Perhaps tills ih lie Incident will show
M I FOURTEEN MONTHS
what condition our nerves were in. A
AT THE FRONT young fellow named Lewis and i had
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time of tie gas attack was one of the
most remarkuhle men I ever met. For
several years before the war he had
been In the British secret service in
Germany, so he spoke German almost
as well as be dill English.
One day we stopped at a hospital In
Rallleul, and one of the orderlies told
us that there were some German
wounded there. The officer asked me
if I would like to go In and see them.
1 suid I would like it very much, so we
went In. There was one poor devil all
by himself among some English pa
tients. The officer went over and sat
on the edge of his bed and began to
talk to him.
If you could have seen that poor fel
low’s face when he heard himself ad
dressed in his own language! His
whole countenance lighted up. and he
began to talk. Pretty soon the tcurs
began to tun down bis cheeks, and I
felt awfully sorry for the poor chap,
who was away from all his own peo
pie. severely wounded.
He said that he hud Just been mar
ried before the beginning of the war,
and iie and his Wife had saved nil they
could, and two days before be was
called up they hud bought a cow. 11c
was ns worried us lie could lie f o r fear
Hornet hiug had happeued to the cow.
chummed together for the time being,
and we rode the same route during the
entire battle. One night he came down
to beadquurtera Just ahead of me, and,
1 as ure you, we came through some
mighty hot territory. I was in awful
condition myself, hut I think he was
! even worse.
I Landis] my ease in, and while I was
waiting for orders I went out to the
j petrol stores to fill up the tank on my
! bike. Lewis was talking to the officer
| in charge of the riders and was stand
ing with his back to the door. Another
fellow came in carrying two empty
petrol tins, and—unintentionally, of
course—he dropped them Just behind
Lewis. They made quite a racket, and,
coming so suddenly, Lewis jumped
over a table and fainted dead away.
We were all in about the same condi
tion. and it didn't take much to get a
rise out o f us. Poor Lewis was killed
the nest night by falling into a shell
hole.
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Leave Cloverdale daily at
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morning train to Portland.
Leave Tillamook at 3p. m ,
arriving at Cloverdale at 5
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And everything usually kept in a first-class hardware store, and
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We have several excellent
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There never was a time in
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Continued Next Week.
The bombuntment of Ypres begun the
night of the April day we experienced
the gas, and with the bombardment be
gan the infuutry attack. 1 was up ut a
little place called Itlieulnghlest, and 1
could hear the titles and machine guns
at It for all they were worth. 1 was
thanking my lucky stars that I wus on
my cur Instead of u motorcycle ma
chine gun, when an orderly rode up ami
told me that 1 was to report ut head
quarters at once.
All the way buck to camp I luid the
feeling thnt something was going to
happen, and when 1 nrrived there 1
was told to repoit myself to ttie signal
company fur duty with my motorcycle.
Then 1 knew that 1 was to carry dis
patches through the coming buttle.
I wish to make particular note <>f the
fact that at the beginning of this but
tle, which lasted three weeks, we dls
puteli rldet.- numbered thirty one in all
for our corpN. Half an hour later we
were fully equipped uinl on our wav to
the advanced report center, w^h-li
would be the scene of our activities
until the light w as over.
We were about MX> yards to the rear
of the first line if lieut-hes and were
given an old hum to ourselves, and we
laid out our blankets and made our
bods, for it was 10:110 o'clock. The at
tack was Increasing in fury, all kinds
of shells landing around us, and the
Uermuns were using their same old
tuetles of hurling great masses of
troops against our position.
Our machine guns gave the usual
good account of themselves, and the
German dead were piled up over our
wire entanglements In great heaps.
Tlie Germans would full back, reform
and come on again in their usual close | s^i
formation. Bo it went all night, and ^
when tlie morning came the “ dead
ground" lietween the two lines of
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trenches was a grewsome looking place.
I Hiring tlie day the Germans bom
hurded our first and second line trench
t*s with high explosives and schrapncl f f i
nil day. and at night they resumed
their Infantry at tuck on our position
Hay after day and nigh* after night
(tie battle continued until we ull felt
dead and numb ull over
Sometimes the Germans would peu- f f i
etrute our lines for a few yards, and
:bcn we would immediately “ counter"
before they hud a chance to strengthen
their position. We lost an awful lot of
uien, but cveu though I don’t know the
exact figures I know I am snfo In say
ing that Hie German losses were more,
than double what ours were.
We dispatch riders were certainly
kept busy during this time. Our work
was to tie standing by every nU» ,ute of
the day and night, uud the tUPjicnt we
were wanted to sling the d.ra’patch case
over our shoulder and ue*. a'way for the
headquarters to the reui*.
The riding at night w ay terrible. The
Germans were sheUtng nil the roads In
the vicinity, and wu fij,,! to go dashing
•long through the inky blackness at
breakneck pace. It w «» lm|a>ssible to
see more than a yard <»r two ahead,
• nd so it was a case o f ride like the
dickens and tntst to luck The road
was covered with shell holes, atul the I
first Intimation we would get uf tin
fact w as when we would feel the mo
torbike drop beneath ur» and feel ou r
solves abootiug througii the atr like
amateur skyrockets.
l\o would pick tnitticlvc* up, drag
the motorbike out s.f the hole and. If It :
would still run, jump on It and get !
• way again. W r certainty got some |
terrible spills. wr*l rla're wen* a good ,
many who got broken boors and a few
w lio fiad their w.s ke »end b« -ks b rok i«
imagination cannot conceive o f our
utter misery. Kerry when« I ’ -rted at
all hours o f tin» »lay and night It was
Just nightmare Most of tlie time we
wen» kept list bue.v to sleep, and we
would Is* so '.Irvd we could hardly
m oe. The ropmajit din o f the guns o?
»11 si*«-* and o f the «exploding «hells was
enough to dr.*« jc r.^j u-ljr ah of us Utsaac-
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REAL ESTATE
Lyseptie is completely soluahle in
water. A teaspoon full to one quart of
Write for Literature.
water is the average strength to be used
for antiseptic, germicide, deoderants,
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wounds, cuts, nail punctures, mange,
hoof rot, mud fever, lice, ileas, dandruff,
shampoo, being of a soapy nature proves FRANK TAYLOR*
very effective for washing the animals’
ffi and stable utencils, ami if used in gen-
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promptly attended.
Monev t,o loan—The I'acific Building
Sixth Street at Second Avenue East
f f i I and l oan Association has an agent
I here. Enquire at the office of Tavlor
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Office Ground Floor
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National Bid.
P. O. Box 147
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