Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — HOW TWO FOUGHT A DOZEN [ARTICLE]

HOW TWO FOUGHT A DOZEN

Stirring Incident In Which Irish Dragoon Guards Tackle Superior Force. London. —How two men, one of them, wbunded, fought a dozen uhlans is described by a trooper of the Royal Irish dragoon guards. - “There was a man of outs,” he states, “who carried a chum to a farmhouse under fire, and when the retreat came got left behind. The German patrol called and found them. There were only the two, one wounded, against a dozen uhlans. Behind a barrier of furniture they kept the Germans at bay, wounding or killing half of them. “The Germans made off, and brought a machine gun to the house and threatened to destroy it. The two soldiers were not unmindful of the kindness shown them by the owners of the farm, and, rather than bring loss on them or the village, they made a rush out, with some mad ideas of taking the gun. Just over the threshold of the door they fell dead. “People may call them pigheaded for not surrendering, but that sort of wrong-headedness is worth a lot as inspiration to others.”