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Show ONLY THIRTY BIT OF 2,000 LETT London, Aug. 29, 3:30 a. m The chronicle's Boulogne correspondent sends the personal story of a wound ed soldier who has arrived there and who declared he wag one of the thirty thir-ty survivors of a British company of 2.000 troops who were practically wiped out by the German artillery. His story follows: "We were five solid days In the trenches and moved backwards and forwards all that time with the varying vary-ing tide of battle. "It was about 2 o'clock in the morning when the end came. Things had got quieter and our officers came along the line and told us to g'""t some sleep. We were preparing to obey when a light or something el6e gave us away and we found ourselves In an inferno of bullets. Men Caught Without Shelter. "We could do nothing. Down on us the shrapnel hailed and we fell bv th-1 score At the same timp the enemy's Maxims opened fire We were almost without shelter when wo were caught and we crawled along iu iron: to find cover. " 'Leave everything and retire.' was the order and we did what we could to obey. I don't know how long it lasted but when dawn came I could see not more than 30 men left in the various sections of the field. Thirty at the most were left out of about 2,000. "1 wandered away from the others and eventually found myself at with a single companion. That was the first time the German artillery really got at us. As a rule their gun fire was mighty poor." In the above story the consor has cut out the name of the town, near which the lighting occurred, |