Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 20, 1918, Page 8

] “had forgotten lll about the wt.r. through thaf then an order came qade would again take over their The day that these orders were is- ['‘causing us u'oubla in me pepted. . Sixteen men from our brigade lef Mfor the course in machine gunnery. Whis course lasted two weeks assigned o the brigade machine gun compan Mt almost broke my heart to leave my & The gun we used was the Vickers, ht .303, water cooled. 1 was still a member of the Suicide n into the fire. Bection 1, Gun No. 2, and the first time in” took position in the front line ould mount our gun on the B 31‘ rud!.neu on the fire step. We did ning outside of the ordinary trench putine. On the night that we were fo “carry out’ ’'a bombing raid st the German lines consisted of ty company men, sixteen bombers d four Lewis mmcmne guns with eir crews. The raid took the Boches by sur- ise and was a complete success, the bringing back twenty-one pris- The Germans must have been aw- ly sore, because they turned loose barrage of shrapnel, with a few les” and “whiz bangs” inter- ed. The shells were dropping Into front line like hailstones. s $ To get even, we could have left the mers in the fire trench, in charge the men on guard and let them ck Fritz's strafeing, but Tommy s ot treat prisoners that way. Five of:them were brought into. my &g‘mrud turned over'to me‘so that they would be safe from the German fire. In the candlelight, they looked very riuch shaken, nerves gone and chalky fdces, with the exception of one, a #reat big fellow. He looked very h at ease. I liked him from the 1 got'out the rum jar and gave each »;nip -and passed around some fags, the old reliable Woodbines. The | other prisoners looked their gratitude, t -the big fellow .said in FEnglish, nk you, sir, the rum is excellent |} m3d T appreciate it, also your kind- ness.” “'He told me his name was Carl Schmidt, of the 66th ‘Bavarian Light rifantry; that he had lived six M New York' (knéw the city better than I.did), and been to Coney Island gd many of our ball games. was fegular fan. I couldn’t make him b&flm'e that Hans Wagner wasn't the best ball player in the world. From New York he had gone to. Landon where he worked as a waiter in.-the Hotel ,Russell. Just before the r he went home to Germany to see ngs parents, the war came and he was cpnscripted. wHo. told . me he was very sorry hgar that ILondon was in ruins from the Zeppelin raids. I could not ‘con- — to Your Money Back if it Fails This extraordinary remedy for 'skin affections we fully and confidently guarantee. If one tube does not re- move your Skin Trouble - oor——— we will give back you;' money. 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We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fairest 'flfl.- Ask us for plans lnd prices: J,F TOHI’KINS I vohmteered-and was ' ac- Lewis gunners, at “stand to” we parapet watch beside it unt.flm"md the morning, then the gun dismounted and again placed did-eight days in the front line och without anything unusual hap- . jmust be had at once if America is & Copyright by ARTHUR eir’! EMPEY - . 4 vince him. otherwise, sfor - hadn’'t’ . he bmthlng. wm\ dzmeulty'. ln a t@w seen moving pictures in_ one of the | minytés ‘he opened his ‘eyes d German cmo ot St. ‘Paul’s Cathedral| in_ruins. ; i the subject because . he was so stubborn in his belief. It was my intention to try and pump him for information as to the methods of. the German snipers, who had last. days. I broached the uubject and he shut up like a clam. After a few minutes he very innocently said: “German snipers get pud rewards for killing the English.” I eagerly asked, “What are they?” He answered: “For killing or wounding an Eng- lish private the sniper gets one mark. For killing or wounding an English of- ficer he gets five marks, but if he kills a Red Cap or English General, the sniper gets twenty-one days .tied to the wheel of a limber as punishmem. for his carelessness.” Then he paused, waiting for me to Dbite, I suppose. I'bit all right and asked him why the sniper was punished for killing an English general. With a smile he re- “Well, you see, if all the English generals were killed, there would be no one left to make, costly mistakes.” I shut him up, he was getting too fresh for)a prisoner. After a while he winked at me and I winked back, then the escort came to take the' prisoners to the rear,’ I shook hands and wished ft y. Jjourney to. Blighty.’ * fellow, had an Jron Cross, too. I ad- some Tommy would:be .sending home to his girl in Blighty as a sou- venir. ¢ | from the fire step of our front line n we heard a noise imme- front of our eaptain in the next traverse climbed vestigate—a brav ~—“Crack!” went 2 a few minutes later. in the next platoon w: the captain’s death Mills bomb in the poise with the shouted warning to us: “Duck your nappers, A sharp dvnamits front of us, ané We -immedi shells, and i dark- f tlence. cers, one a captain and the other an unteroffizier, a rank grade of a lieutenant. completely torn’ away by the" bomb's explosion. ‘The unteroffisier was alive, WANT NORWICH MECHANICS b LI {Local War Burezu Ready to. Accept| Enrcilments for Urncle Sam. Connecticut mechanics with trades. adaptable to shipbuilding are caded upon to.enroll in the United States shipyard volunteers of the public service reserve. They will be called by the government when. they are | needed. - When they. go to work they will reeeive pay at the rate prevailing in the yards .to which they are assigned. .The quota of Connecticut is 10,000 enroilments of me nready to enter shipyards and build America’s Victory fleet. The enrollment in state is in charge of the Connecticut state council of defende and Leo A. Korper, federal In other commurities, enroiments may be made at the offices of the local agencies of the defense coun- cf 3 Y s e e s ¢ | America must buiid Pthem in vast quant hips—build transport . its numbers and ! to rx nt fighting !fqrcc on tha firing line ificials of this government are agreed j that ships—and men to build them— rip a hole in the “Hindenburg.lins This is the need of the hour, a na- tional need. that Connecticut can help meet. Germany thinks that America can- not build ships. The Xkaiser -knew when he threw out the ('hallgl"e to warfare that there were not enough ' men in America working on shipbuild- ing to build. an adequate merchint AN AMERICAN SOLDIER B OUNNER N FRANCE AND ‘WENT. o blinked in the; glare of ‘the candles The pair had eviden en drink- ing » heavily, . for{ me cohol fumés were sickening: and tely vaded the dugout. I tur away disgust, hating to see a man cross Great Divide full of booze. 3 One of gur officers could speak man and he questioned the ' dy! ig man. In a faint voice, interrupted by m- quent hiccoughs, the unterolllllbr tol his story. ° There had been a drinking ‘baut| among the officers in’ one of the Ger- man dugouts, the main beverage be- ing champagne. ‘he” informed us that champagne was 'plenitiful ‘on their side and that it did not cost them anything either. About | seven that night the conversation had turned ‘to the “contemptible” Eng- lish, and the captain had made a wag- er that he would hang his cap on the tempt for the Emglish sentries. wager was accepted. At eight o'clock the captain and he had crept out into No.‘Man’s ' Land to .carry- out uus ‘wager. “ They had gotten about half way across’ when the drink took’effect and the captain fell asleep. After about two hours of vain attempts the unter- offizier had at last Succeeded in wak- ing the captain, reminded him of his| bet, and:warned him -that ‘he would | ‘With a drunken leer | | him “The best ,of luck and a sa.te I likeq that prisoner,-he was a fine vised him to keep it eut of sight, ‘or it # Ono dark and rainy night while on guard we were ldoking over the top barbed, wire, The sentry next to me: challensed lish wire. Realizing this too. late. “Halt! Who comes there?” and|the captain drew his revolver and | brought his rifle to. the . aim. .His|with a muitered -curse fired- blindly challenge was answered in German. A but foolhardy deed bullet and he tumbled back ipto the trench with a} \hole 'througl his ‘stormiach ‘and died A lance corporal } so enraged at! t he chucked a rection of the my lucky lads.”