GERMAN REPULSE ON THE SCHELDT.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 5

GERMAN REPULSE ON THE SCHELDT.

SUB-LIEUTENANT'S GALLANTRY,

Ostentf, Oct. 5.

Sub-lieutenant Hiernaux, in charge of a battery, gallantly .prevented Germans rushing a strategically important bridge over the Scheldt connecting Ternionde and Gaembrun.

With a battery carefully hidden he swept the troops off the bridge. A seoond party of Germans, .wrapped in mattresses, advanced, and were shot down. A third attempt failed, and then the