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Show SOLDIERS ENTHUSIASTIC (Spscial Cable by Arrangement with onion Daily Telegraph and International News Service.) LONDON. Sept. 27. The first wounded from the victory in Flanders reached London tonighi. One was an officer with shrapnel wounds in his head and shoulders. shoul-ders. Talking of the action, he said: Things are beginning to hum at last. Friday it really began. We had the usual dose of the heavies all day. Saturday morning early, under cover of our artillery fire, it began In earnest. Under a hurricane of shrapnel, shrap-nel, the move started with short, sharp msbea. The German trenches were at a distance of about 400 yards- Our fellows fel-lows went at it with rare spirit. There was fome pretty business with the bayonet and prisoners a-plenty very ready to throw down their rifles In their eagerness to be captured. That was the most surpirslng- thing of the whole business. Many of them were old men of the Iandsturm and the land wehr, but there was plenty of young blood as well. They seemed crushed and exhausted, no go in them, all practically dead beat. I got winged shortly after reaching reach-ing the first line. Everything is going go-ing at the top hole. The boys are splendid game as bantam cocks. |