New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 5

WARTIME LEXICON OF THE TRENCHES NEW BRITAIN DAILY HE;TRALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. re-inforcements. In that fight 19 of- flcers and 650 men were killed. Shi Trench slang for ‘“‘shav British army officers consider the dis- cipline that requires every soldier to shave each morning if at all possible, is one of the strongest factors in . keeping up the morale of the troops. Words Used by “Tommy” Atkins in Daily Conversation (Copyright, 1918, British-Canadian Recrulting Mission, which maintains depots in all large cities where men except Americans may volunteer.) Rabbit's Hole—Trench name %mall holes, just large enough for one nen to find shelter, in the of the also used sometimes in reference to mines. Fire from bat- as to drop shells on A for usually rear trenches. Name Box Barrage a tery so directed three sides of skillfully directed box-bar will not only cut off enemy advance in front, but prevent flank movements, o1 re-enforcements coming up from other parts of the trenches to the help of the part attacked. Second Barrage—The barrage prop- er is laid down before advancing troops, or over a particular area. When the attack comes, second Larrage is directed to drop a line of bursting shells at a distance back of the fire-trenches, thus cutting off the front lines from supplies and re-en- forcements from the rear, while the infantry attack takes place. Enemy forces caught between the two are bractically annihilated. Creeping Jimmy-—High velocity shell which gives no warning of i approach. This term is more or les cclloquial in different parts of the line, corresponding probably to the “Sflent Susie” of some other section of the trenches. Flea-Bag-—Officer’s sleeping bag or bed-roll. This is not like a hunter or an arctic explorer’s outfit. It is a leavy canvas sheet seven feet by five feet in which the blankets are laid. The edges are turnd in to meet in the center, and the foot is turned up. The edges are then laced together, so that the roll is really a kind of bag. The advantage is that it can be spread out, and the blankets aired and washed easily. Jake—A universal army term, with meaning something like our expres- sion “ripping”. It is applied without diserimination to a pretty girl, a good soup or stew, or anything with which there is much satisfaction. 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Linon, te has fective remedy been the most ef- for all forms of coughs, colds, bronchitis and wasting liseases for many, many years. It was best in Father Lynch's time, it is best now. If coughs or colds threaten bring vou low, or have already done so, it will bring about a rapid Improvement, and you will be yourself again in a very sort time, Look for this familiar trade-mark. All druggists sell Linonine. to | to the minute, | decided upon is delivered by hand to { werd All druggists, 60c, $1.20, Barrage Alignment—The enemy | trenches are not often parallel to our own, and it is not, therefore, possible to cover all parts of a given section, by giving the artillery one range. The line of bursting shells must conform to the shape of the enemy line, so that the effect is felt with equal vio- lence at all points of attack. To do i this, each gun of a battery is given a specific range, different from any other gun, and correction is made in the same way. In a creeping barrage, unless the alignment conformed with the contour of the enemy trenches, attacking infantry would not be prop- erly protected. In this case, there- fore, the barrage is laid down at a given range, in a line probably paral- lel to our trenches, and the range gradually lengthened for each gun to shape the barrage as it advances to the contour of the enemy trenches. Bracket—Distance between ranges too long and too short for a specific target. TFor registration of a partic- ular target at approximately 2,500 vards, for instance, a gun would drop a shell at perhaps 2,700 yards, and another at say 2,400 yards, or in the language of the artillery 27-24. The effect of these shells being reported by aeroplanes or observation posts, the correction may be 26-25. If the latter scores a direct hit, a second shot is dropped at the same range to verify the finding, and the target is registered. Too long a range is called plus, and too short a one, minus, so that a bracket, in other words, is the plus and minus distance, in locating a target, this is “‘bracketing in rang- ing.” Zero Tim tack. In rehea lines of the bz The time set for at- ing an attack, the rage @ worked out so that when artillery begins fire, all guns are firing at a glv- en range. Two minutes later the range is lengthened on pre-arranged schedule, etc. To perfect this work, all watches must be synchronized, and this is done with nicety by Lon- don time, some hours before the at- tack. Zero time is