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BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OUKGON, THCItSDAY, NOVEMIIEU 7, IIIIH PAGES 1 TFTFvr ) LJUJKtL W tfeas .AlbetiJNLDep EX.GUNNER AND CHIPP PPTTV5oPPf?Pff::il'-MAv- MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN Vvr i iiN ouin I UKKb I . r-RENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD ' WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE XZl Pwrnt7dmCa.voVKWAlWAcIt.uiwAJMTw CHAPTER IV. ( On the Firing Line. When I reported on tho Cassanl After ray fourteen days' leave, I was detailed with a detachment of the legion to go to the Flanders front. I chanced Into the regular uniform of the legion, which Is about like that of tho Infantry, with tho regimental badge a scvcn-flamcd grenade. We traveled from Brest by rail. In third-class cars, passing through La Havre nnd St. Pol, and finally arriving at Bergues. From Bergues wo mnde the trip to Dlxmudc by truck n dis tance of nbout twenty miles. Wo car ried no rations with us, but at certain places nlong the line the train stopped, and we got out to eat our meals. At every railroad station they have booths or counters, nnd French girls work day nnd night feeding the Potlus. It was n wonderful sight to see these girls, and it made you feel good to think you were going to fight for them. It was not only what they did, but the way they did It, nnd It Is at things like this that the French bent tho world. They could tell Just what Ind of treatment each Pollu needed, nnd they saw to It that he got It. They took special pains with the men of the legion, because, as they say, we nro "strangers," and thnt means, "the best we have Is yours" to the French. These French women, young nnd old, could be n mother nnd n sweetheart and a sister all at the same time to any hairy old ex-convlct In the legion, nnd do It In a way that made him feci like a lit tle boy at the time and a rich church member afterwards. The only thins we did not Hko nbout this trip was . , , - , . . . t . K" 7 along that line. There Is n tip that . -..". -,'"'.'. " w. j vnairaiu. . .. There Is another thing about the rrench women that I havo noticed and that Is this: There are pretty girls In every country under the sun, but tho plain girls In Franco are prettier than the plain ones In other countries. They might not show It In photographs, but In action there is something about them that you cannot explain. I havo never seen nn ugly French girl who was not easy to look at. We finally got to Dlxmude, after baring spent about eighteen hours on tho way. On our arrival ono compnny was scat to the reserve trenches and my company went to tho front line trench. We were not placed In train ing camps, because most of ns bad been under fire before. I never had, but that was not supposed to make any difference. They say If you can stand the legion you can stand any thing. Before we entered tho communica tion trench, we were drawn up along side of a crossroad for a rest, and to receive certain accoutrements. Pretty soon we saw a bunch of Bodies com ing along the road, without their guns, B few of them being slightly wounded. Some of them looked scared and oth ers happy, but they all seemed tired. Then we heard some singing, nnd pret ty soon we could seo an Irish corporal stepping along behind the Huns, with Ills rifle slung over his back, and every onco In a while ho would shuf fle a bit and then sing some more. Ho bad a grin on him that pushed his cars back. Tho British noncom who was de tailed as our guide sang out: "What kind of tlmo are yon having, Pat'" Tho Irishman saluted with ono band, dug tho other Into his pocket and pulled out enough watches to make you think you were In a pawn shop. "Oh, a foin tolm I'm bavin'," bo says. "I got wan from each of thlro fellas." Wo counted fourteen prison ers In the bunch. Pat sure thought ho was rolling In wealth. After wo were rested up we were issued rifles, shrapnel helmets nnd BRICK vs. BRICK BUILDINGS IN BEND VALUE ABOUT $500,000 FIRE LOSS IN FIVE YEARS NONE Iick? BEND LEGION OF FRANCE C' TJcirs,TuTO then Marled "dowullio cuHP munlcntton trench. These trenches nro entrances to tho fighting trenches and run nt varying nugles nnd vary ing distances upart They are sel dom wide enough to hold mora than one man, so you have to march single filo In them. They wind In and out, according to the lay of tho land, somo parts of them being more dangerous than others. When you como to a dangerous spot you havo to crawl sometimes. There nro so many cross trenches and blind alleys that you have to hnve a guide for a long time, because with out ono you are npt to walk through nn embrasure In a Are trench nnd right out into tho open, between tho Gcrmnn front line nnd your own. Which Is hardly worth whllu! If any part of tho line Is under fire, the guide nt the head of the lino Is on the lookout for shells, and when ho hears one coming he gives the signal nnd you drop to the ground nnd wait