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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-9-7, Page 7.1 Storage Batteries Generators Magnetos Starters Sent tlxem for prompt Repairs to O ,a,nr,l N 13 'T o R J!, Sit B BATTEB.T CO., Ta1FdXTED 117 Simco. St., Toronto. Winsza Agelrte. BOMBING TRENCHES ON BR/`TSH FRONT ENGLISH OFFICER DESCRIBES SOME INCIDENTS. Machine Gun Fire Fails to Reach the "Bombers" In Their She1 , Hole, One of the most unusual tales of trench warfare is told in a letter of an officer of the new armies serving in France "It happened like this. I was look- ing out from what was a little shelter- ed spot alongside the entrance to what we call Stinking Sap, through a very fine new telescope some one had sent to our C. 0., when suddenly I spied a shovel sticking up against a little mound, and close to it was a gap in the wet grass, "I stared jolly hard, and presently the whole thing became clear to inc. The Boches had run out a now sap fully fifty yards from their fire trench, which at this point is over 250 yards from ours. It was right opposite our Stinking Sap, and not more than 100 yards from the.head of it. "I walked around to company bead-; quarters and informed the ('. 0., who; swadeligbted. 1 decided to take Cor- poral Slade with me, because he's: such a fine bomb thrower, besides be. y Ing as cool as a cucumber. I also agreed to take one other man from my' own platoon and one man from each s of the other three platoons. Ready to Attack. "The V. 0.'s idea was that we must„ reach that shell hole close to the nen !. Roches sap as soon as possible after dark and before the Boches resumes ; work there. As it turned out, we were; all lying in the shell hale for three.; quarters of an hour before a single Bache made a move. There was a fine rain all the time and it was pitch dark.' We lay perfectly still and flat, hands covered and faces down. "By and by Slade gave a little tug; at my jerkin. 1 listened hard and just mode out footsteps. Two or three minutes later six or eight Boches came shuffling along the sap, carrying picks and shovels and jabbering away nine- teen to the dozen. I gave the signal with my left hand. There was a bomb in my right. "I could distinctly hear the safety pins come out of our six bombs and could even bear the breathed murmur of the man at my shoulder—a pug- nacious draper. 'A hundred an' one, a: hundred an 'two, a hundred and three the was timing the fuse of his bomb,. exactly as I'd told them). "And then they all let go. Our six combs landed, one on the edge and this other five plumb in the sap head be- fore us, right in the middle of the six or eight Boches digging there. Two seconds after they left our hands they did their job. And when the rending row was over we heard only one Bache moaning, so I knew that at least six or seven would `strafe' no more English- men. Bullets Fail to Hit. "We again lay absolutely still while Fritz rained parachute lights, stars, flares and every kind of firework, and, just as I had expected, swept his sap head with a tleast a thousand rounds of machine gun bullets, not one of which so much as grazed us, where we lay in the mud of that shell hole. Two Fellows are trying to get ahead It's easy to see who'll win. If you have any doubt about tea or coffee holding some people back—in fact ma.ny—leave the hesitating class, stop both tea and cof- fee ten days, and use PSST This delicious pure food drink, ` made of . wheat; roasted with a bit of whole- some 'molasses, has a de- lightful, snappy flavor. It is free from the drugs in tea and coffee and all harm- ful ingredients. Postumn is good for old and young, and makes for health and efficiency. • ,"There's a Reason Canadian Postuth Cereal Co:,: Ltd., Windsor, Ont. "Get your bombs ready,' I told my fellows. A few seconds later we heard the Boches streaming along their nar- row new sap. They took it for granted we had cleared back to our lines, and. they made no attempt to disguise their coming. We waited until the near end of the sap was full and then we gave 'em our second volley, followed im- mediately by a third. It must have been a regular shambles. "A few seconds later we heard a fresh lot start on their way down the saps and the draper and I let 'em have our last two bombs well tothe left, and ourselves made tracks like greased lightning for Stink Sap. The luck held perfectly, and Slade was hauling the draper over the parapet of Stinking Sap before a sound came from the Boche machine guns. "And then, byJ.ove, they opened on us. They holed my oilskin coat for me as 1 slid in, and spoiled it. But not one of my crowd got a scratch, and we reckon to have accounted for at the very least twenty Boches, may be twice that number,. Altogether a splendid job. "And the best of it is our artillery bas registered on that sap this morn- ing, and this afternoon is lust about going to blow It across the Rhine. PALE, WEAK GIRLS. bye gratefully and took up the route' for Epinal. The train guards looked at him oddly on the way, but he thought nothing of that. At Epinal he knocked at the door of the hos- I Pita "Come in," said a guard. The door locked behind him with a spring. The guard examined his papers --with a