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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-05-10, Page 7=tr.- 124_ Cif 6020. Over .„.., The Top By ART\HUR. GUY EMPEY ifItilitillililliSIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111M111111111111Hilmenneminai V 10,1918 ib tele*. I must havt. been out head because I was only tele ma the trench and took a chance tg mangled. If the bomb bat to go, into the treech I would en blown to bits by the exe of my own bomb. be Continued Next Week). k.80...d.rittatiliworAMOSIIImE. rhat is his 7e not over that ba are state with the a motor .acord. pi:'ed of 25 at $1045. in a atrans- and eleven Df 44 days1 alities you over rough that great Lng, the car Dr after the xi off on a :ht a storm P.:ntiorung— ttion!—Was 12 -cylinder and such a well against [ sa e day of thern- 17 models, tars' use. kinds were and cold-- itions --not 1 and relia- Ls given to Ele Maxwell iy made at I adjusting ' wonderful Maxwell. _ -50 • AY 104 191$ THE HURON E PosiroR IF YOUR CHILD IS CROSS, FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED Look, PAotheri if tongue Is boated, cleanse little bowels with "Calle fornia Syrup of igs.'" Mothers can rest easy after giving "California Syrup of Flip," bemuse in a few hours all the clogged -up waste, sour bile azd fennenting food geutly roves out of the bowels, and; you have A well, playful child again. Sick children needn't be coaxed to take this hornless "fruit laxative!' Millions of mothers keep it handy be- cause .they know its aotion.on the atom - eel, liver and bowels is prompt and sure. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "California, Syrup of Figs," which coos tains directions for beines,,.eibildeen ail ages awl for growa-ups. James Watson General Insurance Agent Real Est&. and 'Loan Agent Dealer in Sewing Machines. Four good houses for sale, convetdently situated in the Town of Seaforth. Terms reasonable and possessiou given promptly Apply at my office for particulars. INzzy and Faint Spells Are Warnings of Heart Trouble That Should Be, Heeded. 11...•••••••••41. ; Those feelings of weakness, those dizzy spells and "all gone" sinking sensations, which come over some people frona_time to time are warning,' that must not go unheeded. They indicate an extremely weakened condition of the heart and a 'disordered eta° of the nerves. • Those who are vvise will start taking Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills before their case ecomes hopeless. They have' no equal for strengthening the heart and Invigorating the nerves. Mrs. Emil Brooks, Upper Gagetown, N.B., writes:—"All hurt sennraer and winter I had dizzy and weak spells, headaches and fainting and blind spells. A friend recommended Milburn's Heart and Nerve 'Pills to me. I had only taken two boxes when I found great re- lief. I highly recommend them to all who suffer from heart trouble." ' Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are -50e. per bo e at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Mil- burn Co, Linuted, Toronto, Ont. END STOMACH TROUBLE, GASES OR DYSPEPSIA 'Tape's Dlapepsin" makes sick, sour, gassy stomachs surely feel fine in five minutes. If what you just ate is souring on your stomach or lies like a lump of lead, or you belch gab and isruetate sour, undigested food, or have a feeling of dizziness, -heartburn, fulhiess, nausea, bad taste in mouth and stomach -head- ache, you ca,n get relief in. Ave minutes by neutralizing acidity. Put an end to such stomach distress now by getting a large fifty-oent ease of Pape's Diapepsin from any drug store. You realize in five minutes how needlese it is to suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any stone ach disorder caused by food ferment.ation due to excessive iteid in stomach. ' 11.1.C•Mq. $200400Q: to lend on Farms, First, Second Mortgages. Call or write me at once and get your loan arranged by return rain. No advance alleges. t E. R. REYNOLDS, 77 Victoria, St., Toronto. WAS. TROUBLED.. WITH 11101BESTIOl • • COU LD KEEP NOTH I NG ON STOMACH. Indigestion is one of the worst forms ol stomach trouble. The stomach.becomes upset ana ycnit have a raw debilitated feeling in it. It is not necessary for you. to be troubled with inclige.stion if you will only use that old and well-known remedy Burdock Blood Bitters, which will regu- Lste the stomach so that you may eat what you wish without any ill after effects. Mrs. Wm. C. Smith, Maishville, writes:—"I cannot speak too highly of Burdock Blood Bitters; it is worth its weight in. gold. I was troubled with in- digestion, and was so bad could not keep anything on my stomach. A Friend advised me to try B.B.B. which I aid, and I never felt better in my life." Burdock Blood -Bitters has been manu- factured by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont., for over 40 years. You do not experiment when you buy it. TAKES OFF DANDRUFF, HAIR STOPS FALLING Save your Hair! Get a small bottle of Danderine right now—Also stops itching scalp. Thin, brittle, oolorlese and. -A4'3/. 