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began a conversation with a soldier across the fence, discussing first the strike and then current affairs, in particular the Lusitania case, and finally, predictably, trading insults. The Pommy, feeling slighted, wanted to get the main speaker arrested. He ordered him to stand still but the man disappeared into the gathering crowd. The soldier, even more put out, now ordered a certain Arndt, a steward from the ‘’Marcomannia’’ [?] who was standing there laughing, to stand still until the guard arrived to arrest him or else he would
shoot. Arndt, who didn’t understand English but whose comrades probably yelled at him to get away, began to move and the soldier cocked his rifle and at the next sign of motion let go. He hit the man so badly that Arndt died almost instantly. At the sound of the shot, everybody rushed out of their barracks to see what was happening. We, too, of course,
who had been playing cards. Soon the camp was full of Pommies who, with loaded