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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-10-12, Page 2. �---•-- �. ep pep, pep the e�iw p - o machine pep, u is, and the Shrieking of the shells, _e There wT, no has ante ilitWarAfte, it was a grim, ghastly y '•�� �„� A�mG�.�..� foliorving• the lines of the trenches for irAnd is blended groin. selected hill -grown teas, Ranted for 'theirfin.' HHavoury qualities. Imitated yet ne -er equalled. Author of ,.Dearer Than "Ali fora Scrapp of Paper," Hrer To:elder n Life," etc.. Publishedd byeind Toronto Stoughton. well-nigh an hour he was informed that he had` now reached• the front line and was within a hundred or a hundred and fifty yards of the Huns, For the moment there was a•compara- tive quiet, ox,ly occasionally` did he hear the sound of 'a gun, while the shrieking of the shells was. less fre- quent. Danger seemed • very far away,; he was in a„deep hole in the. ground, and above the earthworks were great heaps of sand -bags. Flow could he be hurt ? The men whom: his tympany was sent •to., reliever seemed r> high good spirits too, they laughed and talked and bandied jokes. There seems no danger here,”, thought Tom. An hour passed and still all was com- paratively quiet. (To be continued.) THE "SHOVEL V. C." Wounded British Trooper Saved An- - other Wounded Soldier's Life. • In the charge that the British made on Hill 70 during the Gallipoli cam- paign, Trooper Potts and Private An- clrews were wounded and, on account f the' deadly fire of the Turks, were Limited London TER V.—(Cont'd.) "I asked you just now," said Tom, i obliged to he in a hollow between the CHAP ! "whether you hated the Germans • ! °Yes I have stopped two bullets, : "Yes, you did,"replied the - two sanights y afrom -their rycomrades for one in the foot and another in the! cant "and I went off on another shoulder, but I quickly got over it. Iert track. Hate 'em? Well, it's this nihi1esads the author of FIexoesarkness fell on the hird have been wonderfully lucky. You' At the beginnin I dont know ! way' the Great War, the two men determin- of will get used to it after a bit; look. that I hated 'em so much. Yes, what g , oke a dash for the seem a plucky chap; you d you cal] Belgian atrocities were hell- ed tom British ish; but 'twasn't that, and as long as lines, cost what it might. At: first life the . sort that. runs away. { Although, mind you; I have seem they fought fair that was all I eared f to with plucky chaps hook it" about. But when they itt using bit helplof Potts butesoon -wasl foreed'tto OiNo, I'm not plucky," said Ton; i poisonous gas they camegive in. As Potts crouched beside "but on But d I never hated 'em t they used that w• around you; wait till great pieces of •stuff and la sec our chaps and "b I dont think I would run away. •f strong No, la , B t when sit till the shrapnel is falling ;till then. u r his companion, wondering` .. how . he "Wait { g bout it ay,- and could carry him, he had an inspire- jagged shelldmow men down on we . laughednginto s I poorfeltI must kill every tion. He hacf . seen near by a number right and on your left. mustlsticky!German agony, s. Of course,we've got of discarded shovels, and he now have stuckeso far, and weisup-1 over and got one' of therm tot the end. Still, from a military; overlieit nowh a bit, and wwhen e're all sup- In a few minutes he on it. a And - poke and ere the sergeant` plied v'ith.lel had s'mutly nothing t placing the wounded man s gently a bd judicially, "our holding Wipers used it first we pews sat with his back to Potts and, s a bapolicy. You see, it's a sale -1 defend us. Yes, I have done some ent and the Germans' guns are all trough bits of orkn mytime,ikthe I 1 with his hands over his' shoulders, around ns; but if we made a straight: never met withanything grasped Pott's hands. Although he at we should give them Wipers,fctand? When youdsee in your he face, and cough-' was becoming weaker every minute, ok would ," a ,bad teJustrblue and bluer eavy u , here," n and he icpointed toc al ing and! gasping, odidn't feelllike showing 1 and dangerous himself ask before him.h Fix - use, the front of which was tom-{ us mad. We did tel' blown away, but the rest of any mercy after that. Besides, they � ing the shovel to his lowly, to drag , he ich remained comparatively