SNIPING THE SNIPER.
WOUNDED OFFICER'S STORY
Narratives of wounded soldiers in France include a picturesque story. An officer, wrmndtd in the advance, found shelter in the German front l:ne trenches. Ho saw a German captain emerge furtively from a- dug-out. and carefully train kis on the advancing troops from the rear. 'lho narrator, who had a rifle, shos him dead. Successively, from the same dug-out, three German lieutenants emerged, tiring at the backs of our iuoji swept on to the second hne. men also the ctnee.r K? 11cd- Finally, when .'iti iv~i r Ji - d onl"ri;-" cni i. ths officer him, _ r,nd io;c.-u him to oft gu:d<> io, the which "'Vp.:, "Uiiis'ivioi'. iiy M'liuwi".'., and held ceriprors titie•« cr root: ami drink and 'l'tt,. c{i:."CT do how h- forced ih.. i .-rcl :rh' h:;i tfV.'rttu:' tii-- L'ritbJi 'iii.-s. but U-furc r,':icl)in::; •!;«' Uwaan wa- htt, v.-hiTCHt"-'" ti:v cl'-Ult d:;i:::'.'d iiiia inlt.stithy r
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11763, 29 July 1916, Page 9
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151SNIPING THE SNIPER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11763, 29 July 1916, Page 9
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