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Show DEATH FACED CHEERFULLY. - Go Into Action Shouting "Good Fellows" to Reservists. "Thirty gunners of a British fi battery have fallen, killed or wou: -ed. Knowing that they were going almost certain death, they cried c 'Good-bye, fellows,' to their contra,! c in the reserve line. Two minu a later every man was out of action. 'Thirty mure went to the fronts the same farewell greeting. The G i man shells were falling thickly bell, the battery 'and killed or wounc every man serving the guns. "Eventually the persistence and : b curacy of the British fire proved ' fective and the British infantry : t vauced and took the opposing q tion at the point of the bayonet. "Similar incidents occurred al v the whole western wing TuesJ. i enabling the allies to hold their o against repeated furious onslaug-of onslaug-of the Germans who were attempt:' to break through." |