FIGHTING AT MONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 September 1914, Page 5

FIGHTING AT MONS.

AN OFFICER'S DESCRIPTION. A GRLM SPECTACLE. i (Received Last Night. 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, August 30. A wounded British officer, describing the fighting at Mons in the "Manchester Guardian'" sltys: "Butchery, is the only word applicable to our regiments. Accustomed to take advantage of every scrap of cover, -we suffered little in comparison to the Germans. Picture our long, thinlystrung line of infantry, lying flat and firing with inred'ble rapidity, each rifle and machine-gun turning slowly to the right and to the left, firing at the bidding of the officers' whistle. The Germans advanced courageously, in fairly close order, with something like/the insensibility of savage races. Their ranges were much less than a mile. The spectacle roused a feeling of sickness. It was like firing upon % herd of cattle. The front l : ne of 4;no enemy -would falter, and then, slowly wheeling our rifles and maxims we would wither it to nothingness. Then another line would come, and another line, until the attack slackened away and ceased."