New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 13

/ - - - 2 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918 i 2 5 b sy : B = g = = e e = 1 } were almost starved and' footgore.| 1914 with the first . eontingent of [ The noise and shock immediately con [ X7 TRAI ) They came out in the open, ready,to| Princess Pat's Regiment, later trans- | vinced me that I was hadly injured. AMERICAN SOLDIERS lN FRANCE DRA‘VV ENG THE g face whom they might meet. Here he | forred to the ancashire Fusiliers, [ 1 got to my feet, however, and started ‘, and Mackintosh disagreed !zu :P\Q-l\\mx whom he t part in the Dar-|a gingerly inventory of arms ang | rection and their ways partec At | danclles camp. He is now serv-|They were all in th accu ALL l]F I]EATH daylight an old Dutch peasant came | jug It the British-Canadinn Recruit- | After thinking it over, [ ‘ along. “Ie was afraid of me at first, { ing Mission at St. Joseph, Mo.) | cluded that such incidents would have | T = but I made him understand | nv‘ After intensive drill on the desert|to be considered rt of the | s e English, He took me home and gave | pear Cairo, we sol sail for the Dar- | routine. J b R0 n me all he had to eat, then got a vig| danelles. The sioge which followed | A few nis r, ear to expe- 4 ' sador.” | July 22, & hundred thausand Turks be- | teered in working party that was i | Sixty-nine of 700 Survive. | san imploring Allah for victory, and | going out into No Man’s Land Al ° cotd thit peditionary | &nd forth benween trenches and fin a_raiding party does, with all but the 5 Forces called the “Contemptible Little |1V #ave the Iritish forces the advan- | glory to compensate hey must work hted by the British-Canadian Ay A by ihe Roiser) tage. silently, efficiently, digging “jumpin > Recruiting Mission.) i J;;m ’U“L Of ot fni ar Marns During this ficrce campoign, the ol- [ off trenches.” filling sand 1 and re ant H. J wn “'VM, without & scratch, although the epau- | lied troops, composed of New 2 | store parapets, inspect th nemy's wttalion . B, Jet was torn off my shoulder. A Hun's | #nders, Australlans, Lancashir | barb-wire entanglements and do such | v doing a litte work on | 3o ke o and tore it | Manchester lived on “‘iron r: other odd jobs as the « mey re ’ the side which | hadn't been baoked AN GO WG S D S 2 bully f and hardtack). Wate s | quires. On this accasion the Fluns Y " off, but it never touched me. ven [ (bul G HaiLes: 1 Tng for. 1 1 n ordered out for some | . aroons. wont | Bearce. When the men entered the ! were pretty Testless. They evidently | " hundred of us, the 6th Dragoons, went | instructio ity when I came across that action; 69 of us came out, | trenches carrylng wet burlap bags | sensed our presence, for they sent ove friend way Into Kemel. His| 180 mhat actioni S0 & K o times| they were followed by thirst ldiers | a lot of rifle grenades. One of them Vitation “iravel with me” promptly | m)’{“‘\" r'"l‘ e G e who lapped at the be to quench ! killed & member of the party and lit- ceopted, brought me into the towm,| R 1S WAL ECH O AL R ming | their burning thirst | erally riddled his brother, who vhich was about half a mile from our | &% the DRAINETS F0C SO ORI A¢ 6 a. m. the men were warned | chanced to be standing near him. The front line That noon the Germans |99t :; vl ,1( fu,,m\\(‘:\ ‘v\ ’;riqhmen are | to prepare for a drive and were sta- | latter was wounded in 14 plac 1t | iried to shell the place. Someone | TUIUNE duty. And we "HERFER R tioned in the redoubts. At 6:30 we | was typical of the hazards that a| 10ld us there were a lot of old women ;‘ff“f O _")“’."