INCIDENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15503, 13 November 1914, Page 7

INCIDENTS.

PATHANS LEAD THE WAY A REMARKABLE EXPLOIT. BEGINS GENERAL BATTLE. Received 8.15 p.m., Nov. 12th. LONDON, Nov. 11. ''Daily Telegraph" says that the Pathan exploit cabled yesterday, caused a sensation in the ai'my. Tommy Atkins's version is that "Two thousand Pathans took their knives in their teeth, crept into the blooming Germans and cut the throats of twenty thousand." Tho real facta are as follows:— 1 'Air scouts reported that a strong body of "Wurtembufgers approached. A section of Pathans, detailed to watiih the roads, returned to oamp and reported that several thousand Wurtemburgera were hear Hollebeck, whose sentries they ciit down. The Whole battalion of Pathans then advanced in the night, with their knives between their teeth, while bodies of Moroccans were*' posted ojp. both the German flanks. The Germans were attacked on. three sides before they realised their danger. • The Pathans' terrifying leaps and tiger-like attack resulted in an indescribable fray. The Germans' machine guns were fired Wildly, and the infantry -i%re utterly unable to locate the main attack. For a while the Germans retreated in disorder; then, being strongly reinforced, j they were ordered to' recover the gtound. The Allies, with the Pathans still in. the van, allowed them to come! within a hundred yards, and then wiped out the first detachment, as cabled on. j the 6th. Finally the Pathans, followed by Moors, rushed Hollebeck and slaughtered all who did not surrender,! and arove another; Wurtemburger bat- i talion to the Lys, where they surrendered. The whole fight; lasted five hours and was the signal for a- general offensive."- J