. Vive la France! . rrified, handsabove their heads, seeking not a fight but achance to surrender. One of the assertions that you hear repeatedeverywhere along the French lines, by officersand men alike, is that the German does notfight fair, that you cannot trust him, that he isnot bound by any of the recognized rules of thegame. Innumerable instances have been re-lated to me of wounded Germans attemptingto shoot or stab the French surgeons and nurseswho were caring for them. An American serv-ing in the Foreign Legion told me that on oneoccasion, when his regiment carried a Germanposition by
. Vive la France! . rrified, handsabove their heads, seeking not a fight but achance to surrender. One of the assertions that you hear repeatedeverywhere along the French lines, by officersand men alike, is that the German does notfight fair, that you cannot trust him, that he isnot bound by any of the recognized rules of thegame. Innumerable instances have been re-lated to me of wounded Germans attemptingto shoot or stab the French surgeons and nurseswho were caring for them. An American serv-ing in the Foreign Legion told me that on oneoccasion, when his regiment carried a Germanposition by assault, the wounded Germans ly-ing on the ground waited until the legionarieshad passed, and then shot them in the , when the Foreign Legion goes into ac-tion, each company is followed by men withaxes, whose business it is to see that such inci-dents do not happen again. The reason for the French soldiers deep-seated distrust of the German is illustratedby a grim comedy of which I heard when I wasin From a photograph by E. A. Ponfll. Each soldier is protected by a steel shield, in the centre of which is cut anopening slightly larger than a playing-card.
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