Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-09-25

Group Of French infantrymen in I
and goggles as protection against the
which had been silent before came
into action. They all directed on the
German trenches at HODGE tons of
high explosive and storms of shrap-
mel. Then at AIS by all the watches
Of gunners and infantrymen. the guns
stopped
The next minute a British major at
the head of a battalion line leaped
over the parapet AS he said. he
found nobody home" The Germans
were in the dugouts according to the
custom on such occasions. taking shell
ter from the tornado of shell fire
which makes even a lookout hardly
possible. Turning the corner of a
traverse the major fairly bumped into
| German who apparently had come
out of his dugout to see whether the
Smelling had opped
You're mine" said the major, put
ting his revolver muzzle to the Ger
mans breast. He promptly an
swered that he was" as the major ex-
pressed II.
Praise for the Artillery.
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.
1T shows what artillery can do"
said the colonel, and what the in
fantry can do when the guns give
them that kind Of aid Their work
was perfectly straight on there in
front of the mems noses with no shells
bursting short and then they all
stopped like an orchestra at the end
OF 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 ma.
chine guns, and l 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 a fine
show"
He kept on speaking Of the guns,
ana as he did so, so did the other off,
GERS and men with the depth of feel
ing expressive of realization that the
guns meant life and death and sue
cess and failure for them Singular
ly enough the British loss In taking
the trench was less than losing it.
They got about thousand yards with
the first rush. Mostly they met the
Germans coming from their dugouts,
and 1t was hand to hand when the
Germans did not yield.
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 a faint rumble
| like that Of human voice came from
a pile of earth and il was found that
one OF the high explosives had
closed the door of a dugout. The oc.
cupants were rescued alive.
When an officer and some men came
| to the edge OF the mine crater they
found nearly a hundred Germans in
! the bottom of 1t where they had
taken cover from the bombardment.
The British looked down at the Ger
mans and the Germans looked up at
/ the British. AS one Of the men said.
1 the surprise was mutual. but the Ger
mans were little the more surprised
/ Of the two. The British had bombs
[ in their hands All they had TO do
was 10 stand back and toss the bombs
into the crater.
Chuoking bombs into dugout
when the occupants will not surren-
der is one Of the commonest proceed.
ings in the course of taking $ trench.
Wen give ourselves up" said a
German officer, starting up the wall of
/ the crater You've got us"
Shake Hands With Foe.
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. one British
sol4ier told how he felled a German
/ with his fist
vas out Of bombs" he ex-
planned SO l give him my right and
he went down for the count"
Rushing up the traverses the Brit.
'sh drove the Germans before them
with bombs, gaining more ground. In
addition to their own bombs. they
used the Germans
One German prisoner showed me
: COW 10 use them, said a British bomb