Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-13
WOUNDED OFFICERS
REVIEW BATTLE
Say That Mistakes and Blum
ders Were ALI Made on
German Side of the
Line.
tcorrespondenOc Of The Associated Press.

London, April 50,-Stirring Incl
dents Of the tremendous fighting on
the Arras battlefield are related by
wounded officers and men who have
returned from the British front in
France. That these men are abso-
lutely satisfied with the progress the
British troops are making is quickly
evident They are pleased with every
aspect of the fighting. 1t is difficult
TO extract .grumble even from that
most exacting critic the "old soldier"
1t is pointed out here that this stu
alton gives the soldiers confidence,
the surest foundation of perfect
morale, and that this, backed by
abundant material, leads to victory.
Asked if there were no mistakes,
oversights, checks or blunders, one
young officer who had been wounded
in the head and left hand with shrap-
mel and whose, life had been saved by
one of the British army's so-called
tin hats" replied:
"Oh, yes, there were checks and
blunders, all right; only they weren't
on our side of the fence. They were
all on the other side of the granite
WALL Mister Hindenburg's side, you
know. guess he will be issuing an
other order to his armies, as he did
over the December show at Verdun,
demanding stricter training and re-
GREETING faulty morale. All those
guns, you know, and the thousands
of unwounded prisoners, and the Ger
man barrage that didn't get going un-
til our fourth wave went over the
parapet. They'll have to vamp up
something bit more convincing to
soothe the fatherland over this show,
won't they?"
Care of the Dead.
One little man, who had tried con-
illusions with a German grenade and
had left the ground with fourteen
wounds, but in remarkably high
spirits expressed the conviction that
the German grenade was mot a
bloomin' patch on ours" He and a
comrade told a story OF visiting a
Gave of the dead" so circumstantial
in its details as to leave no doubt of
its truth. While exploring a huge
shell crater they discovered cavity
leading out of one side of it, and, en-
tering the hole, found it led to what
once had been an exceptionally large
and deep dugout. probably battalion
headquarters.
By the light of their electric torches
they explored the dugout and became
convinced that one of the British
heavy shells must have penetrated it
and exploded therein. The fcor of
the dugout, they asserted was posi-
lively crowded with dead Germans,
of whom a large number were Off
GERS. None of the huddled bodies
showed, any signs of a wound. The
terrific conclusion of the great shell
exploding in that confined space ap-
parently had killed all of them. One
German had a telephone receiver in
his hand
One Takes -Four.
A Canadian cornor.1 wboso stor,,
was confirmed bv an officer who So.
ured prominently in the incident de-
scribed how four men cantured i'm
Germans in dupout after The british
advance had nassed bevond them
The cornoraI Who WIS wovn,ied Srst
dronned a bomb into the dueout and
then hearing no resnonse led The
wav down a lone A;obt Of stens 1ead
ing to a considerable cavern Hear.
ing voices in the darkness tLev
dronned coun1e more bombs vb;le