Evening star., 1915-02-13
HEROIC DEEDS TOLD
| IN TRENCH LETTERS
How English Soldiers Risk
/. Their Lives to Save
~ Comrades.
DYING GERMANS TIP
/ SAVES BRITISH FORCE
Officer Blown to Pieces by Shell as
He Urges His Men to
in Fight.
ecIa1 cerrespendenee of The ,.ar.

Special Correspondence Of The star.
LONDON. January 3o-Alore letters
from soldiers at the front. and front al
WAYS means trenches in this war. Pm
yate j. Addison of the Coldstream Guards,
formerly a Liverpool corporation park
keeper, tells more about German snpers
methods.
.Imagine us up to our waists i'll water.
We are on the watch, and the Germans
are 100 wards AWAY entrenched just like
US All is still and dark Then suddenly
the whole countryside is lit up by what
are called iarelights. which the Germans
fire out of pistols. The Germans fire at
you as soon as the light shows your head
They fire these flares every half hour
This goes on all night. Then when day
breaks We keep down and just snipe
little if they show their heads and when
night comes we go back to the village
through the communication trenches and
other troops take our places for twenty
four hours.
Private II. Edwards tells the follow
ing adventure of patrol:
Marrow Escape.
81 was on patrol duty one night when
the German trenches We're about go
N9rGS away We crdWteu dlOiles OH Oui
hands and knees and within few yards
Of the cnenys lines our sergeant noticed
some one on the ground. We suspected
II German scout, and the sergeant
made up his mind 20 find out He crawled
along and reaching the figure found
II was the dead body OF a Sikh soldier.
1t was a most unusual md. for the lndlan
soldiers never. II possible, leave their
wounded or uead behind.
The sergeant sIgnaied to us to go for
ward. We went to within ten Yards from
The German trenches. We could hear
them talking. one OF tie German soldiers
must have been digging, for we nearly
burst out laughing when We heard him
Sruntins over his hard work. Just then
the moon came out, and We lay perfectly
still, expecting every moment TO be spot
ted Nothing happened, however, and
eventually We dragged the body into a
narrow ditch and covered it with earth.
we got back safely that night, but il was
a miracle
IriVate Give u. Hale. London Rifle
Brigade, describes two exciting escapes:
W hen was hit my first impression
was thdt both legs had gone. 1t was a
long piece of shell about foot long
lhat struck me at the back of the knee
out fortunately II was spent or il would
nave taken both legs off. i had a long
crawl before | reached place of safety
but l was finally landed at the Duchess
ot Westminster Hospital. The duchess
attended me. and gave me a special
brand of cigarettes.
My cap. which l lost. had bullet
mole right through from front to back
one day L was going for rations and
the communication trenches were in
such d condition that L risked going
out IN the open l was just going back
with a box o. bully beef on nv back
.nd a light let down on the box. |
cropped the box and crouched down be-
hind IT, and, although there was a hail
storm of bullets, was not hit
Caught a JSniper.
one day We caught German sniper
who was sniping at us from behind
dressed in British uniform. His legs
were tied and he was shot,
Private c. Howard. Stalybridge terri
toriais, frost-bite victim. gives pic
ture of trench hardships:
II was glad before we got into the
trenches that / was tall Che stands six
feet TWO inches). because the shorter
ihen sometimes fell into holes fun of
water, which l was able to stride over
But when / got into the trenches I
wished ! had been little one, AS | had
10 stoop down all the time. When we
got i'll the trenches we were under a
heavy fire.
We afterward got into a farm. which
had been sheiled. for d few hours sleep
At . O'Clock in the morning they awoke
us. and we had 10 continue our Journey
70 the reserve trenches. We got under
straw and under hedges and in bitches
70 keep from aeroplane observation
That morning the Germans shelled all
around us. and you could see COWS ran-
ming about the fields and being killed"
Tip Saved English.
A private OF the Royal Highlanders in
hospital at Dover says:
Il was helping with the wounded one
day when one German whose wounds I
rad dressed up seemed to take fancy