Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

SO meNeeme0 mluly sufpilbeu luht | spoke English. lt was not until after ward that l knew these men had been SO worn out by being constantly under fire that their nerves no longer re- sponded
 "To one side in rather more eX- posed position than others. 1t seemed to me, there was 8 slightly more com modious shelter with branches on the ground. On them was lying Lieuten- ant smoking a cigarette and reading ar Illustrated London Weekly He Invited me in and asked what I was doing there.
 "1 regret to say l had to tell him lie because l knew how stringent the
 rules were against correspondents. fancy he knew l was lying but he let
 it go at that In a few minutes
 shrspnel shell whistled over our heads and sounded SO close that un- consciously l ducked my head but the
 Lieutenant did not, and the few men
 could see from where l was sitting did not either
 Some of them who were asleep did
 not even stir It burst just past the , village but too high The Lieutenant
 eXplaired why the men seemed SO in-
 different They could tell by the sound z that it was going overhead and their , nerves lad become so used to the
 sound that they no longer reacted as C mine did. happened to see the night
 attack because I talked to the Lieu
 tenant until dark and then it was too / late to travel
 q was Ice likely to be shot by !, British sentry and he agreed I would y. better spend the night in his dugout " and did not seem to think much about Q it.
 Shortly aster, when the men had Leen we'll fed with bully beef, jam and
 coffee, they relieved the men in the . trenches This they did by advancing - under the shelter of a small grove,
 out of which their trench ran about " eighty yards n an uneven line. It
 was a wide commodious trench, and 5 the men pushed along to the end with ,u cut being exposed.
 I "I was among a number of new men ,5 who were the lost to enter the trench, '' ana ibe Lieutcant kept near them, Ga .a- ling reassuringly.
 "WhCu the "Pht actually con. 7u mcnoed he exposed half his bod2 a ". number of times for the moral effect, a. e. think have been told that the ras. ,' ualties among the British officers is i' ont of an ropoitior 70 the other losl-
 es They must be if many show tue
 reckless courage of q IS one. W ."Al at once three shells one after
 another fell rather near and after an s5 interval of a few minutes three more.
 These were little coalboXes' making
 holes in the ground about four feet in
 diameter and three feet deep The -ta second three seemed very near, and '' the Lieltenant sensing uneasines5
 among the men, stood upright beside ,, the trench and said iR an easy voice s They have not found us yet, have 'nt theyT
 i- "He had hardly finished speaking I'. when one fell that did the damage My seuse of hearing was aread} n1 numbed by the sound of the others.
 remember | was sitting on the bottom of the trench when it came. The man
 killed must have been standing up, as ,l the piece of shell which struck hin ,o tore through his left side, all but cary ,rs D rying his arm and shoulder away
 None of the others was scratched ,4 They were on the bottom with me o "We were still dazed when VI ,. heard some one say. LOOK out fol a5 them now, But no more shells fell fol na , few minutes, and by the time they an. reconmenced we were too busy t' ao pay any attention. I only remembe 7,, that there were more.
 "'1bere they are, there they are mo- could hear soldiers saying in boarding I school whispers peered out cautious nm ly aud it seemed to me at first merel! na as if the shadow of the wood hal
 deepCned
 .ot The Germans Come On to "An along our line could hear thu .bo rustinE and rasp of leather and al ,n+ occasional click, but l could also hea ,, the air pumping in and out of m, throat Then l could see the shadov .be coming closer Steady now, wait ,n. whispered the Lieutenant, and th
 whisper ran down the line.
 "It kept running through my heal int that ! had done something like Uni it before. My mind groped for what ito was and hit upon that fact that l haD ,ad laid In the grass while stealing apple m as a boy while the farmer wake, ' close behind me. It occurred 70 m ,g that tlat would be 8 good thing c .rn say vi en l wrote about it, but On 'bo thought harassed me that I had real .t something like it before rr "My mind refused to do anythin Iet but try and decide whether ! shoulr ,ro mention it and then Let them hay tho it, heard l think one man fired 5us ,ot before the words, but l am not cel md tain.
 tn "For the next twenty minutes ud went on. Out of it | retain just tw to pictures, Just before the Lieutenau
 gave tbe order to fire the Germa i,, line seemed to stop. It was quit