HUN MURDERERS

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1915, Page 3

HUN MURDERERS

PRISONERS SHOT BY GERMAVS WHO BROKE THEIR WORD How the Germans in the first _»iys of th-.;. battle -round Vpres . w^tu-.-i'-l seventy British soldiers, released them and then shot them down ay thay went v. nay, was' told by by a o.lor.sergcant of the South 'Vales Borderers who has been invalided home. "Wi; were o\erpowered by nuin_i , .r_ and were forced to give way a lot of ur nd. in the ecu. rec of which som-i seventy of our fellows were made prisoners," he said.. "Deing reinfoiv,od a few h>.;i*rs later, we attacked again, pushing th" Germans back. Finding things too warm thi-v told cur fellows that it was impossible to hold them as prisM-ner.. and they could return to their lines unmolested. Hardly however had our bravo. com rades gone 100 yards than a fusilade of rifle caught them unawares, and of that seventy we managed to pick up six. Only one was able to tell, of the German officer's broken word of honor." The colour-sergeant who related this act of treachery lost his moustache iri a curious manner. "Se that scar on my right lip?" he said. "Well spme fool German barber gave me a close shave with par.t of a Mack Johnson.' It took off one side of my moustache. I tell you it made me wild, as I could not take the other side off for days, and besides having been clipped by the German I was get-, ting badly chipped by my pals."