The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-29

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Par1s.-The New York Suns core
spondent with the Foreign IAGiou
sends the following notes from hid
diary:
Monday-Started for ration q 7:s1
p. m. and on the way caught h with
three officers strolling along slowly.
The roadway was narrow ana Il Wa
very dark through the woods, 90 that
1t was impossible to pass them. One
OF the boys got tired of being kept be-
hind at such a slow pace and at last
broke out with: II, I'm not going
to stick behind that guy! He's too
blame slow" (only the word was not
blame, The officers accompanying tn
colonel, for 1t turned out to be o,fx
colonel, evidently knew the American
language, for they. burst out laughdpg.
but the colonel continued his Akroll
imperturbable.
Tuesday-Up at $3.50 a. m. rheuu5NS
tism in my right arm preventing me
from sleeping. Found Joseph Collett.
who declared he had not slept wink
all night as a continual bombardment
had been going from ten o'clock till
three. with a short letup between mid
night and one. The French heavy
artillery was firing necessarily with
out any reply from the Germans. X
was over in the direction of Reims,
he said. and the firing was awful;
the flashes of fire were continual
When it ceased about midnight sup
posed the infantry must be charging
with the bayonet, but it commenced
again as furiously as ever.
l am not surprised at the stories
about Germans going crazy as they
did at Hartmannsweiler Kopf after
seeing and hearing this. =.
The papers spoke of German sol
diers running round the village, mad,
stark mad, driven so by the hellish
noise and the destruction. Even the
men in reserve underground trenches.
feet below the earth, who were to re-
place the men killed in the trenches,
were driven mad. They could see moth
ing. but could hear the swish of the
shells. the roar of the explosions and
the shrieks of those above.
Tuesday.-Bouligny has received
word that he has been promoted SER
geant; unfortunately he will leave our
company, being moved to Battalion C,
Second Company. Second Section.
Tuesday.-Trinkard found q baby
cart in the village and wheeled itover
to bring the wine when drawing "a
lions. A big success. s1
At Las p. m. the enemy began she'll
ing the road half way between Craon-
ellie and Blanc Sablon wood. AS usual
they send couple of small time shells
to test the range (they explode in the
arr, and then some big contact shells
which destroy anything they hit and
make another big hole In the ground
II they miss. The Smelling stopped at
Do missing barn not a hundred
yards from me.
There was little volunteer Ca new
4ap) just beside me yesterday who
aFed his rifle. Up came the corporal
Of the guard to know why the etcetera
ne fred. "Oh, had cartridge that
looked bad SO l tried it." Then the
wanted to know vhy.
ne mad hred and he pleaded that he
had seen two rabbits and could not |
resist to pop at them. This is ! III
war a1ecdote, Isonly wish could tive
You something more lurid. like thcee ]
rec in the American press. exI
watched a French aviator heinz !
bred at about 4:45 D. m. -Four bat
lerles were at him at the same time. |
SIX or seven shells exploding at once.
mere was still enough light to see /
the shells explode. The hiring was so
last that + counted. and found that
more than q hundred shells exploded
"a nve minutes. The aviator flew out
of range, but at Sis he came back /
again, and. strange to say, was not /
ired at.
they say that French aeropIanes !
have wire attached about two hun /
ire9 feet long by which the observer
IN board can fash signals by making
he wire spark. Thus officers all the
way back can read the signals with
powerful glasses.
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