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Show HEROIC DEEDS OF CANADIANS ARE HADED Victoria Crosses Awarded to. Eighteen Men for Bravery in Recent Fighting on Western Front. OFFICERS AND MEN SHARE IN GLORY Artillery Duels and Occasional Occa-sional Trench Raids the Only Active Warfare in France at Present. By Canadian Pres. OTTAWA, Jan. 12. A Canadian Pre.ss cable from London say.v the heroic deeds of Canadlnnn in t he recent fighting on the western front were described during the king's award of Victoria crosses to Canadinns included in the eighteen men decorated today. J low Captain J. O'Kelly advanced his command 1W0 yards after the original at tack failed, took two enemy positions on the crest of the hill under a heavy (ire and then personally organized and led an attack against "pill boxes," capturing cap-turing six with 100 prisoners and ten machine guns, was graphically gazetted. Another hero was Corporal Colon Barron, Bar-ron, who, single-handed, rushed enemy guns, killed frwir of the crew and captured cap-tured others and then turned the captured guns on t he retiring enemy, 'auslng Mcvr-re r ,suali !s. Sergeant's Bravery. Serjeant Coorc II. Mwillu r;ipt':ml a "pill Lk'x" Hiii-jle-han-'lf'l, rushed a sni-pr'tf sni-pr'tf post in frdnt of him, d.;M roved the garrison with hombs and, crawling on a 'pill box," piiot umj gunn-Ts with his revolver. re-volver. .Mullln's clotiie.s wf-re ri idied Willi bullfis from the raptd-ilre guns directed at. him. but. he did not inltr. Oilier hToen, eq nail v daring, v.: pturci "pill boxes," killed, captured r Mltried tlte enemy and cleared tiie way for tlu; bdvancr of the troops and sivu the hv-.-s oi' many of tln-ir coinr;nies. Thcv are .'a r-tain Oeorgn 1 1. f';i I'k.-H mid Privates Thomas Holmes. Ceril Kinross and Janes I1, Kohertson- . ... The acts of the d.-eds for which the Victoria cross was award. -d erntira fvf-nts which must have io-t-ti as thrilling thrill-ing as any recorded during tiie war. Fight of Captain Gee. Ciptaln Kohrt CJee of the Koyal 1'usi-M.tn. 1'usi-M.tn. fi the enemy pierced the British Brit-ish lines and captured brigade heudquar-u-rs and un am muni ti on dump, liming hwnelf a prison t-r. kiik-d one ' of the enemy with a spiked stick and succeeded in es')i ping. He then organ izerl a ' pari y and attacked the enemy, clearing the locality. lo-cality. After establishing a deiciisive fl.tnk. Gee, with a r:volver in each hand, rusned and captured an enemy machine gun. killing eight members of its crew. Sergeant fcj. S. Packman of the Border Bor-der regiment, and Corporal R. McBfath of the HeafuM h Highlanders also were awarded the Victoria cross for capturing enemy machine guns, together with their crews, single-handed. Mc Heath put five machine guns hors de combat, capturing an officer and thirty men who had taken refuga in a dugout. A trooper in the Indian cavalry was decorated twice for carrying dispatches over open grounds and under a heavy Are, although each time his horse was shot under htm. |