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When we got back to rest billets. found that our brigade was lit trenches (another agreeable suir and that an attack was contcm;- - Seventeen of tbe forty-one win got another chnnce to go r they were killed In the r' think If that train had been on time, those seventeen would still be alive. I hate to tell you how I was kidded by the boys when I got back, bat It was good and plenty. : Our machine gun company took over their part of tbe line at seven o'clock, the night after I returned from my ear leave. . ' v At 8 :30 the following morning three waves went over and captured the first and second German trenches. The machine gunners went over with the fourth wave to consolidate, the cap tured line or "dig In," as Tommy calls it Crossing No Man's Land without clicking any casualties, we came to the German trench and mounted our guns on the parados of same. I never saw such a mess In my life -bunches of twisted barbed wire lying bout, shell holes everywhere, trench all bashed In, parapets gone, and dead bodies, why, that ditch was full of them, theirs and ours. It was a regu lar morgue. Some were mangled hor ribly from our shell fire, while others were wholly or partly burled In the mud, the result of shell explosions cav ing in the walls of the trench. One dead German was lying on his back, with a rifle sticking straight up In the air, the bayonet of which was burled to the hilt In his chest Across his feet lay a dead English soldier with a bul let hole in his forehead. This Tommy must have been killed Just as he ran his bayonet through the German. Rifles and equipment were scattered about, and occasionally a steel helmet could be seen sticking out. of the mud. At one point, Just In the entrance to a communication trench, was a stretch er. On this stretcher a German was lying with a white bandage around his knee, near to him lay one of the stretcher-bearers, the red cross on his arm covered with mud and his helmet filled with blood and brains. Close by, sitting up against the wall of the trench, with head resting on his chest, was the other stretcher-bearer. He seemed to be alive, the posture was so natural and easy; but when I got closer I could" see a targe, Jaggedhole In his temple. Tbe three must nav been killed by the same shell-burst The dugouts were all smashed In and knocked about, big square-cut timbers splintered Into bits, walls' caved In and entrances choked. Tommy, after taking a trench, learns to his sorrow that the hardest part of the work la to hold it In our case this proved to be so. The German artillery and machine guns bad ns taped (ranged) for fair; It was worth your life to expose your self an Instant Don't think for a minute that the Germans were the only sufferers; we were clicking casualties so fast that you needed an adding machine to keep track of them. Did you ever see one of the steam hovels at work on the Panama canal 1 Well, It would look like a hen scratch ing alongside of a Tommy "digging In" while under fire. Ton couldn't see day light through the clouds of dirt from bis shovel. After losing three out of six men of our crew we managed to set up our machine gun. One of the legs of the tripod was resting on the chest of a half -burled body. When the gun was firing, it gave tbe Impression that the body was breathing. This was caused by the excessive vibration. Three or four feet down the trench, about three feet from the ground. foot; was protruding from the earth HWe knew It was a German by the black leather boot One of our crew used that foot to hang extra bandoliers of ammunition on. : This man always wat a handyx fellow; made use of llttlt points that the ordinary person woultf overlook. 4 The Germans made three counter attacks, which we repulsed, but not without heavy loss on our side. They alse suffered severely from our shell and machine-gun fire, The ground wat spotted with their dead and dying. The next day things were somewhat quieter, bat not quiet enough to bur) the dead. We lived, ate and slept in that trench with the unburled dead for six days It was awful to watch their faces be come swollen and discolored. Toward? the last the stench was fierce. - What got on my nerves the most was that foot sticking out of the dirt II seemed to me, at night in the moon light, to. be trying to twist around. Several times this impression was so strong that I went to It and grasped It In both hands, to see If X could feel a movement I told this to the man who had used it for a batrack Just before I lay down for a little nap, as things were quiet, and I needed a rest pretty badly. When I woke up the foot was gone. He had cut it off with our chain saw out of the- spare parts' box, and had plastered the stump over with mud. During the next two or three days, before we were relieved, I missed that foot dreadfully; seemed as If I had suddenly lost a chum. I think the worst thing of all was to watch the rats, at night, and some Continued on next page Oc DC 3- c DC O O You Send the Order We Do the Rest We're right here every day in the year ready to supply you with any and every thins you need in the Best and Purest Family Groceries in the Markets. When you plan a special dinner, better see us we can give you some valuable pointers, not only on articles to buy but attractive prices as well. 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