°|"‘_ l_; Bt place, even! Went into tho first line trenches and | working party has to encounter. thers landl [ Bald ffol my) pal scwed L 0SEts SIS LS B ot Borae aro|took our places beside the trench| - one night while trench-digsing, I | better get the old ladies out.” e e £ [fladders WA ERTEtH efordeniicame Kt i lohecrved B | Erltish oficer L coming We worked fast for about an hour | SURORE WS N URE REE L g0y, | bayanet AT the men wentl t0 ! {,yward us through the shell hol T and a half and got 16 or 17 women _1 was callec rack Trom :bxrul o T Tl [ “m:‘hm' o “”'t‘” e E e and children out. Then we heard |Africa when Lngland firs Sy the order: at R e e there were still some old ladies un~"_‘””" HndiCTosyetnoohat e 3 v o = e A £ Sl 6th Inniskillin Dragoons. In a short i ind that his face was unfamiliar made stairs in the Ypres hotel. We went | time we were in action at Mons; from Ol RS me rather curious. I challenged him, ’:l:y(nll(mk“fnr l‘l‘wijv;l ln( a :::Ll\lrem:!f“hnm to the Marne, then on to Ant- ]“l :'“”;‘“ hizh to > from heins jut he sought to brush me aside, ex- minutes e heard & sing-songj o "o te then I have fought on| hit in the ) Sk 1 claiming brusquely, “I'm an oflicer Ihrogh thoy el Libogan 10 (1o Tiro‘n,—’ frants, and seven brothers have | to nu . el B Hiasisoc “I'm aware of the fact,” I replied pretiy ye Hm\—‘ just scared. The place | Beosbidiilcaiin thie v three at Dar-| the fi » lines of ot nd Y wWhat battalion do you belong to NasLaeHon collapead an c faors | danelles/l onel ia the! Ballans) Fonotat |ion thtjolitsidoRwhblienehe Enainects XA G i Rixtisth) " hot suapped disappeared Y chum departed, | { 0 Sk z | plored for mines. we entered - with the help of gravitation only, to| YPres, mmother at Loos. =~ linc renches, changed the parapet Now the Sixticth had been relicved | R I was left hanging by | At Mons we met the m\(,'l‘uus ”‘ | and prepared for the counter-attn but recently and was sent back in the | one arm to the top of a wall for what | Gérman army. They camenar The Turks opened fire from vine. | Yest billets. I saw no good reason why | seemed lile an hour. Time was not |Mass formation, a stone wall of Prus- | *he Turks oBERed e (TOM & VIUT | one lone officer of that unit should | measured in minutes then, but in suf- | Sians. We fought from lromfhos.onl_\ given tin bombs and told to drive be s}nnkmg around in the gloom of | American soldlers in IFrance the | drawing their first pay since going , money in buying s fering Along came another shell; |tWo feet deep, with no I\.rflll:‘.‘ly_ ;‘; them out. We were repulsed and the | the frant line trenches when his com- | best-paid in the world, are here shown \H\rr there. Most of them used the back home. the wall caved in and I landed someo- | MAtch them-—just our Lee L“h’““ | Ncrgal v arel sentiint oiniplace Ve | Mend wasiback dhthe! biiletai T mm\l where clse, where I was burled for |Tifles. But we know how to use tflmj:-‘humh,m wrent out. Twenty of thosa | chance—a long chance that might|———— —_— ——— e = AR e ol My friend was lucky, be- \<\~ made mince meat of them .L.L rst. et ica it have brought me into much difficuliy. | . I . g * 2 5 ik The rapidity of our firing gave tho| I R < S a few panicky moments I wondered | was a German and a spy. He talked | that slaughterer of won ing one of the first to be released. It 1h¢ I i ol Pt had| The Turks charged in packed You're under arrest,” I said A e ade Sl TS AR l BT e e orm et e ey < Soomed oL Hinieibatore Din pretty | Genmans the impression that we had e e chentatasy ar U0 ey i ! Ll ac at blunder As | goo Znglish and wore the un orm ren, l<.o German Kaisq sl e | machine guns. e were told to hold [ Mass 0o £ . L : goro dec .