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Show CORPORAL HOLDS ! UP ANAHACK ! Stays by Machine Gun Until Enemy Retreats Fires Last Shot When Mortally Wounded. LONDON. Sept. 17. (British Wireless Wire-less Service.). With all his comrades I killed or wounded, Corporal Kaeble of the Quebec regiment rcmuined on a trench parapet with his Lewis gun to j 'meet a German attack. Holding the gun at his hip he emptied magazine after magazine into the advancing enemy. He managed to hold up tho enemy and Anally fell backward into ' the trench mortally wounded. The Germans turned and retreated.' as Kaeble fired his last cartridges while lying on his back in the trench. The gallani Canadian, who has been decorated with the Victoria Cross, died from his wounds shortly alterward, I Tho Victoria Cross also has been 1 awarded to Lieutenant Borella of the Australian imperial force and Ser-! !geant Meikl of the Seaforth Highland- jers. Borella led his force in a gallant attack against German machine gun j I posts, enpturing an enemy trench and ; ' talcing thirty prisoners. The Germans, ', ! outnumbering the British party ten to' Jone, counter-attacked twice but were! i repulsed. I ; Sergeant Meikl earned his decora -1 tion by storming single-handed an 1 enemy machine gun. He next atUicked, the crew of two machine guns with his revolver and when it was empty he put the rest of theT Germans out of action ac-tion with a heayy stick. Later he again I at tacked -another machine gun crew 'while armed" with a rifle and bayonet; of a fallen comrade. He was killed" as I ho reached tho enemy posltfon. j |