The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-14


| young fellow whose name I don't
know. I wish | did. for he was GER
talnly the nrrvicSt man ever snw.
NO. = WINS hardly out ~ the officers
mouth before he had his dispatch and
wns on his way. About five minutes
later the signal came that the dis
patch had beer delivered.
MY officer told the afterward Tina
the French general to whom he hnd
handed the dispatch had taken the
! Mcdnille Mllltnirc or his own hrenst
and pinned II on that ~ this young
dispatch rider. He wns also later
awarded the Victoria Cross and given
n commission. II is thirgs like '"iS
that make one proud TO belong 10
such an army"
Shipping a sniper.
After spending Christmas, 1914, In
the Yprps trenches. Robinson helped
n second lieutenant In The Royal Eugi-
nrorS tO Suipo u German Sniper on the
DickchuSch. lIollchcke road. As they
rode over n wooden bridge Il bullet
whiStlcd. Neither spoke, hut on the
way hnck. three hours iutcr, the Off.
Ger said: THAT blasted snlper has
pottcd nj me once too often. Wen
leave the road here and sneak down
opposite the hedge under cover of the
trees"
lettering their horses, they crcpt
near the bridge. waited until Il Wngon
passed and heard the sniper's shot.
from behind. Trey crnwled n hun.
drcd yards and waited. Soon they
heard the rifle crack again, not far
away, Creeping n little further, they
waited again, watching the trees.
They came 50 close to the tnipor,
without seeing him, that next time he
fred they hcurS the %ejcctOr fly back
and the holt snap. Then they spotted
him. lie wns well up n tree. with his
rifle fitted on n tripod, so TINT when.
ever be heard anyone on the woou"n
hrid-, he had only Nv pun the trlg-
Ger. But he had ended his shipping.
! The lieutenant and rrlvute Robinson
I lI'' ''@' Ill'IH hl'l "Ns f1NN|'l hlAN'
down like a thousand Of bricks"
The british Tommy" Of those days,
| according 20 William j.. was n great
gambler" ms well as a great fighter.
one ~ his forms OF rnmbllng wns n
kind Of t%Ontine, known as Il trench
pool"
About ten fellows got together,
md rnch put ten francs In n pool Just
before they went into notion. They
! left this money with someone behind
he lines. for they would he In action
anywhere from six days TO three
weeks. The Idea al the pool was this {;
Those who lived to get hnck would
take the money md split II evenly
4 among themselves. II only one lived
he woulG have the whole lot.
Daredevil officer.
The TommicS kept cunnrics, rats.
mice. dogs. cats. ContS, and even pigs,
NJ pets. and would go hungry before
the pet hunccred.
Tho biggest daredevil" thnt Robin.
son heard Of was known MS the MAD
] NllN'NN "Wu NlNlll'lF 'ill'fI Nv h'IlN
h,s own ncroplunc for runge finding
purposes. When he wanted 10 cor.
rect n rnnCe he Just flaw over md
dropped smoke bombs on The pnrticu-
lar spot he wanted his guns IN hit.
Then he went back and set the guns
10 work. one dry, being annoyed
with u German l7-inch h0wItzrr, he
f,W over with u lOO.pound bomb. nose
lived 10 within 400 feet. dropped the
holuh and blew the howitzcr 10 atoms.
lie returned with his planes riddled
with bullets.
Mr.. Robinson indicates In \ few
words what happened 10 two men, u
wolnrn ana two children when n
r0uhe dropped q bomb In the square
M Po%peringhe. II IL enough here "a
sHy that they were Killed. and Tint
III" bicycle one ~ the men was rid.
lnc was found twisted and bent on
II lnmppost nhout fifty ynrds nwny,
lie also Describes briefly the killing
~ two officers In n mOtOrcnr by u
Germnn lh-inch shell on the rond 20,
Ing into Ypres, The driver escnpcd,
hut was gent nearly mad ny the shock,
Ills nerve was gone and he hnd 10 be
discharged.
This n during the second hnttle
~ YprPs. when the city was HEINZ
destroyed by shell a-e and the houses
were burning.