THOSE KIDS
IV TKHHII'IC run:
"The third night the enemy increased his drum fire to a violence that surpassed all imagination in its terrors. Shortly after 7 o'clock in the morning the British infantry, mostly young men without experience, under the command of inexperienced and still young officers, left its trenches to attack. The Englishmen evidently believed that after their awful bombardment they would meet no resistance, because they ran ahead laughing and shouting. Most of the young soldiers seemed to consider the attack great sport, but a terrible surprise awaited them when they came under the fire of the German machine guns a few minutes later. Almost in a moment several thousand men were mowed down. Other waves came and pressed ahead, only to fall like ripe wheat under the scythe.
"Wading through the deep mud and limping over heaps of corpses, the British force tried to advance against our positions on the heights in a semi-circle. Near Gramlcourt and Butte-de-Wallen-court blood flowed in streams in terrific battle-to-hand combats. The battle paged all day on a front of about eight miles, but our troops repulsed all attacks of the numerically superior forces of the enemy with the braves of martyrs, and our mysterious machine guns did terrible execution. The Englishmen ran into our fire in detachments of hundreds, and paid an awful price in blood for the few yards."  Of ground drained by them. 