GERMAN TREACHERY

Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22043, 16 August 1941, Page 6

GERMAN TREACHERY

CUNNING OF A SNIPER The cunning treachery of the Germans was impressed on the mind of a Stratford man, a machine-gunner, who fought through Greece and Crete, and is now a patient in a hospital in Egypt. In a letter to his sister at Stratford he describes a typical instance of the means to which the enemy Would stoop to attain his object. For many hours his section was troubled by a sniper whose place of concealment could not be detected, he says. The position was becoming serious until by the use of binoculars the sniper was at last detected. “There was a dirty big Hun dressed in a red outfit, and lying on the red cross on the top of a hospital,” he writes. “He was the sniper. So we went out after him and shot him down off the roof. We found he had been lying stretched out in the shape of the cross. He was very hard to pick up—but when we found him he paid the price of his treachery. He must have been there all day, taking pot shots at us, and considering himself smart—and safe.”