New Britain herald., 1915-11-16

his former work is made in the fol- lowing picturesque paragraph in his letter:
 Pipe and Guns.
 "One cloudy morning after a very tiring night I was sitting on the road side watching rather heavy
 bombardment nearby and suddenly through the din rose the sweet clear notes of shepherds pipes. It was the same reed pipe I have heard so often on the hills of Greece and Asia Minor, and the same sweetly-sad, age old shepherd music telling of Pan and the Nymphs and the asphodel meadows where Youth lies buried. The piper was an ordinary piou-piou, q simple fantasin, mon vieux Charles with knapsack on back, rifle slung over his shoulder and helmet on head strolling down to the valley of death a few hundred yards beyond. Nor is this the only music l have heard. One night a violin sounded among the pines which shelter our tents and l strolled over to find plue-clad Or pheus with bits of Chopln and Shu- bert and Beethoven. Such are some of the impressions of the battle seen from this side of the line.
 "Others I have found since the main fight ceased, in the lines pre- viouslv held by the Germans. I went over some of their trenches the other day and have never seen anything so horrible. Although as prisoners have told us they knew they were to be attacked they had no idea that the attack would be anything so severe as it was. Those I have talked to said it was awful and that they were glad to be out of it. Their trenches were very elaborately constructed, many of the dugouts being fitted up with considerable furniture, the dwell lers evidently having no notion they would be hurriedly evicted. After the bOmbardment there was nothing left of all this careful work. The whole earth was torn to pieces. It looked as though some drunken giant had driven his giant plough over the land. In the midst of an utterly indescrib- able medley of torn wire, broken wagons and upheaved timbers, yawned here and there chasms like the craters of small volcanoes where mines had been exploded. It was an ashen gray world distorted with the spasms of death-like a scene in the moon.
 Gas Machines.
 In the notice given out by the French authorities of the guns and arms ammunition taken from the Germans, no mention has been made of certain gas machines that were taken. MT. Norton says in his letter:
 '"These were of two sorts, one for the production of gas, the other to counteract it's effects. The latter were rather elaborate and heavy but very effective instruments consisting of two main parts; one to slip over the head protecting the eyes and clipping the nose, the other an arrangement or bags and bottles containing oxygen which the wearer inhaled through a tube held in the mouth. There were several forms of these apparatuses but the most interesting point to note about them is that one had stamped upon it the words: Type of 1914 developed from type of 1912, de- veloped from type of 190s,' thus show ing that seven years ago the Germans had decided to fight with gas.''
 Among those who shared experi- erces with Mr. Norton, in the battle or oHd dIn paSne were W. r. 1lyOe, Jr., of New York. a graduate of Yale; William R. Berry, of Philadelphia, a graduate of Princeton, Messrs, Coats W orth and Schribner of Buffalo. N. Y: Frederick Morgan, a Massachusetts l man and @ graduate of Harvard, and l several other American young men, ! mostly college graduates In addi- 1 ton to Harrington and Phelps, whose 1 place of residence is not known, MT. Norton mentioned in his letter that l the two Whitwells, the two Phelps, 1