The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
INTREPID GERMAN . TELLS HOW HE WON l CROSS IN THE FIELD
Entered Rheims in Disguise and Secured Valuable Inf0rmation-Captured
 in Battle Along Yser

Northern France, December 19. (Special)--One of the men lost to the German army. a wounded captive, in the tremendous effort to take Tpres
 was Lieutenant Gustave Schultz. among the first of the Teuton warriors to re- ceive the iron cross from the hands of the Kaisers son, Prince Eitel Fritz.
 He carried it in small leatlier case
 attached to q chain around his neck, and is probably the first German pris- oner with this decora tion to reach Eng land
 The story that he had to tell while in hospital shows that the Kaiser set his heart on Calais.
 Lieutenant Schultz stated that after he served five years in the Prussian army he became a military instructor at the Potsdam school. and played foot ball and became an international player In the German Football association. He is now 31 a tall, handsome. we'll built fellow-the sort of man to in- spire confidence.
 The German staff soon found that his qualities in the leadership of men were unusual and during the mighty invasion of France to the Marne ne was given charge of 15o picked athletes for special service requiring physical abil- ity and intrepidity. His first special work was at Rheims.
 The French were in possession of the famous champagne city. In order to secure reliable information of the French position Lieutenant Schultz. with 10 of his 15o men, all of whom spoke French perfectly. dressed them selves as French peasants, and by night boldly entered Rheims They stayed here all the next day, gaining information of the utmost value to the German headquarters staff, and a. night every man safely rejoined the German lines.
 They communicated all that they had discovered, and Prince Litel Fritz was so pleased that on the spot he be- slowed upon the daring Schultz the iron cross.
 Following this he led his 90 men in three separate assaults made by the German army at Rheims, and although the German losses were heavy he came through with his devoted band sf ath- lttSS dihioSt llltdtt.
 From the Aisne the war was trans ferred to the Yser. There was a call for picked men to storm Dixmude and Nieuport, and Schultz and his man were chosen for the special task. There in the frghtful holocaust his followers diminished. His last impression of that battle-ground was of a drowned country strewn with the flotsam of German, French and Belgian bodies, horses, guns, wagons, all jumbled to- gether in a dreadful mo mans land. When the order was given for the attack on Ypres 1t was in these terms Issued as an order to the Imperial troops:
 Prom Arras up to the sea German army corps for number of days have been engaged in violent but victorious fighting. For many weeks now 'hc German army has been battling hard for every foot of territory The time for fresh advance to decisive victory is near"
 This was the preliminary to the | Ypres in which the Twenty seventh | regiment, reserve corps, failed and suf- | fered terribly The assault was made | early in the morning. and the whole | corps was decimated by British artil- | lery fire and driven back overwhelmed | with disaster.
 call was then made upon the best of the kaisers army, and again Lieu tenant Schultz and what remained of his men took the field, this time galnst the British. He took part in the fa- nous final, and what was designed to be overwhelming assault. With his men he found himself attacking trenches along the road leading from Ypres to the German main position at Rowlers. He was in front of the caargc. and the oncoming endorsements were so heavy that they were all driven in mad mass right over the advanced British positions. There was he said, no stopping the overwhelming tide ex- cept by the hail of shells and bullets which came fro mthe British positions. In this he was hit. and fell beneath the feet of his comrades who raced rnadly on over his body. He was only hit in the arm, and managed to rise when he found before him the British infantry. still in their trenches firing steadily and surely at the German charge now behind the British trenches.
 Immediately he rose a British sol der pointed his rifle at him, but some one shouted. don't fire" and he went a prisoner into the British trenches. l while the charge went on, and his | comrades were caught between two deadly fires, firm which few escaped.