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Taihape Daily Times, 22 November 1917, Page 3

Tifi, HUA SPAT. THRILLING CAPTURE OF Captured a sniper! A vivid description is given of this operation in a letter from the front. "I whispered to the scout to follow us very carefully, and not too closely. We kept about six paces between us" laterally, Hankin and myself, and we advanced by inches. The edge of that sniper's hole was not sloping, but sheer; and crawling'slowly along, I struck my right hand clean over it into nothingness letting my chest down with quite an audible bump. Eight before me I heard a man's body swing round on the mud, and the sniper let out a Gera squeal. "I had ttf chance it then. The sound was so amazingly close. I when I sprang the things my hands gripped on first were not the beggar's windpipe or shoulders, as I had hoped, but his rifle.

•'lt was rather like tom-cats coming '. swear he spat. As you know, I'm rather heavy, and-I think my spring, slightly to hjs left, knocked him off his balance. He hadn't any chance. But though I got his left wrist and covered his mouth with my chest I was a bit uneasy about his right find. But Hankin pretty soon found his right hand and then we hauled him up to Ms feet. I passed his rifle to the scout, and we just marched him along the front of our wire to Stinking Sap, and so into our front trench; Hankin holding one of his arms, 1 taking the other; and the scout coming behind with the muzzle man's own rifle in the small of his back. There was no need to crawl, the night being as black as your hat; and in three or four minutes we had that sniper in front of the O.C. in the company dug-out. "I was quite nea.t, wasn't it. And all thanks' to the ingenious Hankin's careful observations and his chart. He'll get his first stripe for that, and very soon have another to keep it company, or I'm much mistaken. Snipers are worth capturing, you know, and this looked like an intelligent chap Queer thing about this sniper, he spoke English almost like a native, He had spent nine years in London* part of the time as a waiter and later as a clerk. "He had lived'at Kennington, and then in lodgings on Brixton Hill. Extraordinary, isn't it? He'd been told that London was practically in ruins and that the Zepps. had made life there impossible. He also thought that, we in France were completely cut off from England, the Channel being in the hands of the German Navy, and English isolated and rapidly starving! I» gather the Bodies in the fighting line have no notion at all of the real facts of the war."

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