Connecticut western news., 1917-08-02

rectfon of a bayonet thrust and con trolled by button at the left hand grasp of the rife. Besides his rife, al of these men carried six or eight Mills No. hand grenades, weighing from { pound and five ounces to a pound and seven ounces each.
 The Lineup.
 They are the same shape as turkey egg and a little larger Upon with drawing the firing pin a lever sets { four second fuse going. One of these grenades will clean out anything liv ing in a ten foot trench section. Il will also kill the man who is throwing 1t if he holds 1t more than four sec onds after he has pulled the pin. The third man of each ten was an expert bomb thrower, equipped as lightly al possible to give him freedom of ac tion. He carried few bombs himself but the main supply was carried bJ the fourth man, who was not to throw any unless the third man became ( casualty, in which case No. was tt take his place. The third man alsd carried a knob kerrie, a heavy bludgeo1 to be used In whacking an enemy ovef the head. Ours were made by fasten ing heavy steel nuts on a stout stick of wood, very businesslfke contri vance. The fourth man, or bomb car rier, besides having a large supply oi Mills grenades, had smoke bombs, i'd be used in smoking the Germans ou! of dugouts and later, if necessary, IF covering our retreat and also fumitt bombs. The latter are very dangerous to handle. They contain a mixture oi petrol and .phosphOrous and weigh three pounds each. On exploding they release a liquid fire which will burr through steel
 The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth in line were called utility men. They were to take the places of any of the first four who might become casual ties. Tn addition they carried tive Stokes gun bombs each. These weigk nine pounds apiece, have six second fuses and can be used in wreckina dugouts. The ninth and tenth meI were sappers, carrying slabs of gun cotton and several hundred yards ol instantaneous fuse. This explosive is used in demolisl!ing machine gun em placements and mine saps. The sap perS were to lay their charges while we were at work in the trenches and explode them as soon as our party was far enough out on the return journey to be safe from this danger. Tn addt tion to these parties of ten there were three of us who carried bombs and had orders to keep near the three officers to take the place of any one of them that might go down and meanwhile td use our own judgment about helping the jolly old party along. I was as. signed one of the three.
 In addition to the raiding party proper there was a relay call across No Mans Land at ten paces interval, making a chain to show us our way back, to assist the wounded and in case of opportunity or necessity to re enforce us. They were ordered not to leave their positions when We began to come back until the last man of our party had been accounted for. The final section of our entourage was com. posed of twelve stretcher bearers, who had been specially trained with us, SC that they would be familiar with the trench section which we were to raid.
 The Raid and It's Result.
 There were two things which made it possible for our raiding party to get started across No Mans Land. One was the momentary quickening of ths blood which follows a big and unac- customed dose of rum, and the other
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