intact. have no sense of fair play, the swipes. started, carefully and slowly, "There's the room just as those poor1I wastin ussla scrap pafoonce, c losing lots and r Gills human freight down the hill. The blighters r eant.ans left it,"cortin'- t hard journeywas risky as well as tedious, d for there was' f' ever-presV nt possi- ed the sergeant. "See the baby's! men a lot of Germans. held up their shoes, and the kiddy's j.: 1 - It is hard to break the chains of habit. It took' one man six months to stop saying g " Gee Wiiiz." Perhaps habit kept. you ordering the same tea as before„ when you ha.d intended to' buy Red Rose. This will be a reminder. So next . ,1 .order ..Red : Rose. - You w'i11 be pleased we are sure. Kept Good by the Sealed Package ..ice. THE MOST VALUABLE BOOK Oldest and Best Manuscript of. Whole Bible in Latin the In the Mediceo Laurentian Museum in Florence is a volume known asothe he Codex Amiatinus, which is said the most valuable book in the world. ' Te learn that the Codex Amiatinus is the oldest and best manuscript of the whole Bible in Latin, copied from the translation by St. Jerome from the original Hebrew and Greek. To see the book one must be furnish- ed with a special permit from the highest minister of state in Italy, and it is then produced with great cere- mony • The origin of this rare book has been known only about thirty years. It was in the possession of the convent of Monte Amiati for many years, whence it derived its name, but how or when it came there is still a mys- tery. There is nothing in the cont tents of the book to indicate its origin; on the back of the first leaf, however, there is a verse in Latin which sug- gests that it was the gift of one Peter. Professor Hort, Latin and Greek scholar, discovered about thirty years ago that several words in this verse showed signs of erasure, and had evidently been substituted for others. Both the sense and, the meter were altered by this erasure. Professor Hort and other•scholars have•con- jectured that this might be the copy ddy's dress? There' hand's and shouted, `We• surren er. th wall ' Onr officer, a young chap new to the bility that they would be seen or ;heard were always active by night are one or two pictures on e , not of much value, or those blooming 1 job, and knowing nothing to come of ther: setiv o you thin would havgot 'em. ?" I toycks, instead r s, told us to go to, hem, they hold - asked you think we shall lick ing up their hands all the time; but as"Li k'em "Lick 'em! Of course we shall," said no sooner did we get near them than the , . t, who had servegigenearly they up 'With .their piss and,shot yeas sko n 'the Army. Mind two of our chaps. They •thought our you, it,wiil be no easy job. Up to officer was going to take it lying now they have had the upper hand of down, and when they were taken pris- us, both in men and munitions; but oners they laughed ane said every - we are gaining on 'em now. What I thing was fair in war; but our young can't stand is those blooming swipes, officer u erre going to kand heingdom said `No m y those shirkers who sit at home and lads, y who call themselves men. I tell you I'What!' shrieked those German, swine, I'm for conscription out and out. This `will you kill men after they have sur - is no job to be played with; if we don't` rendered?' `You are not men,' said Tut forth our strength we can't beat! the lieutenant; 'men don't shoot after em. But just think of those swine,1 they've surrendered—only Germans who read the papers and talk about1 do that." _ beating the Germans, who strut about "And the " " asked d d o , "then with . their patent -leather boots and l "therell,"were d tqhestions sergeantn fine clothes, and try to make out that' grimly, they are gentlemen, but who won't' ed in the morning." face the music; that's what sickens "Great God!" said Tom, "what a e. Who are we fighting for, I ghastly thing war is!" nould like to know? We are fighting 1 "Wait till you have seen it, my lad," or them, and for our wornen, and for: replied the sergeant. he country. They think they can i For some weeks Tom was in the stop at home and criticise, and then.neighborhood of Ypres without tak- when we have done the work. shareing any part in the fighting. Dur - the benefits. Great God!"