Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-04-30
USE BODIES OF
DEAD SOLDIERS
AS BREASTWORKS
British Captain, Whose Diary
Was Found on His Body,
Describes Fighting.
TRENCH LIFE SIMPLY HADES
Finds War Not What II Was Pic.
tured, but Superhuman Trial Of
Superhuman Power, Intellect
and Nerves.

Cologne.-The diary of British SOL
der. which presents the grisly side
Of war more brutally than has any
trained writer, was found in trench
captured by the Germans near Ypres.
The hand that penned the entry was
forever still, but II had left a rec
ord picturing wildly the scenes In the
British trenches, inadequately built,
whose horrors we're so great that the
men could not sleep within their shell
ters, whose earthen walls we're NOR
tared with the bodies of dead French.
men. Even more terrible was the
revelation OF the CHASTITY fear of these
men, who lay expecting death within
4 charnel house. The semioficial
Cologne Gazette publishes the follow.
ing excerpts from this journal and
thus comments ON It:
One OF the leading press organs of
Neutral countries has recently declared,
In review of Kitchener's army of
million that II is comparatively easy
to enlist a multitude of soldiers, but
hard to provide for the necessary
quantities of equipment and munitions.
That is true. But the greatest diff.
Guilty of all undoubtedly lies in i'm.
buing the newly recruited troops with
the desired soldierly spirit--in other
words, to accomplish extemporaneous
y what has been developed in Ger.
many through the labor of a hundred
years and what has been bestowed
upon the present German generation
as their Inheritance and training.
Captain Jordain's journal.
Before US lies the war journal of
the English Captain Jourdain of the
First Suffolk. who on January II
landed with the Kitchener reinforce
ments at Havre and in time arrived
with his company in the trenches In
fpres. Parts of this journal are re-
produced here literally:
February 5.-They say that the Ger.
man guns. on account of the immedi.
ate neighborhood of the several
trenches. cannot put us under fire.
Let US hope II remains so, for the
srenades are something terrible. Ev.
anywhere dead Frenchmen are used for
the strengthening of the breastworks,
and my first work In the trenches was
to bury dead chasseur.
February 6.--The trench is full of
French ammunition and all sorts of
things, even fieldglasses. They are
a disorderly lot.
Trench Work veritable Hades.
February S.-only half rested we
had to go this evening at nine O'Clock
again into the trenches. No man can
say that this method of warfare pleases
him. II is a veritable hell. Thank
God we have not yet been under Are,
although this time they will make Il
lot as hades for us In the brigade
rench.
February 9.--In the course OF the
afternoon on both sides a heavy artil.
lery fire This is not war such as
We had even pictured or imagined
Il Is superhuman trial OF superhuman
power, intellect and nerves. General.
ly we cannot sleep, and the shooting
continues with more or less vehe.
mence. Our trenches are very poor
Hardly bulletproof. and therefore
very dangerous. 1t is a real wonder
that one remains spared. for shot
In the cap or tunic is the order OF
the day. The sanitary conditions are
bad. and on the terrain before US
lie many dead Frenchmen and Ger.
mana. The breastwork is borderet