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Show DEATH FACED CHEERFULLY. Go Into Action Shouting "Goodbye Fellows" to Reservists. " London vl Reuter dispatch from Paris says: "Thirty gunners of a British field battery have fallen, killed or wounded. wound-ed. Knowing that they were going to almost certain death, they cried out 'Good-bye, fellows,' to their comrades in the reserve line. Two minutes later every man was out of action. "Thirty more went to the front with the same farewell greeting. The German Ger-man shells were falling thickly behind the battery and killed or wounded every man serving the guns. "Eventually ti4 persistence and accuracy ac-curacy of the. British fire proved effective ef-fective and the British infantry advanced ad-vanced and took the opposing position posi-tion at the point of the bayonet. "Similar lnoidents occurred along the whole western wing Tuesday, enabling the allies to hold their own against repeated furious onslaughts of the Germans who were attempting to break through." |