BEAR TRAP USED TO CATCH. SCOUTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14667, 26 July 1918, Page 5

BEAR TRAP USED TO CATCH. SCOUTS.

GERMAN. BARBARISM HAS NO , LIMITS. -» V* --;.> 'Z 'PARIS, ' Jung .3 V $ v The latest German barbarity consists j of a man-trap similar to a pea,? -trap* * discovered m No Man's Land by. tine United • States EnghjPersy-//- Corppirai Manser,' after bringing iriV the strophy to the trenches, told how he came to discover it. '->'■■ ' /\i''///>^v "We were m the trenches on the night of /May '24, wheh au P°l anu myself decided to;' go on. a 'scouting , party. >W/e^crept, -carefully oyer ., the top, making our" way through tlie barb'- I ed wire entanglements, and into bile sholl hole aftei\;aiiQtl;ter. ,- After Tvp.gqt half-way across No Man's Land,my,cane was jerked from my hand* Advancing ' a few steps, I stumoled on the trap which had beon released by' tlie pressuJo of : th.e -,-pane. ,Glr examination I found the/trap set to; catcbr scouts, and chain-,; ed to ; stakes m the ground. T loosened ■ the chain and brought the trap to our trenches. The ' contrivance v is three ;,feet' long, and has jaws 18- inches wide, jnth . teeth- .two inphes long. It t is designed to give the victim great pain and' make Kirn call forvhelp. This attracts- his comrades, who become targets for a , German machine gun's fusilade, which results m the annihilation of the entire party." The trap is m the Paris V.M.C.A., and will be shipped to America as a trophy.