The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-11-11
200 VICTORIA
CROSSES WON
DURING THE WAR
Greatest Honor That Can Coz Q
to Soldier Fighting for
Great Britain.
SOME HEROES LOSE LIVES
Deeds of Vaior IN Battle for Which
Sen Were Decorated Make 7 TASK
More Thrilling Than Fiction
Majority From Ranks Of
Workers.


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fish lines. He was painter and paper
hanger by trade, and an enthusiastic
cyclist.
A young Yorkshire man named Don
aid Simpson Bell was schoolteach-
er at Harrogate. and II footballer.
During an attack, in a heavy cnfilade
fire, he crept up II communication
trench. followed by two men, rushed
across the open under heavy fire, shot
the machine gunner, destroyed the
Tgun aud personnel with bombs, saving
many lives and insuring the success
OF the attack. For this he got the V.
Y. lie lost his life five days later in
similar act OF bravery.
A Lancashire boy named james
Hutchinson was only worker in Il
spinning mill when the war broke out.
This Is his story of an attack on the
German trenches in the SOInme front.
After describing the terrible rush over
the bullet-strewn No Mans Land, he
says:
Gets Seven in a Trench.
"Soon af,arward raoob,d ,b, c,r
man trancbes ouito h-ao,bra., b,,,