New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1918, Page 13

B NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918. 8 & ' A st o drop twenty or thirty | mind about how they were making < main object there ymbs They killed somewhere | muchines in those duys. The poor We discover later that one man Ai Liround seventy of our men 1 was | werkmanship and poor material that ' ploughed a ) nformation and ve of the wounded. They finnlly | would cost a man his life. They ! sniped our lines. and his brother-in- | Hith i J) F ety (v DAY Y ne that were left, back to my mother rpasted when L round out 1 had et s oD tho grest Patriotlc Torces Ll “b 2 1 Canada. But 1 am in pretty fair cen cxpioding to 1 other than ' story 3 . . ] ,,.‘.:,_.- ; ape now and am all right for re- | Lloyd Georse himse iz, and & Journa- 8 y trlCt )‘ i eSil a3 WOODROW WILSON duty list by the name of Harold Cox. We April 15, 1917, “Mai Who (o Back” Give Re- """\t o tns - comedien it e e S S e T e @ Connecticut By Capt. C. F. Campbell | the Cox cottuge that h it i Highland Light Infantry (Cepyrighted by the British-Cena-| 10th Battalion, 2nd Ao o) Gy I QTEINLT e CJtdl OI EXperlences Attached Roynl Flying Corps dian Recruiting Mission) \’i.‘” RO - ;| THE STEIN-BLOCH CREED —_— | Author of “Soldiers of the sky” | By pPrivate Hugh Fleming o bl i g 4 ‘ f -1 015 : i o e deked thi eces of shrapnel out or Fall, 1918 olfficntcd by the British-Chondisn (Davis Pub. Co.) !L,u. C, lst Battallon, British Expedi- | s — i ] g 1d do to t Recruiting Mission, which main- One day was asked to try tionary Forces. St T 5 T % N this great INTERNATIONAL CRISTS, tains depots in all large cities, nachin L type totally d t 1 was an observer, on special duty, #here men, except Ameri- om any I had flown. L throttled it [0 first Battalion of Leices line i ot 1\ the Germar C we have a n:!carly_ defined duty to De”;m,fi‘ cans, may volunteer | | down and taxied out onto the acro-; and Buffs. Having been gassed at (renc \ S 1 da to a iR a task to accomplish, that must have an i Quartermaster Sergt. G. W. | drome and took off. The weather ' Ypres and wounded by a machine e : ‘o Cli | Se portant effect upon the morale of America’s “ellows. i was exceptionally dud that day, and ; 8un bullet, 1 got all that was com- i . i & i B 3 e heed - bth Brigade, Canadian Field Avtillery. | | was tooling along about 2600 feet |ing to mie, and | can't speak too high- G ru : 524 dOZ . S B o ot d : S across No Man's Land My memory hasn’'t been very good ; over Kent County when I heard a of the Red Cross work over there = 5 o i e i i S z i res y TeSts for details since [ was gassed, but I |loud banging in the air intake pipe ' And of the courage of our stretcher weak, but the boys kept pulling at me Reali ,mgvfhc 'CSI’OI?51DI1“> that S upon ust recall ng as o prisoner im a | that was just my back. It didn’t , bearers. Here is an example of it: |45 make me kee ot n ¢ . 3 us, we will meet 1t by maintaining iu ¢ srman trench, trampled and kicked | bother me at first because I was used I was gassed at two o'clock in the ... . : . o i e ‘::"”""r’ '—'~""“~‘"f' pr respect our high standard of quality that t 1iround. I didn't care any more about | to it when the petrol mixturc was afternoon. At seven that night two ¢ 5 & PN Rt isted f Sixty-Three Years Me ther now is the best time to do. it. BB persisted for Six ee Years. that than they did, for that matter. | low in another type of machine etcher bearers found me and pre- | !fe there he I L St loldogt, 3 e : i X f . > the weather is o was just partly conscious, and not! A louder noise—a sort of co S ) carry me back to the dress- Nt ] W 11 CONT T e ool nal nterested in what became of me at | sound—and 1 looked around | ation that moment a °FE 'I'-?"‘ mos will keep et | E W .”,L ¢ A use all-wool— hat time |« long streak of flame running o f | explosive struek the top of the i ; 4 “.' han those laid later in ] only all-wocl—woolens. I had been out with our patral re- | ihe back of the engine and catching | der of one of the men, and he had to : ol : et ; v ; s ; alring the lines of communication. | on to my tail plane. 