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Vol. X.]
1914.
No. 11.
THE JAINA GAZETTE.
سجده کردن مین هادی راه نجات کو
کو کائنات
کل جھکارن کاشف اور سر
کر دیا
نابود کے کره مار کر کرمون
هر اونا رتبه یه هے میرا مدعا حاصل
The War. The papers of October 23rd gave us the first news of the presence of Indian troops at the front in a cable quoting “The Daily Express" of the preceding day. That told us that they went into action as if on parade, and that there was not "the Aicker of an eyelid ” as the great shells ploughed up the ground around them. The cavalry, it was said, came to grips with the Germans. On the 27th came the news of the cavalry work, and of the arrival of the Indians just at the time when they were sorely needed. A brigade of German infantry, supported by artillery, was approaching the trenches where the British stood, stubborn but exhausted, when the Bengal Lancers were called on to make the first charge of Indians on European soil against the foes of the Empire. An eye-witness tells how they rushed like a whirlwind, the splendid horsemen, on the advancing enemy, followed by a rousing cheer from the weary British thus defended in their need ; through the Germans they charged at headlong speed, striking right and left as they galloped through the dense opposing ranks. It was too much for the astonished enemy, who expecting to overwhelm in the trenches an exhausted foe, found their advance suddenly stopped by a joyously shouting body of Indian cavalry sweeping down on their fank and
piercing a long line through their densely packei mass. It Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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