Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-27
|RCH and BAVAR|ANS
use SPRING IN COMMON
Truce Is Made, Which Later
Develops Into Sort of
Friendship.
N TAKE COFFEE TOGETHER
IS Arc Warned Against Treachery
Prussians-Sergeant Maginot
warded Medal for Bravery I'm
landing or Attack OF Germans.

RIS, December 2G.-An aviator
has Just returned from a part OF
ront whore the French are or were
sed by Bnvarian troops. tells of
Extraordinary sort OF entonto over
arlnS between tho lines.
is tho only spring Of fresh water
le neighborhood. At first by tacit
lent French and Bavarians drew
pr at different hours without mo-
ng one another. Gradually they
mo moro friendly, chose the Same
., exchanged the time Of day and
3ed ono another tobacco. They even
coffee together sometimes. All the
10 the Germans regularly destroyed
Tense work which the French regu-
reconstructed day by day. and
French destroyed redoubt which
Germans az often rebuilt.
20 day two German officers. un-
ed, left the trenches. and held up
hands. They were met by two
Pch officers, to whom they proposed
each side should leave the other
n5oymsnt OF his works. for 1t was
rd to go on indefinitely destroying
Same construction.
Pone," said tho Frenchmen.
fgcd newspapers. and ono Of the
irianB, said: Our time Ia up. We
not know what troops will take
place. but II they are Prussians /
SO you not to trust them" by the
he added, III they are Prussians,
Will let you know by sticking bits
khito paper on tho barbed wire de-
ing our trenches"
rgeapt Maginot, who Ia an OK
or Secretary Of State. deputy for
le-Due. and ono OF the tallest mon
france--he stands over six feet, six
es--was recently awarded the mill :
r medal for conspicuous bravery,
Is now lying In hopsital at Yer
gradually recovering from his
| severe wounds.
Maginot. who knows every inch
Lorraine, commanded a section of
nteer scouts. On November 3.
o recommending a wood with party
ess than a score OF men. he was
|ushed by an outpost OF German In
5rymen, who opened fro killing
OF the scouts. Sergeant Maginot.
eat Of his men. As tho Germans
hnced he fired. and two dropped.
fediately afterwards he himself was
by "A bullet which shattered his
fh bone. He fell. but picked him
up again. fired his remaining three
four shots. and managed to retreat
10 fifty yards under hail Of bull
Hero sound shot took effect.
time I'm the kneo-cap Of tho other
Still he struggled on. and finally
khed a rock. behind which the sur
PRS of his little band had taken
1ge.
was then 8 o'clock In tho morn
and for the whole OF that day tho
mans va!nly strove to surround the
|dful of Frenchmen. Four or Ave
es they got within forty or ffty
|is. but as often they had TO retire
b 4 loss OF six or seven men,
|ag!not and his men In this way held
until dark, when they were able
|crawl towards the French lines.
men attempted 20 carry the
lnded sergeant by using their rifles
b strctchcr. but his gigantic bulk
too much for them. and at last
y had TO drag him along by hands.
Fpitc OF the agony he was enduring.
Maginot did not lose conscious
b, and when help arrived and the
mans were once moro pursuing. he
tinued to give his orders.
< the little party OF eighteen, FIVE