d the major. "The Germans aren't
always so bad. Five officers from my regiment were missing one
time, and we never even expected to find their bodies. But when
we drove the Germans back we found a grave on which was marked:
'Here lie five brave English officers.' We identified them all,
and their bodies were taken back to England."

We followed another sidewalk and came to a huge mound covered
with yellow flowers, which had been planted by the English
soldiers. On a neatly made cross at the head of the mound an
English soldier had patiently printed the words: "Here lie
seventeen German soldiers."

There wasn't an English grave in Ploegsteert Wood that was
better tended or more heavily beflowered than these mounds of
fallen Germans.--Mr. W. G. SHEPHERD, Special Correspondent of
the United Press.

_Daily News_, June 1, 1915.

If all the episodes of this action were recorded they would make
a long as well as a grim narrative revealing the ghastliness,
the wild passion, the self-sacrifice, and the cool cunning of
such an hour or two of modern war.

Some of the tales of the men would have been incredible except
that I heard them from soldiers who told the truth that lives on
the lips of men who have seen very close into the face of death.

It is, for instance, difficult to believe--yet true--that amidst
all this tumult and terror of noise one German prisoner was
taken as he sat very calmly in his dug-out reading a book of
religious meditations through gold-rimmed spectacles. Perhaps it
was the man--I only guess--in whose pocket-book was found a
letter to his wife saying, "The position here is hellish, and
death is certain. I only pray that it may come soon."

_Daily Telegraph_, August 16, 1915.

From Belfort in September came the report: "A German aviator this
morning flew over Belfort, dropping a wreath on the spot where Pegoud
was killed. The following inscription was placed on the wreath: 'To
Pegoud, who dies a hero. (Signed) His Adversary.'"

The following is from the _Daily News_ of October 9, 1915:

The parents of a Lance-Corporal in a Highland regiment who was
killed in the recent fighting have received particulars about
their son's death from a German lady in Frankfurt-on-Main.

The lady's eldest brother was killed last year near Ypres and
she knows, she says, how