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ARTHUR nI.Tir EMrEY
(Continued fro in our hist issue.)
The next day things were somewhat
quieter, but not quiet enough to bury
the dead.
We lived, ate, and slept in that
trench with the unburied dead for six
days. It ems ainful to Watch their
faces' become swollen and discolored.
Towards the last the stench -wag fierce.
What got on my nerves' the Most
was that foot sticking out of the dirt.
It seemed to me, 4 night, in the moon-
light, to be te3ring to twist aro-rand,
several times this iinprieesfort was so
strong that I went to it and grasped
it both hands, tie see if I could feel
a movement.
I told this to the man who' had used
it for a hat -rack just before I lay
down for a little nap, as things were
quiet and I needed a restpretty badly.
When I woke up the Piot Was gone:
He had cut it off with our Chain saw
out of the spare parts' box, end 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.
times in the day, run over and play
about among, the dead.
Near our gun, right across the par-
apet, could be seen the body of a Ger-
man lieutenant, the head and arms of,
which were hanging in our trench.
The man who had eut off the foot.
used to'4, sit and carry on a -one-sided
conversation with this officer, used to
argue and point out why Germany was
in the wrong. During. all of this morn
ologue, I never heard him say" any-
thing. out of the way, anything that
Would have hurt the officer's feelings
had he been alive. He was square all
right, wouldn't even take advantage
of a dead man in an .argument.
To civilians, this must seem dread-
ful, but out here, one geth so used to
awful sights, that • it makes no im-
pression. In passing a butcher shop,
you are not shOoked y seeing a dead
turnkey hanging frem a 'hook, well,
in France, a dead body is looked upon
from the same angle:
• But nevertheless, when our six
days were up, we were tickled to
death to be relieved.
Our Machine Gun Company lost sev-
enteen killed ancl thirty-one wounded
in that little affair of "straightening
the line," while the other companies
elicked it wbrse than we did. '
After \ the attack we went into re-
serve billets for six days, and on the
seventh -once again we were in rest
billets.
ClPTER, XXII.
Punishments and Machine -Gun Stunts
Soon after my arrival in France,
in fact from my enlistment, I had
found tat in the British army dis-
cipline is very stria. One has to be
very careful in order to stay on, the
narrow path of government virtlie.
There are about seven million Ways
of breaking the Kings RegulatiOns;
to keep one you have to break an-
other.
The worst punishment is death by a
firing squad or "up against the wall"
as Tommy calls it.
• This is for desertion, cowardice,
mutiny, giving information to the
enemy, destroying or willfully wast-
ing ammunition, looting ,rape, rob-
bing the dead, forcing a safeguard,
striking a superino, etc:
Then comes the punishment of 64
days in the front line trench without
relief. Daring this time you have
to engage in all raids, working par-
ties. in N� Man's Land, and every
hazardous undertaking that comes a-
long. If you live through tJie sirty-
four days you are indeed lucky.
This punishment is awarded where
there is a doubt as to the wilful guilt
of a man who has committed an of-
fence punishable by death.
Then comes the famous Field Pun-
ishment No. 1. Totnuny has nicknarni
ed. it "crucifixion." It means that a.
man is spread eagled on alimber
aVrieel, two hours a day for twenty-
one days. During this time he only
gets water bully beef, and biscuits
for his Chow.. You get "crucified"
for repeating minor offences.
Next in order is Field Punishment
No. 2.
This confinement in the . "Clink,"
without blankets, getting water, bully
beef, and biscuits for rations and do-
ing all the dirty work that can be
found. This may be for tweety-four
hours or twenty days, according to
the gravity of the offence.
Then comes "Pack Drill or De-
faulters' Parade. This consists of
drilling, mostly at the double, for two
hours with full equipment. Tommy
hates this, because it is hard work.
Sometimes he.- fills his f pack . with
straw -to lighten it, and sometimes he
gets caught: If he gets. caught, he "
grouses at everything in. general for
twenty-one days, from the vantage
point of a limber wheel. '
Next comes "C.B." meaning Con-
fined to -Barracks. This consists of
staying in billets or barracks for
twenty-four hours to seven days. You
also get an occasional Defaulters' Par-
ade and dirty jobs around the quar-
ters.
The Sergeant-Major keeps what is
known as the Crime ,Sheet. When a
man commits an offence, he is "Clem -
darned smart -to do it.
,' I have beeon it a few tnnes,
mostly for "Yankee impudence." -
/luring our stay of two weeks in
rest -billets our Capt. put us through
a course 'of machine-gun drills, trying
out new stunts and theories.