<ll||-‘ it afterward t . T had dome | he had taken off a dead British offi- | devised at leisure ot ad shape, was dug out. | oy fire amtil they wore within 300 | o'clock. We were trained to shoot 16 that he would see to it that my cor- | the only correc \ few nights | cer from the Sixtieth Battalion. and humtliations, the T cquel to this story Is Interest- aiiorh where we could distin-|rounds a minute, and the British bat- poral's chevrons were taken from me. [Feieriin it & Offic faced | It is a big price we are paying, but | ing been suffered in cd j I was badly mussed up and the | YAUCs O 0% W Then we opened | teries behind us Kept up an incessant | fiis indignation was so great that for a firing squad the 1ie | we know that had we skulked at home | nation dcctors said my arm would have to |8 e s ‘ould mot understand | fire. But the Turkish ranks Werc | s : b e come off. When I was able to be| oD them. They hey halted. waited | filled up as rapidly as we depleted | e e e e Bt S shipped, they sent me back to Eng-|DOW we aid it. They Lt M ihon | them. We were driven back to our | land. I was anxious to spend Christ. 1fm_u_xn’ulmf»,.‘h ‘l\dntu a bit. °R | cecond line trenches where we were | mas with my mother, who had como | 0“{\_ ‘-“] l»l “’*‘I“",n‘_"‘_- bout clght days|again reinforced. [ over from Canada. So on the 7th, or [ “‘ S "m ‘f . 5 ‘_‘1‘ 7] e ri;:i,t 1 Again we charged the Turks apd 13th (I forget which) of December, | #t 2 ‘I""- e |”v 1' e orders | drove them back to a gully, where we I was put aboard the hospital ship |&nd left of us. 1;“-1\)0(“; m‘ our | Were swept back. The Turks opened “Angleterre.” We were crossing the [{rom Gen. Smith-Dorrien ’_‘U“ to a|a barrage fire and we had to charge chennel abaut 25 miles out from Bo- | 8round, and orders are “““’;? O rausnit i Tustias el Were et by morning. | Alljof o suddens the duiet | E‘\f,f‘” L ”:T"‘, o e got | turn, about 5 o’clock, I was struck by was broken by a terrible c e oo e e e aliBUlTeliT Y Eh ool cat it shlabovel the thought one of the boilers O o b 6o nearE B AB 5 ciClobk e next morning ploded. The boat was broken in two. i pPedi TR SCTREE bt o ad- |1 was rescued and hauled into the I saw geysers of water flylng up by | “heR 10 CEvATY AC O e some| British nches by ropes. A Red the side of the funnel. | vanece (Tn .<. right a L ke | Cross ambulance carricd me to the ; : in tho | Buns that were bothering us. Among | We had been terpedocd. it in the | &I A e B o Lanoory | beach, thence by boat to Alexandria, center. Whistles tooted and such | the cuvalry were the 1014 SAnCs | poyoe where, known as an American Sihaniag and teanee il Acw the *Cirien Die-Hards', the 11th | soldier, T CRGRIGEE i Gy serfous. I waited about 16 m | Frassars, called the “cherry.pickers.” | Kind of attention in a hospital almost Shvn declded \hexodn el BONeh AN Ce B e L1 R E s Tl warelonr | viininE tholshie dowi ot Rthel lched1veld :::x\ :mh‘: Tx\f?]"",‘ ‘\]'lv‘mw,;:f‘,El\\l‘(l,.,l,,‘lg‘:; m'r!wr.;. We mu!.‘( not \rl‘ivvé back the | Palace. arm on it. Then I jumped. 1 never | Prisoners nor the guns on account of Arabs Give No Quarter. expected to come out of that. Tho | the Germans' fearful barrage fire. By Bergaunt Maurice Slivestre, fext thing I knew I was drawn over| Ourwork there snded when Gousrel Tiralleurs Moroccans. | the side af an English submarine, | JO/fre sent a telegram on the 23d 0| \ypero T was at Verdun there w given hot coffed, undressed nd | Sir John French to rotreat. Tt was| 6 —".No"Man's Land.” We were all | e e S drnt e | tieRonIvE RN RToRb e d onla e lc ol | Bl Sl N R e e e | T N ands fni'a Dover | notihold the line afterithe Wrenchifelll B2 SEE RS hme e B o hospital. From thero I was sent to|back. We retreated to the town of | o qtimes 15, sametimes 50 men in ! my mother, who was waiting for me | Mons and had just five minutes there | "/ 50 "opon"ole. In the next hole in Ramsgate. [t was she who fought | to clean up. take our wounded and| ;o he Germans. The French fire the doctors and saved my arm | supplies and get ouf, the Germansl ., ";ne side and the German fire