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The Men Who Turned
the Tide on the Yser
A maxim- gun section of
our valliant Indian warriors marching to battle. The Maxims
are carried on the backs of mules.
"During the great
battle on the Coast, in late October a brave little Belgian
force was beaten back after a forty-eight hours resistance
by an overwhelming number of the enemy. As the Germans pressed
forward they encountered, not returning Belgians, but oncoming
swarthy figures - the British Indians - whose deadly bayonets
threw them back in disorder. They were simply dug out of
the trenches in which they had taken shelter, and the well
aimed bullets drove them back still farther. Ten thousand
dead Germans are declared to have been left behind in that
retreat. Their hopes of breaking the line had been ruthlessly
shattered by the East's finest fighters."- The War
Illustrated, 11/1914
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