WHEN FRITZ RUNS AWAY.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 27 August 1917, Page 1

WHEN FRITZ RUNS AWAY.

TRAPS FOR PURSUERS. "When Fritz is driven out of a position ho leaves some diabolical trap to catch the unwary. It sqowm what a rotter'tho Hun is," writes Private W. A. Heron from Franco to Mr F. .H. Fitzgerald, of Hawthorn (Vic), after ho had taTven part in tho offensivo against the Germans recently. ..... , "Up to date we have driven the Germans back three miles, and are still going strong. We have to be very careful, however, as soon as we reach conquered ground. The Huns leave mines in all sorts of places. The other day a chap tripped over a telegraph wire, and it set off a mine concealed in a dug-out. We lost an officer and five men as a result. Sinco then we discovered that nearly all the dug-outs were mined by the Huns. There were hundreds of wires stretched over the ground, and it was the easiest thing to fire a mine by standing on a wire; "At the present time our objective is a big town. Prisoners whom we have brought in freely volunteered the information that the place had been well mined, in anticipation of our coming along. Nice, isn't it? It is an easy thing to make German prisoners talk. We havo just taken a batch of 30, and when they found that we were not going to shoot them, as they evidently expected, they were delighted. Two or three threw away their helmets and exclaimed, 'Go on and finish tho war. Good luck.' "