SAVED BY HIS WITS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2771, 15 May 1916, Page 5

SAVED BY HIS WITS

HOW A RESOURCEFUL TOMMY RES' GAINED FREEDOM. . In consequence of the skill and daring with which, he extricated himself from a very tight corner a certain British soldier in. Franco is now the pride of his regiment, says a Reuter correspondent. He had been sent ont on patrol duty with another man, and was surprised by the enemy in considerably stronger force, and the unnamed" hero was forced to surrender. Ho was thereupon disarmed and searched, but his captors failed to observe that he was concealing a grenade in his capacious fist. This he dexterously returned to his pocket when tho Bosches had finished rummaging his tunic.

For some, reason ho appears to have been, left in the charge of a solitary sentine!, whilst the rest of the parly moved .away. Quietly withdrawing the bomb from his pocket, but. without slipping out the safety-pin, he. suddenly brought the object clown with a tremendous whack upon the skull of his guard. The German dropped like a log and "Tommy" then took to his hcols. Ho had not gone far when ho came upon another German patrol. Challenged to surrender, he stood still and allowed the enemy to approach him close. Then, suddenly poising tho grenade, he hurled it right into tho • midst of tho little group. There was an immediate explosion and tho gallant soldier continued his sprint, returning safely to his cheering comrades.