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Show When Yule Carol Stilled War Guns On Battle Front NORFOLK, VA. Rev. J. Sutherland-Watt of Norfolk tells how the strains of "Silent .Night, Holy; Night," sweeping gently across a: battlefield in two languages, quieted I guns in front-line trenches of thei greatest war on earth for a Christ-, mas celebration. It was Christmas eve, 1914, between be-tween Armentiers and Arras, while Gordon Highlanders huddled in' trenches, when somebody remembered remem-bered the day. "Jim, let's sing," one said to Private Pri-vate Sutherland-Watt. Jim pleaded off, but someone else itarted "Silent Night, Holy Night," nd soon Jim and the whole Scot rogtment had joined in. When the last refrain subsided, from the opposite trenches arose other voices attuned in "Stille Nacht." Then all night long Christmas Christ-mas carols rang from trench to trench in strange tongues while cannon can-non and flares from other sector! lit the sky. At the customary "zero" hour, the British soldiers saw gray-clad figures making their way out of the opposite trenches. A few shots were fired. Then it was seen that the Germans carried no arms. Scots leaped from their trenches, likewise uonmed, only to be ordered back. |