A GOOD STORY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 112, 14 January 1915, Page 3

A GOOD STORY

BY A BRITISH LANCER. The London correspondent of the j Sydney Daily Telegraph tells a good I story of scouting— a story h e heard from the lips of a returned Lancer — one of the 9th Lancers —who swore it was true. He was out scouting before the British advance in the Champagne country, and got lost. He had not the slightest idea cf the way back to camp, and decided to hide in a neighbouring wood till something happened. He had not been long in the wood when he ran acrcss a trooper of the Scots Greys, similiarly lest. They elected to hide together, for the Germans were alj around them. Soon a party of German infantry was seen approaching their wood; they decided that the Lancer should go forward and try to bluff them to surrender, while the Scots Grey man covered him with the rifle fire. The Germans—3o they j were—surendered at once, saying they were dying of hunger. The Lancer collected their rifles, threw them all I down a neighbouring well, and then j the two cavalrymen marched the prisoners off. After a short while a] German sergeant among them, who spoke English, said to the Lancer: "Look here, do you know where you are?" "Yes," was the short answer, j "Oh, all right," returned the German. "You're steering straight for our lines. If you let me lead this party, I will take you to the Scots Greys' camp." In the quandary, the two cavalrymen consented, and the German was as good as his word. The two Englishmen were loudly cheered by their comrades on their arrival with such a batch of prisoners—all captured by two men. During the night one of the Germans escaped from custody, and there .was great anxiety next morning; but it all came right that evening—the German returned, bringing nine more hungry Prussians with him!