Show FIGHT ALONG CANAL tells of birthday present from kaiser english soldier although Wound wounded led keeps up lively fusillade upon ranks of approaching germans another version of sea fight london private G A turner now lying wounded in the london hospital sends the following account home of 0 one days fighting in france 1 I am still living though a bit knocked about I 1 got a birthday present from the kaiser on sunday we had rifle inspection at 11 a in and were ordered to fall in for bathing parade at 1130 while we were waiting for another company to return from the river the germans commenced to shell eliell the tha town we fell in about 1 p in an hour and a half bait afterwards to go to the scene of the attack shells were bursting in the streets as we went we crossed a bridge over the canal under artillery fire and stood doing nothing behind a mill on the bank for some time then somo some one cried out that the germans were advancing along the canal bank and our company was waa ordered to go along then the tha germans opened firo fire with their guns at about live five hundred yards with shrapnel and the scene that followed beggars description several of us OB were laid full length behind a wooden fence about halt an inch thick the german shells burst about three yards in front of it it was blown to splinters in about tea minutes none of us expected to get out alive they kept us there about an hour before they gave us the word to retire I 1 had just juat turned round to go back when I 1 stopped one it hits you with an awful thump and I 1 thought it had bad caught me at the bottom of the spine as it numbed my legs for about halt half an hour when I 1 found I 1 could not walk I 1 gave it up just bitter after I 1 got my first view of the germans they were coming out of a wood about tour four hundred yards away all in a heap together so 50 1 I thought as I 1 was done for I 1 would get a bit of my own back and so I 1 started pumping a bit of lead into them 1 I stuck there for about three of an hour and fired all my own ammunition and a lo 10 lot t belonging to two more wounded men who were close to rae me about three hundred rounds altogether and as aa it was such a good target I 1 guess I 1 accounted for a 0 goot lot of them then I 1 suddenly discovered I 1 could walk and so BO I 1 set oft to get back I 1 had to walk about one hundred and fifty yards in the open with shrapnel bursting around me all the way A man who was waa at Paar deburg and in south africa said they were nothing to what wo we got that sunday out of men ot of my company only about twenty were uninjured mrs 1 I L wilson of hunsley sends a letter received from her husband a seaman of tile tho bacchante ila ho says you will have bavo read of our victory in tile the north sea it was alne our ship brought the dead and wounded and the prisoners back A grim job it was too I 1 only wish the whole german fleet would corao corae out we may get a chanco of coming home soon their firing Is rotten while our men behind the guns aro are perfect they set got a hit every time the bo wont come out that was the reason our ships had to try to drive them out yo you u 8 seo 0 tho the place is all mined and if a 11 s ship 1111 runs run s into one of these mines it means destruction TUB tho commander of the liberty a torpedo boat destroyer asked his ships company if they would volun ter to to go up kiel harbor with him und and every man sold said yes alt although bough it looked certain death up they went and got under file fhe forts of helgeland Hel goland and let rl rip at tho germau german cruisers in the harbor ono one of 0 the wounded sall sail arr 0 liberty told rrie rae that the shells fired at them were wera enough to sink a fleet our ship had only one torpedo and one round of ammunition left so they turned around and came out when a shrapnel shell struck the Li bertys mast killing the gallant commander and three others the coxswain although wounded brought the ship ehla safely to our fleet that was waiting outside we pray to god that we may come off victorious and I 1 am confident we shall as every man jack in the fleet has the heart of 0 a lion |