American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-08-10

we would be Killed or captdred II we
stuck there and that we wouldn't get
any more prisoners. I looked at my
wrist watch and saw that there re-
manned but five minutes more of the
time which had been allotted for our
stay In the trench. 50 | blew my whis-
tie and started back. / had seen Pri-
vate Green no. III 300 knocked down
by a bomb In the next section. and l
picked him up and carried him out
over the wrecked parapet. | took shell
ter with him In the first shell hole, but
l found that he was dead and left him
there. A few yards farther back to
ward our line / found Lance Corporal
Glass In a shell hole with part OF his
hip shot away. lie said he thought he
could get back II | helped him. and l
started with him. Private Hunter.
who had been IN a n~elghboring shell
hole, came to our assistance, and be
tween as Hunter and / got Glass to
our front trench.
We found them lining up the suryiy-
ors Of our party for a roll call. That
showed so many missing hat 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
I'm two wounded. and we saw a number
OF dead, but on account OF their black
ened faces were unable to recognize
them. The scouts later brought In sew
eral bodies.
or the sixty odd men who had start
ed In our party forty-three were found
TO be casualties-killed, wounded or
missing. The missing list was the
longest. The names Of those men were
marked I'm. b. H." (missing; believed
killed. on our rolls. l have learned
since that some few Of them have been
reported through switzerland as pris-
Oners or war I'm Germany, but most of
them are now officially listed as dead.
All OF the survivors Of the raiding
party were sent twenty miles TO the
rear at 7 o'clock. and the nOncommis
stoned officers were ordered to make
reports In writing concerning the en-
tire raid. | never slept more than an
hour at a time for several days and
nights. | would doze off from sheer
exhaustion and then suddenly find my
self sitting straight up. scared half to
death all Over again.
There may be soldiers who won't
got scared when they know they are
in danger or even when people are be
ing killed right around them, but I'm
not one of them. And I've never met
any OF them yet. l 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 beer train
ed to throw a bomb thirty yards is
buster and more important than the
fellow with the modern rifle, which
viii shoot "A mile and a half and make
IA hole through Il house. IN "a good
many surprising ways this wal has
carried us back to first principles. /
remember a crusaders mace which |
once saw I'm the British museum that
would make a bang up knob kerrie,
much better han the kind with which
they arm our No. 4 men IN a raiding
section. 1t had Il round iron head
with spikes all over 1t. | wonder that
they haven't started IA factory to turn
them out.
Tricks of Bombing.
When the Canadians first introduced
bombing the bombs were improvised
out OF mess tins, the fuses were u
according to the taste and judgment