! report, a flare in{ up two star | iit could see two cround close and four one grade higher ! than a sergeant-mafor, but below the | The captain’s face bad. been a)moxt' 1 FOR U. S. SHIPYARDS. | *d | the public reserve, this vountry of unrestricted submarine | be the laughing stock of the officers’ | mess if he did not accomplish his op-i ject, but the captain was trembling all over and insisted- on returning to the German lines. lost their In the darkness thgy; bearings and crawled to-; ward the English trenches. They'| reached the barbed wire and . were| suddenly challenged by our seniry. Be- ing too drunk to realize that the challenge was in English, the “cap- tain refused to crawl back.-Finally the unteroffizier convinced his superior that they were in front of -the Eng- toward our trench. . His doubt killed our chptain. Then the bomb came over and there he was, dying--z we thought. T! his men w A D * Without giving us an formation ‘the unterd: ‘We seached the bullet no T di hodies forg%danhv fication disks but they had left every- ! thing behind before starting on their foolhardy errand. Next afternoon we buried thtm in | our little cemetery’ apart from the! graves of the Tommies, If you ever g0 into that cemetery you will see two + little wooden crosges in the corner of | the cemetery set away from the rest. They read: | ront and Captain ! timp German Arm¥ { it, in . the Died—1916 | candles, . we Unknown 0. German offi- RLP. Unteroffizier- rman_Army Died—1916 | b i l | | i i worth _while. - The | rpedoing merchant ing women and chil- | .l*(-n w‘ s based upon his actual know- | edge that this country.could not huild ! ships .fast enough_to. transport. sol-| | diers, food and munitions in sufficient «uanttiies . to. make, : America’s help' count for anything worth while in 1he‘ war. “But the Germans did not reckén with | © { the American mechanie. - The - kaisel ai ot realize. that he was. throwing out a challenge to a nation - whose workmen are able to adapt themselves to any task to which they. apply them- Ships are not things of mys- they are a preduct of everyday The Americar: me- ships.. The trades with which he is familiar are the very i trades which are followed in the ship- yards. Shipyard Volunteers :Wanted. The enrollment of mei United States shipyard the public service roserve, as { be knowr, is being condueted {mecticut by the Connecticut { council of -defense nad Leo | federal directod ‘for Con = co-operation. Mr. i Korper was ’A;)'pomtflfl difector in this state for this and two other!important government employment services upon {the nomination of the state council of defense. Local Agencies Aiding. The agencies by means of which the enroilments are being made are the war bureaus and two committees of the counocil throughout Connecticut. All of these have received Supplies of enrollment cards and are able to fur- nish information concerning the gen- rollment for shipyard service. No man is asked to give up his joh and gb at once to a shipyard to begin work. Instead, men with trades adapt- able to shipbuilding are asked to en- for the volnnteer of hey will | Con- _ state serve. ment wants them to stick to th e f'f;he“ Greatest Sales ’ wholesale cost to effect mediate learance. DON'T put this off—REMEMBER that VALUES like these are eagerly snapped - up, and a sale like this cannot and will not last forever. Regardless of the presént market prices our entire stock of CL ING, SHOES and FURNISHINGS have been priced below present an im- - BROOKLYN OUTFITTERS 266-268-270 MAIN ST. - “The Store That Satisfies”’ NORWICH, CONN. After they enroll; the govern- T jobs until they are called fer shipyard ser- i vice. When they are called into this {§ @ircetor, in €o-operation, The naticn is now calling fOr the|garijce they will be sent to a ship- Norwich mecha zmay: tentpil e olinent ok s > WO | yard which is ready {o’receive them, at the office of the Norwich war | entef | where they can be properly housed bureau, the local agency of the : in the | ng cared for, and there - will council of defense, which has an erism. c*on-\nkcmc 181 B e vases At tHeMcale\ pald Inehat adequate supply of - enroliment nish 10,000 of these enroll- | pouichiar g, blanks and pledge cards. Thel war §| ments. It is the parpose to take men | A ¥ bureau can give- further informa- §jfrom nlaces where they are