The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-17

rounds over in a minute. but had only eighteen men on 25O yards front and we could not do very much in the helping line. They finally got to the trench, but lost over half of their number The German artillery certain ly gave us hell and wye have very lit- tie of the trench left.
 If the Germans had only closed with us last night they would have been m and through Tyres on the road to Calais as we had no endorsements in the rear of us at all. The Bluffs were taken from away down the line and had been marching all night, but the chance is gone now and we are getting artillery up and more troops. At dusk the Tenth and Sixteenth bat tallons charged a wood on our right, clearing the Germans out and saved some 4.7 guns that belonged to Lon- don battery They got all cut to hell. We have not received any food yet. The German artillery keep sending shrapnel over an night. None of us have any overcoats and 1t Is as cod as can be. The overcoats were left at St. Julien when we went out. We have been working like hell on our trenches and are damn near dead. |. is the only way we can keep warm.
 April 2'-The Germans do not give rip about their ammunition, so they are putting lots of 1t into us. My fort was blown to pieces, we were all half buried, but soon got out. nobody was hurt. In the daytime we are waiting for night to come because of the con tinuous shell fire. At night we get shrapnel fire and then we want day to come 80 we can get the sunshine. It is 80 cold that my teeth are chat terlng as fast as the machine guns can spit The French have made an advance on our left
 April 25-we have got more art:l- cry up now and things are beginning
 to look a little better. It is as cold as can be tonight and we are not al. lowed to have any fires. When l was
 trying to get a little sleep about g a.
 m. shell tore the top of my dugout
 off and buried me. It did not take
 my men long to dig me out again.
 My back is very sore and has been
 giving me hell all day, 1t is caused
 by piece of wood hitting me when I was buried. We have not been able to get any rations yet; have had noth-
 ing to eat now for four days.
 April 26-We have certainly lots of artillery coming up and artillery duels
 continue day and night We have lost
 an of our packs, including overcoats. and we stll freeze at nights We kill COW yesterday and we ate the meat just as 1t was. There was not any of the COW left by morning. We got some rations today for the first time since the battle started Everybody is nearly all in. The men have cer
 tainly worked hard and have had no . sleep and nothing to eat for the last five days
 April 27-The artillery Is certainly giving us hell again this morning. The English or the Indians made an ad vaonce on our right to make the line little more even. There is a con
 tinuous shraDnel fire at night. We got relieved from the trenches Q a. m . We have lost nearly every officer in our company and nearly all the N C. O's and nlne-tenths of the men. One major was wounded one captain kill ed, two captains wounded, and a lieu tenant is missing. We are certainly glad to get out of the trenches. April 2S-We are out of the trench es on this side of Ypres. in an open field We might just as well be in tho trenches as here. We dug our selves in. We are getting hell shelled out of us. The Indians made small advance here, and have come back with one or two German heads We left here at S:So D. m. tonight
 April 29-We are in field this
 side of vlamertlnghe. Got shelled out
 of this field about 8 a. m and dug
 ourselves in another field about 1000 yards away. We left there about 2 D. m. to go in the trenches on the canal bank near Ypres. We have lost nearly 100 men since We have been out of the trenches in killed and in wounded.
 | April SO-sull in the trenches on the canal bank. The artillery has dropped a little today. and things are a little quleter. Some of my men stole some chickens, and we have had three good meals today. The French made an advance at dark on front age of a mile, and have taken about 800 prisoners. We went out tonight and dug the three lines of reserve trenches. and after we got them dug the French came up and occupied them. and we had to go back to the canal bank. The Germans must have seen us, for they shelled hell out of us before we got back.
 May I've were in the canal bank trenches all day. About S:SO p. m. we went ont to dig trenches for ourselves