IN THE ENEMY'S LINES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2868, 5 September 1916, Page 5

IN THE ENEMY'S LINES

A. OORPOBAL'S EXPERIENCES. Tho Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" writes.:—"One of tho most remarkable stories of tho war ( is that of. Corporal B, of Glass 13, who participated in a successful charge with his regiment. He wjas stunned by an ex-plosion-wWoh stripped off his uniform. Ho recovered, and took tliG uniform of a dead Bavarian, and then determined , to join -the enemy and seek information. He came upon an outpost, who was cooking at the entrance to their dug-out. He says: "They greeted mo witß amazement,' having thought that tlie Bavarian regiment to which they imagined. I was attached had been annihilated. They, were of a newly arrived Silesian regiment from Verdun, and had suffered 400 casualties while waiting in the rear. The food, despite reports, is good, and consists of sausage and vegetable soup; but tho morale, is utterly different from ours. All of them are utterly war, and complained bitterly of the had news they received from liomo, and said that tho French artillery was disgustingly barbarous. Ono declared that he would bo quite willing to allow the Allies to win if only peace would come. The remainder agreed to this, stipulating only that therosliould he no invasion of Germany. About 8 o'clock they were ordered to advance. I saw no officer. When I mentioned the- fact to a sergeant he waved hit, land backwards disgustedly." "Corporal B tells how ho underwent a terrific bombardment of the .French guns, and how tho Germans lost CO per cent, of their effectives. The corporal was carried on by the rush, forgetting his uniform, till ho was within 20ft. of a French trench, whon ho was downed by a bomb from tho hand of a comrade. Ho was wounded in the shoulder and head, but not seriously."