New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

ments. when n few dozen OF these
smells dfon around n trench the SOL
diers defending IL are in bad way
unless they are able 20 don thelt
masks.
Rifles Fire Grenades
Next came the rifle grenade trench.
Here we saw one OF these recent IN
yentions, which look like skyrockets
and are fred from a rife. as their name
implies. An old rife, the bore OF when
has been damaged. serves the purpose
blank cartridge rs used. a.
The rife Is pointed nearly vertically
and the grenade travels probably loV
feet in the air. being plainly visible IN
! ts fight. II eYplodes on conclusion
and the shrapnel has big radius OF
destruction. We saw also Demon
strstion Of the use Of the hand grenade
or bomb. The British type - aDou'
az large as an orange. An Australian
holds the unofficial record OF a throw
of 255 feet. an amazing feat when u
is considered they weigh more tnah
three times as much as baseball;
The men are instructed TO thro"
them overland. like a cricket bowler.
Twelve of them make considerable
/ burden for a man going into action,
| hut AZ close range they do frighttul
execution. and have replaced the rIne
and revolver az offensive weapons lq
close quarters.
From there We went TO the section
given over 10 wall scaling. Australians
were being drilled at the time lhere
wore hundreds Of them. all siX-footers
and built proDortlonal!V
a, AsLIotoa
The way they went nj that wall
would worry the souatty Germans WIN
their heavy goose-step, If they could
have seen them rush at the barricade
ae II bound on knocking 1t over by
brute force. but at the last moment
springing up and grabbing the top ana
pullinR themselves over only wen
trained athlete. not merely a strong
man. could perform the feat with the
dexteritv thew showed
Here are trenches OF every KIND, NINE
craters, snipers' posts with their clever
forms Of disguise, machine gun en-
placements, wire arrangements, swing
ing stuffed men who are pierced WIN
bavonets instead of being tackled by
football gladiators. and thousand and
one other things found on the battle
field.
At this training camp ! saw one OF
the most forceful and magnetic men NJ
has been my privilege to meet. He was
short, chunky Scotsman, sergeant,
but officers were gathered around him
in omen admiration of his ability TO
teach soldiers how to use the bayonet
He stood in front of platoon OF young
soldiers, with a rife and bavonet IN his
hands. Another soldier stood alongside
him to play the part of a German. This
chap was quick and strong. The Scot
was a tiger.
Has Cleverness Of Pugilist
First he showed how to make a
straight thrust with the bayonct, then
how to make an upper cut, then how
to parry thrust at the head and then
at the knee. Finally. how to withdraw
the bayonet quickly from the body OF
the foe. He didn't talk, he roared; his
feet moved with the Quickness of Joe
Cans or ii Jim Corbett; ne bent his
wrists with the motion Of a Kid Mccoy.
His demonstration over, he divided
the men into two squads and had them
practice the thrusts and parties. tie
barked his orders, clapped his Killed
sides, and in ten minutes those men
were going through the drill with the
precision of veteran soldiers.
II is men of this type who have
thrown the fear of the bayonet into the
Germans and made them give way when
rife ball and hand grenade failed to
dislodge them. Four times he has been
mentioned in dispatches He is worth
hundred times more in this training
camp than in first line trench, where
bullet might put him out of commits
sion before he had another chance to
show his prowess with the bayonet.
The maxim that war is kill or be
killed" was instilled into these young
soldiers by this Scottish sergeant in
way they will never forget, nor will we
who looked on in awesome fear that he
might miss and drive his bayonet clean
through his pupils.
The course in this training school is
short. but the men come out of 1t pre-
pared for any emergency. knowing all
that experience of men who have been
under fire can teach them of the crises
they must face a few days, weeks or
months later. They get the latest tips
not only on how to kill the other man,
but on how to protect their own lives.
That is the science of war.