on Daring Escape to Hoiland. [ adiancing so fact W the other were lke two curtains. Aftor being tarpedoed in the Eng-| Canada’s Fighting Parson. I was In charge of African troops, lish hospital ship “Angleterre” in th By Major Biggs Moroccans and Algerians, hecause 1 B E channel by a tiun submarine | IN‘:-_Mr “”f' 5 en T:"“'D in | spoke = eral wl;\r\[.:\la[,’('h_ '\’\u \\'t‘xv‘n while recuperating in and, I met | the South 1\(rn-:|5x ar and since his | rushed from Chalons to Verdun in my brother. who had made his | Teturn from the French front has been | automobiles. It took a day and a half way to Fngland, a physical \\-!..‘“\-.190\1)5 re vulllng’ duty in various Brit-| to get there. Only 12 of m men EhCancdttion: ithe G ormin brisons) ish-Canadian Recruiting Missions in [ were left when we got through. The Frank went over to England to en- | the United States) | Arabs are good fighters with the bay- list | went into action with tho| When the 3d Canadian Mounted| onet, not sharp-shooters. ~But they First Tmperlals in August, 1914, It| Rifles was formed in December, 1914, | are hard to manage. When they smell was during the battle of the Marne, | One of the first applicants for a post | powder and scc Moad, there is no I th that he was taken prisoner. with the regiment was a Church of | gtopping them. The Germans hate His hands, almost shapeless, aroe|England clergyman, A. Gillies-Wilkin. | them. They love France and are glag proof of what sometimoes happens to| At that time there was no provision |to fight for her. They never surren- English prisoners who refuse to make | made for a chaplain for the regiment, [ der nor do they give quarter. They ammunition for the Huns to use on | but this man was not to be denied and | @o not like to stay in the trenchos us. After that they sent him to work | Joined in the ranks. During the course [ long. After a fow days they want to SRR A e of training at Medicine Hat, Alberta, | be. at the Germans' trenches. They : Twice hoe atternpted escape, once|he did the routine work of the cav-|know that is what they are there for. & reaching the border, and was sent|2lry regiment the same as the oth The Germans are all alike. 1 dld | ¥y bac The third time he- worked out | €nlisted men, grooming the horses, | not think so at first. But naw I would b Sl fully. The first | cleaning his saddle, keeping bit and [ take no prisoners. At Arras I learncd ? {hing he did was to line his suit witn | SUrTups bright and doing all the work | better. ~ We were going orward, § A ‘ sugar sacks, this by way of clothing | incident to a c valry unit. crouching in a shallow trench, filing when the time came to discard the| When the regiment went over to|along like T We came upon a R things which would mark him. The|England in June, 19 it was pos- | wounded German, an officer. His leg T Eq%fi T R I H Germans make it impossible for their | Sible to have him appointed chaplain | was turned back, all out of shape. A S prisoners to do away with the iden-| With the honorary rank of captain.|feeling of humanity ne over me. 3 T TR | This was very good news to the men | My men would have killed him. I tifying marks on their sleeves by their system of cutting out the material and sewing in a strip of another color, yellaw or red, etc. So the escaping prisoner finds there is nothing to do but throw away the garment, as the empty hole Is just as good tdentifica- tion as the colored cloth sewed in. So when the propitious moment ar- rived, my brother and a pal af his, Mackintosh, a Scotchman, set forth in thelr sugar sacks. They had no maps and had to be guided by watch and compass. They had been told by the Germans that there was two hours difference In reckoning time be- tween Holland and where they were | in Germany of which they made mer tal note and