Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-10-06
KILL! KILL KILL!
EP|ToM|zES war
First Hand Accounts Show
AWfuIness Of Battle.
DAYS TnATDEFY IMAGINATION
Sights In Nations Terrible Conflict
Which Make the Blood Run Cold.
VI Should Never Have Thought Men
Could Stand IT," Says One Soldier In
Letter From the Front.

C0uto SSeno IT, Days Ono oosoSoV N
Letter From the Front.
The horrors of war are brought home
strikingly to the reader Of the news.
papers in these days Of stress abroad
by means Of many a personal narrative
as thrilling as any ever told by mas
ter Of fiction. These little stories recite
deeds of dauntless courage and impress
one with the correctness Of General
Sherman's famous definition Of war.
1.-THE statements of the wounded at
Paris returning from the Aisne show
the terrible nature Of the fighting. All
practically tell the same story" said
one man.
1T began with heavy and accurate
shell fire. There was a lunch interval,
1t stopped about $50 every day. and
then in the night often came the
charges. One night l couldn't count
them. It was awful! Kill! Kill! Kill!
And still they came on. showing each
other over on to us.
"There was no man but had his story
of comrades shot on either side Of him.
of how they were smashed day after
day. Of the shrek of shells. Of the per-
petual grooming Of the wounded as
they lay in the wet trenches-'seven
days and nights Of it and sometimes
only an hours Sleep
"Muddied to the eyes, wet, often
blood caked. many were suffering from
the curious aphasia produced by the
continuous and terrible conclusion Of
shells bursting. Some were dazed and
speechless. some deafened. and yet.
sliendid to relate. l saw on no face the
terrible animal war look"
1T Was Horrible; II Was Chastity"
The following epistle is from a Ger.
man soldier Of the Seventy-fourth in.
fantry regiment, Tenth corps. to bis
wife:
II have just been living through
days that defy Imagination. l should
never have thought men could stand
It. Not second has passed but my
life has been in danger.
ut was horrible. 1t was CHASTITY.
But have been saved for you and for
our happiness. and take heart again.
although l am still terribly unnerved.
God grant that ! may see you again
soon and that this horror may soon be
over.
None Of us can do any more. Hu.
man strength is ut an end"
The correspondent Of the London
Daily Telegraph ut Rheims sends this
interesting paragraph:
I'm the doorway still stands the
crippled beggar who has sought aims
there for many years. He maintained
his post throughout the bombardment.
with dust. pebbles and glass. The
man was unframed He was crippled
in the war Of 1870"
SpeIIbound at HERDS Act.
The heroic self sacrifice Of a soldier
named Tresignies Of the Second regi-
fent. chasseurs Il pied. has just been
related. The Belgians were exceeding
ly anxious to get across the Willie
brock canal at Pont Brule. but a
bridge was raised against them on the
other side and occupied by strong
force Of Germans Tresignies vOlun-
teered to swim across and try to lower
the bridge. 1t meant certain death.
Before he plunged in he wrote with Il
pencil on scrap of paper the name
and address of his wife and the sim
pie words. God will help and comfort
you" The Germans We're startled into
admiration as he leaped into the
stream and for few moments held
their fire; but. seeing what he was
about to accomplish. they riddled him
with bullets just as he lowered the
bridge.
AS it fell into place with q crash the
Belgians rushed across with shouts Of
triumph. Tresignies' body was buried
with military honors.
A big London department store an.
nounced recently that any unmarried
male employee between twenty and
thirty-five who did not enlist would
be dismissed after Sept. II.
Some of the elevator attendants now
are girls. They wear blue uniforms of
material not unlike that of overalls
and seem to operate the cars quite as
efficiently as the men.