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The date:
Christmas Day, 1914. German officers and men forgot they wore cigars were swapped for English bully beat.
The sceno: No-man's-land in the Armentieres sector. British and supposed to be enemies and callod a brief, unofficial truco. German Then the generals withdrew the regimenté cóncorned; and the
War was resumed.
The Day The War Stopped
"HRISTMAS, EVE, 1914. Sergeant - Major Gould, of the North Staffordshire Regiment, thought about his home and family in England and happier Christmases.
Reality was a water-logged trench on the Armentieres sector of the Allied front line on which Britain and Germany were locked in bloody, muddy conflict; miserable, cold and wet, eternal bully beef for dinner and death round every corner.
The trill of a field telephone jerked Gould back to reality. The excited operator stammered: "Sir, something funny's happening. The Germans are sitting on top of the trenches and have lit fires and candles. And they're singing hymns.”
The puzzled Gould immediate ly sent a message to the Com- pany Commander to come over. Then he went to see for himself what was happening.
Even now
Frederick Gould cannot conceal the amazement in his voice us he recalls, could see the lights of fires and the bonfires and could hear sound of singing.
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"Our men were also sitting co top of their trenches And
side. Neither side could answer hosties were chout to begin for their crtillery whose guns again, a tin was thrown into the were positioned a mile behind North Staffordshire lines. In It the front line.
was a piece of paper which said: "We shoot Into the air."
fow
"We could hardly believe it," says Gould. "We had all been expecting a miserable day in the cold and wet with nothing to remind us for Christmas."
The scene that Christmas Eve was a wonderful, macabre para
dox.
Mid-day arrived and a spasmodle shots were red high over the trenches. Then all was quiet again.
The brief taste of peace had been sweet, and the truce went
on.
Bonfires and twinkling candles Word of it filtered back to the blazed out a message of warmth opposing High Commands. They
-By-
DENNIS
ADAMS
the truce had spread. It might even have datshed the war.
Curiously, though, neither High Command tools any
dis-
ciplinary action.
But they broke the truce, After
six days of unofficial prace in the Armentlercs sector, tha North Staffordshires were order- ed out of the line and replaced by another regiment.
The Germans also pulled out the Saxen infantry,
But before the Saxons: left their trenches, they made a last of friendship. They gesture shouted a warning, "The Prus- sions are coming to. réplace us. out. They cannot bo Watch trusted."
The replacement regiments moved in on either side. A rifio
and Christmas cheer; their light looked upon it with grave dis- cracked. The Great War was on silhouetted faces joined in carols favour.
There was no knowing again. and hymns, the faces of men what might have happened it recently joined in bloody com-
I could make out figures moving in
no man's land.
"Despite the fact that it was Christmas Eve I didn't feel happy about things and made sure that the men in the support trenches were covering the front corpses witch had Jain for days line men.
bat. It showed, too, the frozen
untouched because of the night-
"I remembered what had ing. happened in September tu our neighbouring regiment, the Sher- wood Foresters.
"In a lull a party of stretcher bearers came out of the German trenches, holding up a white flag and were apparently going to recover their wounded.
"Suddenly the men dropped the white flag and the stretchers produced machine guns and trafed the Sherwoods. I won- dered if a similar trick was go ing to be played on us.
So the night of Christmas eve passed in peace. On Christmas morning a British officer gave the Germans permission to move about freely so that they could bury the frozen corpses that lay between the trenches,
The British sent cut burial parties, too, and it was while these eperutions were being
I mentionel this to one et carried out that the opposite pals aides really got together, tálicing
my men and he sold his had told him the Germans who as best they could about them- were now freely moving about in no-man's land hed warned Elm of the Prursions who did Euch tricks. They, however, were Saxons and had a fell ny feeling for the Anglo-Saxons.
zelves, their homes and every- thing they eculd think of.
Some of the men who had previously been sniping at cach other with rifles started a rough and ready game of football.
It was all so incredible, this oasis of peace in the middle of
"I still could not believe it wer
"But I wamed the sentries to keep our men covered all the time and five immediate clerm a desert of death. Says Gould If they saw anything suspicious.
"Meanwhile a messava come true, so I kept the men manting back that a German sabiller wis the support trenches." asking to speak to an officer, 20 "C" Company Coinminder e- elded to go and investigate..
"The German spoke excellent English he had been a walter in England before the war-end he was anxious to swap Ger men elgars for bully beef."
The Germans cid the came thing and a British officer who tried to perp into one of their trenches was promptly warned off by an invisible sentry.
But otherwise all was perce troops and goodwill, and the posed for photographs. The out history of the North Staffordshire Regiment notes that
the
German officers "Were mugnificently polished and clean which unfortunately the British officers were nol."
Camo eleven o'clock and, the agreed time for ending thild un- officialuce.
But not a shot was Bred
The officer was still suspicious and more so when the soldier suggested that as it was Christ- mas there should be a truce.
The Company Commander asked to be taken to an effiger In the German Blues, He was taken to a groun
On the mercing of the next of offens standing by a ruined farmhouse. day "C" Company Commander This time it was the Germans of the North Slatterdire: wis turn to be cuspicious. They knt told that a Cirrman offer wish- asking him if he were ime. ed to speak to him in no-mun's When he finally convinced (Huren - Irinet,
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A British Crossword Puzzle
18
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ACROSS
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Cuf sheet: (6).
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Do for you? (6).
3
12
13
Queer game, it seems (5).
10 Use, sound sense (4). 12 Not in the vicinity (7), 15 Go into docks for this, as a
rule (5).
10 In addition (4). + 17 Perhaps
(4).
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3: It's the limit in pledges (4),
5 Geographical high-spot (8).
6 The Carinthians are after
them! (0).
9. Song box, perhaps (8).
aerial incursion 11 Makes a fresh plan (0),
12 Flat music? (5).
19 Remained, by the sound of 13 Somebody locally (9)..
it, quite sober (5).
20 To which conspirators may
be sworn (7).
21 Build a home (4).
23 Just à see! (5).
24 Seaside resort (6).
not for away (6).
he was not, they exchanged The officer went out lo meet 25 Many fail to win, but are Christmas greetings and ar the German who told him that ranged a truce, to begin immedi- his eclunel had given orders for 20 Jack in the corner (6). ately und last unill eleven o'clock a renewal of hostilities at anid in the evening of Christmas day and "might the mes Day.
The truce was arranged, only between the infantry of each
bc
warned: to keep down please," The warning was pisacti and mid-day neared.
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selves rocked (8).
Ja Familler roof-top these days (0),
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22 No company gathering (4).
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