Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

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The audacity OF those British airmen.
Two OF them were spottjng the work OF
British guns and waiting for gun
flashes which would reveal concealed
German battery positions II is great
game Seven or eight thousand feet
hish is single Taube cruising leisure
- Tor the same purpose 1t looks Xix g
beetle with eossaner wings suspend
cd from A light cloud. The British ayi.
ators are so low that the buliseye
identification marks on their lower
planes are distinctly visible TO the
naked eye.
They are playing in and out like the
shortstop and second baseman around
second, In the very arc of the passing
shelis meant Tor other targets. When
shrapnel pufs from the German anti
air craft guns meant for them become
too thick they edge away, only TO re-
turn again, while they rise and dip in
their skillful lodging. They make war
seem almost glorious. AT length one
rrures FOR good; probably his plane
cloth has become too much like sieve
from. shrapnel fragments and bullets to
remain longer.
AS move on toward the front
trench wounded man is carried past.
he was hit by piece OF she'll. Al bat
talon headquarters they are taking III q
DAYS work as matter of course Two
Germans. we learn, are buried Just back
OF the coloners dugout.
Hans and Jacob We have named
them. said one of the officers
Its dull UP here-we let our imaei-
nations play. We hold long converse
lions with Hans and jacob in our long
watches. Hans is fat asd cheerful and
trusting. He believes everything tho
Kaiser tells him and has happy dispo-
sition. But Jacob Is professor-he Is
fearful strafer. II seems a little
grcwsome, doesn't it. but not after you
have been in the trenches a while"
Again we move on through that mar
row cut In the earth. with it's ready
soldiers. which the world knows from
reading about tours of the trenches
The atmosphere is the same as In the
more peaceful sections of tho line OF
course. some of the soldiers are eating
bread and marmalade. Where all the
marmalade which Tommy Atkins eats
comes from puzzles the army service
corps whose business il Is TO see that
Mr.. Atkins never gets without II, How
could he sit so calmly under shell fire
without marmalade.
TIME ENOUGH TO THINK
WHEN SHE'LL. ARRIVES
Any minute a she'll may come. Well,
you don't think OF that. Time enough
to think when the she'll arrives Then
perhaps. you will have done thinking.
Another wounded man brought along
pick-a-back by sturdy comrade. Shot
through the head by n sniper II
doesn't do TO show your head on an
afternoon like this. For the second
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are valuable
one looks through the periscope over
the top Of the trench. It happens to
be n well-chosen second.
Another picture. The British guns
are shooting well, too. Slap into the
parapet OF the German goes big
British lyddIte shell. The contents Of
sandbags and dust from trench walls
merge with an immense cloud of ugly
black smoke
AS the cloud rises one sees a figure
move swiftly out of sight Then,
nothing but the gap which the explo-
sion has made. No wise German will
show himself in that gap. British
sharpshooters are on the watch for such
targets at deadly range. AT least half
q dozen, more likely a score of men,
had been put out by this single "di-
rect hit" as they call 1t. of n high
explosive. Yes. the British gunners
were shooting we'll. Other glimpses
through periscopes proved it,
Thus hit the Germans hit back. and
then the British hit back and so il
goes In venomous give and take. Com
ing 10 point where the British and
German trenches were closer togeth-
er. we found that both sides were busy
throwing bombs. This was far enough
for mere sghtseer on the way to-
ward the heart of that business Of ar
tillery preparation for an infantry at
tack
BOCHE GAS SHE'LL
MAKES HIT IN TRENCH
"a Boche gas she'll" we were told. as
We passed an Informal excavation In
the communication trench on the way
pack. AsphyXiating effect. No time
TO put your respirators on when one ex-
plodes. Laid out half n dozen men
gasping like fish for air-but they will
recover"