After parades were ver, our gun'
crew got together and also tried out
some theories of theft own in refer
'tonne to Ificadlim guns; . These courses
had nothing to do with the advance-
ment of the Wart consisted mostly of
causing tricky jams in ,the gun, and
I then the teat of the crew would endea-
vor to locate as quickly as possible the
cause of the stoppage' . This ' amused
them for a few days and then. things
came to a stannetill. '
One of the bogii on my gun calmed
that he could play a tune while the
gun was actually firing, and demon-
strated this fact one day on the target
range. We were very enthusiastic and
decided. to become musicians.
After constant practice I became
quite expert in the tune entitled "All
Conductors Have Big Feet."
When I had mastered this tune, our
two weeks' rest came, to an end, and
once again we went up the line and
took over the sector in front of G --
Wood.
At this -Mk the German trenches
ran around the base of a hill, on, the
top of which was a. dense wood. This
wood wasi jnfested with machine guns,.
which used to traverse our lines at
will, and sweep the streets of a little
village, where we were billeted while
in reserve.
There was one gun, in particular
which used to get our goats,it had the
exact .range of our "elephant" dugout
entrance and every evening, about the
time rations were being brought tip,
its bullets would knock up the dust
on the road; more than one Tommy
weti(i)iithineiln.estor to Blighty by running
in
This gun got our nerves on edge,.
and Fritz eeeemd to know it, because
he never gave us an hours rest. Our:
reputation as machine gunners was
at stake; we tried various ruses to
locate and put this gun out of action,
but each one proved to be a failure,
and Fritz became a worse nuisance
than ever. He was egeting fresher'
and more careless every day, took all:
kinds of liberties with us—thought
he was invincible
Then one of Our crew got a brilliant!
idea and we were all enthusiastic to
put in to the test.
Here was his scherie:
• When firing my gun„ I was to play
my tune,
and Fritz, no doubt, would
fall for it try to imitate me as an:
added insult. This gunner and two
others would try, by the sound, to
locate,Fritz and his gen. After hav-
ing got the location, they would
mount two machine guns in trees, in a
little clunip of woods, to the left of.
our cemetery, and while Fritz was
in the Middle of his lesson, would open
fire and trust to luck. i By our calcu
lations, it weuld take iat least a week
to pull off the St -Ant, i
If Fritz refused to Swallow our bait
it would be impossible to locate his.'
special gun, and that's the one we Were
after, because they all sound alike, a
slow pup -pup -pup. • ,
Our prestige was hanging by a
thread. -In the battalioti .we bad to:
endure. ll kinds of insults and fresh,
remarks as to our ability in silencing
Fritz. Even to the battalion,. that'
German gum was a sore• sPPt-
Next' day, Fritz opened up as usual.
let him fire away for a while, and
then butted in with my "pup-pup--pup-
pup-pup-pup.' I kept this up quite a
while, used two belts (if ammunition.
Fritz had stopped firing to listen
Then he started in; sure enough, he
had fallen for our game, his gun was
trying to imitate mine, but, at first
he made a horrible mess of that tune.
Again I butted in with a few bars
'rid stopped. , Then he tried to copy
what I had played. He was a good
sport all right, because his bullets
were Wring over our heads, must have
been fiting into the air. I commenced
to feel friendly towards him.
This duet went on nor five days.
Fritz was a ;good 'pupil and learned
rapidly, in fact, got better than his
teacher. I eommenced to feel jealous.
When he had completelyanastered the
tune, he started sweeping the road
again and -we clicked it worse than.
ever. . Bt he signed his death war-
rant by doing so, because my friend-
ship turned to hate. ' Every time he
fired he played that tune and we danc-
ed.
The boys in the battalion 'gave us
the "Ha! Ha!" They weren't in. our
little frame-up.
The originator of, the ruse and. the
other two gunners had Fritz's loca-
tion taped to the minute; they mount- -
ed their two guns, and also gave me
the range.The next afternoon. was
set for the- grand finale.
Our three guns, with different eleva-
tions, had their fire so arranged, that,
opening up together, their bullets
would drop on Fritz like a hailstorm.
About three the next day, Fritz
staged "pup -pupping" that tune. 1
blew a sharp blast on a whistle, it
was the signal: agreed upon; we turn-
ed loose and Fritz's gun suddenly
stopped in the midle of a bar. _We
had cooked his goose, and our ruse had
worked. After firing two belts each,
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Step. On Your Feet
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it Try, i this eourself• then pass
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0uh! ? ! ? !, ! This kind of rouglt
talk will be heard lens here in town if
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that a feyr drops
er," that is. his name, number, and
offence is entered on the Crime Sheet.
