OF BRITISH VALOUR.

DIE BUT NOT YIELD.

, London, March 2. On the 31st October; when 3400 Soots Guards/ South Wales Borderers, Welsh and Queen’s Regiments, held hastily constrncted trenches'in QheuVelt Village against 34,000 Germans, the enemy at dawn shelled the chateau where the battalion commanders were quartered. Later the Britishers fell in dozens* but the officers carelessly patrolled the position, cheering up their men. When the shelling ceased the Germans charged. Thousand swere mown down by rifle and machine gnu fire and the second line bad to stumble over grey heaps and there was scarcely an unwounded Britisher in the long line of trenches, but reinforcements were harried up from the scanty, reserves behind the chateau.

Towards desk the Germans massed for a second attack and every Britisher was sent to the trenches. The,full fnry of the charge fell on the Welsh Regiment in the oen're, who died with bayonets in band rather than give way. After the Germans had captured the trenches they savagely bayonettecl the British wounded. The Soots Guards on the left and the Queen’s regiment on the right stiil held their positions. When the officers of the Sooth Wales Borderers found out this he brought op live hundred Worcesters, who had been expected all day. The Worcesters charged through the shot swept streets of Ghelnvelt right into the first trenches, when the Germans turned and fled, though twenty times as numerous. Of five hundred Worcesters only two hundred unwonnded answered the roll call. Of the 2400 Britishers only eight hundred were alive next morning. Gheluvelt proved the Kaiser’s last opportunity of reaching Calais.