until It bursts. You never get all tho time you want, but at that you havo plenty of tlmo to think ubout things while you are lying there with your face In the mud, waiting to hear tho sound of the explosion. When you hear It, you know you hnve got at least one more to dodge. If you do not hear It well, most likely you nro worrying more nbout tuning your thousand string harp than anything else. In the communication trench you hnve to keep your distance from tho man ahead of you. ThlsNs clone so Uint you will hnve plenty of room to fall down In, and because If a shell should find the trench, there would bo fewer casualties In an open formation LilMU IU U LiWCUt AMU UUllilUU (Kill- than in a closed. Tho German nrtll lery Is keen on communication ,rcnche8, nnd wncncvcr tliey rvot 0no they stay with It a long time. Most of them are camouflaged along the top I, M Iwt c neiny nvlulor8 cun. I Mt 8ce anytMnR but tho cnrth or ; ,,,, tt.hnn ,,, ,,,pnt nn ,Wn nn , ,, on our lines. We took over our section of the front line trenches from n French line regiment that had been on the Job for 24 days. That was the longest time I have heard of tiny troops remaining on the firing line. Conditions at the front nnd ways of lighting nre changing all the time, as each side invents new methods of butchering, so when I try to describe the DIxmudo trenches, you must real- "I Got Wan From Each of Thlm Fel Us." fze thnt It Is probably Just history by now. If they are still using trenches thero they probably look entirely dif ferent But when I was at DIxmudo they wero something llko this: -- V 5? other;buildinqs OTHER BUILDINGS VALUE ABOUT $2,000,000 FIRE LOSS IN FIVE YEARS OVER $100,000 BRICK & LUMBER CO. -nehlful Tho scilcs of front lino tranches nro tho rcscrvo trenches; In this enso llvu to seven mltts nwny, niul still farther back nr tho billots. Thuso may lo houses or linriM or ruined churches niiy plnco that cim possibly bo used for quartering troops when oft duty. Troops wero usually In tho front lino trenches six to eight days, and fourteen to sixteen days In tho reserve trenches. Then back to thu billets for six or eight days. Wo wero not allowed to change our clothing In the front-lino trenches not even to remove socks, unless for Inspection. Nor would they let you ns much ns unbutton your shirt, unless there was nn Inspection of Identifica tion disks. Wo wore n disk nt the wrist nnd another around the neck. You know the gag nbout the disks, of course : If your arm Is blown off they can tell who you nro by tho neck disk ; If your head Is blown off, they do not care who you are. In tho rcscrvo trenches you can makq. yourself moro comfortable, but you cannot go to such extreme lengths nt tnrtirv nn rhnnelni- vnut nlnHuw nn. ! ttrely. Thnt Is for billets, where you spend most of your tlmo bnthlug, chnnglng clothes, sleeping nnd eating. Believe me, n billet Is great stuff; It Is llko n sort of temporary heaven. Of course you know whnt tho word "cooties" means. Let us hope you will never know whnt tho cooties t themselves mean. When you get In or near tho trenches, you take a course 1 In the natural history of bugs, lice, rats and every kind of pest thnt has j ever been Invented. It Is funny to see somo of tho new comers when they Iirst discover u cootie on them. Some of them cry. If they renlly knew what It was going to be like they would do worse than mat. mayoe. Then they start hunting nil over each other. Just llko monkeys. They team up for this purpose, and many times It is In this wny that a couple of men get to be trench partners and come to bo J pnls for life which may not be a long time nt thnt. In tho front-llno trenches It Is moro comfortable to fall asleep on the pnrn-, pet fire-step than In tho dugouts, be cause the cooties oro thicker down below, and they simply will not give you n minute's rest. They certainly nre nctlve Httlo pests. Wo used to make back scrntchers out of certain weapons that hnd flexible handles, but never hnd time to use them when we needed them most Wo were clven bottles of n llnuld which smelted like lysol nnd were sup-' posed to sonk our clothes In It It was thought that thu cooties would object to the smell nnd quit work. Well, a cootlo that could stand our clothes .without the dope on them would not bo bothered by a little thing like this stuff. Also, our clothes got so sour and horrible smelling that they hurt our noses worse than the cooties. They certainly were gnmo little devils, and camo right back at us. So most of tho pollut threw tho dope at Fritz and fought tho cooties band to hand. There was plenty of food In the trenches most of the time, though onco Ih .tin at ! n liniitltl linlitl in st ill U YvlUll'a UU It lift II IIVU J UUKIUHIU- ment the fatigue-usually a corporal's guard would get killed In the com- munlcntton trenches nnd wo would not hnve tlmo to get out to the fatigue nnd rescuo the grub they were bringing, Sometimes you could not find cither , the fatigue or tho