Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-23
Canadian Subjects in Two
Cities Will be Given OPP
portunity to Volunteer Be
fore Conscription-Sergt
r. Grant Relates Many
Experiences During IS
Months Abroad Spending
~ Months in Trenches on
French and Belgian
Fronts,

: Sergeant r. Grant, recently on ar
ttllery barrage fire observer for the
Canadian forces on the. French front,
who is in this country on parole, is
located at the East Grand Forks re-
cruiting Office for the purpose of
rounding up Canadian subjects in this
city n Grand Forks. Sergeant Grant
will be. here about two weeks in an
effort to: get a number Of Canadian
subjects to volunteer fir the service.
He has a list Of all Canadians In this
section who have not taken u their
first papers for citizenship to the Uni
ted States and r subject to service
with the Canadian forces.
Sergeant Grant stated that he will
simply ask these men if they desire
to volunteer for service or be con-
scripted and will forward their an
swers to Washington and he stated
that in November they will be order
ed to return to Canada. The recruit
ing officer stated that they might as
venue as not and save him trouble
as he has a complete list of the men
and will reach them sooner or later.
This Canadian recruiting officer re-
turned from a hospital abroad last
August and expects to go back to the
front in a few weeks. He has been
wounded twice together with several
IIl1lOF SdSll0S dIlU IS d VoIoIdu Ol sew
eral of the biggest battles of the war,
having been abroad for 35 months
serving over 81 months of that time
in the trenches or the French and
Belgian fronts. .
In Many Battles.
He stated that he participated in
the battles Of Neuve Chappelle, Bots
Grenay, Lang Marck, st. Juliun and
ST.. Jean, La Bassee, Zellebeck, Som
me, Vinny Ridge, Lens, Arrass and
many minor battles and engagements.
He was in eleven gas attacks but was
only gassed twice. Sergeant Grant
Somme and Vinny Ridge and suffer-
ed gas attacks at both places and he
also received a slight wound at Lang
Marck in Belgium.
In speaking of the battle at Vinny
Ridge he said that for seven days L..
400 batteries locked wheel to wheel,
bombarded the ridge before they
went over the top and e one mil
lion pounds of explosives were used
during the bombardment. The Can
adams alone took about $4,000 pris-
oners during three days, including a
+! Prussian general and several lower
officers. The artillery used ranged
from n pound to 15-inch howitzers,
the largest caliber possible to get in
the field. - =
Referring to the work Of the allies
Sergeant Grant stated that they were
superior in every way to the work of
the German forces. The latest air
machine in use by the allies is a tri-
plane which mounts three machine
guns and carries three men. One of
the guns shoots through the revolv-
ing propeller al the front of the ma
l oHi0@ an1 tho ~o~nh@-3~~a g., 80
ranged that when O paddle Of the pro-
peller is before the gun it will not
shoot: This arrangement enables the
men behind the guns to fire direct
at opposing machines instead of hav-
ing to turn slightly sideways.
The artillery of the allies has been
superior to hat of the Germans since
returned soldier. Il.
German Atrocities.
-SSefgean Grant -desesibea-sevefal
atrocities of the Prussian soldiers
when interviewed this afternoon,
the second battle Of the Ypres, six
Canadian s~ergeants were cruciied by
the Huns, being stuck up with six or
seven bayonets in each one During
the same battle the German stretcher
bearers under the protection Of the
Cross of Geneva advanced into No.
Man's-Land and under supposed t o be
cover the wounded were reels of tel
egraph and telephone wires which
were laid for communication purpos-
es. Also during the same battle civ
1lian farmers were ordered to act as
spies or be put to death, and their
farms and families destroyed. That
night when a farmer refused the de-
mand his farm house was struck by
German shells and completely de-
stroyed, his wife and three little chill
dren burned to death and the farmer
himself barely escaped with his life.'
perhaps the most despicable
treachery Of the Huns was the drop
ping Of poisoned candles into civilian
towns and thereby poisoning the chill