The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-08

the parapet. As he said; he found
 nobody at ,home.'' The Germans were in their dug-outs according to the custom on such occasions, talk ing shelter 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 had come. out of his 1ug-out to see why the shelling had stopped.
 stY You're mine!" said the major, putting his revolver muzzIe to the Germans 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 Tt shows that artillery can do,' 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 men 8 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 1t is that kind of support. We got four good n@~ chine guns and don't know how many were destroy ed: Germany is one big battery. She GOeS IL W1Ch- arI11Iery ana nlaEnne guns. Guns against her guns and9 we shall be all right. Yes, we had a fine show.'L
 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 andSsuccess and failure for them.4 Singu1ar1y enough the British loss in taking the trench was less than in losing it, They got about 1, 900 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.
 As soon as they had yielded they were started back toward the British rear, for in the maze of traverses | where rifles and bomISs are lying the fray. The next day faint rum bIe like that of a, human voice came from a pile of earth and it was found that one of the high explosives had closed the door of a dug-out. The occupants were rescued alive.
 When an officer and some men came Ito the edge of the mine-crater they found nearly a hundred Ger mans in the bottom of it where they Ehad taken cover from the lombard ment.@ The British looked down at the Germans and the Germans looked up at the British. As one of the
 men said the surprise was mutual but the Germans were a. little the moress surprised of the two. The British had bombs their hands. All they had to do was to stand back and
 toss the bombs into the crater Chucking bombs into a dug-out when the occupants will not surren- der is one of the commonest pro- ceedings in the course of taking
 trench.
 trwe'II give ourselves up." said Q
 German officer starting up the wall of the crater. tfY You've got us. | As the Germans came up some of the
 British shook hands with them, ana ! soon they were marching along a.
 road in the midst of German shell
 fire smoking cigarettes given them | by1 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 1 with bombs gaining moreg round. In l addition to their own bombs they used the Germans. "One- German l prisoner showed me how to- use l them,'' said a British bonb-thr rower.
 "He did it instinctively when he saw
 I was fumbling with it. That was l very helpful of him. You had to