The Nome daily nugget., 1918-02-07
Written by Lieutenant Henri sudicl

Germany can never win for the long since lost faith in their ability to win, and without faith no miracles such as that required to give victory to Germany are possible nowadays Even among the best disciplined there is a growing tendency to revolt against the continuance of the war.
 There are always men in a con- script army like ours who are less brave than their fellows, and do not want to fight if they can help it, but, making every allowance for this cle- ment, I am convinced that our army is nearer to breaking than ever it was.
 My own regiment, for example, was sent Into the front line for the time fixed by the British for their last of fensive.
 They had foud days of incessant shelling and for nearly two days at that time they were without food or water for the simple reason that the British gun fire completely cut us off from communication with our depots. Several times we tried to reopen com munications, but it was hopeless. The British fire never gave us a chance.
 In that time we lost over 3S0 dead, and out of 500 others 4O2 were wound ed.
 From the first night sleep was inn possible.
 The British gun fire ragged around us, wreclting shelters, sending the strongest works tumbling about our ears. and giving us the impression that we were always standing on the edge of the other world only waiting for the British soldiers to push us over the brink.
 We stood it as long as we could, and then we told our superiors of ficers that the useless slaughter must cease. We were to go back to the rest trenches and have relief or we would take the first opportunity of surren- dering to the British.
 Our officers took no notice, but we knew that a report on the subject had been made to headquarters, and on the next day two of the non-commissioned officers who had taken the message to the commander were placed under ar rest for breach of discipline.
 During a Hull in the fierce British bombardment our men met and dis cussed the matter.
 They decided to send word to the officers that the two imprisoned men must be released at once, and I was sent with the message. I was received by the commander, who told me 1 was to wait until he had time to consider the matter
 By that time telegraphic communi- cation with headquarters was reopen ed and in my presence our commander spoke to the staff.
 He afterwards had me arrested and 1 was placed in a dugout along with the other two prisoners for removal to Roulers. where it was proposed to try us by court martial.
 Fortunately for us our comrades got uneasy at the delay, and they came in body to see the commander who was told that he must hand over the three of us or take the consequences
 He was unwilling to do so, and start ed to abuse the men. He was seized and thrown into the dugout from which we were taken. After releasing us the men went to hunt up the rest of the officers, but in the meantime one of them had got into touch with headquarters. and we intercepted message to say that troops were on their way to deal with the mutiny.
 We had gone to far too return, so we imprisoned the whole of our off, cers, and remained in shelter until the British attack would give us a chance of getting away.
 Mean while the British fire was got ting stronger than ever. and we were soon relieved from anxiety regarding our own positions by the intense fire of the British guns. which made it inn possible for the troops sent to quell the mutiny to reach us. We had to remain for another eight hours in these trenches under heavy fire from the British guns. and when they fonnd they could mot get at us our own commanders turned their guns on to the trenches and gave us much the same dose of shell fire as they were giving the British. S0 for eight ho,Irs at least wa 1yorn