WOUNDED OFFICER'S ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2461, 14 May 1915, Page 6

WOUNDED OFFICER'S ESCAPE

HOW A LIEUTENANT WAS SAVED ■' FROM MASSACRE.

M. Thiebault-Sisson, who was in March dispatched by the "Temps" to meet the wounded French soldiers arriving from Germany, sent the foilowing strange story from Schaffhausen, on the German-Swiss frontier. ,

"A trooper of the 26th Territorials told me that he had had as his bed neighbour in a German ambulance an English officer named R. T. Miller, 2nd "Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment.

"Having fallen with a hundred of his men at Le Cateau, on August 25 or 26, Lieut. Miller, on recovering consciousness, heard a detachment, of cavalry coming; towards him. Sitting up with difficulty, he saw some Prussian Uhlans, and waved his hand as a signal for them to come to his aid. An officer preceded the troops. He noticed the Englishman's signal, and setting spurs to his horse cried as soon as he was some distance ahead of his men, 'Pretend to. be deadl' Tho Englishman failed to understand, and continued waving his arm. The officer then galloped up close to him, and as he passed cried again, but in a suppressed voioe, 'Pretend to be dead, I say, or you are "Lieut. Miller understood this time, and dropping on his side remained motionless until the Uhlans, having dismounted and allot with their revolvers all tho wouuded whom they saw moving, had got on their horses again and ridden away." [According to the Army List, Lieut. It. T. Miller received his commission in tho Manchester Regiment in 1912.]