When the shelling paused, a few of our men jumped out through the firing slits and raised their hands in surrender, shouting that they did not want to fight any more. These men were blown up with a high explosive shell; I don’t know whether this was a deliberate shot to kill men as they surrendered, or just bad luck. But the rest of us then resolved not to surrender, as we saw the bodies of those men lying literally in front of us, with smoke coming from their skin.
