GERMAN PRISONER SHOOTS TWO ENEMY SNIPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 21

GERMAN PRISONER SHOOTS TWO ENEMY SNIPERS.

ii A German prisoner captured by the 1 Americans on the Vesle front, says the Bxl change correspondent with the American i armies, was shot at and wounded by a t German sniper, while helping to carry in, !at Ills own request, American wounded. f I This so angered him that he took a eapr ' tared German machine gun and fired on 1 the positions of two German snipers, which - lie knew, and brousht them both down, j i Later In hospital lie told the eorrespon--3 dent that the Germans did not know the t J quantity and quality of the American 1 i troops. "But," he said, "they will learn t soon, they will learn. If Hey knew what I 3 I have seen, they would quit now. They t would surrender to get American food like J I liare liad, to-day,* .

ECONOiNfY. Husband: '"Have you dono your best to economise tliie month, Mary, as I requested." Wife (l>riglitly): "Oh, yee; I spoke to the grocer, the 'butcher, and the landlord, and got them to put off sending in their bills till next month."

READY TO OBLIGE. The Girl: "I think I oujrht to tell yot before we arc married. I am a som nambiiliet." 'The Soldier: "That's all right. I'm t Baptist myself, but I can go to youi church one Sunday and you can come tc mine the next."

THAT ODOUR OF SANCTITY. It was a church -wedding, and the church was handsomely decorated with flowers, the air 'being laden with their fragrance. Just as the ceremony was about to begin small Vivian exclaimed in an audrble wtisper: "Oh, mamma, doesn't it emell awfnl solemn in here!"