The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-09-10

bumped into a German who had come
out of his dug-out to see why the
Smelling had stopped.
An Officers Capture.
"You're mine!" said the major, put
ting his revolver muzzle to the Ger
mans breast. "He promptly agreed
that he was," as the major expressed
it.
The happiness of the officers and
men as they told the story of that
fight to the correspondent turned on
gratitude to their artillery support.
ut shows what artillery can d." said
the colonel, "and what the infantry
can do when the guns give them that
kind Of aid. Their work was perfect
straight on there in front Of the mems
noses with no shells bursting short
and then they all stopped like an or
chestra at the end of a piece. My
only trouble with the men was to hold
them back from the front line. If
there is anything that puts spirit into
the men it is that kind Of support. We
got four good machine-guns and I
don't know how many were destroyed.
Germany is one big battery. She does
it with artillery and machine guns.
! Guns against her guns and we shall
be all right. Yes, we had fine show
He kept on speaking Of the guns
and so did the other officers and men
with the depth of feeling expressive
of realization that the guns meant life
and death and success and failure for
them. Singularly enough the British
loss in taking the trench was less
than in losing it. They got about a
thousand yards with the first rush.
Mostly they met the Germans coming
from their dug-outs and it was hand
to-hand when the Germans did not
yield.
Imprisoned In Dugout.
AS soon as they had yielded they
were started back toward the British
rear, for in the maze of traverses
where rifles and bombs are lying
about loose prisoners may soon renew
the fray. The next day faint rumble
like that of human voice came from
pile of earth and it was found that
one of the high explosives had closed
the door of dugout. The occupants
were rescued alive.
When an officer and some men came
TO the edge of the mine-crater they
found nearly hundred Germans in
; the lotion Ct it where they had TAX
en- cover f, ON the bombardment. The
British looked down at the Gerran ;
, ard the IL rmans looked up at he
British. AS one of tn. men sa the
surprise was mutual but the G erman5
were Il i:,tle more SUI prised of the
two. The British had bombs in tn ,ir
hands. Ill they had to do was 10
stand bac:, End toss the bombs INTO
the crater.
Chuching bombs into dugout when
the occupants will not surrender is
one of the commonest proceedings in
the course Of taking trench.
well give ourselves up," said a
German officer starting up the wall of
the crater. "You've got u.s."
Victor and Vanquished.
AS the Germans came up some of
the British shook hands with them;
and soon they were marching along
a road in the midst of German shell
fire smoking cigarettes given them by
their captors. Meanwhile it was stab
and thrust in other places till Briton
or German was down.
Rushing up the traverses the Brit
ish drove the Germans before them
with bombs gaining more ground. In
addition to their own bombs they used
the German bombs. zone German
prisoner showed me how to use them."I
said British bomb-thrower. He did
it instinctively when he saw I was
fumbling with it. That was very help
full of him. You had to pull string
on top before you made the throw.
They seemed to be first rate bombs"
Once over the decentralization that
was caused by the crush of the burst !: