BATTLE AT A FARMHOUSE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13594, 8 October 1914, Page 5

BATTLE AT A FARMHOUSE.

SMALL FRANCO-BRITISH FORCE'S

STAND

WOUNDED PRIVATE'S STORY

(Received Oct. 7, 10.45 p.m.)

London, Oct. 6.

A wounded private of the Warwickshire- Regiment narrates that 800 Franco-British infantry on September lQth were occupying a-farm building in the Aisne region.

A German division, with cavalry and artillery, made a night attack, cut through the British cavalry outposts, and surrounded the 800 who retreated to the stable and farm house. The German artillery smashed the stable wall, and a battalion of infantry sought .to rush the place. The defenders fired! until their ammunition was exhausted.

The Germans were finally faced' by a handful of men with bayonets in a corner of the' stable, whom they shot from the doorway.

Meanwhile 200 of the defenders packed in the farm house, fired from the windowb until the roof, crashed in, burying the survivors.

Only twenty of the 800 were captured unwounded. ■