CHEERS FOR GERMANS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13971, 29 December 1915, Page 7

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 ns to bring him in. He had been there from the Saturday, when the charge was made, until dinnertime on the following Monday, and was near dead from his wounds and from hunger. We knew we cquld not go out to him, but.at last one of our officers who could speak German shouted and asked the enemy if we migh.t carry him in. This was a brave act, for if we only put our1 heads over the parapet we are liable to be killed.

"The Germans shouted back, and gave us five minutes in which to fetch him. Immediately fifteen of,us jumped over to go to him, but 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 he knew he was safe, though he was -very uadly wounded. While they were carrying this man they saw another nearly covered with earth. Two others went out and brought him in, and then we gave three cheers for the Germans, who had proved they are not all bad.j I can tell you. this incident brought tears very near to many a man's eyes."