SUMMONED TO SURRENDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4580, 8 June 1917, Page 6

SUMMONED TO SURRENDER.

TI-IE WILLING HUN On one of the humps, of broken rid"e about the villages of Vaudesincourt, whence we looked north over the many miles of the new German lines, I met a captain who took a lively part in the action, and who, without saying much, seemed to explain m his person its remarkable success, writes. G. H. Perris m toe Daily Chronicle. He is a lean, LI n uie, like Don Duixote, but, unlike the sombre knight, he has a jolly, spuit that j is quaintly emphasised by big moncc.e, and a faint lisp. , - , He told in a few off-handed voids how his men had taken this particular hill in less than half an hour Yesterday morning it was a Hocne stronghold; twenty minutes after w only Bodies on it were dead or prisoners. A few of them fired to the las most of them were stupefied by tlie bombardment, and needed only a resolute summons to induce them to surrender. But there is much in the manner of these summonses. Our captain came romping up to the crest with only two men and found there an admirably built and furnished dug-out with a full electrical installation in an adjoining tunnel. There were also sixty armed Germans in the place. But the captain did not hesitate. Posting h-s two followers at the exits with bombs ready, he peremptorily told the sixty to throw down their arms.

“Well, you see, we were rather excited,’’ was all ne would say of how ho did it. And the sixty were marcued off to the rear.

Almost at the same moment at another spot three men of this terrible regiment brought eighty prisoners in. . The captain at once got the electric light working, and he was as pleased as Punch to show the. machinery and other curiosities of his new domain. I spoke to a number of his men and tound them in astonishinelv : good form after two days and nigh't s of desperate effort and endurance.