Evening star., 1914-10-24

gan. R. F, A. says: 'Thsrs are many
last night, when we beat the Germans
badly. Their dead lay SO thick at one
point In front Of our trenches that We
couldn't get our gun: across. because
we were too squeamtsh about riding
over their dead. in case there should
be wounded men mixed up with them.
Every stream for miles around is
were thrown In by their mates. but In
other cases they were wounded men
who crawled to the river to drink and
fell in.
Men Drown Themselves.
Il think there's no doubt that soma
OF their wounded deliberately drown
themselves rather than bear the agony
Of their wounds. The Germans are ter
ribly cailous about their wounded We
came on . chap Of theirs who had been
had to be abandoned. He could not
extricate himself. and he simply had
to lie there with two loathsome vul-
lures waiting to nibble at him when the
We sec them we always kill them. but
tiefelds."
A second lieutenant OF the I'd Bat
-
ing to his mother at the end of Sep
tember. says that he went quite un-
expectedly and unprepared into "our
r nr.e big ,,. battle and nsye, thought ia
killed and wounded. Two officers were
killed. one very great pal Of mine:
hve wounded. including Maj. -. shot
In the arm: but I think he WIFI be all
right. We captured zoo Germans in
that light. Since that day We have been
sheiled necessarily by their artillery:
but were fortunate up till yesterday.
we lost nifty or 80 more men: fve
more ofncers killed. It absolutely
knocked us all over We have only
six officers left in the whole battalion
a company. II has been a miracle that
I myself have SO far escaped. While
there's life there's hope. I have not
about three weeks. and we have been
wet through and through night after
night"
Wounded at Aisne Battle.
Private G. Sims of the 1st Battalion.
South Wales Borderers. relates he was
wounded at the battle Of the Aisne.
1T was almost impossible for q wound
ed man to get back from the firing line
without being riddled." he said. 81
stayed in the trench until five in the
shrapnel bursting all over the place
and raining bullets. I determined to
try to get back somehow. rolled down
onto road. crawled along again for
in with some stretcher-bearers, who
carried me to a doctor"
Sergeant J. F. Woodcock of the lst
West Yorkshire Regiment describes
how they were called upon at midnight
during the battle OF the Aisne to meet
an attack. Thousands of the enemy
came forward, holding up a white flag.
I'VE waited" he said. until they got
them it, We absolutely moved them
down, and they were so surprised that
their little game had been spotted
that they turned and ran as hard as
rows and had some grub. although 1t
was raining hard. and we were sub
jected to a heavy shell fire. and slept
until the fatal morning of the goth.
About I o'clock we were called upon
to advance about 200 yards to a line of
very small trenches. but the Germans
had the range exactly. and they moved
US down like sheep as soon as we
moved. I was shot from seven yards
range
Saw Pitiful Sights.
I'VE saw some pitiful sights as re-
CARDS poor French people who had to
leave their homes" says Private q.
Howes of the Essex regiment. 1T Is
very hard to see old people. gray-head-
ed and bent with age. hobbling along
with their sticks. and country carts
loaded with two or three families.
with their cows tied to the back of the
carts, and very often as they look back
they see their poor old homes on hre.
1t Is very hard. No wonder the Ger
mans and French are such bitter en-
emies."
"a few days ago I was going along .
road and stopped to pull another lorry
out of a ditch" says c. s. N. S. Lyons
of the army service corps. when twen-
ty-f1ve Germans came out and surren-
dered to US. They had plenty of rides
and ammunition. but no food. I gave
them a box of biscuits. and they went
mad with delight: they were almost
starving. We were only six. The Ger
man officer gave me a small knife and
a coin-5 marks-eQual to S. We took
them to camp and handed them over"
L. H. MOORE. =.