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Show uu 1 WOUNDED FRENCH OFFICER TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF (Special Cable by London Dally Telegraph). Tele-graph). Paris. Oct. 18. Wounded French officers of-ficers arp shooting themselves on the battlefield rather than risk being picked up by the Germans and held prisoners, according to a report published pub-lished In the Temps today. This extraordinary procedure was revealed in a letter from a French Ol i it er which sa s "I was shot in the breast while leading a charge and the fear seized me that I might fall into German hands. Therefore I held a revolver at my head ready to pull the trigger when my own men dragged me to the rear under n hall of lead "That evening a sergeant visited the ambulance with an address drafted draft-ed by the regiment expressing a wish for my speedy recovery. But when he saw how pale I was ho concluded that I was dying and, leaning over the bed. kissed me while tears streamed down his cheeks." rtn |