SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 5

SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

SAXON SURRENDERS

SHOT DOWN BY PRUSSIAN COM-

RADES

SIXTY TREACHEROUS GERMANS

WIPED OUT BY THEIR INTENDED

VICTIMS

ANOTHER FIENDISH GERMAN

DODGE

INCENDIARY BULLETS USED

Times—Sydney Run S«._i„_ Cables

(Received May 26, 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, May 25. "Eye-witness," referring to the surrenders .of Saxons, says that at Cour de Laivouse the remains of a battalion decided to surrender en bloc and advanced towards our infantry, who, not understanding, poured in a hail of bullets. Several hundred • then halted, threw down their rifles, held up their hands, and waved a white flag. Our guns at the rear continued to fire, and the infantry might have continued to fire (in consequence of previous experiences of treachery), but the matter was taken out of their hands by the Prussian infantry to the northward, who, realising the intention of. the Saxons, opened fire from the flanks, enfilading the Saxons. The news was telephoned and the German artillery opened fire and quickly killed most of the Saxons. This was a source of regret to the British, because the Saxons have always been cleaner fighters, more chivalrous, and less brutal than the Prussians and Bavarians.

The British showed determination and declared they were going to get a bit of their own back. "Remember the Lusitania," they shouted. One satisfactory incident was the killing of sixty Germans clad in khaki stolen from the dead. These advanced, shouting in excellent English, "Don't shoot; we are Grenadiers." A British officer climbed out of the trenches and the Germans fired at him, but did not hit him. The men in the trench propmtly returned the fire, charged with the bayonet, and killed all the sixty.

'|Eye-witness" mentions a fortunate incident at one point where a little resistance had been offered in order to entice the British forward. It was discovered that a German officer had been killed by a shell splinter whilst seated in "a dug-out at the switchboard of a dynamo exploder connected with seven mines and electrified entanglements.

It is believed the Germans are using incendiary bullets, as the clothing of two British wounded lying in the open were noticed to be burning, and on the following day charred bodies were found.