Grand Forks daily herald., 1915-05-27
GERMANS DRUCCtD
TO GAIN COURAGE
Men Are Doped Before Max
ing Charge Says French
Corporal.
(Bye Herbcrt Corey.l

Vi hIpaSi luc GIOmaCn.5..
he thrust with his cane at the mid
die of the mild clerk in the old Eng
land store ON the boulevard. The
fniid clerk grunted involuntarlly, but
ara not abate his air of thralled at
lcntion.
Didn't they fight back" he asked.
Ihey couldn't, ,'osaid Corporal Lii
tou: They were drunk"
Corporal Litou told of an episode
OF .he lrenches. "A most prepossess-
ins youth. this Corporal Litou., Not
yet nineteen years .old.-he need not
nave gone to war, until the class of
1917 We're called-and slender and
gay and absurdlyssshy. Ten months
ago he had been tho boy in the tailor.
ing department of Old England
perfect little devil of boy"
ALWAYS up to something. Then he
would creep around behind the coun-
ters TO ms place. so that I could not
catch him. Then came the war, and
he volunteered"
Pretty soon he will be going back
10 the trenches. Thanks to various
shrapnel holes in his slim young BODY
he has had respite since the middle
Oh March. But he can walk again
now. In few weeks he can walk
without the cane. One understan nds
,hat Corporal Litou would prefer to
DC here in the tailor shop. The pretty
Sirls OF the establishment smile at
from Corporal Litous shoulders that
there is a work which needs doing
III was the fault of the Germans
mat they were bayoneted. said Cor
poraI l-iton. Four days before the
mon Of the 162d regiment had been
ID their trenches. On watch, of
course, but the day had been quiet.
Half of them were asleep. The others
were squatted in little groups, gos-
siplng, or mending clothes, or smok.
ing the abominable little cigarette that
FRANCE seems to favor. Suddenly
IRON the German trench one hundred
metres distant eight men came. The
sciltflcs on guard at the portfolios call
ed out: See what comes.' said they.
Mgbt Laughing Germans.
-, For the eight men had no rifles.
Ihey walked slowly, with their hands
III their overcoat pockets. AS they
walked they talked and laughed to
eaeh other. No yshots were fred at
procedure. - e
"A flag of truce, perhaps" said the
men of the 162d.l ''Or maybe there
If news of peace that we have not
heard 1t is certainly not an attack"
so inc eight men walked up to the !
very mp OF the French trenches. said
-~'sOo. <Ns altSA CdulE nearer |
nearer they called out. ...comarade,
comarade!" The; men Of the 1sad
came nearer together. to look at these |
men, through the portfolios and to
wonder what }messase they could
bring No ons suspected thatT{they
Me'ean ton care7sv. a wafliks mission; They wers
too too Idle: lass sS 4. IS 8ns,x ,n 80 sg.rTed'
They ipoIad 49, e u ant ts,,. i trebcb..
es," said cafporG IIdfus sntiinE a.
us and Saying fcaS3eEde.as,. And then I
each pulled his haYitE from his over
ea@1; e@r nisn aheg anS ti,rew ran he bombs among
{. Thdfe were meR killed--maly Of
fhem-by these bombs. In the sur
prise and CONSERVATION the eight Ger.
mans returned safely to their trenches.s
The men of the 1850 swore to be re-
Fenged-but by honorable means.
men need no longer call 'camaradc,
camarade' to us. We shall give them
no more quarter. Remember that
when we attack. siThe bayonet-al-
ways the bayonet'f
Days passed in the monotony of
t., the tt trenches. The ,monotony of war.
artillery shelled the other trenches.
Men were killed and men were wound
cd Between times they gossiped and
mended their clothes and pulled at
their abominable little cigarettes. It
was very dull. Until their captain
came one day with good news.
Victims of Ether.
"A prisoner has been captured"
said ne: HE says that at 4 o'clock
this afternoon the Germans are to]
charge. Don't cheer"
1t isn't the French temperament to
sit still in trench and wait for the
other fellow to come. The French
man must always meet that other fell
low half way. He delights in a charge, |
this Frenchman. The bayonet is hts |
especial tool. There ia no doubt of |
that. He feels that in a charge he is
on even terms with the German-no
matter how many more men and guns
the German may have AS the day
the 1921 grew restless. CORPORAL Ii !
tou doesn't know who gave the order |
to charge when o'clock came. Hell
doesn't know that any one did. He
thinks. perhaps, the men Of the 162d |
just climbed over the embankment |
and anticipated the enemy.
ut was very strange" said Corporal |
l1ton. No shots were fired at us. |
We raced over the one hundred
metres like schoolboys. calling at each |
other. We came to the wire entangle-
ments, and the machine guns did not
open. We could not understand. 4
thought some new German trick had |
been prepared for US. But we raced
on.
So they came to tho top Of the Ger
man embankment and peered over
Inside the trench strange sight met |
their eyes. The Germans were dane.
Ing around-'Iike bears in a pitt
laughing and shouting to each other. |
Not one had gun in his hands. Cor
poral Litou held his hands over hia
head and. although lame of the left |
leg, knowingly impersonated the antics !
of the drunken soldiers in the pit. |
They had been doped-says Corporal |
Litou-on mixture Of ether and rum, |
to nerve them for the charge. The |
French later found bottles full of the |
mixture.
Not one man resisted" said Cor
Chained So They Could Not Run.
were killed in that trench. No one |
thought of doubling Corporal LAtou's
story. Somehow. sone could not doubt
that pleasant, laughing, gay boy of
nineteen, who told Of thrusting his |
bayonet through the n1idd1es of two
drunken Germans. SO that they died
laughing. He Is the sort of boy who |
compels belief. Having heard him |
tell 1t, one would swear to the truth |
of his story. But some one did ask
after moment Of silence-whether |
any prisoners had been taken. Cor |
poral Litou said that two had been.
These two - fortunate men--were
"They wer. chained to their mi
trailleuse." said corporat Ltou. 'arhsy
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