the exact time when the attack begins: it may be any minute of the 24 hours, but the sealed code message giving the time the commanding officer, for in- minutes aftes When all the synchronized hes point to 4:02, the artillery begins without further orders or car- -ving of messages. Any individual in watches may clearly be very stance 4:02, or two Angle in Range—Bracketing a tar- get east or west is called the Angle, instead of the BracKet in ranging, ! hecause In changing the position of | the gun, it is turned through so many a circle, in contrast to it is raised or low- degrees of bracketing when ered for distance. Char-Tea—Afternoon tea. Probab- ly derived from the Hindustani term Cha, meaning tea. Or it may be de- ! rived from the Hindustani expression might be spclled phonetically the. name of a kind of un- doughnut of flour, water fried in fat, which is a article of t for Indian trcops, and was also used to some extent in South Africa during the Boer war Mulligan that che-patti, lezvened and salt, common Battery—The cookwagon. Mulligan—Irish stew; the meat nd vegetable stew served out to the soldiers in the trenches. Rooti—Bread. Another Hindustani -ried over into English by ish veterans of the Indian ns. the Br camps Skilly vegetables tions. Gun TFire—A colloquial term ferring to morning tea, purely local in its application, soldiers from dif- ferent parts of the line, not recog- nizing it at all with that meaning. Clicked—-A local expression “wounded.” $-0-L—Signaler’s alphabet for “De- Jete,” applied to anything that cannot be done, or is out of the question. Tracer Bullet—A bullet leav- ing a flame or spiral of smoke behind it which enables the operator of the gun to follow its course and recognize “hits.” Especially used by aviators, where it is very valuable at close range as a check on marksmanship. Typewriter Another expression for “machine gun” corresponding to “riveter” and similar terms aris- sion for “Machine Gun” correspond- ing from its sound in action. Jerry Steel shrapnel clso known as “tin hat.” Crystallized Asaault—That is, set- (led down in one place, after surging back and forth, as ground is won or lost in the attack by succeeding waves of infantry. Minnehaha— “minnewer: 5 shel Also meat and army ra- thick served of in soup out re- for helmet, German mortar Name for or trench alled “Minnies.” Curtain F British term for “barrage,” which a military expert defines as ‘‘the creation of a line or rather a narrow belt of shell bursts in front of advancing.troops or over trenches, so continuous as theoretical- ly to prevent the possibility of any living thing passing through, and which actually in, practice, renders such passage so dangerous and ex- pensive of life that it is hardly at- tempted. The “curtain fire” is only possible since the advent of quick-fir- ing field guns twenty odd years ago with the invention of the French famous 75 millimeter gun. Even the old-time concentration of fire did not give the same results because the rate of fire was not rapid enough and not accurate enough. The old guns did not absorb the shock of recoil and had to be relaid and repointed after every shot, because the the trail deeper ground and shifted the whole position of the carriagi It is now possible with modern rapid firing field guns to reach thirty rounds a minute.” Whistling Jimmy-—Howitzer shell, so named from the noise it makes going through the air. TORP—Trench slang torpedo. for aerial Sanfairyann—An anglicized French‘ ) our food, shock drove | and deeper into the . ! have billous attacks, acid stomach alcerb FOR WEAK LUNGS or throat troubles that threaten to become ohronic. this Calcium compound will be found ‘effective. The handiest form vet devised. Free from harmful or habite forming drugs. Try them today. 50 cents a box, including war tax For sale by all drusgists an Laboratory, Philadelphia expression “Cela meaning the same the opposite sense np good, done for. MORALS OF TROOPS REPORTED AS FINE Investigator Finds No Delinguen- ¢y Among American Soldiers ne fait rein”, as “Na-Poo,” or in of “Jake'—that is, London, March 19, (Correspond- ence of the Associated Press)-—‘Ton weeks spent in the war zone con- vinces me that the moral and mor- als of the American soldier in France are in full accord with the finest tra- ditions of American arms and a cred- it to the sociol and religious stand- ards of American soclety,” said Dr. Danlel A. Poling of Boston, Associ- ate President of the United of Christian Endeavor, in an inter- view with the Assoclated Press on his arrival in London on his way to America. “My investigations,” ried me into every port in France; he szid, *car- American landing into rest camps and training camps, and for ten days I was practically in ourfront line, in- cluding two nights and three days in a front-line dugout. 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