Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
Rescued Companion in the
Face of a Heavy
Fire.
FOILED GERMAN RUSE
Detected Falsity Of am Ord
cr to Retire From the
Trenches.

l shf fNtA - IA
! niIod Press Staff CorrespopdcpD
LONDON, Dec. 3O-CBy mau to
New York. .)-"Why doesn't SOMEONE
go and help him?"
why not go YOURSELF"
lhe sequel to the above uIo.tinp
/ ana answer in the trenches at Lee
| Gheer. Franco-Belgian frontier. was
tna' Drummer spencer John Bent
'Irst Fast Lancashire regiment
qualified for the Victoria Cross
| me olilcial account Of the act OF
! heroism for which the v G. was
awarded states that Bent also dis
! played remarkable presence of mind
ana took command Of his plpfoon
! When tho officers and platoon-loadore
! had been shot down, but if il hadn't
| heen Tor that sarcastic query. "Wbv
not go yourself?" he might not have
| got the little bronze cross which is
'"T "'npltloh OF every British soldier
heht, who Is home, wounded. tells
the story In very matter-of- fact
d way we We're, as usual, taking our
, hour turns alternatively, watching
Tor the enemy, and ! had snuppled
! down into my hole. We had no nf-
Ilcer In our trench and NV plstoon
/ leader had gone to visit a post when
! someone passed the word down the
me that the battalion was To retire
| rms was being done when woke
! up | started to follow them when
! ! remembered German trumnei
winch | had found, and had carried
| with me for some time.
A False Order.
Il did not want to lose IT, so
| went back for II, CHANGING a bullet
! when | got into the trench | saw
someone Just coming around the
corner, and thinking it was a Ger
man, / waited for him until he had
crawled up to me, I then poked nv
rifle into him and asked him who he
was. 1t was Sergeant Waller. who
told me that the retirement was a
wrong order. | at once jumped out of
the trench and ordered the men back.
While | was doing this an officer
came up, and after I had told him
what had happened he directed me
TO get the men back while he went
hiter some Others. We all got back
sately INTO the trench and waited.
In the early morning the Ger
mans evidently thought we had left
the trenches, for after a lombard
ment they attacked. They came ON
doing a sort OF goose-step. our Of
Ulcers kept our fire back, and I'm the
meantime Lieutenant Dyer brought
up machine gun. When the Ger-
mans were about 400 yards off the
order was given to fire, and they
went down in hundreds, very few OF
them getting back to their own
trenches.
After breakfast Private McNully
went out of the trench and on re-
turning was hit in the pit of the
stomach. He fell and the Germans
were trying to ht him again: you
could see the earth flying all around
him. said, why doesn't someone
go out and help him.? and got the
reply Why not go yourself? | went.
TO make it more difficult for the
Germans to hit me, ! zlgzaggCd to-
wards him. along the ground They
did not snipe me while ] was ad-
vancing but as soon as I got hold
| Of McNully's shoulder something
seemed to take my feet from under
me, and ! slipped down by him.
This happened close TO the walls
of ruined convent and just as |
! fell several bullets struck the wall.
sending piece of plaster against my
| left eye. | thought | was wounded
! and started TO rub the blood away,
as | thought, but fortunately tho skin
was only grazed. / felt it was time
| to get out Of It, and knowing 1t was
| impossible to stand up, / hooked my
| feet under McNully's arms. and tis-
| ing my elbows, managed to drag my
self and him back TO the trenches,
about twenty-five yards away When
| / got him there | went for a doctor
| and stretcher bearers. and as far as
! know he is still alive. Eight days
later l got a bullet through the
flesh Of my right leg. and had to be
taken to a hospital"
Tragic experiences Of a survivor Of
mined steamer were related when
the steam trawler Remagio landed
at Grimsby. "A Swede named Nelson,
one OF the crew of the Danish steam-
| ship Marie, which was blown up by
a German mine in the North Sea.
After the disaster the crew escaped
from the sinking ship in two life
boats, seven in each. The captains
boat was picked up by the Wilson
/ liner Juno Nelson was in the
mates boat, which in The darkness
and rough sea became separated
from the other boat Though they
had food. the bitter cold and the re-
peated drenchings by waves caused
the men in the boat terrible suffer-
ings.
on the second day one man went
mad and jumped overheard and
later two others collapsed and were
washed out of the heat The same
night fourth and firth man died.
/ leaving Nelson and the mate alone
| The next day the mate sucCumbed
and Nelson was left tossing ion the
| boat, which was half full of water
At night he saw a trawler's lights
and shouted with ali his strength.
I He tainted when he heard the fish
/ ermens answering halls.