Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-11-05

have come out of their shelters and
commence firing at you with rifles.
You wonder why you are not hit
The crest of the German trench is
just in front. The firing from it ceases,
but you do not notice this. You are
on the line of bags and jumping over.
The remnants of the shaken German
force drop their weapons. "Kamerad
kamerad, NIGHT kaput.' (Comrade, com
rade, don't kill meJ they cry rs their
hands go up. The men who fought
through the boyau come up. They are
followed by others There is Il boyau
running from the captured trench to
the Germans second line. Some of
the men rush into it. Two grenades
thrown by the Germans retreating
through the connecting trench kill one
of the men.
A German has remained to throw
long bayonet disappears in his back.
The bayonet is pulled out as he falls
and the men go on. One falls as he
rounds the turn into the trench. An
other goes over him and drops just as
he reaches II pile of sandbags thrown
into the trench. The Germans are hur-
riedly making barricade. Other bags
are thrown on top The mans legs
stick out.
The other men coming through see
the barricade. and they turn to the
left. They run into pile Of barbed
wire thrown down to block the trench
They pull the sand bags down from
the trench runs to protect themselves.
They do not hold more than forty
yards. They pull down the bags from
what Is now the rear Of the trench
and pile them up on the side facing
the enemy. They see the legs Of their
comrade sticking out from the barri-
cade at the right He is dead. They
cannot pull him out, for the barricade
would fall.
The seventy-flve yard length Of first
line that has been captured Is con-
nected up with the hanking French
trenches by removing the barbados
and barbed wire distractions. and the
earth bags are thrown from the rear
to the new front The attack Is over
There will be counterattacks in all
probability during the night, and the
newly captured trenches must be for
titled. Two mitrailleuses are brought
up from the old line and placed In pO-
sition. The ones taken from the Ger
mans are sent back.
Caring For the Wounded.
The brancardiers. as the stretcher
bearers or Red Cross men are called.
have been picking up the wounded and
the dead, the wounded first. Each SOL
der carries n first aid packet, and the
wounds are bound. Some cannot walk
and are carried back to the poste de
secours near the third line. The poste
de secours, or French dressing station.
Is located in an excavation having an
earth banked, timbered roof that is
more or less shell proof. The surgeon
and his assistants haven't the time or
facilities to administer other than tenn
porary relief. Those who can walk
cours in the hamlet. The men who
cannot walk are carried on stretchers.
There are a number Of automobile
ambulances waiting. One Of them
draws up in front Of poste de Sc
cours. Three stretcher cases are ready.
Two brancardiers, followed by anoth-
er, carry out a man. A blOodstained
light blue coat is spread over the
bandaged form. A tag on which are
details regarding the wound is tied to
a buttonhole. The three men slide the
wounded soldier OH his stretcher into
the car. Two more stretchers and their
occupants are carried out.
People are looking down the street.
What is it? Here they come" In
the twilight close mass of men flank
ed by line Of bay0nets approaches.
The crowd moves up to look at the
prisoners, about fifty Of them. and they
thump along in their high boots. keep
ing step and stealing glance now and
then to the right and left. The pris-
oners are marched into the courtyard
of what was the village school for
girls and formed in line. The war is
over for them.
Night In the Trenches.
There is no sleep in the trenches the
night of this attack. A counterattack
is expected at any moment. For lit
tie while it is pitch dark. then a sput-
tering pop as an Illuminating rocket is
shot into the air. AS 1t sinks ever so
slowly over the trenches the bit OF
dead ground between the two lines is
covered with the glare of dazzling
light. Through the newly placed FIR
tint