1 was pretty | be helped back by his co-worker. | “D¢MY firc was intense and red hot pecial price an quanti- § WE WILL COMPLY {uily with the recom- Ve had wiggled slowly across No | much excited, and shut my throttle | The latter soon returned with an- ' We did not even v Ll ” 4 mendations of the Commercial Economy Challenge Mi 15¢ can. lan's Land in the moonlight, had | off. But t move did not help mat- | other stretcher bearer to help carry | days later we tried it L d Fd Board of the Council of National Defense. inlshed the trick and { back. | ters me back. This stretcher bear- i i} i - 3 . v 5 achine gunner and . t ] 't was gotting light rhaps about I ficured that the engine t er was killed when within a hundred e & Our in the morning. and the German | fired and somehow or other had 5ot ! yards of me, aud then the first man, | SeVER &uns. We 1d to wait u b / WE WILL DEVOTE every effort and energy made # o 9 5} 0 ullets were wl \round us. the flame up into the tank I by a supreme effort. carried me back | the infantr took the trench ind to the production of the utmost in value Then we s a low cloud coming up my mind to a quick trip down. I| himgelf. Talk about wcourage and |then we followed. When our Bat- v, 301 MATIN STREET ‘nd we kne it was. The Ger- | poked my nose down at @ sharp an- ! herojqm! talion was going up the road, about WE WILL CO-OPERATE with every re- nan poiso is heavy and al- o. frantieally looking back at the Telotbny epecial work astaniobt [onsinundned wnd ards from th hrmya cre to the ground. llaze going up behind me (the ma-|server was exciting. One time I was | front trench. the Germans opened There was 2 e rise in the g|;4\n\d hine \\"u\ of 'r‘he[_Pusther ;}'N'\X and | 5ut after a spy and had considervable | fire and their high explosives caught | Copyrighted by the RBritish-Canadian head of us, a small hill, and we , paying littic attention to where I was 4 s e s i) S : - ould only reach the top of that hill | the proceedings behind me. when ! o7 " 00 "o ot intervals back of | was one of the seven men left tains depots in all large citi justly feel—We have done our best ‘e oould get out of the gas fumes. ' suddenly I noticed everything 0ing | ;.. lines. 1t appeared to be signal- | happened to be the last man. Out ¢ Slisse vien, sReste - mieticans was not quick enough. T got a few !1ound me—then a crash. I flipped | )i (o e German frout line trench- | our four Colts and three lLewis gun may volunteer sreaths of the stuff and fell to the | {he edge of gome trees, turned ST slarted loutl lolinvestivate, laalthia|| one hwas 1826 a LEolt machine § Notl By Lieut. H. [5. Russell round . - mplete somepsault in nwl n was my special job. 1 went off hast- [(ing was left of the trench when we | Atr&vle & Sutherland Highlanders, & .ia:z‘,";,n, Lo e (\',fl,fi,’\'f‘,,"‘h(!:m.:‘,”\‘{?,:v J-?yl‘—(\‘,',y: o tfi[et r?\:lm;nm]w:{.;r a pod | ily not thinking T would have far to { reached it but one bay and a mass of British Expeditionary Forces. Aitic My eri < tt %0, 50 did not trouble to get a pass.(shell holes. We had hit the line all b received ) ieara E: wallop. » VRS L 1 1 = (Ilic ¥ e L. aw, 0 i ] = fias missing, probably ki I,‘1 i Quickiy I“I ing H“‘m);‘d ’;m a4 guard. There was nothing to do | arou L lalf ipleted silege course in v} ) 2 Later, days, or weeks. do mot ' my ist 1 stepped out. o Cambridge and joined the Pritish 3 hut to 1 his B ic f bee sed to a Colt g . but | . . 007 o i) ageiniin soodbands ot jGmpea ihecauselTinad amasned (| atatelvisldioriraceih s iEur Sy e did hiused fto @i Colt ‘gun fbUt] | ditionary forces, Later e ente New Britai Blienty © ain ot khos vt ihe under carriage and the machine | NOt belleve my story. To the divi-{was able, of course, to load anc the British Flying Cor| f S LA A I e Sy L OG ihe dois it Ll Al Jul A sional headguarters I had to go, | the one Lewis which we had lef s ol B ¥incy 1ooxediatimy identincation'liwas foniifs heny MTI= o R e from (| LR S SR SUEE S O ears. He has j t a from a ss, and sent my mother another | that machine as I could, figuring the | WALE "¢ tgfl’_’pfw; B 'm’fi‘ “‘\-_ o et B €Y= Leriod of instructional d Camp message, telling her the first was a { main tank would go up in a minute . '-; - 'B‘mu’x : 1‘%{‘ o e ”j’ - WE'e | Borden, Canada. and in Texas with mistake i —and it did. Just then a heavy ¥ e ae) i s ore DO e e S COLTILEIER ILBLC NSOl the WS IR Army. ETe W aava s -~y I have learned since that there w {hundcr storm broke overhead and I| Whom I was taken. Nefther did he us were on sentrs dut; CRINg. ! Americans