'aggy hair cis saute evidence of a neglected Lieelp; of dandruff—that awful searf. Where is 1}ip so destneetive to. the lair as datelna. It ,robs the hair of its lustre its strength and its very life; eventuAlly producing a feverish- ness and itching of the scalp, which if not retftedied causes the hair roots to shrink littesen and die—then the hair fells out fast A little Datalerine to- eight—now—any time—will surely fettle Your hair. Get a small bottle of Knowltoe's Danderine frora any drug store. You surely can have beautiful kair and lots of it if you will just try, a little Dee- derine. Save your hair 1 Ty t! (Continued frem eur last issue.) - e No photographs or maps are allow - ed to leave France, but in this case it appealed to ene'as a valuable souvenir of the Great Wail, and. I managed to smuggle it,through. At this tune it carries no .military importance as the British lines, I am happy to Say:, have since been advanced beyond this point, The whole attack was rehearsedand 'rehearsed until we heartily cursed the one who coneeived the idea. The trenches were named according to a system which made it very simple for Tommy to find, evert in the dark, any point in the German lines. These imitation trenches, or trench models were well guarded from obser- vation by numerous allied planes; which constantly, circled above them. No German aeroplane could approach .within observing distange, A.,restricte ed area, was maintained and no ci- vilian was allowed within three miles, st> we felt that we had a great sur- prise in store for Fritz. When. we took over the front line *e reeeived an awful shock. The Ger-e mans displayed sign-bdards over the - ten of their trench showing the names • that we had called their -trenches. The siges read "Fair," "Fact," "Fate," and "Fancy" and so on, acoceding to our code names on our map. ' Then to rub it in, they hoisted some more signs -which read, "When are you com- ing over?" or "Come on, we are ready, stupid English." , It is still a mystery to me how they obtained this .knowledge. There had been no raids or prisoners taken, so it must have been the work of spies in our own lines. About three days before the Big Push weetried to shatter •Fritz' s nerve by feirre attacks ,and partially. succeeded as the official reportsof July lst show. Although we were constantly bom- barding their lines day and night, still we fooled the Germans several times - This was accomplished •by throwing an intense barrageinto his lines,— 'then using smoke shells wp would put Up a curtain of white smoke across No man's land, com letely obstructing i his view of our tinches, and would raise our curtain o fire as if in an actual attack All down our trenches the Men *Mild shout and cheer'and Fritz would turn loose with inachine- gun, rifle, and shrapnel fire, thinking we were corning over. • After three Or four of the.se dummy attacks 'his nerves must have been pear the breaking point , On June 24, 1916, at 9,40 in the morning our guns opened up, and hell Was let loose. The din. was terriffie, a. constant boom-boont-boom in your ear. At night the sky. -was red glare Our bontlz4rdlnent had lasted about two hours when Fritz started reply- ing; Although we were sending ov- er ten shells to his one, our casual- ties were heavy. There was a.