set their watches care- fully by prison time. Pleven days they traveled through woads and un- of darkness, living on roots food the November woods It seemed finally that they must have reached Holland. They approached populated districts, but wera afraid to come out in the open to get information. A town clock struck the hour of 11 at night. But, of course, the Holland clocks would be two hours different, so they figured they must still be in Germany. der cover and what afforded. So an they labored. Two more hours Another Dutch clock struck, this time saying 1 o’clock. Frank's watch agreed “Yet we must have passed the Ger- Franlk with whom he had served for so long and with whom he had won a place. It was always noticed that the squad- ron to which he was attached had a little higher physical and moral stand- ard than other squadrons, largely dus to his presence in the ranks. He accompanied the unit to France and was there met with the order that all chaplains get—to keep out of | the front lines—but this did not deter him, and wh the troops to which he was attached took their turn in the front line, he was always found with them. s the relief took place at night he would simply mingle with the men whom he knew so well and thus escape the vigilance of the offi- cers. When his presence was discov- ered the next day, it was much sim- pler to keep him In the frout line trench than to send him back over- land, where he would have an execel- lent chance of being killed. He did this work constantly, and on June 1915, he was in the front ne in the Ypres sallent when the Germans came aver in some force. He saw them coming and immediately | detached his chaplain’s badges from his tunic, picked up a rifle and such ammunition as he could find and used it effectively. When the ammunition was exhausted he used the bayonet until he broke it. Then he used the butt of a rifle until it was sinash and the last seen of him by our for man horder,” reasoned. ‘““This must be Holland.” He looked again | M® Was flghting with his fists. He was il et niade prisoner by the Germans and is ‘Made in Germany,” was stamped|i® ® German prison camp today on its face. “The d—— thing lies¢! American at Dardaneclles, he muttered By Sergeant C. O. Marti ! He took long chan but they® = tAn American who went overseas in stayed by him and protected his life. I stayed there until my last man had passed. As [ left him I hoped the PFrench stretcher-bearers woula find | him and pick him up. As I turned, | I saw him take up his rifle to shoot me, who had preserved his life! T | was so mad! 1 went back with my | bayonet and stuck him. They are all alike, all savages. j Twenty-two times have 1 led bayn- net charges. We lead to show our | men we are not afraid to die. They | follow. The German officers drive their men ahead, and if the are killed they surrender. They good sharp-shooter but they afraid of our knives I was two years and a half in the trenches before 1 was wounded. As soon 1 am well enough 1 shall go back after more ( I have only killed nine—nine that I am sure of. T am not afraid to die. If we do not fight and die we will be made slaves. So will England and America There will be no chance for anybody The French would rather die than | made slaves. 1 wounded six times | and honorahly discharged with wit pension. But all re-enlist | and go back a private from this | count 1 n da my duty as ‘ as a private, and we niust i made slaves 1 Ly Ser i lon Kit i PSeh Canadian Infantrey A newcomer's initiation to methods of war is gener | l¢ tartling My own was | plosior mine near FIill 60 cr 1 bad gone into fhe first I ches. 1 was thrown from my fee CIGARETTE One is not lone when by himself—wit MURAD, The Turkis Cigarette. Mabers of the Highest Grade Turkish and E;ylz;im Cigarsttes in the Warid