Next day at 9 a.m.,he goes to the
"Orderly Room" beore the Captain
who either punishes him with ".,C.B."
or sends him before the O.C. (Officer
Commanding Battalion),, Th2 Cap-
tain of the Company can only award
ZiC.13.”
Tommy, many a time has thanked
the King for making that . provision
in his regulations. ,
To gain the title of. a "smart sold. -
iv". Tommy has to keep clear of the
of a drug called freezone wheniapplied
to a tender, aching corn stops soreneas
at once, and soon the corn dries up
and lifts right out without pain.
eHe says freezone is an ether come
pound which dries immediately and
never inflames cr ,even irritates the
surreunding tissue or akin. A quarter
of an ounce of freezone will cost vey
little at any drug sthre, but ie
sulU-
clent to remove ever' hard or soft
corn or callus from one's feet. Millleno
of American women will welcome this
announcement *duce the inauguration,
Crime Sheet, and you have, to be tf the high heels. •
Marvelous Story of Woman's
Change from Weakness
to Strength by Taking
Druggists Advice.
Pero, Incl.—" I suffered from a dis-
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down pain e so
badly that at times
I could not be=
my feet and it did
not seem as though
4ati could stand it. I
tried different
• medicines without
any benefit a nd
several doctors
told me nothing
but an operation
would do me any
good. My drug-
gist told zpe pf
Lydia E. Pink-
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ham's Vegetable
Compound. I took
it with the result
that 1 am.now well
N and strong. I get
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all day, come home and get supper and
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goo• d.eq/s",..p too
rue • concintj.
fcjet
to make sure of our jOit, we hurriedly
dismounted our guns and took cover
in the dugout. we knew what to
expect seem We didn't have to wait
long three salvos of 'whizz -bangs"
came over from Fritz' artillery, a
forth r confirmation that we had sent
tha mlsica1 -machine-gunner on his
weStward bound journey.
That gun never bothered us again.
We were the heroes,- of the battalion,
our Captain ecnigratulat,e.4 us, said it
was a neat piece of work, and, con-
sequently, we wee: all puffed up over'
the stunt.
There axe several ways Tommy uses
to disguise the location of itis machine
gun and get his range. • Some of the
most commonly used stunts are as •
follows: •
At night, when he mounts his gun
over the top of his trench and wants
to get the range of Fritz's trench he
adopts the method of What he terms
-"getting the sparks." This consists
of firing bursts 'front his gun until',
the bullets hit • the German barbed
wire. He can, tell when they are cut- •
tine, the wire, because a bullet when
it hits a wire- throws out a blue elec-
tric spark. Mechineigun fire Is very
damaging to wire and causesmtany a
wiring narty t6 go out at night when
it -is quiet to repair the darn.age.
To disguise the flare of his gun at
night when firing, -Teminy use what
is called" a flare protector This is a
stove -pipe arrangement which fits
over the barrel geettintof the gun. and:
screens the sparks frimithe right and
left, but • not front the front, 'so
Tommy, always rieburceful, adopts'
this scheme. About three feet or less
in front of .the gun he drives two
stakes into the ground, about five
feet apart. Acrope these stakes he
stretches a curtain made out of emp-
ty sandbags, ripped open. He soaks
this curtain in water and fires through
it. The water nrevents its catching
fire and effectively screens,the flare of
the firing gun from the enemy.
Sound is a valuable assets in locat-
ing a machine gun, but Tommy sur-
mounts this obstacle by placing two
machine guns about one hundred to
one hundred and fifty yards apart.
The gun on the right to cover with
its fire the sector' of the left gun and
the gun on the left to cover that of
the right gun. 'This makes their fires
cross; they are fired simultaneously.
• By this method it sounds like one
gun firing and gives the Germans the
impression. that the gun is firing from
a point Midway between the guns
which are actually firing, and they
accordingly shell that particular spot.
The machine gunners chuckle, •and.
say, "Fritz is a brainy boy, not 'alf he
ain't."
But the men in our liens at the spot
being shelled curse Frit a for his ignor-
ance and pass • a few pert remarks
down the line in reference to the
machine gun.nets tieing "windy" and
afraid to take their medicine.
CHARTER XXIII.
Gas Attacks and Spies.
Three days after we had silenced
Fritz, the Germans sent over gas. It
did not catch us unawares, because
the wind had bee,n, made to order,
that is, it was blowing frorn the
German trenches towards ours at the
rate of abciut five miles per hour.