• con - Stant stream of stretchers coming out of the communication. trenches and burial parties were a common sight. • In the dugouts the noise of the guns almost Imre You had the same sensation as when riding oil the sub- way you enter the tube under the river going to Brooklyn—a sort of pressure on the ear drums, and the ground constantly trembling. • The roads behind the trenches • were very dangerous because Boehe shrapnel was constantly bursting over theni. We avoided these dang- erous spots by crossing through the • open fields. • t The destruction in the German lines was awful and 1 really -felt sorry for them because I realized how they must be clicking it. From our front line trench, every now and again, we could hear' sharp whistle blasts in the German tren- ches. These blasts -were the eignals for stretcher bearers, and methit the wounding or killing of some German in the service of his Fatherland. Atwell and I had a tough time of • it, patrolling the different trenches at sight, btu atfee a while got used to it. My old outfit, the Machine Gun Company, was stationed in huge ele- phant dugouts about four hundred yards behind the front line trench— they were in teserve. Occasionally I would stop in their dugout and have a confab with my former mates. Al- though we tried to be jolly, still,there was a lurking feeling of impending disaster. Each man was wondering if, after the slogan, "Over the ton with the best of luck," had been sounded, would he still be alive or - would he be 1ying " som.ewhere France." In an old dilapidated, house the walls of which were scarred with machine gun bullets, No. 3 sectionof the machine gun company had its quarters. The Company's cooks pre- pared the meals in this billet. On the fifth evening of the bombardment a German eight -inch shell register- ed g, direct hit on. the billet and wiped out ten men who were asleep itt the supposedly bomb -proof cellar. They were lohried the next day and I atten- ded the funeral. CHAPTER XXVI • All Quiet (7) on the W.estera Front. At brigade headquarters 1 happen- ed to overhear a conversa-Von between our G. 0. C. (General Officer Com - I inanding) and the Divisional Com- mander. From this conversation CASTO R IA Far rants and children. The glad You Hall Always Bens tbi, fikPa, pare °I. IDEIROMFRIJIT „I_ E iti011iaty. Sticcest which 110,14....:.....vess."- HIS AChieveit- 18 One r why. "Fruit-8'4Iva" o extraordinarily sueeesaful th giving re ief to those suffering' with Constiftet an, TorAiel Liver, Adige:- Chr nie Headaches, Neuralgia, • Kidney • lid Bladder Traub/es, Rheutnali m, Pain in the Bath, • Ecenta d other Skin Affections, is, loecaus it is the only medicine in • the world- ade item fruit juices. It is , co posed of the medicinal \ principles found in apples, oranges, figs and, runes, together with the nerve to, les and antiseptics of proven cre . • . a x, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. -At 1 all, alers or sent postpaid by -tives Limited, Ottawa. teamed tile, we were to bonabard the ,Gernian lin s for eight -days, and on the first of July the" Big Push" was to commen . - In a few dans orders were issued to that effect, and it was • common property all along the line. - On the a ternoon of the eight day i of our . str fing, Atwell and I were sitting in t e front line trench smok- ing fags and making out our reports' of the previotis • night's tour of ,the trenches, which we hvid to turn in to headquartersanewas passed folldwing day,wben down the trench that Old Pepper requested twenty vol- unteers to go over oir a trench raid that night to try and get a few Ger- man. prisoners ' for information pur- poses J I immediately volunteered for this job, and 'shook hands with Atwell and went to the rear to give my name to the officers. in charge of the raid- ing party. 1 I was accepted, worse luck. At !.9:40 that night we reported to. the Brigade Headquarters dugout to receive instructions' from Old Pepper. After reaching this dugout we lin- ed up in. a semicircle around hineand he 'addressed us as follows: • - "All / want you boys to do is to go over to the German lines to -night, .1 surprise thein, secure . a couple of prisoriers and return immediately. Our- artillery has bombarded that see - tion of -the line -for two, days and per- sonally I believe that that part of the. Gernian-treneh is unoccupied; so just get a couple of prisoners and return as quieldy.as possible." The Sergeant on my right, in, an. undertone whispered to me: "Say, YlinlehoW- are we going to get a Couple of prisoners if the old, fool thinks 'personally that that part of • the trench is unoccupied,'— scrim& kind of fishy, donen't it, mate, . I had a funny sinking Sensation in my stomach,„and lily tie hat felt as ‘ if it Weighed about a ton., and my eno thusiaM. wag melting ewate Old rept per must have heard the 'Sergeant speak-becatieit he turned in. his diree- tioe and in a thundering voice ask- ed: - ' •( - - . " What did you say?" The Sergeant with a scared look on his face and his knees trembling, smartly