SNIPING SNIPERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 25 August 1916, Page 5

SNIPING SNIPERS.

—© A Yorkshire officer, who was disabled by shrapnel wounds in the thigh tells gleefully of the tale of the bag of Boeho snipers he was able to make whilst lying in a shallow sap. His men had gone oh ahead. ‘'Suddenly,” he says, "I saw a Boche officer come climbing cautiously out of a big dugout that we’d put the six bombs in. Ho was a captain. He had a bomb in one hand and a rifle and bayonet in the other. He snuggled down against a gap in their parados, near the dugout, and bedded his rifle comfortably for firing at our chaps in his second line. You can bet I was glad I had my rifle and plenty of ammunition. I believe in the good old Service rifle. So I got a beautiful bead on this chap, and a second later he was—l wonder wlvferc dead Bodies go? I charged my breach again, and no sooner done than my next target bobs up—a lieutenant. I got him while ho was looking at his captain. Well, to cut if short, two more lieutenants came up from that same dug-out, making in all three lieutenants and one captain, and I got 'em all.

"And then a private came up, with never a weapon of any sort in his hands, and the fear of God in his white face. "You’re a Boche,” I thought, ‘probably a badman but certainly a Boche and you ought to be shot, but you’ve got nothing in your silly hands.” It was too much like a sitting bird, you know. Couldn t tliau-ao-p it. "Here! ' X shouted at him. And do you know, h*"1ell just the same as if I’d shot him.”