WAR STORIES

Evening Star, Issue 16196, 18 August 1916, Page 5

WAR STORIES

A Canadian soldier at. the front wrote home that his company had recently taken possession of a village "somewhere in France,'' which had been in the hands of the Germans—indeed, it was possible there might be some of the enemy still in ihe vicinity. They asked a villager they met as they marched in if the Germans had been there very lately. He said they had, only a short time before; but such a strange thing had happened. Suddenly some big women with very short skirts and bare knees burst into tho place with a tremendous roar, and as they rushed in on one side the Germans ran out on the other, and ".do you know," added the villager, " we have not seen them since!"

A friend of one of the Canadian nurses who is stationed at -a hospital near the battle line has been sending her from time to time parcels of linen and comforts for the patients. In the parcel she sent just before Christmas sho put in a. new apron and handkerchief for the nurse herself, and in fun sho pinned to the apron a. brand-new Idol bill, though she knew it would be of little or no value in France or Belgium. The nurse, in thanking her for the parcel, told how all the other nurses laid hold of the lmen and other comforts at once, but sho held on to the apron, and when the dollar bill was found there was great excitement ; every patient in the ward, as well as the nurses, wanted to see it, so it was passed from one cot to another, all the men handling it lovingly, as a reminder of dear old Canada, some even kissing it. The lady who sent it 'remarked afterwards that ehe was glad it was a clean new bill.