CHEERS FOR GERMANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHEERS FOR GERMANS.

ENEMY'S TRUCE. Sergeant A. E. Berry, writing to a friend at Newport, Mon., relates an incident in which the Germans granted a truce for five minutes to enable the British to bring in a wounded man The letter, printed in the Standard, reads as follows:— "I heard a cry in front of our trench. It was from a wounded man on the German parapet, and he was begging us to bring him in. He had been there from the Saturday, when the charge was made until dinner-time on the following Monday and was near dead from his wounds and from hunger. We knew we could not go out to him, but at last one of our officers who could speak German shouted and asked the enemy if we might carry him in. This was a brave act.for if we only put our heads over the parapet wo are liable to be killed. "The Germans shouted back, and gave ns five minutes in which to fetch him Immediately fifteen of us jumped over to go to him, bii» our captain ordered us back feeling that the Germans might be tempted to shoot on the assumption that we were going to charge. So one officer and a man went out with a stretcher and carried the poor fellow in. " He cried with joy when ho knew he WM i*J e ' ,^ h , he was very badly wounded. While they were carrying this man they Ba w another nearly covered with earth. Two others went out and brought him in, and then wo gave three cheers for the Germans who had proved they are not all bad. 1 can tell you this incident brought tears very near to many a mans eyes." ' '