not essen- | Some of the Useful Trades. tion. ' Its office is at 63 Broadway. || tial to prodaction’of. war materials | ' yren with all sorts of trades can be Arthur F. Libby is the chairman. covered by goverrment contract. used in shipbuilding. miliar trades which have a this work, the following tioned: makers, chippe workers, facto: % leftsmen. molde: and pipe- fitters, shéeet metal workers and cop- smiths, iron welders, painters and many others. Governor's Appeal to Mechanics. Gov. Marcus H. ‘Holcomb in a mes- sage issued a few da to the people of the state reviewing the gov- ernment’s need for shipbuilders said: laborer: “In this grave national emergency 1! call upon skilled workmen in Connec-: ticut to-consider carefully Without question shipbuilding is a matter of .vita] importance in our fight with Germany. Skilled workmen have a duty in this war which the goy- ernment considers as important as the duty of carrying arms is to those who are .able to do that. Those men in fleet. But the nation must have them | roll inj the United States shipyard|the state who are ‘willing to enter the if its armed forces are to do any|volunteers of the public service re-|shipyards, where every rivet driven is i WORKING IN SHIPYARD FOR UNCLE SAM. L s their duty.ieight-hour shifts necessary a blow at the kaiser, are called upon to enroll in this service. They must; remember, however, that their duty now. is to enroll and to- remain at their present tasks -until- the government calls them to service and directs them Wwhere to go.”" First Need is Ships. In a recent telegram sent out by Charles Pietz, vice president and gen- eral manager of the emergency fleet corporation, said in speaking of’ the need of: shipyard_volunteers: “Without a great industrial army ready to talee its place as the nBed of labor in the shipyards ever grows more urgent, we cannot carry out the shipyard program, on-which hangs the fate of our men in France and of our allies the world over. To win the war our first need {s ships, and to build the ships uor first need is ear- nest and skilled labor.” Some Yards Nearly Ready. . In.a subsequent telegram to the Connecticut state council of defense, Mr. Pietz said: “Within 60 days, three huge govern- ment yards will be completed and more than 60,000 workmen will be re- quired to furnish them with the-three if these vards are to turn out their ships ac- cording to schedule. The shipping board now has 706 ship ways. Of these 302 are for woodes ships and 414 are for steel construction. The yards in which they are located only work one eight-hour shift every day, six days a week. This is monstrous. If we are to keep ahead of the submarine we need lhree shifts 52 weeks, in the year.” Secretary of War Tells' Need. Secretary of War Newton D, Baker says of the ship situation: The number of men we can place and maintain in France will depend upon. the number of ships available for their transport and.supplies.” When Secretary Baker was before the senate commiitee on military af- fairs on Jan. 23 he said: “We will have more than one-half sillian men in’ France early in 1918 and we have available, if the trans- portation facilities are available to us, 1,500,000 men who in: ‘133 shall be shipped to France.” The transportation and. support of these men will require at least 6,000,- 000 tons of new shipping. The shipyards will need 250,000 men to build ships to transport: this’ ton- nage. They will not be needed all at once, but’ merely as they .are called Into service by the government. Enroll—To - Beat -the Submarine. The Connecticut workman’ who ‘is ready to servie his country in the ship- vards should enroll now at the office of his local war bureau or town com- mitfee of the state council of defense so that he can be notified when need- ed. The enroliment form vhich he will fill out is a card containing in- formation concerning the man and his special abilities. = The man also will sign a card volunteering his service in this sork. This-card 'will be sept to, Edward N. Hurley, ¢hairman of the Urited States _shipping board * at Washington, and the man will receive a “Cer}iflqfls of Enrollment” in the Uni mu shipy: M’fi‘en eers ot the nation is ready to use his