The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-20

| laYc come out OF tnef SnelterS ana
ON. lence firing at you with rifles.
lou wonder why you are not hit
Tie crest of the German trench is
just in front The firing from it ceases
but you do not notice this. You are
III the line of bags and jumping over.
The remnants of the shaken German
force drop their weapons. -Kamerad.
kamerad. NIGHT kaput.' (Comrade. com
rade. don't Kill meJ they cry as their
lands 20 up. The men who fought
through the boyau come up. They are
followed by others. There is boyau
running from the captured trench to
the Germans second line. Some Of
| the men rush into it. Two grenades
thrown by the Germans retreating
through the connecting trench kN one
of the men.
| German has remained to throw
other grenades. AS lie turns to run a
long bayonet disappears in his back.
The bayonet IS pulled out as be falls
and the men 80 on. One falls as he
rounds the turn into the trench An
other goes over him and drops just as
lcdNntS al lbllt VI SduuDdSS llIOW IL
into the trench. The Germans are hur-
riedly making a barricade. Other bags
are thrown on top. The mans legs
stick out.
The other men coming through see
the bafricade. and they turn to the
left. They run into pile OF barbed
wire thrown down to block the trench.
They pull the sand bags down from
the trench runs to protect themselves.
They do not hold more than forty
yards. They pull down the bags from
what is now the rear of the trench
and pile them up ON the side facing
the enemy. They see the legs of their
comrade sticking out from the barri-
cade at the right. He is dead. They
cannot pull him out. for the barricade
would fall.
The seventy-fve yard length of first.
line that has been captured is con
nected up with the hanking French
trenches by removing the barbados
and barbed wire Instructions. and the
earth bags are thrown from the rear
TO the new front. The attack is over
There will be counterattacks in all
probability during the night. and the
newly captured trenches must be FOR
tilted. Two mitraiIleuses are brought
up from the Old line and placed in POI
sition. The ones taken from the Ger
mans are sent back.
Caring For the Wounded.
The brancardiers. as the stretcher
bearers or BED Cross men are calied.
have been picking up the wounded and
the dead. the wounded first. Each sol
der carries a first aid packet. and the
wounds are bound. Some cannot walk
and are carried back to the poste de
secours near the third line The poste
de secours. or French dressing station,
is located in an excavation having an
earth banked. timbered roof that is
more or less shell proof. The surgeon
and his assistants haven't the time or
facilities to administer other than tenn
porary relief. Those who can walk
start down toward the poStc de Sc
cours in the hamlet The men who
cannot walk are carried on stretchers.
There are a number of automobile
ambulances waiting. One of them
draws up In front of a poste de Sc
cours Three stretcher cases are ready.
Two brancardiers. followed by anOth
err. carry out a man. A bloodstained
tight blue coat is spread over the
5andaged form. A tag on which are
details regarding the wound is tied to
d buttonhoie The three men slide the
wounded soldier on his stretcher into
the car. Two more stretchers and their /
occupants are carried out.
People are looking down the street |
What is it? Here they conner In /
the twilight close mass of men flank /
ed by a line of bayonets approaches. /
The crowd moves up to look at the |
prisoners, about fifty of them and they
thump along in their high boots, keep
ing step and stealing glance now and
then to the right and left. The pris-
oners are marched into the courtyard
of what was the village school for
girls and formed in line. The war is
over for them.
Night In the Trenches.