Five motor lorries of the British army Ordnance Corps conveying
ammunition were cut off by the Germans, and the men in charge
to escape capture made off across country after blowing up the
ammunition. One, however, refused to leave, and remained hidden in
a wood at the side of the road. The Germans, finding the ammunition
destroyed, went off, and as soon as the coast was clear the soldier
who had remained hidden came out. Seeing the wheels of the lorries
were intact, he managed to get one of the motors going, and,
hitching the other four behind, he succeeded in bringing his convoy
into camp.
"WE ARE WELL TREATED."
A Frenchman from Normandy writes as follows to his wife:
"I must tell you that I am a prisoner of war. Chance, the great
master of all things, willed it that our battalion was to be
annihilated and that a few survivors, all uninjured, among them
I, fall into the hands of the Germans. We were brought to P----
under guard. Don't worry about my fate, sweetheart. The Germans
are treating us with extraordinary kindness; they look upon us as
unfortunate enemies. We get our dinner--bread, coffee, apples,
etc.--and when we have no tobacco they give us cigarettes."