The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-17

teenth tonight. My company went in reserve for the Thirteenth at St. Julien; the rest of the battalion went down to St. Jean. About g D. no. an orderly came running in and ordered all lights out. a Zeppelin was cross Ing over the town. They didn't do any damage here. The doctors have got all the glass and so forth out of my eyes. My face is d.sfigured, but they tell me won't,lose any of my beauty.
 April 22-In hospital an day. Got the captain to give mo my discharge from hospital to 80 back at 8 D. ID. tonight. ! was in the Third Canadian hospital at vlamertinghe about four miles from Tyres. There are quite number of troops coming down from
 St. Flo. and Hill 60.
 About D. m. the Germans attack
 ed our line. They used Q gas that they started about half on hour be-
 fore they started to advance. The
 gas disabled lots of the men and oth-
 CTS were unable to talk. The French
 troops broke and left us. Even the artillery retreated and in some cases left their guns. The Germans came
 in through the French lines and got in the rear of the Thirteenth Battal- ion. They refuse to let me return to my battalion. At 2 o'clock I saw on orderly captain of the hospital and after talking to him for awhile l got permission to so About 7:3O l got in one of the ambulances and got up to our brigade headquarters, where saw a reglmental major sergeant. He told me where my platoon was and that the rest of the company was com pletely wiped out. ran into my plat oon about D. m. just as they were changing their position As we were digging ourselves in we spotted tho Germans digging themselves in. We opened fire on them and they retired about 1000 yards. We had got half of our trenches dug by this time and we then advanced about 300 yards and dug another trench. The Ger man artillery played hell with us all night long and kept knocking our trenches down as fast as we could build them up. As far as our own ar- tilery is concerned We can hear only one gun going off; there is no artn- cry here to help us and the Germans have 1t most their own way. They started to advance and were coming Tn hundreds and thousands in mass formation. We would now down line after line. but there were always five lines to replace the one cut down. Their artillery has blown our trench all to hell. There are no parapets
 
 left, nothing but small hole, but we find we do not take up very much room now: we can get into any hole. We would retreat a little by little and then make a new line. We kept this up all night long and l certainly take my hat off to the boys; they are some soldiers. The German artillery last night and this morning put over 2, ,oOO shells in Ypres and over 700 in St Julien, although in the latter place there are no troops now. We have got our new line now connecting with the Belgians on the left.
 April 2.-Tho German artillery is certainly giving us hell; one would think that the gates of hell are open. I have four men left in my section, all the rest have been killed or wound. ed. All our parapets, are even with the ground and we dare not move for pieces of shells are coming in an di- recuons. The Bluffs came up about g a. 10. this morning, they had to come over open ground. The Germans had { field fire of about 2,oOO yards. Wel covered the.r advance as best we pos