... alone that night to enjoy peaceful Christmas. I forgot to say that the previous night—Christmas Eve—their trenches were a blaze of Christmas trees, and our sentries were regaled for hours with the traditional Christmas songs of the Fatherland. Their officers ...

... A SKETCH OF THE UNOFFICIAL CHRISTMAS TRUCE. An artist’s impression cf an incident described in a soldier's letter : “One of our fellows then filled his pockets with fags and got over the trench. The German got over his trench, and, right enough, they ...

... development of the Christmas truce on Tueeday in certain parts of the line, says a Times telegram from Northern France, when British and German soldiers sat on the edge of their trenches in mutual agreement not fire. The impromptu truce is likely to become ...

... THREE MONTHS IN KIEL HARBOUR WAITING TO GO TO ENGLAND. Corporal Oakes, the Ist North Staffs., in latter describing the Christmas truce with the Germans, says: • They were a Saxon regiment, and they told us that their regiment had been Kiel harbour for three ...

... and 22nd of December, with steady progress attending our method and sagacity in attack. On Christmas day the Germans left their trenches shouting, A two days' truce.” Their ruse did not succeed. All were shot down. In the region of Pcrthos-les-Hurlus and ...