The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-01-22
Brave Deeds, Superhuman At
tacks, Fearful Nights, Terrible
Anxiety Are What the Soldiers
Share In Equally on Europe's
BattIefieIds.

@HE daily existence of the aver
age European fighter is made
up of a series Of thrills. Every
minute his nerves are on edge.
He must face fire untlinchingly. Sto-
ries OF reckless bravery abroad fill the
newspapers daily. Each mar facing
the enemy senses every minute Of the
ers over him. Terrible moments OF
anxiety come to him when he finds
himself in a position where death
seems only a second away, but he Is
preserved by the narrowest margin.
How it must shock his every nerve to
End himself rudely awakened by the
call to arms after snatching a few
winks Of much needed sleep. Then to
find the enemy close upon him while
suddenly glaring searchlights pierce the
1nky blackness OF the night, revealing
hts comrades falling dead and wound
ed on all sides, completely surprised by
the enemy. All this and much more he
must suffer without complaint until
he, too, is struck to the ground. But
let the men themselves who are doing
the fighting tell their stories:
Johnny Poe, famous ex-Princeton
football player and soldier Of fortune,
who recently enlisted in the British
army, has been promoted and is nov
an orderly for a colonel. His mother,
Mrs. John P. Poe Of Baltimore, has
Just received a letter from him. He
writes that he is In the One Hundred
and Twelfth battery Of the heavy
brigade, royal garrison artillery, and
says:
\ "Our battery has been in action for
the last five or six days. ! am one Of
the colonel's orderlies, so I ride around
from one battery to another. We bill
let in houses and barns, and thus far
we have had plenty to eat and a good
place to sleep. The heavy brigade
fights away back from the infantry.
I have had a few shells burst near me
and in most cases was we'll under COW
Ell. Shrapnel shells have an unpleas-
ant sound as they go by.
1--WE were given u splendid reception
by the natives when we first arrived.
There We're plenty Of fruit. cigars, ciga.
rettes, crackers, beer and chocolates
given us.
Seldom do We see a newspaper.
When l was working l never forgot
the day of the week or month, but
here I am often far of in both"
"War Has Made Us 6rigands."
A letter written by n private found
In a German trench says: You have
no idea Of our fatigues and %privations
during the last fortnight. For the last
four days we have had to support N
artillery fire of inconceivable violence
The solid earth rocked necessarily be
meath bursting shells.
every day hundreds of my comrades
have been carried away dead OF wound
ed. II it Ices not finish SOC those no
killed will disappear gradually. There
IL a limit to u endurance.
1.-The French villages we pass through
are ruins. not Il BIT to eat or drink il
them. We are no longer men; the wal
makes brigands OF u.s."
Four Hours to Crawl a Mile.
A mile and a half crawl with five hul
lets in his body under artillery an(
rifle fire was the experience OF Private
Dan Hurst Of the Coldstream guards
Writing to his wife. Hurst says:
Don't fret over me l have five
wounds, but I am Il lucky chap to be
here to tell the tale. for il the shell
which hit me in the chest had explod'
ed a bit lower l would have been kill
I'd outright. 1t rained in torrents all