grub when you got to the point where they hnd been hit But, as I say, we were well fed most of the time, nnd got second and third helpings until wo had to open our belts. But as the Limeys say: "Gnw blimey, the chuck was rough." They served a thick soup of meat and .vege tables In bowls tho slzo of wash ba s'ns, black coffee with or without sugar mostly without 1 and pVnty of bread. Also, wo had preserves In tins, Just llko the Limeys. If you send any par-, eels over, do not put any apple and plum Jam In them or tho man who gets it will let Fritz shoot him. Ask any Limey soldier and he will tell you tho same. I never thought thero was so much Jam In tho world. No Mnn'ti Land looked llko a city dump. Most of us took it, after a while, Just to get tho bread. Early In tho war they used the tins to mnko bombs of, but that was before Hills enmo along with his hand grenade. Later on they flat tened out tho tins and lined the dug outs with them. Each man carried nn emergency ra tion In his bog. This consisted of bully beef, biscuits, etc. This ration was never used except In n real emergency, becnuso no ono could tell when It might mean tho difference between life and death to him. When daylight catches a man In a shell hole or nt u listening post out In No Man's Land ho dnos not dnro to rrawl Imek to his trvncli before ti!i;hlfnll, mill then Ih tliu ,, o,t ,H emergency ration coiiioh , ,,, lliui,,y Also, tho stores failed to roch s 0inetlmeH, iin I Imvu said, ,, wo ,,,, to ,l8u 10 ,,,uergeney rations. Sometimes wo received raw incut and fried It In our dugouts. Wo built regular elny ovens In tho dugouts, with Iron tops for broiling. This, of course, was In the front-IIno trenches only. Wo worked two hours on tho lire Rtep and knocked off for four hours, In which tlmo wo. cooked ami ate and slept. This routine was kept up night and day, seven days n week. Homo timet the program was changed J for Instance, when there waft to bo an at tack or when Frltx tried to como over nnd visit, but othcrwlno nothing dls turbed our routine unless it was n gas nttack. Tho ambition of most privates Is to becomo n sniper, ns the olllclal sharp shooters are called. After u private Has "been fit tlio Ucnciics "ToTTTjc months or a year nnd has shown his marksmanship, he becomes tho great man he has dreamed about. We had two snipers to each company nnd be cause they took moro chances with their lives than tho ordinary privates they wero allowed more privileges. When It was at all possible our snipers wero allowed dry quarters, tho best of food, nnd they did not havo to follow tho usual routine, but camo and went ns they pleased. Our snipers, us a rule, went over tho parapet about dusk, Just before Fritz got his star shells going. They would crawl out to shell craters or tree stumps or holes that they hnd potted during tho day In cither words, places where they could seo tho enemy parapets but could not bo seen themselves. Once In position, they would make themselves comfort- able, smear their tin hats with dirt, B Kood rest for their rifles and n,l' 'vi'rv German they saw. They Woro l,n bandoleers of cartridges, Blnco "u'r wn! " t,llnK "ow "ny rounds they might fire during tho night. Sometimes they had direct nnd visibly targets and other timet they Iol " by guesswork. I'suully . . . till The' Potted Hun Cue" Work- they crnwled back Juict before day light, but sometimes they wero out '2i j,oura 0t n stretch. They took great pride In tho number of Germans they knocked over, and If our men did not get eight or ten they thought they had not dono a good night's work. Of courso It was not wholesalo killing. Hko machine gunning, but It was very useful, because our snipers wero al ways laying for tho German snipers, nnd when they got Sniper Fritz they saved Just so many of our lives. The Limeys havo n great llttlo ex pression that means u lot: "Carry on." They say It Is n cockney expression. When a captain falls In action, his words nro not a messngo to the girl ie Mt behind him or uny dope ubout bis gruy-hnlred mother, but "Carry on, Lieutenant Whosls." If tho lieutenant gets his It Is "Carry on, Sergeant Jacks," and so on ns far as It goes. So tho words used to mean, "Tako over tho command and do tho Job right" But now they mean not only that but "Keep up your courage, nnd go to It" Ono man will sny It to another sometimes when he thinks tho first man Is getting downhearted, but moro often, If he Is a Limey, ho will itort kidding him. Our men, of course, did not say "Carry on," nnd In fact they did not have any expression In French that meant exactly the sumo thing. But they used to cheer each other nlong, all right, nnd they passed along tho command when It was necessary, too. I wonder whnt expression tho Ameri can troops will use. (You notlco I do not call them Sammies 1) I took my turn nt listening post with llio rest oL them, of course,. A, listen lug post Ih any good position out In No Man's Land, nnd Is nlwcys held by two men. The.'r