Connecticut western news., 1917-08-16

the trench he followed us, still hold ing his hands up and repeating, Mercy. kameradr' At the next trench angle we took five more prisoners, and as Godsall had been slightly wounded in the arm turned the captives over to him and ordered him to take them to the rear. Just then the men of our second wave came over the psrapet like lot of burdlers. In five minutes we had taken the rest of the Germans in the trench section prisoners, had re- yersed the fire steps and had turned their own machine gun against those of their retreating companies that we could catch sight of.
 As we could do nothing more here, I gave orders to advance and re-en- force the front line Our way led across field furrowed with shell holes and spotted with bursting shells. Not man hesitated. We were winning. That wac all we knew or cared to know. We wanted to make it cer- tainty for our fellows who had gone ahead As we were proceeding toward the German reserve trench saw four of our men, apparently unwounded, ly- ing in a shell hole. stopped to ask them what they were doing there. As I spoke held my German rife and bayonet at the position of guard" the tip of the bayonet advanced, about shoulder high. I didn't get their aIf swer, for before they could reply felt a sensation as if some one had thrown a lump of hard clay and strucs me on the hip, and forthwith I tum- bled in on top of the four, almost plunging my bayonet into one of them a private named Williams.
 McClintock Badly Wounded.
 Well, now you know what's the matter with us," said Williams 'Wc didn't fall in, but we crawled in."
 They had all been slightly wounded. had twenty-two pieces of shrapnel and some shell fragments imbedded in my left leg between the hip and the knee. followed the usual custom of the soldier who has ''got it." The first thing I did was to light flag" (ciga- rette), and the next thing was to in- vestisate and determine if l was ill danger of bleeding to death. There wasn't much doubt about that. Ar terial blood was squirting from two of the wounds. which were revealed when the other men in the hole helped me to cut off my brooches. With their aid managed to stop the hemorrhage by improyising tourniquets with rag and bayonets. One I placed as high up as possible on the thigh and the other just below the knee. Then we all smoked another flag and lay there listening to the big shells going over and the shrapncl bursting near Us. 1t was quite a concert too. We discussed what we ought to do, and finally I said:
 Here, you fellows can walk, and l can't. Furthermore, you're not able to carry me because you've got about all any of you can do to navigate alone. It doesn't look as if it's going to be any better here very soon. You all proceed to ti-e rear, and if you car got some one to come after me I'll be obliged to you"
 They accepted the proposition be- cause it was good advice, and, besides. it was orders. I was their superior officer. And what happeneG right after that confirmed me forever in my early, Kentucky bred conviction that there is great deal in luck They couldn't have travelled more than fifty yards from the shell hole whom the shriek of high explosive seemed to come right down out of the sky into