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SAVING HUNDREDS OF LIVES
PARIS, October I.
Utie of the French wounded narrates
how, during one stage of the fighting on
the Aisne, it became necessary to warn
some French reinforcements that they
were marching into an ambush. * Two
Frenchmen with signalling iiags were suc
cessively killed, and tare French in the
trenches were unable to warn their com
rades of the danger. Suddenly from the
trees where a British force lay hidden a
cyclist dashed forward. He was shot
after covering a few yards, and another
who followed shared the same fate. A
third Britisher then rode at full speed
across the inferno ot fire with his head
bent over the handlebars, and reached the
advancing French untouched. The com
mander of the force took from his own
tunic a medal he had won i<yr bravery,
and, pinning it on the cyclist's breast, said,
"It was given to me for saving one life;
you have saved hundreds."
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