Connecticut western news., 1917-08-02

we would be killed or captured if we stuck there and that we wouldn't get any more prisoners. | looked at my wrist watch and saw that there re- mained but five minutes more of the time which had been allotted for our stay in the trench, so blew my whis- tie and started back. I had seen Pri- vate Green (No. 177, ,250) knocked down by bomb i'll the next section, and I picked him up and carried him out over the wrecked parapet. I took shel- ter with him in the first shell hole, but I found that he was dead and left him theSe. A few yards farther back to- ward our line found Lance Corporal Glass ill a shell hole with part of his hip shot away. He said he thought he could get back if helped him, and started with him. Private Hunter. who had been in a neighboring shell hole, came to our assistance, and be- tween us Hunter and I got Glass to our front trench.
 We found them lining up the surviv- ors of our party for a roll call. That showed so many missing that Major Lewis, formerly of the Montreal Star, called for volunteers to go out in No Mans Land and try to find some of our men. Corporal Charleson, Private Saunders and went out We brought in two wounded, and we saw a number of dead, but on account of their black ened faces we're unable to recognize them. The scouts later brought in sev- eral bodies.
 Of the sixty odd men who had start ed in our party forty-three were found | to be asualtieS-killed, wounded or missing. The missing list was the longest. The names of those men were marked ''m. b. k" (missing; believed killed) on our rolls. I have learned since that some few of them have been reported through Switzerland as pris- oners of war in Germany, but most of l them are now officially listed as dead. All of the survivors of the raiding party were sent twenty miles to the rear at ' o'clock, and the noncommis- stoned officers were ordered to make reports In writing concerning the en- tire raid. l never slept more than an hour at a time for several days and hAShlo' NOulo NOHS Ou IlOLh SuS6l exhaustion and then suddenly find my self sitting straight up, scared half to death all over again.
 There may be soldiers who won't 1 get scared when they know they are in danger or even when people are be- ] ing killed right around them, but Tn not one of them. And I've never met any of them yet I know a boy who won the military cross in the battle of | the Somme, and saw him on his knees before his platoon commander, shamelessly crying he was a coward and begging to be left behind, just when the order to advance was given. | In this war in every offensive, big or small, the man who has been train ed to throw a bomb thirty yards is buster and more important than the fellow with the modern rife, which will shoot a mile and a half and make a hole through a house In a good many surprising ways this war has carried us back to first principles. remember a crusaders mace which once saw in the British museum that
 would make a bang up knob kerrie. much better than the kind with which ] they arm our No. 4 men in q raiding i section. It had round iron head, with spikes all over it. I wonder that they haven't started factory to turn them out.