Job Is to keep n llvo ear on Fritz and In case they hear any thing that sounds very much llko an attack ono mnn runs back to Ids lines and tho other stays to hold back tho lloches us long us ho can. You can flguro for yourself which Is tho most healthful Job. As many times as I went on listen-Ing-post duty I never did get to feel ing homcllko there exactly. You havo to lie very still, of course, ns Fritz Is listening, too, and a inovo may mean a bullet In tho ribs, So, lying on tho ground with hardly n chnngo of posi tion, the whole lower part of my body would go to sleep before I hud been at tho post very long, I used to brag a lot about how fast I could run, so had my turn as tho runner, which tutted mo all right But every tlmo f got to n listening post and started 5S? ADDING MACHINE PAPER! WE HAVE IT KOH SALE THE LARGEST STOCK OF PAPER. OF ALL KINDS IN CENTRAL OREGON TJ BEND BULLETIN to think abntif what T woidd do If Frits should como over and wondered bow good a runner ho was, I took a long breath and said, "Feet, do your luty." Anil I was strong on duty. After I had done my stunt In tho .'ronMlne and reserve trenches I went )ark with my compnny to billets, but anil only been there for n day or two Jefore I was detached and detailed to the artillery position to tho right of us, ivhcro both tho Brltlxh and French snd mounted naval guns. Thero wero pins of all calibers there, both nnvnl ind field pieces, nnd I got n good look it the famous "7Vh," which are tho !ext guns In tho world, In my estima tion, and tho ono thing that saved I'ertlun. V Tho "75's" fired 30 shots a mlnuto, whero the best tho German guns could do was six. Thu American three-Inch Held piece lets go six times n minute, too. Thu French government owns thu secret of tho mechanism that mndo this rapid flru possible. When tho first "7f's" began to roar, tho Germnns knew tho French hnd found n new weapon, so they wero very anxious to g;t ono of tho guns nnd learn thu secret Shortly nftcrwurjl they captured eight guns by a mast attack In which, tho allies claim, thero were -1,000 Ger man troops killed. Thu lloches studied thu guns nnd tried to turn out pieces llko them nt tho Krupp factory. But tiomehow they could not get It Their Imitation "7f's" would only flro llvo shots very rapidly nnd then "cough" puff, puff, puff, with nothing coming out Tho dcstructlvo power of tho "75'h" Is enormous. These guns hnve saved the lives of thousands of pollus and Tommies and It Is largely duo to them that the French are now irblo to bent Fritz nt his own gamo and give buck shell for shell and then some. (To Bo Continued.) .MIW. GEHKING ll (From Friday's Dnlly.) Mrs. M. It. Gurklug, formerly In chargu of tho Bund surgical hospital, Is reported to bo III nt her homo In Tumalo. i'l'I.t OK COLD; HAD THE GUIP. Many will bo pleased to read how Lewis Nowinan, C0(1 Northraud St., Charleston, W. Vn., was restored to health, Ho writes: "I was down sick nnd nothing would do mo any good, I was full of cold. Had tho grip until 1 got two COo bottles of Foley's Honey ami Tar. It Is tho best remedy for grip and colds I over used." Sold ovorywhoro. Adv. Victory Flour and "Crescent" meant victory in the You'll have iucccm breadi, biicuits and uic Crescent Baking Powder to raise tlio doii(;h. (H-JJ8) TANLAC YOUTH IS HELD FOR ABDUCTION Joseph ci.vin: mvKirrr .u- HINTCD IIV HIII.'ltllT ItOliCltTH AT HISTEIt.H WANTED AT CIIE IIAI.IH, WASHINGTON. (From Hnturdny's Dally,) Josoph Clydo Duckott, charged with tho abduction of a girl from Chohalls, Washington, was unrated yesterday at Sisters by Slmrlff H. K. Huberts and Is being hold In thu county Jail awaiting tho arrival of Sheriff J. F. Horry of Chohalls county who Mill nrrlvn on (ho train tomor row morning, Duckott, who Is but 10 years of age, Is charged with enticing u Clin halls girl of several years younger to como to Oregon with him from Washington. The couple lived to gether at Sisters for soma tlmo, unit thou tho girl returned to her parent. OLD RESIDENT OF COUNTY IS DEAD " (From Thursday's Dally.) Mrs.- Amanda Mealy, fin years of ago, wlfu of Charles Donly, died at her homo at Hear Creek Duties last night, following a stroke of paralysis which occurred ono week ago. Mrs. Dcnly was an old resident of Crook county, having lived hero over 30 years. Hor husband nnd throe sons, Leo, William nnd Thomas, survive her. Funeral services nro to bo hold at Prluovlllo tomorrow afternoon. MIIEKTV TEMPLE FINISHED. (From Friday's Dnlly.) Thu Interior of tho Liberty tomplo will bo tiuliited ulthiir toduv or In. morrow, and will bo ready for tho I uiikou wouaro campaign next .Mon day, The roof was put on Wednes day and additional windows put la place. Dlt. HYDE HEIIE. Dr. E. O. Hydo of Itedmoud, who has takou over tho practice of Dr. Hooch, Is In the city aiding County Physician It. W. illondorshott.' kitchen alio, with your cukei if you fitak&aii. Orocors soil It 2."w lb. C! FOR SALE DY The Owl Pharmacy SOLE AQHNTS i H vi V rmisrwM