services the man will receive notice and com- plete instructions from the govern- ment. ' America must build hundreds of ships in order, to beat the kaiser. Connecticut mechanics may be de- pended upon to-render their full share of asssitance to the nation in'the task of building America’s Victory fleet of merchant \essels EAST' WO0OODSTOCK James Aldrich Writes From Argan- sas—Community Ciub to Suspend Dues of Boys in Service—Mecting of Clover Circle. James Aldrich writes from FEb- bertsfield, Ark. that he enjoyed’the trip, going by way of Washington. At Memphis a fine dinner was served the boys by the Red Cross. It is very warm there and mud is knee deep. Alpha Witter who has been at Fort Slocum for a few weeks .has been transferred to Texas. Mrs. L. H. Linderman entertain- €d members of Lapus Nidl eclub Sat- urday - afternoon: Mrs. Roscoe Alton had the Mission- ary circle meet at her home Tuesday 4fternoon. Mrs. A. F. Hibbard was the ieader. Community Club Meeting. The regular meeting of the Commu- nity club was. held last - Wednesday evening. It was voted to suspend all payment of dues of the young men who havc enlisted. Miss Katherine Seward, of Putnam, gave. several pi- ano solos, also” musical readings, each number being heartily applauded. Supervisor Harrington zave a talk on Schools. A social hour (ol'lowed. s Eleanor Linderman left Satur- day for Middlstown where she |is tgaching. Mrs. Agatha Bughee of Phtnam. is spending some ume\nth her son, Chas. Bugbee. = Clover Circle Meets. The Clover circle met with Dorothy Bundy Saturday afternoon. Clara Ed- dy was leader. WARRENVILLE - Fifth Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs: Raymond O, Baker—Sled Party to Westord to Attend Entertain- ment, Mr. ‘and Mrs, Raymond O. Baker celebrated . their - fifthh ' wedding anni- versary at their home Thursday even. ing, Feb. 14th. About 35 friends were present, including guests from Mans- field, West Ashford and Willimantic. The evening wids very pleasantly spent playing zames and ih singing. Ice cream, cake and coffee were seryed. Mr. and Mrs, Baker received several beautiful and useful’ gifts. . The ‘Who Do club held .a special ;neeung*at. their rooms Tuesday cen- ng Earl E. James, a stident at Wind- ham High' school, has been spending the ‘past week with his parents here. Sled Rldo to Wntfard .with their friensd, enjoyed a'sled last Friday evening'to Westford,w! they attended an entertainment: and baked hean supper at the church. Mrs. Mary Howlett has been spend-- ing several days with'her daughter in South 'Windham. Mrs. Gaylor is daughter from Manchester. *EKONK Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gallup with Mr and Mrs. Louis Ingalls of Danielson spent Saturd&y in Hartford. g Miss Emily’ Hopkins of Plainfleld visited her grandparents here a fes! ua;s last week. Rev. Clirgm Pryor preached an e: cellent discourse Sunday morrning. Henry Congdon visited several dayu with his aunt in Danjelson. , Mrs. Albert Brown. and daughter. Cyathia, spent a day in Norwich la.st week. Miss Marion Blakeslee passed the' week end. with, Mvs. Edward Gallup; and they spent Saturday in Provis dence. . Superintendent Ireland visited the school here last week, > Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gallup spent a day in Boston recently. Mrs. George Gallup retiirned Satur- day_evening from a four davs' vigit in_Danielson. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gallup were among the party. who atlended- the entertainment given in the lecture course in Danielson Saturday. Miss Colburn and: Mrs>A. 'A. Staf- ton are suffering with hard coids. Reminder to Spain. ! It might profit Spain if she’d tuen back a page or two of history and brush up‘on the things that happened to her once before when she thought to snatch a pin-feather or so from the grand old American eagle—Macon Telegraph., BILIQUS 7wy If you have bad taste in mouth, fonl breath, furred tongue, dull headache, - drowsiness, " disturbed sleep, mental depression, yellow- ish skin—then you are bilious. quickly relieve this disorder, which is the result of liver derangement and severe digestive disturbance. Purely vegetable. 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