The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-06-05
Germans Dugged To Gain Courage
For Charge Sweas French Corpora
BY Herbe ri Corey
Copyright 1915 by Herbert Corey.

PARIS May 27-"I know got
two" said Corporal Iitou This way
through the stomach
He thrust with his cane At the mid.
die " the mild clerk In the uld Eng
land store on the boulevard The
mild clerk gruutrd myuuntarily. but
did not uhatc his air OF thralled at
tentiun
Didn't they fight back" he asked.
They couldn't sah Corporal 1t.
tuu They were drunk"
Corporal Lituu told Of an episode ~
the trrurhc, \ most prcpossessing
youth this Corporal Iitou. Not vet
nineteen years old he ueed not have
gone tu war until the class " 1917
were cullrd-uud slender aud gay aud
ahsurdly shy Ten months ago he had
been the toy In the tailoring depart.
mrnt ~ Old England
a perfect little devil of boy.
said the mild clerk. enthusiastically
Always mp 10 something Then hc
would creep around behind the couu,
ter, tQ his place, 80 that | could not
catch htm Then came the war, and
he volunteered
Pretty soon ne will be going back
tu the trenches Thanks 10 various
shrOpucl holes In his slim young body
he has had a respite since the middle
" March But he can walk again now
In few weeks he can walk without
the cane One understands that Cor
pual litou would prefer 10 be here IN
the tailor shop. The pretty girls Of
the establishment smile NJ him rnvlsh
iugS hut one understands from Cor
porul Iitou's shoulders that there is
q work which needs doing
| Il was the fault of the Germans
that they were payoneted. said Cor
poral litou Four days before tst
men ~ the 1921 regiment had beer
IN their trenches On watch, of course
hut the day had been quiet Half OF
/ them were asleep The others were
sQunttrd In little groups. gosslping. ol
| mcndlug clothes or smoking the
/ uhomiuHble little cigarette that Franc,
seems to favor Suddenly from IN,
German trench one hundred metre,
distant eight men came. The scntrle,
4 on guard at the portfolios called out
See what comes said they.
Eight Laughing Germans
For the eight men had no rifles
They walked slowly, with their hand,
In their oyercoat pockets As the,
walked they talked and laughed {,
each other No shots were fired nj
them from behind II was puz2lln.
l procedure
"A flag " truce, perhaps" said N,
men Of the 1921 "Or maybe thert
Is news NJ peace that We have no
heard II IS certainly not an attack
so the eight men walked up 10 IN,
very llp of the French trenches. sai,
Corporal Lltou. As they came nearc
they called out "Camarad,. cana
rade" The men of the B2nd cam
nearer together 10 look at these mel
through the portfolios and to wondc
what message they could hiring. y,
one suspected that they were ON
wnrllke mission They were too care
less too obviously unormed, too idb
IN their saunterlng
'Thpy looked over into our trench
es, said Corporal lilou, Smiling a
~ and saying 'Camarnde And thrl
each pulled his hands frOm his over
coat pockets In each hand was
bomb They threw the bombs amonl
our men aud ran
There were men klled-many q
them by these bombs. In the sur
prise and CONSERVATION the eight Ger
mans returned safely 10 their trench
es The men Of the lG2nd swore to b,
reycnged hut by honorable means.
only said our captain, "thes,
men need no longer call 'Camnrade
camarndc To us. We shall give then
no more quarter Remember tina
when we attack The hayonet -- al
ways the hayonet"
Days passed IN the monotony " IN
trenches The muuony of war She'll
fsll among them The French artil
lery shelled the other trenches. Me-
were killed and men were wounded
Between times they gossiped am
mended their clothes and puffed a
their ahomlnRhlc little cigarettes |
was very dull untll their capital
came one day with good news.
Victims Of Ether
"a prisoner has been captured sal
h0 "He says that at 4 o'clock mi