SOLDIERS' STORIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15448, 10 September 1914, Page 7

SOLDIERS' STORIES.

BULLETS USELESS. BAYONETS EFFECTIVE. Received- 12.-15 a.m., Sept. 10th. LONDON, Sept. S (p.m.). One of the Coldstream Guards describes the German soldiers as like a crowd at a. Cup tie. ''l -was ivell entrenched, but my rifle, overheated and I could haidly hold it. Our bullets ploughed through the Germans, hut they still rolled up. Then we got to bayonet work and drove them nearly five hundred yard*, cutting up every man who did not run away." IRISH GUARDS. AND GERMAN CAVALRY. LONDON, Sept, 9 (a.m.). A wounded Guardsman describing a seven-hours' light at C'onipiegne, says: ''As soon as the German guns and infantry rushed into position on a hill on the. British right. German cavalry advanced in a huge mass, hoping to ride down the Irish Guards, who

were nearest them. When the shock came it seemed terrific. The Irish did not recoil. They flung themselves across the Germans' path. We saw German horses impaled on the bayonets of the Guardsmen in the front ranks. Then the whole force of infantry and cavalry became mixed in confused heaps, and shells of both armies dropped near the tangled mass." A CORPORAL'S CHAT. LONDON, Sept. 9 (a.m.). Corporal Bailey writes: "We are better fed than the Germans, who have more ammunition than is good for them. They fire ten rounds for our one, but very few could score a bullseye in a hundred shots. It is a fine sight t« see us march, singing all the old tunes, and as we pass the villages people cheer us and give us fruit, flowers and smokes. Some of. the cigarettes are rotten, and we save them for tho German prisoners, who will smoke anything."