CHEERFUL WOUNDED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 311, 11 October 1915, Page 3

CHEERFUL WOUNDED.

FROM THE AVESTERN FRONT. Seme of the conquerors and the conquered from the recent battle at La Pcntenelle arrived at a small station near Paris to-day. There were 260 German prisoners. The two convoys arrived within a few moments of one mother. The wounded were radiant. “AVhat do you think of it?” said a youngster of tibe 1915 class; “our battalion alone captured 440 prisoners. You should have seen how they looked when they came out of their holes; they wepe given. Their eyes were wide open from terror, and they joined their hands together to implore mercy. “I’ve received my whack, that’s certain” —shewing a shoulder traversed by a bullet —“but. I’m jolly pleased to have been in the show.” A sergeant, who was twice wounded in the right leg. said that the attack was carried cut with remarkable dash. “Our men were so happy to be active.” ho s ald, “that when the signal for the attack was given we had the :yea test difficulty in curbing their ardour. The enemy was so extremely surprised by the suddenness of our offensive that h.o only offered a feeble resistance; it wag only in Pie village that we encountered. a strong opposition. The Bodies as is their habit, were s.fpcn,T;l|V fortified in the houses; we had to carry cut siege operations always difficult because of tea machine guns, but soon guns ind gaum me, weie in our hands.” An adjutant stated: “The men were absolutely boiling over with impatience to get at the fee.” The prisoner seemed worn out and stupid. They only woke up when Iread and butter and coffee were served to them. As the train of wounded moved out of the station a train carrying reinforcements to the front came in. The troops'bheered each other; they were all in excellent spl its and joked. The train moved on to the sound of the ‘Marseillaise.’ The prisoners listened in silence.