The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-11-07
NOT A GOOD
SPORTSMAN, SAYS A
CANADIAN SOLDIER
German Is Not q Gentlemanly
Fighter; Enemy's Wounded
Dead Found Stabbed Through
and Through With Bayonets.
Special Correspondence 10 The Herald

Third Battalion of Toronto. for 81.
Lieutenant Simmic Il In charge OF the
British Recruiting Mission here.
The young officer knows Fritz quite
Intimately. an acquaintance that has
SCARED him up considerably. Six she'll
fragments passed through his liver and
stomach. They were small fragments,
else he would not be alive today. 80
sides that he has been wounded In the
fost and the leg. and suffered a man
gled hand from a grenade. Among his
possessions is the military medal. Civ
en- hin FOR holding "a point while suf-
iering from three wounds. from .
o'clock in the morning until 4 In the
afternoon. Of the forty-eight men
who were with hun only five came
out,
Before the war Lieutenant Simmic
was In the lumber business IN Canada
with his father. At that time he was q
baseball and football athlete. Now he
is rather frail. Sometimes he thinks
his stomach wound ~ going 20 DO him
up after an. II he hadn't been an attn
lete. the doctors told him. he would
never have survived
But about Fritz. The young Cana
dian says the German soldier is not a
e"entiemantly fighter. II Is said the
Canadians will not take prisoners. That
s. not entirely true. but thu Canadians
do not place any foolish trust in Ger
man %slllautrN. This IL the reason. As
they cell the new men Just going over
II has happened that The Canadians
have lost trenches. leaving wounded
men IN thela. when they rr,nuk them
later they found their wounded dead.
stabbed through and through with
%hnyoncts Lieutenant Simmie says 30
Is murder.
Another habit " theirs n To hide be-
hind shelters and shoot up an attack
lng party ant the party H. within
range for h-and-to-hand fighting Then
Fritz throw down hiy gun and raises
hts hands with q cry ~ "Kamerad'
Kamcrod'" lie does all the damage
he ,au. refuses 20 nsht and then cries
FOR mercy.
III doesn't go very we'll says Sim
ME, TO see him blow off the top II
your pals hca daud then refuse you "A
fight by trying to call you kumcrad.
You can't get a fight cut of Fritz, man
'o man. when The numbers are ncarl,
even. 10 is an absolute fact that he
can't stand bayouct work Man for
man. the British. French and Cana.
dams are ~outnghung him We've got
he edge on him Iu every department.
I'm the beginning We fought with al
most uothinc and Diluted him back
That was AN there was to IL. He could
have gone right through then. but ne
can't ever get started again.
You can't u am, punch In hi-
WORK along the western front TODAY.
lie fights with e face a. whit, az "a.
per. There are certain Canadian units
that rave him so cowcd IN, he doesn't
dare attempt patrol work al night In
No Mans Land. II the Cano :,ans see
"a German party out they 80. up and
after them, and Fritl scoot There arr
other regiments hat are not 80 strict.
and Fritz makes a bluff AZ %patroling,
hut he doesn't near II. But Il he is OPP
posite a tough regiment he doesn't
show his head over the pdylpct The
German is not good ON patruling lie
walks with his arms stiff at his sides
rs though he were drcddinG a bullet
luy minute. The Canadians are grca;
prowlcrs, and they rather creep for-
ward They are the best trench raiG-
crs iu the game.
YOU can't AVE any respect Tor
Fritz when you meet him close up.
Hes not a good sport, and he knows 81.
OF course, were not perfection oug-
selves. I've seen our own officers who
lost their heads. but they didn't stay
M the first line long.
There was a 2~U-y,ar-uld lad with 4
majo-'s Commission-Lord knows how
he got H. They put him up IN the
front line with an attack coming on.
II wasn't his fault He'd ncvc. been
In q big show before. and he WASH,
the ,ype. II was g mistake to send
him In, \ couple OF minutes befuI
the clash he got up and deliberately
walked out I don't know what wa'
wrong with him. bat he just natural,
left. His Non started to follow him
lpari uf them did under the impress,
sion. I suppose. tina u was the thlul
tu de-. The rest uf them knew better
\ British officer drew a revolver an,
called them back and they came. The
as an example to the men, the Brit
Usher walked up and down the purapr
uutil he was h % go picces Tn
I young chap was dropped from th'
armr.
That WHY We are so Interested II
what Dol going ON uvcr there. n Il
lruud enough fine. Eeutlemaul,
chaps like tlui officer 10 is GOO
enough for the rest 81 u~ uuo a. N
curpoTais when W. had iu CIV nap
trench refused tu go back through IN
lsafr communicating trench, but 20
ran across the open ground So that h
could get buck am the quicker to
twist in the trench Co throw up u bar