AN EXCITING GAME.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 13, 17 January 1916, Page 3

AN EXCITING GAME.

The cunning of the Germans in tempting our Tommies into the firing line is referred to in. a letter from a Sheffield officer who has been touring the trenches in France. I observed 'a on a staff, he writes, about four feet high, near the German trenches, which here were about 80 yards from our own. I asked what was the meaning of it, and wa s told it was 'a draw; that a few days ago some of our men, seeing a flag flying there in broad daylight, crawled out across the No Man’s Land, took clown the flag, and, springing up, reached our trenches in safety with it. The Germans opened fire on them, but missed the lot. The enemy then erected this flag, to try to tempt our men again, but the officers have strictly borbidden any such attempts, as it i s known that the Germans have a machine-gun trained on the spot, waiting for the daring Britishers. No more news —we can’t rest for suspense.