THE BITER BIT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2345, 30 December 1914, Page 5

THE BITER BIT

■ 'A GERMAN RUSE COPIED, ■ The "Journal'.' publishes the follow- : Ms extract from. an interesting letter Wr / J^ en by a soldier at the front:— , "Per some days past (November) we have had the support of the Marine l'usiliers and. their heavy . artillery, which enabled us to silence, the German 16-in. guns, and made tlieir 'saucepans (shells) rather more scarce. "Our Marines played the Germans a * J™* .yesterday., .During the fiight the Germans, . who were entrenchN li? t of —-—. copied our methods, and had set up wire entanglements in front of .their trenches, hung with bells, which at the slightest shock were to give the alarm. But our Marines had got wind of the idea, and as nightfall several of them armed with sfcnng crept up to the German lines,and tied several lengths of string to 1 the wiro | within the enemy knowing, anything about it. Tib Marines then came back to their trenches and pulled the strings, whereupon the bells began to tinkle. Immediately there was a hiul of bullets, and the machine guns also joined in. • This lasted part of the night, and the 'bodies' wasted a large amount of ammunition without any loss to our men. On.the other hand, several Germans were-killed by .their own comrades in the panic which followed."