TALES OF THE CANADIAN TRENCHES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 8

TALES OF THE CANADIAN TRENCHES.

,1 1 at the Canadians, were tin; ‘ r 4 of t na. reputation tor the cauj« d they J ■noli raids in the pie f t ‘ h( , 7aosfc gruelling ,1 uds litter some of Ujo mos r-litmjr tiiJit iuij L--><-> Vnros. \ u" icj..ni.>•».wflo. 22 month, in France.l.o i. , in commanding a company. > ■ *«t. t.t»i •* ss :Sd, nrl.” no of 11.0 '"Voo'ifo ■ ~o for him,.lt .«t f f“lfeWb«'fibhoo rverr no -ig.ir of norvos, nor c\ *« * as rtadv to tall; cheerily of evcl > tl ""“ i 1 id anything but his own clouigs. it ■ 0, a friend of Ins that I Wined oti«o u, tho onlv ..Him- left >" “* /T“l“‘ 1, :I n, ;> held on to the ground it had ton, £ S ; <So»o H0t.,.0n T «.mo«>"“; id hoaw bombardment. .L "Q u this. ‘ho had been given hi* liiitarv Cross. On another ‘ ,! i» trench raid, turning n con*, f the trench he came upon fm* Oe ® ■overed by his revolver they raised Uimr ands in token of surrender. il< tmma m» cad for a moment to call up some of Us r as he did so one of die German, urlecl a, bomb. Quick as a Hash tho young •anadian leapt belaud a tm* ornb exploded harmlessly, and m t.capecl. •he Gormans did not . But a though ho oeld not talk about himself, he was not , dlent about his men. This pride, m tlioir ion is very noticeable m al Canadiai llmevs Nothing that they ash ol them J. ;,o difficult or clangorous. Patrolling “no man s land is one 01 the reatest tests of infantry ethcß'iioy. It n» iilv possible, of course, at night. Ltd, many miniature battle lias been fought out m he. darkness between little parties of from ou r to ten or fifteen a-ide while the. men u the. trenches peer eagerly mer■ the P; ,f the !>arapet, and. watching the liadies <> he rifles, wonder wind i- talcing place. Amt hen, after a little hit, I he patrol comes m perhaps with a prisoner, perhaps with rounded, occasionally with it man, missing, n this case a search party is at once- organsod. ’ Despite his daily association with loath, no man values the life of a. comrade nore highlv Ilian a soldier. Probably the Kitrol volunteers to go out again. It pusx bo varv, or it may run into a trap. 'I lie Gernatis mav be' in strength, and, guessing hat it will return, be lying in wait for d. Sometimes this happens. Another fight 10.i.uvs. And if it L humanly possible to find he missing man, he is brought back to be >andagcd or LmnoJ, us the caso may l>o. deny British divisions pride themselves on heir command of “no mans land, ’ and lone have a better rigid to do so than the Palladium.