INCIDENTS OF THE WAR

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 August 1917, Page 3

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR

'A German found in one of our support trenches said he had lost his way, ‘‘You’re all right, sonny,” remarked a genial Irishman; “your way is in the cage. ’ ’ A German in a shell-hole pointed his rifle at an advancing Canadian Tommy. The latter quick as lightning, jumped into another shell-hole and covered the Hun with his own rifle. “Merci, kamerad-” shouted the baffled German and the Tommy was so amused at his change of front that he spared him and told him to join a passing gang of prisoners. During the fighting the British shellfire has been so violent that unharmed prisoners when brought in have remained dazed for hours. When they did speak, it was to make wild rambling statements. They admitted that £Jie hope of winning on land was no longer entertained, but said they had heard “much good” about the U-boats.