Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 18 | Wounded Soldiers Tell of Big Battle

WOUNDED SOLDIERS TELL OF BIG BATTLE Offensive Movement on the West Front Executed With Speed. FA BIS, Get. 2, 5:60 a. m From the Accounts ivon by wounrlert Boldiers and others -who have returned from the J;ront, the story uf the French oharn which marked tlte critical point in the new offensive of-fensive movement is being gradually pieced together. One point on which there a general agreement is the great speed with which tlie movement was ecnted- A colonial infantryman who was wounded in the fighting between iSouain and Snippes. in the 'ham pagne, Bays: "Onr captain said to us at the moment for the onarge: 'You'll have to run hard, for we are in the first wave of men,' and we did run. Whon we enrae to the first trench we leaped over it with a stab at the occupants. One ronjd hear nothing but the hoarse breathing of one's neighbor and the roar of the guns. BuLlets whistled about everybody's ears, from one side, evidently evi-dently from machine gnus. "Our captaio shouted: 'Stop at that redoubt.' We were jnst in time. Three machine guns were pumping away at u3 and several others were being brought out of a tunnel. We bayonetted them back and froni. "You've got to be quick in a charge like that. A Feeond lout means death. "Lieutenant 0 , of the colonial infantry, who was wounded in the Ar-tois Ar-tois district, protests at stories that Hermans surrendered without resisting. "Tt is only at the last moment, when they realize that their fire .cannot stop us, that thev ground their arms and throw up their hands,1' the lieutenant said. "Even then most of them don't give in, but fight on with trench knives and revolvers. 1 Tt was in one of these encounters that T was wounded. I was fighting with two ("rormans. I killed one of them, who had sliced off my arm with his knife. A sergeant behind me killed the other.' '