The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1917-03-30

friends heavy guns TN they can BE-
sent by train 10 the hnse or 20 Eng
land Three days aga they came down
broken.hearted 10 the caec, their faces
lined and drawn with mental over
strain, some 81 them sim mechanical
~ making d%eprecntory eca res OF SUI
render and entreaty. A. they marched
today all the lines were smn0thcd out
They lad been fed and had slept for
whole nights. and had found that the
"murderers' described 10 them by
their own serreants inflicted nothing
but Offers Of cigarettes. So they he.
gan 10 expand IN the unexpected sun
shine Of good treatment and they told
what life had been like In the shell
holes, H. good points and its bad. The
food, Il had been good, but sometimes
II did not come because the British
guns would draw n kind OF fence OF
failing ahmpuel across a piece of
country, q sort OF ~showerbath OF hul
lets dropping along the line, So nob0d,
could cross the line without being hurt
SUI the bread and meat and chocolate
when they dld come, were good anu
the water was sometimes mineral VA
ter Ia bottles, The trOt BILE was that
the British guns would not cease Dr.
Ink and the British aeroplanes would
not go away, nor the German 0nes
come out Of their sheds.
Sometimes the men In the shellhol,
would see British troops In the open
within ride range, but would not dnr,
shoot lest British nlrmon should see
where they were aud send word 10 o.
British gun aud bring down a high cx
plosive shell on the old sheilholc &C.
bury thom oil alive by a second rear
rangement Of the earth. You pcrcclv,
this apprehension Just because you
twice today have seen the end of o.
stn black-bootod leg %protrudlnr out Of
the wall Of an old shellhoie.
Other questions about their life at
the front the prisoners answered a.
freely. Had they talked polltlcsi Yes.
there were any number OF Social Dem
ocrats Ia the army and every one
thought great changes would come
when the wrr was over, but not now
Were there amy d~rseruons7 No
Many men would be glad 10 be prls
oners, but would not desert. Many
more SIN would surrender n the Ger
mar officers were not so quick 90 shoot
me- who put up their hands. aud n
oil the German soldiers knew That the
allies did not KIN prisoners nor hnv,
them sculped by savages.
Strain on German Nerves.
Those, then, are the kind OF mon
ana that Il the kind OF life and stat,
OF mind which exist beyond the 30
Intervening yards OF blask ground. on
some early day perhaps. an lncessanI
sequence OF separate shell burst,
among ana around them ut interval,
viii change In an instant into nn out
bp1st ~ furious, cununuous bartinl
Ike suddenly angercd dogs. or that o
a great many suddenly nnrcred dogs
The earth Of their trench aud la from
OF Il and behind Il will begin To dane,
up In fountains. like the surface of o
puddle during a very heavy rain, only
that all the earth fountains ARE y
feet high. Perhaps the Germans vii
Just be- able to scr through a hole 10
the smoke that the British pumpet
where not u sign of human hphimtlut
had hccn seen before. bristles with mct
standinSrup at full height aud thcl
moving forward. In the next 20 min
utes many cnpricIuus fntes will bcful
individuals on both sides, but underly
Ing this seeming confusion In the DIES
unles OF atOns-causes viii sull be- huy
ing their natural effects. Tho uycug.
German soldier having endured dvfet
ALREADY viii hght less well than ~.
did. His nerves having suffered thl
strain Ut those new experiences In thI
shellholcs will hold out lcss long tina
they used 10. Ills mind having lrame,
that surrender into the hands OF Eng
lishmen does not mean death or u
usage, but merely release from DANCE
and exhaustion be viii be less AYERS
tn surrender Than he was.
The German army naturally score,
last ycnr by being quicker than IN.
allies 10 see that success la trcncl
warfare vas Ia the side with the mos
munitions. IL mude competition II
nunltion making and IL has been DIS
tnnced la that competition. ami nov
the wide advancing line OF English la
fantry will enter the German trench
IA trench shattered out OF shape MS al
allied trench ever has been shattered
Even al Nerdun causes win have thei
effects, though sometimes 90 may NO
seem like H. However Ion. the wa
may yea last Il has begun to have IN
scharaetcr Of a winding up. Even
minor English attack on the shor
length Of trench near the Sommc be-
gins ~ be recognizable now us one o
the many forms that have to be- gon
through n after another In liQuldaI
ing a business that is clearly bankrup.
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