. Vive la France! . llffi Iy I,. .1. A French soldier wearing a maskas a protection against gas. In the trenches in aa, a uo 360 CO so o > oU THE RETAKING OF ALSACE 137 A company of German infantry was defend-ing a stone-walled farmstead on the murderous was the fire of the French bat-teries that soon a white sheet was seen wav-ing from one of the farmhouse windows. TheFrench fire ceased, and through the gatewaycame a group of Germans, holding their handsabove their heads and shouting: Kamerad!Kamerad! which has become the euphemismfor I surrender. But when a deta
. Vive la France! . llffi Iy I,. .1. A French soldier wearing a maskas a protection against gas. In the trenches in aa, a uo 360 CO so o > oU THE RETAKING OF ALSACE 137 A company of German infantry was defend-ing a stone-walled farmstead on the murderous was the fire of the French bat-teries that soon a white sheet was seen wav-ing from one of the farmhouse windows. TheFrench fire ceased, and through the gatewaycame a group of Germans, holding their handsabove their heads and shouting: Kamerad!Kamerad! which has become the euphemismfor I surrender. But when a detachment ofchasseurs went forward to take them prisonersthe Germans suddenly dropped to the ground,while from an upper window in the farm-house a hidden machine-gun poured a streamof lead into the unsuspecting the French batteries proceeded totransform that farmhouse into a sieve. In aquarter of an hour the tablecloth was againseen waving, the French guns again ceasedfiring, and again the Germans came crowdingout, v/ith their hands above their heads. Butthis time they were stark naked ! To provethat they had n
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