The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-10


above them. It is thus for only q brief period.
AS suddenly grows new confusion in front At
first it sounds like murmur, babble of many
voices, They turn out to be shrieks. The order
has been given to jump out and advance. They
come from men delirious in frantic haste to rush
on after the strain of it.
AS the men in front jump out and rush along
in advance, rifles held almost al arms length, with
the bayonets in the dim smoke clouds sticking out
in 'front.' the other crowds back in the trenches rush
out to fill their places and in turn jump out and
rush It is all done quickly possible; there
is no times lost and hardly motion.
And while the mass of frenzied men rush on to-
ward the trenches of the Germans, falling by
scores, whole groups of them turn this way and
that as the Germans concentrate their fire among
them, others keep filing In from the There Is
no end to their number apparently. The entire
rear is packed with men and more men, while
behind them are still more men-men without num-
Der.
There will be signal when you get out there"
told. "It is order to fall your faces.
Fall on them! No time to lose."
The men who first leaped out and started to rush
along fell in another way long agO-it was but
several seconds so-and the ranks behind them
in turn dissolved. Still others came on and
the first Of the advancing mass at the first
trenches of the Germans.
Comes the signal. Suddenly in the frenzy men
to leap from the trenches, while the advanc-
ing ranks rushing blindly fall fiat. Almost at
the instant, possibly couple of seconds later,
to the men lying there comes noise that is
greater than the crash of a few minutes before.
But it is hardly perceptble, for the senses, work
ing at capacity cannot grasp it all.
1t is the French guns opening up again. They
are tearing out way for the infantry, tearing
away what humanity is left in the second and third
line trenches Even during the previous hours of
bombardment the Germans tried to keep these in
some sembance of holes. There cannot be many
beings left in them, but re-enforcements probably
coming up.
few seconds later the gunf1re of the French
again though by magic Immediately the
soldiers jump to their feet and again rush on.
They pass over the first line of German trenches,
reach the second line and to the third line.
Another signal loud shouting and they again
fall down. The guns open up again.
This time the guns pound away German
works farther in the rear. They stop again and
the troops dash Every man knows his place in
the drive and every body Of men. When one man
falls another is there to do what he doing
The soldiers feel the success of it by this time
They instilled with enthusiasm the wild joy Of
victory. Shells fall among the advancing hordes
but in the wild din just passed those who escape
hardly know 1t.
Now there fewer guns firing the German
side. Others Of the French artillery. when not fir
ing at places ahead of the. advancing soldiers,
quickly change their range to the batteries.
The French have now passed the first four lines
work Of connecting trenches. Masses Of Germans
are in these. Terrified by what they have been
through few show resistance. It is useless. The
French soldiers continue to advance charging
when resistance Is offered, derious with the wine
Of successful drive. They do rha Peats Of super
beings and are unaware Of it.
Hours later after it has ceasel and the lines are
again deadlocked, soldiers in the towns Of the old
sector gather in groups around the bulletn boards
where is posted the brief off cial communiQue.
The soldiers standing around reading are new
troops. They their way to the trenches.
Ambulances still rush up from the rear and back
again, catching up with the work.
The masses of prisoners are already on their way
southwark. Included in the nu nber taken a
detachment, crowd of 70 men who were all that |
remained of several hundred German soldiers. |
They were caught in trench and unable to es-
cape during the terrible bombar1ment, explain the
lew able to think coherently. Retreat had been cut
,n by shells falling behind thenl
OF the number yet alive are n1aniacs-men who |
ire raving violently. They are initiating the noises
# shells and the motions Of men struck by them
William It. Martin, In New York Sun.