RESOURCEFUL TOMMY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 87, 9 May 1916, Page 7

RESOURCEFUL TOMMY.

' A certain soldier is now the pride of his regiment in consequence of the skill ' and daring with which he extricated himself from a very tight corner. Just where the adventure happened matters not (says Renter's agent, Writing from British Headquarters in France). The man was sent out on patrol duty with another. They were surprised" by a party of the enemy in considerably j stronger force, and called upon to sur- ! render. They replied by firing and | killed a German, after which the eomj nanion bolted. The unnamed hero, com--1 ing to the conclusion that a live manis very much bptter than a dead one, ! permitted himself to be taken. He was thereupon disarmed and searched. But his captors failed to observe that, with sleight-of-hand skill, he was concealing a grenade in his capacious fist. This he dexterously returned to his pocket when the Boclies had finished rummaging his tunic. The disconsolate-looking Tommy was borne in triumph to the German hnes. For some reason he appears to have been loft in charge of a solitary sentinel. while the rest of the party moved away. Quietly withdrawing the bomb from his pocket, but without slipping out the safety-pin he suddenly broke from his posture of cowed subjection and brought the object down with a tremendous whack upon the skull of his guard. The German dropped like a log, his rifle and bayonet clattering to j the ground. Tommy then took to his iheels in the direction ;of the British

lines, but had not gone far when he came upon another German patrol. Challenged to surrender, he stood still, and allowed the enemy to approach him close. Then suddenly poising the grenade he hurled it right into the midst of the little group. There was an immediate explosion, followed by cries and groans, and the gallant soldier continued his sprint, returning safely to tall the star? to his cheering comrades. -.Renter's Special Swvta,