red, and I suppose the others did, why we had
fought each other at all...." (_Daily Citizen_, December 21, 1914.
Quoted in Edward Carpenter's "The Healing of Nations," p. 261.)

MORE CHRISTMAS INCIDENTS.

Let us take one or two more of the Christmas experiences as quoted by
Mr. Edward Carpenter, in his book, "The Healing of Nations": "Last night
(Christmas Eve) was the weirdest stunt I have ever seen. All day the
Germans had been sniping industriously, with some success, but after
sunset they started singing, and we replied with carols. Then they
shouted, 'Happy Christmas!' to us, and some of us replied in German. It
was a topping moonlight night, and we carried on long conversations, and
kept singing to each other and cheering. Later they asked us to send one
man out to the middle, between the trenches, with a cake, and they would
give us a bottle of wine. Hunt went out, and five of them came out and
gave him the wine, cigarettes and cigars. After that you could hear them
for a long time calling from half-way, 'Englishman, kom hier.' So one or
two more of our chaps went out and exchanged cigarettes, etc., and they
all seemed decent fellows."

Again. "We had quite a sing-song last night (Christmas Eve). The Germans
gave a song, and then our chaps gave them one in return. A German that
could speak English, and some others, came right up to our trenches, and
we gave them cigarettes and papers to read, as they never get any news,
and then we let them walk back to their own trenches. Then our chaps
went over to their trenches, and they let them come back all right.
About five o'clock on Christmas Eve one of them shouted across and told
us that if we did not fire on them they would not open fire on us, and
so the officers agreed. About twenty of them came up all at once and
started chatting away to our chaps like old chums, and neither side
attempted to shoot." Another soldier relates how his comrades and the
Saxons opposed to them sang and shouted to each other through the night.
He goes on, "When daylight came, two of our fellows, at the invitation
of the enemy, left the trenches, met half-way and drank together. That
completed it. They said they would not fire, if we did not; so after
that we strolled about talking to each other."

On Christmas morning, elsewhere. "We mixed together, played
mouth-organs and took part in dances. My word! The Germans can't half
sing part songs! We exchanged addresses and souvenirs, and