"KAMERAD ! KAMERAD!"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3153, 3 August 1917, Page 7

"KAMERAD ! KAMERAD!"

WHEN FORT DOITAUMONT WAS TAKEN. Francois Salvan,!the Franco-Noumean soldier of tho First Colonial Regiment, who was the fourth man to enter lol't Douaumont at Verdnn when it was retaken by the French from the Germans last year, Teceived an ovation at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, when ho was announced as tho "drapeen -bearer on the stage. This burly Noumean, who ■bears his honours modestly, stated to a Dominion reporter that the advance party to enter tho fanions Fort Douaum'ont were bombers, and they wero about to hurl destruction among tho terrified German holders when somo -01) capitulated with upraised hands,, and piteous cries of "Kamerad! • Kamerad. to the four men who led tho French attack. Not onlv did the Germans hold up their hands, but a jrumber of them pulled out photographs of their wives and children, and held them ut> for the on-coming French to see that they, as maTried men, should be spared, and, ot ooursc. tha bombs were r,ot thrown, ,and tho men's live.? were spared. Tho incident of the photographs is just another touch born of the German siudy of psychology. They perfestly well that the French are great home-lovers and deeply sentimental, and. therefore, though two hundred to four, they deemed it best to sue for morcy rather than continue the struggle. Can anyone see the Germans exercising such clemency in the heat of a clos-foiight fight? heat of a .close-fought fight?