The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-01-09

Supplying ana reasoning Otncfes
Shot From Distance OF 800 Yards.
oxford university has responded
with great enthusiasm 10 Englands
call for men Twothlrds OF the mem.
bers Of the university are either in ac-
tive service nc the front or training
that they may be sent on. No class
has responded better than the oxford
dons An Of them up 60 the age OF
sixty are i'm training, the younger for
| commissions. the older FOR home de-
Tense should need arise.
II IS literally true that oxford is no
longer an English university Tie
/ largest part Of the student body are
I Americans ana Indians. with the usu.
M number OF orientals and those few
( Englishmen who are either under age
or physically unfit
Professors and students In the med.
teal department cor that part OF 1t not
IN France with the Royal Army Med
zeal corps are getting degrees by cur
ing the wounded at home. The exam
ination schools the Masonic building
and the town hall are military hos
pitfalls. Many OF the college gardens
have been turned over 10 the Red Gross
for the exclusive use OF conyalescents
1t was found necessary 20 keep the
Germans. of whom there are some go
In place apart
Professor Describes Fighting.
One very interesting description or
fighting in Belgium comes from Bal
liol professor Of Latin and Greek. who
writes back to his junior dean and has
evidently found things OF more impor
lance than sentence or paragraph struc
ture. He has been master OF scout
since The outbreak of the war and
writes from somewhere near Yprcs.
though the names OF towns and units
were carefully eXcised by the censor
In France The letter follows
This Is tile thirteenth day in the
trenches, az least | think SO, but | can
hardly tell AMI I have experienced ey-
crything but a bayonet charge ana
wash. We have been holding trenches
In a pine wood-at least IL was pine
wood, now IL Is match wood, soaked
spllntered. spattered with wet ana
blood. There has been no hand TO hand
fighting. It has all been done by the
shell and ride Gre. with pneumatic
bombs. The Germans main trench runs
in n line. whose nearest point Is 500
and farthest 1900 yards from US. But
In between they have been burrowinp
up and I'm the last few days, when ]
have been scoutmaster, / have discoy.
cred subsidiary trenches. pits and dug
outs from within 100 TO 30 yards OF
our line. You can't see them because
OF the tangled woods but you can hear
the men digging and hacking as soon
as you get five yards out myself
have constantly within the last few
days been within thirty yards This
morning ! shot at four men In pit AZ
a range OF i've yards in the weird light
OF n damp and frozen winter dawn
II was an Ike dream seeing the
phantom spade rising aud falling be
hind mound Of damp earth. creeping
up pistol In hand through broken aud
small tree trunks, pccping down into "a
six foot pit, sighting four ghostly, blue
gray figures ana p1nctunting the whole
gray unrcallty with four rcd pistol
flashes
Ashamed OF Sniping.
Il didn't wait long ! may have bic
one or two hut 80 others had rifles
IN their hands by uf's time md their
main line uf duaouts was only twenty
yards in irout Of me- ! turned anUed
upon the two scouts who were with
me and He'd Il am goug 20 tell you
what a brave man I uu because
don't know when ! shall DC hit. though
somehow ! feel confident shall come
through, and want 20 lcnvc q testi
mony You'l think I'm Il savage
Shipping Il little better than murderl
NO one who hasn't seen this can
realize what u Is like. The Germans
have "a terrible machine which has
been brought into play against our
trenches IN the last three days Shot
from a distance Of 900 yards. d two
foot long rrojcctilc, which one can
watch at an points in IT'S flight goes
high into the mir and comes down al
most plumb al the point aimed NJ II
~ called I believe j Mncnwerfcr
200 pounds Of shell a special corner
OF cur Eup not our company section.
thank God tas been their special aim
Thcy put these internal bombs into
q circle II thirty yards radlus. They
smash ID tie trenches. blow men to
bits md stupefy and poison others
II had the escape II my Ire yestcr
day afternoon ! had rcconnoitered All
the German positions ia front Of Us.
going OUT daily M dawn ana dusk ana
neuriy always coming within thirty
yards ~ our enemy I aud my -four
scouts reckon ne have shot some
Germans though i'm rotfon marks
man aud Tie twilight and the pine
wood are nO help TO scoring IN consc.