A DARING SNIPER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2452, 4 May 1915, Page 8

A DARING SNIPER

. f EXPLOITS OF A CANADIAN. A Canadian officer on service in France gives the following account of successful sniping. "On I went, crawling through the sodden clay and branches, going about a yard a minute, listening and looking; I went out to the right of our lines) where the Germans were nearest. It took 'about thirty minutes to do thirty yards. Then I saw the Gorman trench and waited, for a long time, but could neither hear nor see anything. The trench was about ten yards from me. Then I heard some Germans talking, and saw cne gut his head up over some bushes about ten yards behind the trench. I could not get a shot at him as I was too low down.

"I daTed not get up, so I crawled on again very slowly to the parapet of their trench. It was quite exciting. I was not sure that there might not bo somebody just in front or a little further along- the trench. I peered through a loophole, saw nobody in the trench, and the German behind put his head up again. He was laughing and talking. I saw his teeth glisten against my foresight, and I pulled the trigger. He just gave a grunt and crumpled up. The others got up and whispered, lo one another. I do not know who were most frightened, they or I. There were five of them. They could not place the shot, as I was lying flat behind the parapet. I just had ■the nerve not to move a muscle, but j t.o stay there, thou eh my heart was 'fairly hammering. They did not come forward. I could not see them, as they were behind some bushes and trees, so I- crept back, inch hy inch. "The next day, just before dawn I cra.wled out there again, and found the trench empty. Then a single German came through the woods towards the trench. I saw him fifty yards off. He was coming along, upright quite carelessly, making a great noise. I heard him before I. saw him'. I let him get within 25 yards, and then shot him in the heart. Ho never made a sound."