The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-18
CANADIAN SAYS GERMAN SOLDIER
 ISL0SlNG ) GRIT
isFritz Don't Seem to Have Any Sand in Him These
 Days" " Says Canadian

London, May 1B-Ff1tZ don't seem .e so s ss sa ss sise %sse sesss ss qays. Sags: in 1916.s eafd private of the Caxia- dian ExpesdhtSonary force recently re- turned from the front in France. "One o6 them whom we captured along with a party that was making real Hin denbmxg advance to the rear in xzUufbEe time sadd to me-
 ~ ~Thtse war no good at all We fAn3shea Why not stopra
 T tod him his whole machine had teot to be snaashed right uD before tthere would be any stop. so far as we rwers concerned
 After that we. went into a German fAugout that burned out to be a com kbdned trench mortar eup1acemert and kmundtton store. It was very deep. and had hardly been damaged at all A Slopfasg passage led up to the en- jplAcement,f and down below there twere piles of mortal shetls. We found ithe whole crew of the mortar hiding fbenfnd one of these piaes and they t6urrendered at once. The could cas- s1ly have blown us all to kingdom Acome"
 Other men wounded on tho Arras tbattleneld tea similar incidents. A E.corporal o6 the Devons who was snip led on outpost daty when the Germans twerc being driven from village near tCrodsetles. said:
 'I think thedr saipers are about the fbest men they've got left, now, and t4even they throT up their hands di- irsctly yoa get near them, and will bon1y fight at rife rarge, never with a bchance of tasting the bayonet, I saw tthe cavalry attacking that village; lone of the finest sights I've seen. They tcame over & rise of ground, and gall b0Ded clean through a screen of whizz bangs. They were great It was fine kto see them sweep through. Our boys kgct up tn time to take oyer the pris- IOnersH
 A Canadian bomber, who was hit after several aayasSof very strenuous khenttag, sadds f1e1asts under the crest kof ytmy ridge, Fritz had a lot of ma Lct1ine guns that he'd never used be- bfore. He had kept their empiaeements Every carefully hidden. They heid us IsaD for Q little bdt, but it wasn't for Hong. That was where our rifle gren- ladders came in, They lobbed bonnbs lali over those Emma Gee emplace-
 nsnts for e bit, and then a Canadian battaitoR went right through them and over; and that was the end of the Fafitzee on the crest.
 s4Aftes was hit and sent sbael, fell in with Q party that was clearing dug outs, and stayed a bit with them. -Oue queer thing I saw going back was s9vr German machine guns in one r>nce, all u16damaged, and the four crews of the guns ell stone dead, killed by our fsarapj When got to the dressing station at last, found a Fritg doetoT ia charge, with his whole stan, working away on, oaS wounded like good 'unsH 'AF
 Another Canadian, told of @ double dug-out which rnslsl have been either Q battalion or a cosapany headquar- ters. In the smaller division were fossE officers, with two orderiies mak- ing coffee for them, ia the larger di- Fision opening out of 1t, 35 officers and men. Not one of the whole lot 'wers woundeds xsssd. all including the tour officers. surrendered without a snuSznur,
 sAtaixing co0ee, mind yoa," saad the fGanadian. My officer iaughted There's war on outside, gentlemen, he said; but those Bache officers they only scowled; not a smile or a word from the bunch9
 Ths adjutant of a London regi- kFasnk, wfose shoulder had been Pr9ksn, said: i'Fhs men were splen- he1A tn this show. But they have been X.