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Show BRITISH GUARD REGIMENTS ARE GIVEN PRAISE London. Sept. 28. 3 13 a m The Dally Mail's correspondent In Franc-pays Franc-pays warm tribute to tho excellent work which has been done by the British guard regiments, who genet ally have; been supposed to be kepi only "for show purposes " He Bayi they have done more fighting than any of the oiher units of the British expeditionary force. "la the recont crossing of the Aism they pchlcved a glorious feat o! arms." continues the correspondent "They wore allowed to cross by a pontoon bridge without any opposition, opposi-tion, but no sooner had our cavalry, headed by the Scota' Oroya, began crossing than a rain of shrapnel burst upon them from nowhere. Those who were not killed outright were w ounded, "A stretch of open country a quar ter of a mile long, lay immediately ahead of the. guard, then a wood lend lng up to the heights somwher along or behind which the death-deal ing German guns lay. The order was given to advance, but though the gallant troops escaped the crowning misfortune, a falling upon barbed wire, they wore received, as was to be feared by a murderous machine-gun machine-gun fire On approaching the cover the guards fixed bayonets and charg ed Thoy took tho guns In five min utes, six of them, and tonight thoy are in the British linos. "The charge created a necessary-diversion, necessary-diversion, allowing our heavy art 11 lery in turn to enter the lists. Not until the pontoon bridge had twice more been destroyed, however, wen: the German big guns silenced. Thanks to the admirable reconnoitring work of two aviators, the crossing of the Aisne wa3 then concluded In compara the immunity from shell fire. "That night the guards got their just due of congratulation." nn |