The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-18

The sun has come out. for change Had to take Q working party out and dig trenches where we advanced to- day. Our casualties are going up once again
 May 2l-The whole Third brigade made an advance tonight. The Four teenth was in first reserve. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth battalions are badly cut up again. had to take my platoon and part of No. 7-forty men in all-and rush up and help the sev- enteenth d,g themselves in. Lost an my section commanders. and only TWO corporals left; also lost twenty.two men.
 May 22-There has been an advance every night since May 15. We have certainly got the Germans on the move and also guessing. We have lost 19S men out Of the battalion up to 12 noon today. Have just got word that the Italian government has voted for war.
 May 2S-We are still on the ofSen- sive and are taking very few prison CTS, after the Ypres doing. We got relieved by the Fourth battalion; they were badly cut up going in. We have gone back to about two and a half niles this side of Bethune, and Just got back when 1t started in to rain.
 May 24-The Second Brigade made an advance last night. The Thirteenth battalion got hell coming out, and lost bunch of men. lost sixteen men. wounded and killed. while we were in the trenches including all my N. c. o's. We arc taking things 0 little easy now.
 May 25-our First Brigade and some English troops made another attack here, and our artillery, with the help of the French, has put the fear of God into the hearts of the Germans. Italy is now in the war. We get all kinds of rumors. and believe nothing but what we see.
 May 26-we went into the trenches at Festubert. We relieved the Royal Canadian Dragons; they are cavalry. now acting as infantry. We are about three miles from the Germans old first line, and are in a communication trench and the Germans in the other. We got here about 12 o'clock. The trenches are fun of dead. both English and German. This is the first time tho Dragons were in the trenches, and they certainly were glad to get out of them
 May 27-Last night. about 9 a. m. the Germans blew up the little com. mun.cating trench connecting theirs with ours. It buried fourteen men with tho dirt that came in over the parapets. One would have thought that the world was coming to an end when the mines went off, We were expecting them to advance so ] took a patrol out. We got up near the German trench, and could not hear anything, and finally l found out that 1t was empty. got bomb throwers and half dozen men. and we went Into the trench and found that they were just around the bend We put up a.barricade.
 May 2s-While on patrol. one of my men run into a wounded German. He was more than likely a sn.per. He told us where another German was, and we brought them both in to see what information we could get from them. They belong to the Ninety first Prussian regiment. I was again wounded at a. m., by a bullet in the left elbow It is very sore and gives me hell now end then. was out in front of the trench cutting some wires in case we were mined. It did not take me long to get over the parapet. I Jumped down on an artillery o..-eer. He said, "My God, I'm hit!"
 May 2s-I went from our dressing