HUN MURDERERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 32, 9 February 1915, Page 7

HUN MURDERERS.

PRISONERS SHOT BY GERMANS WHO BROKE THEIR WORD. How the Hermans in the first days of the battle around Vpres captured seventy British soldiers, released them, and then shot them down as they went away, was told by a colorsergeant of the Smith Wales Borderers who has been invalided home. “We wen- overpowered by numbers, and were forced to give way a lot of ground, in the course of which some seventy of our follows wore made prisoners,” he said. “Being reinforced a few hours later, we attacked again, pushing tho Germans back. Finding things too warm, they told mir fellows that it was impossible to hold them as prisoners, and they could return to their lines unmolested. Hardly, however, had onr brave comrades gone 100 yards than a fusilade of rifle fire caught them unawares, and of that seventy we managed to pick up six. Only one was able to tell of tho German officer’s broken word of honor.” The color-sergeant who related this act of treachery lost

his moustache in a curious manner. “See that scar on my right lip?” ho said. “Well, some fool German harbor gave me a close shave with part of a ‘Jack Johnson.’ It took off one side of my moustache. I toll yon it made me wild, as f could not take the other side off for days, and besides having been clipped by the Germans T was getting badly chipped by my pals.”