The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-09

li's HeduS were covered With Dlack
hair. Our men would have gladly bur
led the fallen enemies, but IL was I'M
possible TO leave the trenches. One
has but to show the point of the he'll
met, or attempt to stretch the cramp-
ed and suff limbs - draw a hail OF
| iron. a
"A yellow mud 6oated about in the
/ trench and ran down the sides. And
In this our soldiers stand day and
night. They are heroes. No doubt
this term has often been misapplicd
but 1t certainly is due the men who in
the cold and wet OF the trench and af-
ter long and dreary weeks OF this
know how to smile and crack (. Joke
For eight hours the man leaned
| against the wet sides of the trench.
| Then the relief force creeps along to
give the others chance to live for &c
hours in damp cellar. To guide the
men at night white ribbons and pieces
Of paper are fastened here and there.
| Like beings Of another world these
| men light no fires and speak no word
"As We returned noted a r1nmber
of broken chairs and other pieces of
furniture and was told that these
were danger signals marking points
| at walls where the enemy could see
what passed beyond. Death lurked
| everywhere.
so we went back through the tun-
mel. through the houses and cellars
and across the yards, and finally came
to the narrow street which had 20, be
CROSSED at a jump. Evidently the
French had seen us siiT across s,thc
| slip across' THE open pIacv; tihd' having
probably observed tine automobile at
Eessen, they must have concluded that
some members of the STAFF were max
| ing an inspections OF tho position at
Diymude. At o'clock IN 'the after
moon they began to Shell the place.
@One shell after another hit the
ruins about the market place and re-
duced the Debris to still smaller di-
| mensions. Standing in doorway
close to the scene was impressed by
the terrific noise Of the bombardment
as sort Of sublime spectacle.
"A she'll fell In our street, and the
major ordered us into his cellar. But
we found 1t hard to leave the iron
concert which whistied and. sang,
crashed and rolled through the ruins
| In thousand keys.
Vi oo tuIOnu dSdlu6I
the corporal who had been standing by
my side and the two of ps few to the.
ground. A she'll had struck the,
| ground Sc feet away from us and the
tatrwaye Of the explosion hdd lknock9
| Cd us over r'3!'ie 'a 80 fe''
ta"After that @ea followed the. mayor
Willingly enough to Ms room in the
bSellar. IT was very still there and the
ldyeary fickerfng hame OF candle
5eemed to make &c more SO. But above
Four heads the defonations Continued.
Whenever one 6f. the shelis hit close
enough to the house TO sDage it. to itS
very Jodfda tsdb, iGEie6ji e6jiihaj ajof would say
j"fNow! ,Ssas
Tor q while that was = tho sony
sound among tnos6 wlio sat about the
Ihome-made table in thelIceliar, later
bsomebody tried togmasteF 1.-THE. peculiar
tlexcitement which held nslfaH, In - s9fs
iisiaip 6y telling eJaay 5.S.iszl tS,ss Il !:i
spite OF the ptoriosa and tho, cigarettes,
tt66E scxeitements caused Dsstte uncers
! tainty where the next slsell .Woiid
tstrikej held aon.t,..Ii ssdt SYt.as 'i'e
/ When the bomhar dmenti. had sub
sided the correspondence. made their
way back to their automobiles, cou-
tending en- route with two .nnfriendly
e1ements-mud and more shells md
shrapnel. -31ssl',;i 80.
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