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Show FRENCHMEN FIGHT LIKE TIGERS. Germans Amazed That Poilus Refuse to Surrender When Surrounded. London. The Berlin Press describes the desperate and heroic conduct of the French In the great battle. The newspapers tell how the poilus used their grenades to the last and fought with trench knives, rifle butts and bayonets. One Frenchman was found dead, his fingers in an unbreakable death grip around the throat of a German officer. Isolated groups of dead are lying upon machine guns and hundreds of German Ger-man bodies are carpeting the field. The German newspapers frankly admit that the French refuse to leave their men- behind, but greet certain death with sword in hand. One French officer was found in the midst of decapitated bodies. Before he died from a grenade wound he had broken his sword on a machine gun. He was still holding the broken blade in his hand when found. The Germans Ger-mans evidently are amazed that the : poilus refused to surrender when surrounded. sur-rounded. ! |