—and here ing that time he got accustomed to the sergeant indulged in some un- the constant booming of the guns, and printable language—"I would like to to the fact that ht fall near him a d blow himanmoment a into get hold of them." _ IN g "Isn't it dangerous here?" asked eternity. On more than one occasion Tom, as another shrieking shell pass- too, he roamed around the ruins of ed over their heads'. i Ypres; and while he could not bto called "Not just now,' replied the other; an imaginable lad, he could not help be - "their shells are falling on the other ing impressed by the ghastly desola- side of the town. Of course, he ad- tion of this one-time beautiful city. ded casually, "they may fall here any In many of the streets not one stone moment." 1 was left upon another, not one of the - inhabitants who had formerly lived onmemet there remained; all had fled • it was in- deed a city of the dead. To Tom the ruins of the great Cloth Hall and the Cathedral were not the most terrible; what appealed to him most were the empty houses in which things were left by the panic-stricken people. Bedsteads twisted into `shapeless masses; clothes half burnt; remnants ofpieces of cloth which tradesmen had stitch- ing; of cutting and been in the ' toys,and thousands of ing; children s •, other "things which. suggested to the boy the life the people had been living. Not a bird sang, not even a street dog roamed amidst the shapeless desola- tion; the ghastly horror of it al). pos- sessed him. Great gaping holes in the -old ramparts of the city; trees torn up by their roots and sep rched i by deadly fire'; this was Ypree,,hot de- stroyed by the necessities of war, but by pure devilry-. At last Tom it turn cam to go up to the front trenches. Itwas with a strange feeling at heart that he, with others, crept along the pave road to- haddto becve communication trench. this r, cad Was constantly ,, swept by the eptly, when they came a house use as a German. machine guns, 're first dressing station close tote be - inning of trip communication ti inh, Torn felt his heart grow cold. Still, with set teeth,.nd a hard look in his eyes, he groped his way along t trench through icoadilly, and Hay- market and Bond Street, and White- hall ('for 3,n this manner do the s ldierS napie the various parts of the++ while gall Cuttings through "hear,^athe by the cunning Turkish snipers, who One of Andrew's legs wa•s'uaeless; and that added to the difficultyting, him doixrat the hill. As, tlr : Ifstl gressed painfully the Turks fired.. a them; but in spite of the need for haste Potts had to stop about .every six yards and lie down, owing to his_ weakenedcondition. At last Potts reached the foot of the. hill and gained the shelter ef'a wood. 1 Here he rested for a few minutes, thenn went forward to look for a p through the wood, leaving his com- panion seated on the, shovel. He had not proceeded more than twenty yards when suddenly he received a sharp command to halt. He had struck the British lines and found himself facing a bayonet. A hurried explanation saved his life. The first man to grasp him by the hand was Sergt.-Maj. Stub- bing, Sixth Royal Enniskillen Fusil- liers, who was on night duty. It was he who reported Potts's heroism to the captain, and the captain, in turn, laid the case before the authorities. Meanwhile, the sentry had gone to the trench and brought back several men. They carried a blanket, and accompanied Potts to the place where he had left Andrews. Potts had start- ed his journey about six in the even- ing, and it was now half -past nine. Both the wounded men were speed- ily conveyed to a field -ambulance dressing station, where their wounds were tended. Potts was invalided home at once, and while en route to England received t he news that he had been awarded the great prize so dear to every British soldier. He had re- garded his thrilling exploit as an or- dinary incident, and was startled when he learned how highly it was esteem- ed, . "Youcould have knocked me down said the "Shovel witha feather," V. C.," "for 1 never thought I had done anything wonderful." IS It:1001E1i AFRAID IN BATTLE DOES HE DREAD GOING "OVER T1{E. TOP?" of the new translation, which the Venerable Bede speaks of as having been taken t o Rome by Ceolfrid on his memorable journey. 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