CHRISMS TRUCE
SOME INCIDENTS (Reo. January 3, 3.10 p.m.)' London, January 2. Officers' and men's letters continue to ■dwell on the informal Christmas truce. A colonel states that the Germans and his men rushed out spontaneously. He at first feared treachery, but then permitted the fraternisation, he himself participating. The English helped to bury the German dead, _ and attended service, a German captain reading the service in German and English. Another officer Tolates that the Germans erected candle-lit Christmas trees, whereupon the British arranged a truce till midnight of the twenty-fifth. They fraternised all day long. A British officer fired his_ revolver at midnight,.as a signal that time was up. The British then volleyed over the Germans' heads. •, In another case British officers advanced and met German officers. The mon on both sides cheered and followed their examplo.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2349, 4 January 1915, Page 5
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138CHRISMS TRUCE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2349, 4 January 1915, Page 5
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