will go to fetch him,'
he says. 'I will go with him,' I say to the Lieutenant. The
leader of my squadron brings some others. The wounded man calls:
'Kamerad! Do not kill me!' We reassure him as to our intentions,
and as he has a shattered hip we carry him to our lines, and on
the way in spite of his suffering, he keeps on repeating with
every kind of modulation, 'Good comrade.' He was a young man,
scarcely eighteen years old, of the 205th Infantry.

I call to the enemy trenches: 'We have brought in one wounded
man, are there any others there?' 'Yes. 20 metres further to the
right.' We look round. 'There are none there, only dead.' 'Wait,
we will give you some light.' A few words in German which we
cannot understand. Will they simply shoot us down? Suddenly two
splendid rockets go up: we can see as if it were midday. We are
half a dozen marines and are standing twenty metres from the
German trenches. On the other side of the wire entanglements an
officer and men, behind the breastwork pointed helmets and caps.
All remains quiet. We look round carefully. 'Nothing. There are
only corpses here. We are going back, you go back, too.' 'Merci,
camerades francais!' calls the officer, and his men repeat the
greeting of their superior. As soon as we are behind our
breastwork our Lieutenant gives a command loud enough to be
heard at sixty metres. 'In the air--Fire!' From over there once
more, 'Thank you, comrades,' as answer to our salvo, and all
falls back once more into the silence of the night; the work of
death can go on again. But for this one night not a shot was
heard around us.

How much sanity is there in a world that sets such men to kill each
other, and eggs them on to hate?

GERMAN HELP OF "ALIEN ENEMIES."

In Germany (as already mentioned in Chap. IV.) is a 'Committee for
advice and help to natives and foreigners in State and international
affairs.' It deals with those of all nationalities, and one branch of it
corresponds in many ways to the similar Emergency Committee in England
for assistance of Germans, Austrians and Hungarians in distress.

What, however, is most striking is the number of cases of individual
kindness shown by Germans to "alien enemies." The minds of many might be
cleared on this subject if they would read a charming and unpretentious
little book, "An English Girl's Adventures in Hostile