Most of them, say three-quarters, had
their throats cut."
In one case, given very circumstantially, a witness tells how a party of
wounded British soldiers were left in a chalk pit, all very badly hurt,
and quite unable to make resistance. One of them, an officer, held up
his handkerchief as a white flag, and this
"attracted the attention of a party of about eight Germans.
The Germans came to the edge of the pit. It was getting dusk,
but the light was still good, and everything clearly
discernible. One of them, who appeared to be carrying no arms
and who, at any rate, had no rifle, came a few feet down the
slope into the chalk pit, within eight or ten yards of some of
the wounded men."
He looked at the men, laughed, and said something in German to the
Germans who were waiting on the edge of the pit. Immediately one of them
fired at the officer, then three or four of these ten soldiers were
shot, then another officer and the witness, and the rest of them.
"After an interval of some time I sat up and found that I was
the only man of the ten who were living when the Germans came
into the pit remaining alive and that all the rest were dead.
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