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Show CANADIAN SOLDIERS SCARE THE GERMANS WITH THEIR YELLS Incident of the Capture of Courcelette, Where the Colonials Add to the Fame Already Won. By PHILIP GIBBS. OX THE BRITISH "FRONT, Sept. 24. Germany seems to have a special hatred for Canadians. The Cauadians have paid them .back life for life. Tho trappers among them have devised cunning ways for crawling at night over no man's land. Red Indian tactics arc used between the snipers, and the Germans arc never sure what men are coming against them. Below Courcelette, to gt information, infor-mation, they sent out a number of bomb throwers just before the Canadian Ca-nadian attack was launched. The German bombers, out of the darkness, dark-ness, suddenly pounced upon a bit of trcuch, flinging hand grenades and trying to grab the British as prisoners. They had short innings. Not a man went back. A Canadian machine gim operator named Lewis killed those mounting the British parapets and an officer with twelve bomb throwers accounted for the others. SWEEP OVER THE RAIDERS' BODIES. This awkward happening at tbo hour of the grand attack, when the men were waiting for the word to go, might have disorganized the whole plan, but the Canadians did not let it make any difference. At that exact moment waves of men swept over the dead .bodies of the raiders. A great tide rolled over no man's land. A Jong way beyond the outskirts of Courcelette and across the open country the German shells were falling, tossing up great masses of earth as large as village churches. Smoke, earth and flying shell splinters splin-ters filled the air. Through such fields the Canadians went, losing men, but never losing their heads I or their grim courage. HALT TO DIG IN AND TAKE BREATH. Outside Courcelette they stopped to dig in and take breath. At a conference of officers those still unwounded in the ranks asked the same question: " Why not take Courcelette itself?" The village was very quiet. In the ruins no German helmet was seen over the broken bricks; no gray clothed figures creeping across the Utter of the streets; only bursts from machine guns in unknown places told of hidden enemies. The capture of Courcelette wrw one of the astonishing things in the battle of the Somme. One Canadian Ca-nadian went down in a dugout and after a time came out with twenty prisoners, big, tall fellows. who could have made a meal of him. HAUGHTY BARON IS HUMILIATED. Two battalion commanders were ta ken. One was a baron, stuffed with pride, but he was a brave man. who believed he had to surrender sur-render to overwhelming odds. When he found that he had commanded a greater force than the attackers he was confused and humiliated. He tried to hide this .by arrogance and a show of contempt, but a little colonel of the French Canadians chastened him with a few stern words and a flick of ironical humor. hu-mor. There were seven counter-attacks upon the Canadians. One was repulsed re-pulsed by a handful of men with grotesque comedy. HOT RUM SERVED TO CANADIANS. Hot rum was served each Canadian Cana-dian and a handful of them sitting in a German dugout were glad of that rum. They lunched and sang, gave red Indian war cries and wild whoops, forgetful of the scenes about them. They were as .pHy as if in a log cabin in the west. By this dugout, where the coipses lay very quiet, a body of Germans was advancing over no man rs land. Suddenly they heard the frightful, blood-curdling sounds. It was thought the tribe of blackfcet were upon tho warpath, war-path, yelling as they swung their tomahawks, dancing 'round their scalped victims. The Germans hated to hear such a noise. It was as though all the devils of hades were upon them, laughing diabolically. They turned and fled. |