"WE ARE ALSATIANS."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 138, 28 January 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

"WE ARE ALSATIANS."

ill iW TWO (.KRMAN [)KSKHTKII< .s.\\ li!) SIX iII'NDHKi) I'RKNCH. A dramata : m ident v.lie h on urre I r, . eiitiy i - i eiated in the Pan- " Jour n ,!." k:nl\ mil' morning l"e (Jen...!"appo.irod before the first line of r'rcilrh trcn. les ami «'tii a hound n :uhi 1 tiiem. -houliici. "We are A'satian-. with the ie.il Al-atiaii accent. The\ a.-k.d Lo -pi ak to an 0fh.0.. and «"i re t;;keii to the commander, to V. 1101.1 till V -:■ d. " I.e.UV tllOs,' I l *'' treiiehe- at olli e. 11l live minutes li> -v u ill he blown up." The otfii ei . m-t know ing « hot her thi- v. a - not m i.c new trick on the part of the enemy, was- puzzled a- to how to act ; and i ventually. moved by the evident sincerity of the Al-aiiam. gave order- for h - -ia hundred men in the two trem ] '- i - to ev;si uatc them. Only iu-t had tiie la-t man left v.lmn n ten-Pi.- explu-ioii took plate, and tiOU men bad es. ap< J death.