The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-31

I young fellow whose name don't
know. / wish / did, for he was GER
tainly the nerviest man l ever saw,
NO. z was hardly out of the officers
mouth before he had his dispatch and
was on his way. About FIVE minutes
later the signal came that the dis
patch had been delivered.
my officer told me afterward that
the French general to whom he had
handed the dispatch had taken the
Medaille Militaire off his own breast
and pinned it on that OF this young
dispatch rider. He was also later
awarded the Victoria Cross and given
commission. It Is things like this
that make one proud to belong to
such an army"
Shipping SHIPPER.
After spending Christmas, 1914. in
the Ypres trenches, Robinson helped
a second lieutenant In the Royal Engi-
neers to snipe German sniper on the
Dickebusch-Ho llebeke road. As they
rode over a wooden bridge a bullet
whistled. Neither spoke. but on the
way back. three hours later, the off,
Ger said: THAT blasted sniper has
potted ut me once too often. Well
leave the road here and sneak down
opposite the hedge under cover Of the
trees"
lettering their horses, they crept
near the bridge, waited until wagon
passed and heard the sniper's shot,
from behind. They crawled hum
dred yards and waited. Soon they
heard the rife crack again, not far
away. Creeping a little further, they
waited again. watching the trees.
They came so close to the sniper,
without seeing him, that next time he
fred they heard the ejector fly back
and the bolt snap. Then they spotted
him. He was well NJ tree, witt: hts
rifle fitted on a tripod. so that when
ever he heard anyone on the wooden
bridge he had only to pull the trig-
ger. But he had ended his sniping.
The lieutenant and Private Robinson
fired together. and "Mr. SHIPPER came
down like a thousand Of bricks"
The British Tommy" of those days,
according to William j., was a great
gambler" as well as a great fighter.
One of his forms Of gambling was a
kind Of tontine, known as trench
pool"
about ten fellows got together,
and each put ten francs In a pool just
before they went into action. They
left this money with someone behind
the lines. for they would be In action
r~R~ 4<n@x 10
weeks. The idea Of the pool was this:
Those who lived to get back, would
take the money and split 1t evenly
among themselves. II only one lived
he would have the whole lot.
Daredevil Officer.
The Temmies kept canaries, rats,
mice, dogs. cats. goats, and even pigs,
as pets. and would go hungry before
the pet hungered.
The biggest daredevil" that Robin
son heard of was known as the Mad
Major"-an artillery officer who kept
his own aeroplane for range finding
purpor es. When he wanted to COR
rect range he just flew over and
dropped smoke bombs on the particu-
lar spot he wanted his guns@to hit. !,
Then he went back and set the guns
to work. One day. being annoyed
with a German 17-inch howitzer, he
flew over with 100-pound bomb, nose
tlfved to within 400 feet, dropped the
bomb ard blew the howitzef to atoms.
He returned with his planes riddled
with bullets.
Mr.. Robinson indicates in a few
words what happened to two men,
woman and two children when q
Taube dr. ..red bomb In the square
at Popeftghe. It is enough here to
say thak 1hey were killed. and that
the bicyca4 one Of the men was rid
ing was round twisted and bent on
a lamppl,.t about fifty yards away.
He also describes briefly the killing
of two officers in motorcar BY q
German 15inch shell on the road GO
Ing into Ypres.. The driver escaped.
but was sent nearly mad by the shock.
His nerve was gone and he had to be
discharged.
This was during the second battle
Of Ypres. when the city was being
DESTROYED By shell IRE and the houses
We're BURNING