GRIM EPISODES.
There were many grim episodes. A badly wounded Yorkshireman. crawling in the wood, passed a German crouching, also on his hands and krees, blood oozing. The German started at the Britisher, who crawled on. The German raised himself, still kneeling, and fired a revolver at the lad. He immediately dropped down on his hands and crawled on A British comrade chanced to be a witness of,, the murder. A rifle shot ripped through the trees, and the German crawled no more. Another German surrendered. As a Yorkshireman approached to make him a prisoner, he pulled out the detonator of the bomb and raised hits hand. The Yorkshireman's aniek thrust with his bayonet so terrified the German that he forgot to throw the bomb, which blew him to pieces The Yorl shireman waa erinjured.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 10 July 1916, Page 5
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135GRIM EPISODES. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 10 July 1916, Page 5
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