HUNT THE SNIPER

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1915, Page 5

HUNT THE SNIPER

AN EXCITING GAMS A private in the Yorks Hegiment., writing to a friend, says.—As you can imagine, we have plenty of excitement Here, and the snipers occupy a great deal of our attention. The other day we had been harassed by some of these gentry, and it was difficult to locate them. An officer and two of us set out in the dusk to try to find where the shots were coming from, and after considerable trouble we noticed that some of them were directed from an old, well-battered cottage. So we commenced to stalk our man.

Separating, we agreed to go to certain points, and then fire when our quarry showed himself. Ho utis very artfully concealed. Getting within easy range of the cottage, i was about to lire when I stumbled into a large hole ii) the ground, full of broken bottles and other things suggestive of a forsaken home. After I got out I could see that the sniper had observed us, and he began firing at one and then at the other. We escaped the (bullets, and the officer and the other private rushed up to the house. iWe thought the sniper was ours, but he leaped from the upper part of the cottage and bolted in the direction of the German lines. He was in civilian clothes The three of us let him have it, with the result that there is now one sniper the less.