will make the best fyers | hully heef. hread. tea and sugar in ‘ A 5 blg battle and our boys re-took the ' ot back in some bushes and watched | Pelieve me. He called up the O. C.Along came a high explosive and ! the world. They take to it like | . N ShEan S S ) posttion and rescued me and other | m chine burn up Gl B iy BCEGGUEMOWS Gr A BNGET e e @i e, GuGlGiaes o) noien e B il e | risoners that they had not had time » men who had been playing . Farm. sure he had secured a Hun | wounded me. The other three were ; o take away back. And they took | col an adjecent field came run-; bassing himself off @s a Canadian | never scratched until they were re-| ¥ X My O. C., of course, verified mr state- | lieved | | | renches source at our command in the solution of the industrial problems that confront us. THE STEIN-BLOCH CO Rochester, N. V. ittie packages.) We were wet to the s ar th G nans fa skin. We were about ten hours in lowing it ny of our secor . . ihe trenches: trenches half dug. full vent \ « it. The Ge ying is a suft job compared with { o¢ water and rats. Then we wwere 1 5 ] o banl o oAby \ experience at New Chapelle. That i n e e et Foor devil, he's gone.” said one ments, and T was given the necessary | After twelve or fifteen hours we | was my first attack. We planned it end was in fair shape in Englan8l, | @< he approached. This struck me as | Paper to permit me to carry on. But, were relfeved. T was able to walk, | uc an attack, but it was the Germans « Zeppelin attack put me out of bus- | funny. Coming up hehind them [ | il was too late and the signalling had | but that was all. There was nothing | who attacked. It wae my firet exper- | ness again aid. “What do you think of that | ceased &:n do but get over, and make a run! jence with the German gas. [ was o e Ol B R The next night the light began| for it. [ nearly collapsed. but h(‘rni-‘v‘ two battles after this, but New | in the evening the tents were all 1t scemed dificult for them to real- | flashing again, but a mile and a haif ;T am to tell the tale And here h‘f'hfl)w'l\n stands out in my mind as i | i | Jof of German prisoners as well | told to set our watches and expect to tozet [ itteries kept at neke the attack the next . ve \ Johind them about quarter to six went down under but some of t Al of a sudden tl rage lif! nbulance men zot me and- pulig ind we were given and over we went to make the attack L ore » gas maslk at o th highted up ar of course. a mark for | e I was the pilot of that machine. | farther to the right. By the time we | Sergt. Major Saunders, who was pres- the Zeppelins. When we heard them | as they had been picturing me some- ! 2ot across the trenches and wcrossed | ent at t sme show, he in Company | ver e the 5th Brigade trumpaters | )lace in the smouldering debris. They | the roads it had stopped. The next B and I in Company (. Fritz did not The artfllery was going like the very e, We nprepared f4 the worst expericnce I ever went through After a march of twelve or fifteen | oo v T Goiiang let off the & e T P el ave “Lights out” on their bugle cscribed the loud banging they had | day I spent surveying this ground.|complete his work with either of us, [ miles through French villages fn rain @ %2 f0F © 0 Haride e s e R d“that sound was the help rm{;um in the air. the spurts of flame, | I found a man ploughing a field. He'for we are perfectly able to induce | and sleet we reached the trenches, | . - s devil, plaving old Harry all around manocuvers of tha t Al of t We went only a few paces over ehland Divisio that a = ! by = 1 of our me in the st line went s ] i W our al Huns required. T knew then that |and my rapid dive was loafing on the job and it was other men to fizht him even if we | carrying all our worldly possessions hey had hit the mark, and they pro- I said a few things I had on my [ very evident that ploughing was not| cannot do it first hand on our backd, mations ror thres davs| UL o L tie sl oL down under it. other turned hack. I ! st he att ume {ro utomobile Owners, Read Caretully! Starting Monday, April 15th, we put on sale, books of coupens good for ien ollars in trade at list prices on all goods in our Accessory Store, including Gasoline and Oil. These books will be sold for $9.50 making a saving t¢ vou all your Auto Necessities. 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