Warnings had been passed down the
trench to keep a sharp lookout for
• gas.
We had a new num at the periscope,
on this afternoon in questinne I was
sitting onthe, fire step, cleaning my
rifle, when he called out to me:
"Theres a sort of greenish, yellow
cloud rolling along the ground out in
front, it's cotning--"
But 1 waited for no m.ore, grabbing
my bayenet, which was detached from.
the rifle, I gave the alarni by bang-
ing an empty hell 'ease which was
hanging near the periscope. At the
same instant, gongs started ringing
down the trench., the signal for TOM -
my to don his respirator or smoke
helineti as we call it.
Gas travels 'quickly, so you must
not lose any time; you generally have
about eighteen or twenty seconds in
whickto adjust youe gas helmet.
A gas helmet is. made of cloth,
treated with chemicals. There are two
windows, or glass eyes, in it, through
which you can see. Inside there is
a rubber covered tube, which' goes in
the mouth. You breathe through your
nose; the gas, passing through the
cloth helmet, is neutralized by the ac-
tion of chemicals. The foul air, is ex-
haled through the tube in the mouth,
this tube being so constructed that it
prevents the inbeling of the outside
air or gas. One helmet is good for
five hours of the strongest gas. Each,
Tommy carries two of them slung i
around his shoulder in a waterproof
canvass bag. He must wear this bag
at all times, even while sleeping. To
change a defective helmet, you take
out the new one, hold your breath,
pull the old one off, placing the new
one over your head, tucking in the
loose ends under the collar of your
tunic. •
For a minute, pandemonium reigned
in our trench,—Toneenies adjusting
their helmets, bombers running here
and there, and men: turning out of
the dugouts with fixed bayonets, to
man the fire -step.
Re-inforcements were pouring out
of the communication trenches.
Our gun's crew were busy mounting
the machine gun on the parapet and
bringing up extra ammunition from
the dogout.
Gerrea-n gas is heavier than Air and
soon fills the trenches and dugouts,
where it has been known to 'lurk for
two or three days, until the air is
purified by means of large chemical
sprayers.
We had to work quickly, as Fritz
gfanentryeral;atta, .lyfookllo,yeswith an
11, company man on our right was
too slow in. getting on his helmet; he
sank to the ground, clutching at his
throat, and after a few spasmodic
twistings, went West (died). It was
horrible to see him die, but we were
powerless +o help him. In the corner
of a traverse, a little, muddy cur dog,
one of the company's pets, was lying
dead, with his two paws over his
-nose.
It's the animals that suffer the
most, the horses, mules., cattle doge,
cats sand rats, they • having no hel-
mets to save them. Tommy does not
sympathize with rats in a gas attack.
At times, the gas had been
known to travel, with dire °results
fifteen miles behind the lines.
A gas, or smoke helmet, as it is
called, at the best is a tile -smelling
thing, and it is not bong. before one
gets a violent headache from wearing
it. .
Our eighteen -pounders were burst-
ing in No Man's Land, in a;. effort,
by the artillery th disperse he gas
clouds.
The fire step was lined with erduch-
i, ing men, bayonets fixed, and bombs
near at hand to repel the expected
attack.
• Our artillery had put a barrage of
eurtam fire on the Germam lines, to
itrir and break up their attack and
keep back re-inforcements. m
I trained by machine min on their
trenchand its bullets Were raking
the parapet.
Then over they came, bayonets glis-
tening. In their eespirators, which
have a 'erne snout in front, they book-
ed like some horrible nightmare.
All along our treneh, rifles- and ma-
chine guns spoke our thraMiel. was ,
bursting over their heads. They went
down in heaps, but new ones took the
place of the -fallen. Nothing could
stop that mad rush. The Germanie
reached oar -barbed 'wire, which -had
previously been demolished., by their
shell, then it was bomb against
bomT, and the devil for all.
Suddenly iny head seemed to but
from a loud "erack" in my ear. Then
my head' began to swim, throat got
dry and a heavy pressure on the Inngs
warned me that my helmet was
ing. Turning my gun over to No. 2,
I changed hehnets.
The trench- started to wind Him a
snake, and sandbags appeared to be
floating_ in the air. The noise VcraEl
horrible; I sank onto the fire step,
needles seemed to be plinking -iny
fiesle then% blackness.
I was awakened by one of my mates
removing Amy . mho* helmet How
delicious that cool, fresh air felt in
my lungs.
A strong wind had arisen: and dis-
persed the gas.
Thesettoki metthat 1 had been. "oat"
for three hours; they thought 1 wee
dead.
The attack had been repulsed after
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