"GOTT STRAFE IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 6

"GOTT STRAFE IRELAND

. "Gott Strafe Ireland" is a now note m German malediction, and to judge from tho following letter from Sergeant J. J. Cunningham,, of tho Irish Guards, published by the "Freeman's Journal," it is inspired by the fear that the Irish soldiers are putting into the hearts of t-lio Huns:—

One battalion of tho Irish Guards has already given them a rough timo of it, so Heaven help tho Prussian Guards when they bob up against two battalions of I.G.'s—all Irish manufacture. We had a little set-to with tho Bavarians a few days ago. They were holding a sap quito close to our trench, and, at about 11 p.m. a platoon of Irish Guards dashed in on top .of them with fixed bayonets and fired them out of it. Wo had only three casualties, and the Huns were moaning on all sides. One of the Huns was, apparently, a little pluckier than his comrades, for I distinctly heard hiin 'shout out, in, plain English, "To li—l with tho Irish Guards." Then one ■of our fellows knocked the_ side off His head with ti bomb. I think it was' a very suitable reply to make. The Germans nearly always know what regiment they aro opposed to, and very often when our trenches are close they shout out, "Gott Strafe. Ireland." I don't know what they'll think of Ireland one of those days when the hour strikes for us to throw our full strength against them. '•