TRICKERY OF A GERMAN SNIPER.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 2

TRICKERY OF A GERMAN SNIPER.

An officer, writing about the Irish Guards, says: —

"After the battle at Sonpia, on tho Aisne, they were terribly worried by snipers, and one of their men was shot dead and several were wounded. He was sent out before daybreak with a section of men to see if they could find the snipers. A large turnip field divided the British and German trenches, and they searched this as well as the light would permit It was littered with dead bodies of Germans, ■but they searched in vain for the snipers, and were about to return to the trenches when ii occurred to him that it would be an easy matter for a sniper to feign death in the .surroundings, aud as the light improved they had another search and came across a German lying on his back behind a little mound about 300 hundred yards from the British trenches. ■■■-

"The mound concealed him from the trenches. His face was covered with on w.l sheet and his hands were concealed. On the oil sheet being lifted it was £.een that tho man was alive. His rifle and other equipment was lying a couple of yards oJf. When ho saw that he was discovered the German pretended that he was wounded, but on being examined afterwards by a doctor it was found that there was nothing wrong with him."