Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1917 — Keeping Alive by Means of the Dead. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Alive by Means of the Dead.

An officer, relating some incidental of war in connection with the task which the Canadians had to carry out on ground previously held by Australians, states that the Canadians bad been there nine days when they found tn n shall hole, far ahead of where the... front line had been, three Australians* two wounded and one unhurt. The three had pushed out by themselves Into enemy country, when they were caught by shell fire, and two were wounded. The third dragged them Into the shell hole, and sat there with them. To come out in daylight was impossible, so all day he sat there, and looked after the other two, and at night he sallied forth, and got water bottles and rations from the German dead which lay around. And thus he had kept his two pals alive. One of the two wounded Is dolog well, but the other’s wound ha* unfortunately, become septic.