 Of the Germans he wrote : " They are distinctly bored with the war ... In fact , one of them wanted to know what on earth we were doing here fighting them . " The truce in that sector continued into Boxing Day ; he commented about the Germans , " The beggars simply disregard all our warnings to get down from off their parapet , so things are at a deadlock . We can 't shoot them in cold blood ... I cannot see how we can get them to return to business . " 
