ABOUT THE SAXONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 4

ABOUT THE SAXONS

NOT'STJQHBAD FELLOWS. The following; letter from a British officer at the front,, which has been placed at the disposal of an English paper, shows that not all the German troops are wanting in. chivalrous inBtiiicts, andl shows also how injuriously the misdeeds'of some affect others who are guiltless:— /'Opposite the trenches of two of our infantry battalions they found a thou-, sand dead and wounded- Germans, and there, are still- many poor devils of Saxons lying, between their trenches and .ours, and no one able to get at ■them. Our men got in thirty of them the other night, but every-time they went out the Germans opened a heavy fire on them at 800 yards; and we would! probably have to do the same, as .'we cannot trust thern not to attack on the pretext of collecting wounded. They 'have done this repeatedly. Only once did the Saxons (who are opposite to us,, and good fellows,. quite different from the Prussians) get into one of our trenches. They took a good many prisoners, but an hour after another battalion counterattacked, killed, wound*ed, or captured all.the Germans,- and released out fellows. Somo of theso poor devils lay outside our. trenches calling, 'Canierardes—English—come help üb' all ono night. Our fellows did their best to get them in, but the Germans poured volleys in every time. It Was heart-breaking, and- one would have given anything to succour those brave wounded!' Saxons, who had behaved to our. Drisouors like true aentlemen.'