He died about half an hour afterwards.
When the sergeant came in to have the body removed to the morgue, he drew the man's paybook from his pocket, and there we found that for some offence he had been given a long period of field punishment, and his pay was cut down to seventy cents a day.

For seventy cents a day he had come as a voluntary soldier to fight in the great war, and for seventy cents a day he had died this horrible death.

I told the (p.

142) sergeant that I felt like dipping that page of the man's paybook in his blood to blot out the memory of the past.

The doctor who attended the case told me that that was the worst sight he had ever seen.
One night a young German was brought in.