BRITISHERS UNDER FIRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 5

BRITISHERS UNDER FIRE.

DETERMINED STAND AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS.

(Received Last Night. 5.5 o'clock.) BOULOGNE, August 29 (Morning). Seven hundred British troops, with two guns, took up a position behind Cambi ai on Wednesday morning. The guns at first had a splendid range, and wrought wholesale execution ; but they lost their range under the steudy German advance. The position was critical at one o'clock in the afternoon, but they held out, expecting assistance. Suddenly, Uhlans, estimated to niimbor 5000, galloped upon the guns. Tho last officer stood to his gun,

and used his revolver upon a do/.cn Uhlans. The in I'd ntrv resisted for an hour, when 11so M'Tsurvh ors, tlie majority of whom were wouiuled, began to fall -ln'ck i>n Cambrai, which was reached in good order at nightfall. Elsewhere 3000 British troops bivouaced early in the morning, and secured a, strong position alter a forced march of 17 miles. Through the lack of air-scouts, they misjudged the position of a superior force of Germans. . An hour later the Germans, with the Uhlans leading, swarmed upon tho British, reaching within 50 yards of the machine guns. The British readily repulsed numerous attacks, tho Germans leaving a wall of dead. The British reached a safe base tivo miles distant, their losses being inconsiderable.