lifting of the eye- brows due to his surprise at a mad- man corning in without a keeper --and crooked his finger at Dowd without a word. Afterward he learned that the guard thought be had given ills' keeper the slip—had perhaps murder-' ed him—and by an insane freak had come in alone. Another door snapped shut behind the American. He was in a room absolutely bare, save for, benches bolted to the wail. On the; benches sat insane soldiers. They , were quiet and motionless. Still Dowd suspected nothing. ,His treat-' went was odd, that was all: "Usually Frenchmen are kindly and jovial," said he. "These men did not look .up or speak to me. But I did not know they were mad. That night he was locked in a ward with six insane men. His clothing was taken from him, with the ex- ception of a brief undershirt and a packet of cigarets which he managed to conceal under bis pillow. He asked permission to keep his razor, but the guard refused. "If some of these men got hold of a razor," said he, "they would cut their throats or yours." "None of Them Are" Then Dowd awakened to the situa- tion. He told the guard that he was not crazy, and the guard laughed, t None of em are," said the guard, as he locked the door. The six insane men sat on their beds, silent. So did Dowd. The elec- Grow Into Weak, Despondent Women—low to Overcome the Trouble, Healthy Girlhood is the only path to healthy womanhood. The passing from girlhood to womanhood lays a new tax upon the blood. 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You can get these pills from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. SENT BY ERROR TO WAR ASYLUM AMERICAN IN FOREIGN LEGION. CONFINED IN MADHOUSE. Herbert Corey Tells an Interesting Story of French Forces. "I had rather go through the battle of Champagne over again," said Den- nis Dowd. Dowd is one of the young Ameri- cans who enlisted in the Foreign Leg- ion at the beginning of the war. A graduate of Georgetown University and a practising lawyer, he felt very deeply that as a believer in liberty acid democracy he should fight for France. After the battle of Cham- pagne, in which he was wounded, there was .little left of his regiment of the Foreign Legion. Dowd felt he had head enough of trench fighting. He put in an application for leave to join the aviation arm, writes Herbert Corey, from France. Just as he was about to go back to his regiment he received word that his application for a change of- ser- vice had been acted upon favorably. He had passed the very severe eitam- ination to which aviators are sub- jected with flying colors. But red tape unwinds slowly, and when the time came for his return to the trench he had not yet received the coveted paper. "My hand is not completely well," he told a Sympathetic, army surgeon., "Give me two weeks in a hospital." To the Madhouse. "There," said lie,. as he struck it on Dowd's papers, that will give you two weeks at th%. plrysiotherapeutical in- stitute at Epinal." It was the psycho -therapeutic stamp he had affixed; to Dowd's papers by mistake: An institute of psycho-thera py is a madhouse, 'Dowd said good - The Late Donnnfs Dowd. trio light snapped aut. Prom the six beds came animal -like noises. One man talked to his wife, waited for her, replies, laughed, coaxed his little ones to come to his knees. Another raved incoherently. He heard their' bare feet paddling up and down the board floor in the darkness. Two fought to the accompaniment of the, mindless laughter . of their mates.' Dowd smoked his c]garets and waited for the morning. "It will be all right," he assueed himself. "I will tell them a mistake has been made. I am not mad." The doctor in charge made his rounds each morning. Dowd gave up trying to convince him of his sanity. The third morning the doctor shot a, question at him suddenly, "What did you mess around at when you were at home ?" is a fairly literal translation of his question. • "I was an advocate," said Dowd. The absurdity of the answer struck him. Here he was, masquerading be- hind a dense growth of beard, clad only in a tiny undershirt, sitting up in a bed in a ward filled with insane men, and insisting that he was a lawyer. It seemed to strike the doc- tor in the same way. "Ah, said he, "a lawyer—in a var- iety show ?" They lkughed together. Dowd had tears of real mirth in his eyes when the door closed. He laughs yet when he thinks of it. The humor of it— the American ability to see humor under any conditions—saved him. Next day the doctor's assistant put him through an examination. "This man is not mad," said he. There was still red gape to be un- wound. Days passed before he got out of the madhouse, but he went through them cheerfully. GERMANS SET MAN TRAPS. Also Distribute "Tortoise Bombs" in Abandoned Trenches. Philip Gibbs, in a despatch from British headquarters in France, writes as follows: "The- German is beginning to leave a lot of little things behind him, even if he abandons a trench in a hurry. This is a new dodge. One inven- tion which has come into his fertile imagination is the mantrap, which 1 ARE ;CLEAN` NO STICKINESS ALL DEALERS G.C.3riggs & Sons HAMILTON S.',**,Sts. THE NATION FUTURE. 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