FIGHTING AT TOURNAI.
BRTLLTAXT DEFENCE BY BRITISHERS. BRAVERY OF GERMANS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) BOULOGNE, August 29 (Morning). Kve-witnosses liken the last stand of tfiu British gunners to the'stand made at Rorke's Drift. Seven, hundred British took up a posTEion on a high ground near Tournai, with 22 field-pieces, and two garrison artillery guns, and one light infantry guu. The entrenched German shrapnel made good practice from the northwest of Tournai, which the British effectively returned. Meanwhile they were awaiting the arrival of a French Army Corps. The situation became critical when tho Uhlans, reinforced, charged down the streets leading to the British position. They swept round the flanks, and with desperate bravery, charged tne very muzzles of the British guns. The survivors state that the Germans mounted quickfirers on Red Cross waggons, so as to bo able to get close. A gunner-, who was shot in both legs, summed up the episode by sayling:—'"The Oermans won't be so cocksure next time. Wo will give them Hell!"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 5
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168FIGHTING AT TOURNAI. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 5
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