FRENCHMAN'S DARING FEAT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 3

FRENCHMAN'S DARING FEAT

Air. H. Warner Allon, special correspondent of the British Press with the French armies, describes., the, I'olt lowing innident ou the,, banks of tho Aisne:—Half-way between the French and German positions there is a small mound that overlooks the German lines. Ono night fifteen men and a non-com-missioned officer crawled through the wire entanglements and installed themselves on tho crest of this mound, constructing two trenches ■ and a fairly strong dug-out. At. last big .projectiles, froni a German Bin,.battery burst' on their make-shift entrenchments. As the Frenchmen were 'almost surrounded by the enemy, and., feared the collapse of tho roof ot their shelter; a corporal made his way out of the trench crawled along the river bank, wadedacross' the "river with , water, up. to his waist not 30ft. below the German position, and passed to' tho French lines. The officer decided that it was iinpos-. siblo to reinforce tho detachment "They must," he said, "do as you have done, and you had better go back and show them tho way." The-corporal went back; and one by one the sixteen Fronchmen crept past the German position. Tho enemy did not discover them until tho last man was reaching the French lined.