Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-14
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Record Work Of Artillery
This Gre reached its ciinax 3Ass
as dawn wns craving the eastern skies
and while she full moon sgas still Stts.
pended high in the heavens
The attack vas accompanied hy n4i
the arts and degfltries of lattsr.iay
war. The enemy guns aud gnu crews
had been bathed for days In gas shells
sent over by the long range British
Enns.
The night was filled with red TN
ceafinry flames Shells that sffnrted
lead I'm streams crashed In appalling
numbers about the heads of the de-
Tending soldiers, Hlgh.expluslye and
Shrapnei fire was carried aut with snch
rapidIty that the earth writhcd under
the force af the attack.
Mines that had taken two years Ia
dig and fill with an overwhelming eS.
plosive broke into an avalanche of
flaming destruction In the half light of
dawn. This was indeed AN Ypres day
of retaliation and victory for the
vicious sufferings of two years and
eight mouths.
Gunners Work Half Naked.
It was day of intense hcnt. and the
gunners worked stripped to the waist.
The attack went forward with clock
like regularity.
The British casualties were slight.
Three out of four of the casualties
We're reported to be walking cases, who
would return 10 duty In few days.
The attack began at dawn, and tho
setting gas as picturesque us can well
be imaginable The day before had
been hot and sultry. Toward evening
there was q series of thunder storms
which extended we'll into the night, tho
lightning ningling with the flashes of
the guns, brit the thunder being virfu-
nily unnoticed amid the din of the can.
non. A full moon struggled continu-
sously TO break through the heavy
clouds which scudded across the vel
sety night sky.
Sing on Way to Fight.
On the way to the front We're all the
familiar pictures OF the war-endless
trains Of motor trucks: all varieties
of horse transport, the British sol
aiiers marching to battle light of heart
and singing songs familiar In every
American community,
From the German line the same
lazy, looping rocket signals We're as-
cending to illuminate the treacherous
bit OF ground between the trenches
known as No Mans Land. This night
Iy +straffing had been going on so
long that the enemy considered 1t en-
tireiy normal and took no alarm. Oc-
casionalIy blue and yellow rockets
would be flung into the air by Germans
holding the front line.
Like Volcanoes in Eruption.
Day was scarcely breaking when
from the dimly visible ridge score
of fiery volcanoes seemed suddenly to
spring from the earth. The night had
been filled with strange noises and still
stranger sights, but these masses Of
fame, leaping from the ground had a
meaning all their own. They were the
spectacular outward and visible eyi-
,dences Of more than million pounds
of high explosives which had been
buried deep in mines below the enc
my's positions for months.
All the world appeared Iurid and
horrible nnder the sinister glow. The
earth shook as If torn by great seis.
mic disturbance. 1t was not a single
shock. The force of the explosion
actually set the earth rocking TO and
fro, and under the influence of the
giant guns, which Immediately begar
to roar from far and near, the trem
bling continued indefinitely.