Gunnison news-champion., 1915-04-02
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London.-The var mailbag 10 jus,
100 . psoliAc sourcs ef interest.
Vivid letters from soldiers at the
front or in hospital bases and scrapps
notes from the tars with the silent
feet" mirror the actualittes Of waT
with a wealth Of intimate detail and
picturesque personal touches iInpossi-
hle to the harshly censored var cor
rgspondent
The following Ia written from the
trent BY Corp. r. Trsinof.
We have had German cavalry
thrown at AS six times in the last tour
hours. ana each time 1t has been a
different body. SO that they must
have plenty 10 spare. There Ia no
eight hours tor work. eight hours for
sleep and eight hours for play with
Us whatever the Germans may do.
The strain is beginning to tell on
them more than oB US. and you can
see BY the weary faces and trembling
hands that they are beginning TO
break down
One prisoner taken BY the French
near Courtrai sobbed for an hour as
though his heart were broken. his
nerves were 30 much shaken by what
he had been through The French
are fighting hard all round us with
a grit and go that will carry them
through
Have you ever seen a little man
lighting a great. biz, hI.king giant
y no kseps on forcing the little chap
bout the place until the giant tires
himself out. and then the little one.
who has kept his wind, knocks him
over, That's how the fighting here
strikes me.
We ere dancing about round the big
German army. bU our turn viii
come. Our commander know their
business, and Ne shall come out on
top oil right"
Sergeant Major McDermOtt dees not
write unAer ideal literary conditions.
bvt he style is none TIE worse for
the inspiration furnisAsl by TIE
sAriskiAg shell:
4 an writing 10 yss With the -
eny's sAslls bursting 80 scrsantnG
overhead; but 0el kssws vhea \
VIII - psstel. n a an.
We ere waiting for ssostAinG -
turn up to be shot at. but up 10 nov.
thosGA their artillery hes bssa maxi
ing . Aendish row all along Our front.
we haven't seen - much - Q NOS
quito's eyelAsh 70 shoet st That's
WHY | am able 10 write. end some Of
ne are able to take ~ ef rest while
the others keep dick
There is a fine German airship
hanging around like Q great blue
bottle up in the sky. and now and
then our gunners are trying to bring
1t down, but they haven't done 1t yet
ITS the quantity. not the quality Of
the German shells that 10 having ef-
feet on us. and it's not 30 much the
actual damage TO life ~ the nerve
racking row that counts for 90 much.
"Townsmen who are used to the
noise and roar Of streets can stand
il better than the countrymen. and l
think you will find that by far the
.it,est men are those OF regiments
mainly recruited in the big cities.
"A London lad near me says it's no
worse than the roar OF the motor
buses and other traElc in the city on
busy day"
Gaelic Spirit ir-cprssslbls.
The Gaelic spirit has not deserted
Sergt. T. Cahill under fire. He writes:
The Red Cross girleens with their
purity faces and their sweet ways are
as good men As most of us, and bet
ter than some of us. They are not
supposed to venture into the firins
line at all, but they get there all the
same. and devil a one of us burst turn
them away.
Mike Clancy is that droll with his
arking and bamboozling the Germans
that he makes us nearly split our
sides laughing at him and his ways.
Yesterday he got a stick and put
A cap on il. SO that ii peeped up
ADONe tne trench just tlht man. anu
hen the Germans kept shooting away
Il it until they must have used up
TONS of ammunition"
But Mike Clancy was not the only
PRACTICAL joker in the trenches. as the
Glowing from a wounded soldier
shows:
Our men have just had their pa
pers from home. and have noted.
among other things, that Business as
Usual is the motto of patriotic shop
keepers
In last weeks hard fighting the
Nitshires. holding an exposed posi-
ton. ran out of ammunition. and had
TO suspend firing until party brought
fresh supplies across the open un-
der a heavy fire.
Then the wag of the regiment. a
Cockney produced a biscuit tin with