saluted and answered:. • ' • "Nothing, , Sir." - ,,.. • Old Pepper said:• '- "Well, don't say it so loudly the next tiene.:' . .. • Then Old Pepper continued: • " In this; section of the ierman trenches there are two or three ma- chine guns which our artillery, in the last two or three days, has been un- able to tape. These guns command the sector where two of our communi- cation. trenches join the front lineeind as the brigade is to go over the top • to -morrow morning I want to capture two or three men from these guns' crews,and from them 1 may be able to obtain valuable information as to the exact location of the guns, and • our artillery will therefore be able to denfolish them. before the attack, and thus prevent our loosing a lot of men while using •these communication trenches to bring up reinforcements. These were the instructions he gave lis: , "Take off your identification disks and strip your uniforms of all num- erals, insignia, eta, leave your pap- ers with your captains, because I do not want- the Boches to know what regiments are against them as this would be valuable information to them in our Attack to -morrow and 1 don't want any of you to be taken alive. What I want is two prisoners and if I get them I have a way which will inake them divulge all necessary information as to their guns: You have your choiee of two weaplons — you may carryeyour 'persuaders' or your knuckle knives, and each man will arm himself with fo.ur Mills bombs, these to be used only in, case , of emergeney." • . A persuader is Tominy's nickname for a club carried. by the bombers: It is about two feet long, thin at one .end and very thick at the other. The thick end: is studded with sharp steel spikes; while through the centre of the club there is a nine -inch lead bar to give it weight and balance. When you get a prisoner all you have to do is just stick this club up in front of / you ' are a martyr to Pains in tb.e Back, Urinary or Bladder Troubles, Brick Dust Deposits, Painful Urination, Swollen Joints or any of the various symRb6s of Kidney Trouble, take 1 'him, and believe met, the priSoner' patriotism •for Deutschland hiebe _Alles „fades away *riot he very will- ingly obeys the orders of his captor If, however, the prisener gets high toned aed refuses to fo110 You simply "persuade him by first- re 'moving his tht. hop, and then—well the Use of the letee weight in the per- suader .is demonstrated, and Tommy looks for another prisoner. The kuekle :kpife is a dagger af- fair the blade of which is about eight inches idnik with a heavy steel guaed over the grip. This guard is stud- ded with steel projectiens. At night in a trench, which isonly about three to four feet • wide, it makes a very handy weapon. One punch in the face generally shatters a man's jaw and you can get him with the knife as he goes down. ' Then we had What we called our "Come-alonga" These are strands of barbed wire about three feet long, made into a noose at one end, at the other end the barbs are -cut off and Tommy slips his wrist through a loop to get a good grip on the -wire. If the. prisoner wants to argue the point why just place the, 'artloop around m his neck and no at r Tonirny wishes' to return to his trenches at the walk, trot, or gallop, Fritz is, perfectlyagreeableto Maintain,' Tom- my's rate of speed. We were Ordered to black our faces and hands, For this reason: at night the English and Gerrnens- use • what they call star shells, a sort of rocket affair. These are fired from, a large pistol about twenty inches long,which is held over the sand bag parapet of the trench, and discharged into the air. These star shells attain a height of about fifty feet, and a range of freah fifty to seventy-five ' yards. When theyhit the ground they, ex- plode, throwing out a strong 'calciurn ligeit which lights 'uei theground in a circle of a radius of between* ten to fifteen yards. They also have a par- achute star shell which, after reach- ing a height Of about fifty feet, ex- plodes. - A parachute unfolds and glowly floats to the ground, lighting up -a large circle in No Man's Land. The official name of the. star shellis a "Very -Light." Very -Lights -are used. to prevent night surprise at- tacks on the trenches. If a star shell falls in front of you, or between you and the German Imes, you are safe from detection, as the ';:enemyi cannot see you through the bright leurtain of light. But if it falls behind you and, as Tommy says, "you get into the star shelhaone," then the fun begins; you have to lie flat on your stomach and remain absolutely mo- tionless until the light of the shell dies out. This takes anywhere froM forty to seventy' seconds. • If you haven't time to fall to the:ground yoit must remain abiolutelY, still itt what: ever position you were hi when the light exploded; it is advisabletnot to breathe as Fritz has an eye -like an eagle when he thinks you are knock- ing at his doer. When a .star shell is burning in Tommy's rear he ..can. •hold his breath for a week. You blacken yourface' and hands so that the light from the star shells will not reflect on your pale fees; In a- trench raid. there IS quite mit- ficent reason for your face to be phle. If you don't believe me, try it Just • tilleThe'en another reason for blacking . your face and hands is that, after you ' have entered the German trench at inight, ,"white face" IllefalS Ger- mans, "black face" !English. Come, ing around a traverse you seeta. white face in front of you. 1 With ,a prayer and wishing Fritz ‘fthe best of luck" you introduce him to Sleet. "persuad- er" or knuckle knife. • A. little latter we arrived' at . the communication trench named Whis- key Street, which led , to 'the fire. trench at the point we were to go over the top and out in front. In our rev were four stretcher beaters and a corporal of the R.A. Kind- of a grim reminder to us that our expedition was not going to be exactly a picnic. • The order of thin- s - was reversed. In civilian , 1ife doctors generally come first, with the• undertakers tagging. in the rear and then the insurance man, but in 'our •case, the undertakers were leading, with the doctors trailing behindenin- us the insurance adjustor. The presence �f the R.A.M.C. men did not seem to disturb the raiders, because many a joke, made in an un- dertone, was passed along the wind- ing column, as to who would be first to take a ride On one of the strethhers. This was generally followed by .a • wish that, if you were to be the one, the wound would be a "cushy Bligh- ty one." The stretcher bearers, no doubt, were hoping that, if they did have to carry any one to the rear, he would be small and light. Perhaps they looked at nip wheh wishing, because -I could feel an uncomfortable ,boring 'sensation. iftween my shoulder blades —They got their wish all right. • Going up this trench, about every: sixty yards Cr so we would pass a lonely sentry, who -in ti whisper would wish ino "the best of luck, mates." We would 'blind at hini un- der aur breaths; that Jonah phrase to us sounded very ominous. Without any casualties the min- . strel troop -arrived in Suicide Ditch the front line: trench. Previously, a wiring party Of the Royal ,Engineers bad cut a laie through our barbed wire to, enable us to get out into No Man's Land. , Crawling through this lane, our party of twenty took lip an extended part. We had a tap code arranged' order formatili about one yard a - for our movementwhile in No Man's Land, because or various reasons it i0 not safe to c rry on a ,heated con- versation a fe yards in front of Fritz's lines. he officer was on the right of the 11n, while I was on the extreme left. Two taps - fron the right would be ' assed down /the line until I received them, then I would send back one , p. Th.e 'officer, in receivieg this one tap, would know that his order bad gone down the whole line, had been understood, and that the -party wits ready to obey the tvvoetap signal. Two taps meant that we were to, crawl forward slowly— and believe me, very slowly—for five yards, and then 1a1t to await blether instructions. Th±ee taps meant, when you arrived w1thrt strikin,g distance of the German tr ch, rush it zuia . n - filet as many eaeualtaes as possib e, secure a couple of, -prisoners, and then _ irto TilELIWT FAR TNEMODIR1ITgAJN TOE SCEflIC .410. AtiDTIIESERvitiETIO GIRLS! LgMON JUIdE . IS A SKIN WHITENER How to Make a creamy beauty lotion for a few cents... iS The juice of two freoh lemons strained into a bottle containing three ounces of .orchara. .