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Updated: June 5, 2025
There were a good many dead and wounded Germans in this second trench, and of the remainder many were hidden away in their dug-outs, their nerves shaken beyond the sticking-point of courage by the artillery fire first, and later by the close-quarter bombing and the rush of the cold steel. The Hotwaters held that trench for some fifteen minutes.
"I can teach the boys more as a sergeant, sir," he would answer; "teach them better how to score the points that win." "You bloodthirsty ruffian," laughed the Colonel. "Your old doctrine, I suppose, of close-quarter work." "You have it, sir," answered O'Shea quietly. "Every dead German is one point up to us; every dead Englishman is a point down.
Soon the deck was crowded with Indians eager to barter. Most of them wanted hunting or butcher knives in return, and by this means, no one suspecting anything, nearly every one of the savages became possessed of a formidable weapon for close-quarter fighting.
And inch by inch they drove through the opening to within striking distance. They had abandoned their firearms, and, with hatchet and tomahawk, their natural close-quarter weapons, the final struggle began. All that had gone before was as nothing to the fight that waxed now. The howling mob were within the defences, and there was only one possible outcome.
Another bullet passed close to his head. This was too much for him, and with a yell he ran away. As I broke through the thicket I looked to the quarter whence the bullets had come. These, I could have taken my oath, were not fired by my friends on the farther bank. It was close-quarter shooting, and I knew who had done it. But I saw nobody.
Bombs and hand grenades and mortars are also old forms of warfare, and close-quarter fighting with the bayonet, as was evident to all practical observers before the war, will endure as long as the only way to occupy a position is by the presence of men on the spot and as long as the defenders fight to hold it in an arena free of interference by guns which must hold their fire in fear of injury to your own soldiers as well as to the enemy.
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