The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-06-05

afternoon the Germans are 10 charge.
Don't cheer
II isn't the French tcmncrampnt to
sit stlll In trench aud walt for The
other fellow 10 come The FrcnChman
must always meet that other fellow
half wny lie delights IN charge
this Frenrhman The bayouet Is his
especial tool There IL no doubt OF
that He feels that I'm charge he Is
on even terms with the German-H M
matter how many more men and guns
the Germans may have Az the day
wore on toward I o'clock the men Of
the 1921 grew restless. Corporal 1T.
tOu doesn't know who gave the order
10 charge when o'clock came. lie
doesn't know that any one did He
thinks, perhaps the men Of the 1921
Just climbed over the enlbankment
and anticipated the enemy.
1T was very strange" said Corporal
l.ltou NO shots were fired ut Us. We
raced over the one hundred metres
Ike schoOlbOys, calling to each other.
We came to the wire acknowledgements.
aud the machine guns did not open.
We could not understand | thought
some new German trick had been pre-.
pared FOR us But we raced on"
SO they came to the top Of the Ger.
man ambankment and peered over
Inside the trench strange sight met
their eyes The Germans were dane.
ing around-"like bears IN pit
laughing and shouting to each other
Not one had gun IN his hands. Cor
pOral Litou held his hands over his
head and, although lame Of the left
leg, knowingly lmpersonated the antics
" the drunken soldiers IN the pit
They had been dOped--says Corporal
| litou-Ou II mixture Of ether and
rum, 10 serve them for the charge The
French later found bottles full Of the
mixture.
Not Que man resisted" said Cor
poral Lion They died lnughlng
] Chained So They Could Not Run
No one asked how many Germans
were killed I'm that trench. No one
thought OF doubling Corporal l.ltou',
story Somehow, one could not doubt
that pleasant, laughing, gay boy Of
| nineteen, who told Of thrusting hi,
hayonet through the middle Of tive
| drunken Germans so that they dlet
laughing He " the sort Of boy whC
compels belief Having heard him tel
II, one would swear 10 the truth o.
his story but some one did ask
after II moment NJ silence whether
any prisoners had been taken. Cor
poral Iltou said that two had been
These twO-fortunate men-were 10
Der.
They were chained to their mitrall
leuse," said Corporal Lltou. THE,
could not get away so they were MOI
made drunk.
That, for the moment, shook N,
faith Of one auditor, at least On,
had heard before that men were some
times given stiff drink before
charge, To make them reckless " IN,
certain death ahead. Now and thel
the English papers say that gunner
have been found dead, chained I,
their guns Hut the English paper
have said many things IN this war
So that the story was repeated TO N
officer " the French staff He con
flrmed the truth Of Corporal Lltout
story.
u have seen men myself" said thi
staff captain. chained 10 their mi
trallleuse The chain goes about thel
waist, and Is attached 10 the gun b!
n swivel Live or die, they Canno
get away"
So there Il the story OF the Ger
mans In the drunken trench No doub
Il letter addressed 10 Corporal LltOu
In care of the Old England store
would obtain further details, II he 4
still alive when the letter reache
Paris Becnusc he - being nlneteeI
wears old and gay-thrust two through
the stomachs, so that they died laugh
ing