-white makes a, whole quarter pint of the most remarkable lemon skin beautifier at about the cast one must pay /dr a small jar of the ordinary cold, creams. are should he taken to strain the lemon juice through fine cloth so no leinon pub) gets in, then this lotion will -keep fief% for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and,remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal Eikin -softener, :whitener and beautifier. - %hist try it! Get three ounces of prchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make lip . a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it -daily into the face, Deck, arms and bands. - tostameirowesor• trommimmostmat, duck back to your own lines with the speed clutch open.. •Four taps meant, "I fhve gotten you into a position frorn which it is impossible for me to exeategyeottingT so you 1xnarey o intonya o ur, . ow nmess .' After• i • on the western front he is generally - told that he is "on his ovvn." This means, "Save your skin in any way •poseible." Tommy loves to be t"on biS ..own," behind the lines, but not during. a trench raid. The star -shells from the German lines were falling front of us, theme fore we were safe. 'After Ora twen- ty minutes* we entered the star shell zone. A star Shell fro& the German lines fell about five yards in the rear and to the right of me; we hugged the ground and held our breath until it burned out t The smoke/ from the sta..r shell travelled along, the, ground and crossed over the middle of our line. Some Tommy sneezed. The smoke had gotten, up his nose.. We crouched- on the ground, ctirsing the offender under our breath, and waited. the volley that generally ensues when . the Germans have heard a noise iin No Man's Land.. Nothing happenid. We received two taps and crawled for- ward slowly for five yards; no doubt the officer "believed what Old Pepper said, "Personally 1 believe that part 1. .1 ! . Hurrah How's This .. ............ 1 ii Clhoinhati atithority says corns , dry up and lift out • ' with fingers. - Hospital records shovv that every time you cut a corn you invite lock- jaw or blood P0111011, which, lei needless, says a Cineinnati authority, who tells you that a qtarter ounce of a, drug called "freezone can be obtained at lit - 10 cost .frem the drug storo but le sufficient to rid one's" feet of everx: hard or soft corn or callus. You simply apply a few drops of freezone on a tender, aching corn and soreness la instantly relieved.. Short- ly the entire corn can be lifted out, root and all, without pain. • This drug is sticky but tries at ince and is*claimed to Just shrivel up an corn without inflaming or even irri- 'ating the surrounding tissue or skin. . If your wife wears high heels sitce begwiU lad to Isilura of this. • Like to Work in an Automobile Factory? Positions occur in our organization that offer steady work, good wages and an opportunity to learn the automobile burliness. We want to ger In touch with enterprisintiyoung inen or middle- aged men who recognize e value of this oppor- tunity. Write or call in person, so that your name may be added to the list of applications with the idea of entering our services as soon as a position is vacant. • GRAY- DORT MOTORS, Limited Chatham, 'Ontario of the Germantrench is Unoccupied." will come hurtling through the air, Byibeing careful and remaining mo- aimed in the direction of Berlin. The tionless when the star shells fell be- t man on the right, one man ill the ten -- hind us, we reache the German barb- tre, and myself on the extreme left ed wire without riishap.. Then the were equipped with wire clam These are insulated with soft rubber, not be- cause the Gei•man wireS are charked with electricity but to prevent the cut- ters rubbing against the barbed wire stakes, which are of iron, and making a noise which may warn the imnatea of the trench that someone is getting fresh in theii limit yard. There is only one way to eut a barbed wire (Continued on page six.) fun began. I was ared stiff as it is ticklish work cuting-your way through wire when about thirty feet irk front of you there is a line of Bodies look- ing out into No Man's Land with their rifles lying acrose the parapa, strain- ing every sense to see or hear what is going on in No Man's Land; because at night, Fritz never knows when a bomb with lihs name and nimiber on it A Soldier's offerfnC to his sweetheart Is naturally the sweetmeat that gave him most refreshment and great- est enioyment when on duty. is bigger for t#e money. There are io premiums for the wrappers now during war the, so of course we give you full value in the way of a. bigger bar of the same good old Comfort Soap—the housewife's favorite. You can't beat it as al work saver in the home—you can't 'beat it for splendid economy. The new bigger Comfort bar—get it! PUGSLEY, DINGMAN & CO., LIMITED TORONTO 4 ]