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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1918)
jjfc 1 J 1 ID 11 6r) mi ANAMEWOVNSOLDIi: 4 WHO VENT MldTIYtitl MACHINE GUHHERERVWCW FRANCE m oy AruiwfrY 8YN0PSIS. CHAPTER I-Flrd by the mwi of th Inking of the Lusltanla by a Oermin lubmarln. Arthur Ouy Empty, an Ameri can, leavei hit offlc In Jortey City and ton to England where be enUiti to th Brltlah army. CHAPTER n-After a period of train ln(, Empey rolunteert for Immediate eerv Ice and eoon flnde hlmaelf In reat billets "somewhere In France," where he drat makei the acquaintance of the ever-prea- CHAPTER m-Empey attends hll flret church aervlcee at the front while a Ger man Fokker clrclei over the congregation. CHAPTER IV-Empev's command goee Into the front-line trenchea and la unaer Ore for the first time. CHAPTER V-Empey learns to adopt the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, "If you are going to get It, you'U get It, so never CHAPTER VI-Eack In rest biiieis, Em pey gets his first experience as a meas orderly. CHAPTER vn-Empey learns how ths .British soldiers are fed, . CHAPTER TTTI-'BSck In the front-line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." CHAPTER IX-Empey makes his first visit to a dugout In "Suicide Ditch," CHAPTER X-Empey learns what con stitutes a "day's work" in the front-line trench. At about the time he expected to ar rive at Waterloo station he was laid to rest In a little cemetery behind the lines. He had gone to Blighty. In the trenches one can never tell it Is not safe to plan very far ahead. After "stand down1 the men sit on tne lire step or repair to weir respec tive dugouts and wait for the "rum Is sue" to materialise. Immediately fol lowing the rum comes breakfast, brought up from the rear. Sleeping Is then In order unless some special work turns up. Around 12:30 dinner shows up. When this la eaten the men try to amuse themselves until ."tea" appears at about four o'clock, then "stand to" and they carry on as before. While tn reat billets Tommy gets up about six In the morning, washes up, answers roll call, Is Inspected by bis platoon officer, and has breakfast At 8:43 he parades (drills) with his com pany or goes on fatigue according to the orders which have been read out by the orderly sergeant the night pre vious. Between 11:30 and noon he Is dis missed, has his dinner and Is "on his own" for the remainder of the day, unless be has clicked for a digging or working party, and so It goes on from day to day, always "looping the loop" and looking forward to peace ' and Blighty. Sometimes, while engaged In a "cootie" hunt, you think. Strange to say, but It Is a fart, while Tommy Is searching his shirt serious thoughts come to him. Man; a time, when forming mil operation, I mm tneo to figure out the outcome of the war and what will happen to me. My thought! generally ran tn this channel : Will I emergt safely from the next attack t If I do will I skin through the following one, and so on J While your mind la wandering Into the future It It likely to be rudely brought to earth by a Tommy Interrupting with, "Whafi good for rheumatism r Then you have something else to think of. Will you come out of this war crippled and tied Into knots with rheumatism, caused by the wet and mud of trenches and dugouts? Ton give It up ai a bad Job and generally saunter over to the nearest estamlnet to drown your moody forebodings In a glass of sickening French beer or to try roue luck, it the always present i gam or -nousa." xou can leaf rnt alng-eoiig voice of a Tommy droning out the numbers as he extracts the little squares of cardboard from tna bag between bis feet CHAPTER XI. Over the Top, . On my second trip to the trenches our officer was making his rounds of Inspection, and we received the cheer ful news that at four In the morning we were to go over the top and take the Gorman front-line trench. My heart turned to lead. Then the officer car ried on with his Instructions. To the best of my memory I recall them as follows: "At eleven a wiring party will go out In front and cut lanos through our barbed wire for the passage of troops In the morning, At two o'clock our artlllprv will onen nn with an la. tense Domtinrflmont which will lant un til four. Upon the llftlug of the bur rage the first of th three waves will go over." Then he left 8ome of the Tommies, first getting permission from the sergeant, went into the machine gunners1 dugout and wrote letters home, saying that In the morning they were going over the top, and also that If the letters reached their destination It would mean that the writer had been killed. These letters were turned over to the captain with Instructions to mail same In the event of the writer's being killed. Some of the men made out their wills In their pay books, under the caption, "Will and Last Testa ment." Then the nerve-racking wait com menced, Bverj.now and then. I would finnce it tne mil nr niy wrist watra and was surprised to see how fast the minutes panned by. About five minutes to two I got nervous walling fur our guns to open up. 1 could not take my eyes from my watch. I erouniei airnlnst the parnx't and stn.lnefl my iihucles In a deathlike grip iin my rifle, As the hands on my watch showed two o'clock a blinding red flare lighted up the sky In our reur, then thunder, Intermixed with a shnrp, whin tllng sound In the air over our heads. The shells from our guns were speed ing on their way toward the German lines. With one accord the men sprung up on the fire step and looked over the top In the direction of the Gorman trenches. A line of tmrntlin shells lighted up No Man's fond. The din was torrldc and the ground trem bled. Then, high above our heads we could hear a sighing moan. Our big h,,va lu.hlnit Ilia line hnri Oliehed UI) and O.S's and lMnch shells com need dropping Into the 0,crmnn lines. The flash of the guns behind the Hues, tho scream of the shells through the air, and the flare of them, bursting, was a spectacle that put Pain's greatest dis play Into tho shade, Tim constant pup, pup, of German machine guns and an occasional rattle of rills firing gave me the Impression of a huge audience applauding the work of the butteries. Our 18-pounders were destroying the German barbed wire, while the heavier stuff was demolishing their trendies and bashing In dugouts or funk holes. Then Frits got busy. Their shells went screaming over head, aimed tn the direction of the Dares from our butteries. Trench mor tars startad drouiilnaL "MUmUis" In Lewis dun In Action. "THE LIBERTY BOND IS VICTORY'S WAND" I i I . 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