The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30

take a grudge against me, Lor on lHe
way to the dressing station got
caught in number of gas shells ana
was just about poisoned Following
this 1 was forced to go into hospital.
All Through Brick
Prior to being shot through my
head, Twas in a mine crater IN mo
Mans Land" The Huns were making
a counter attack, and we went for
ward to meet them with bombs. My
lieutenant was badly wounded with
| a bomb and I Immediately dropped
| into a crater.
When things quoted down a bit
went out to try and bring in the
unhappy officer, who, however, was
quite dead. 1 made repeated attempts
| to reach the body, and at last succeed
ed, but when 1 was handing him
down into the crater I received the
bullet right through my head.
| In the midst of death, humor very
often plays an important part. 1 re-
member one morning Lieutenant
Stone and went out to bomb a Ger
man stronghold, and if possible to
capture a machine gun emplacement.
When we got to the barbed wire we,
could not get through it, SO we had
| to go through a hole in the wall. af-
1
chine gun emplacements. AS we were
doing so a German came out of a
| dug-out and, seating himself, COM
menced to read a newspaper. My Of
ficer then got hold Of half a brick,
and suggested that I should creep
nearer and cover the. man with my
rifle. The officer agreed, saying that
he would let drive with the brick,
4 whilst I should be called upon to
force the man to surrender. The Of
ficer fired the brick, which caught
Fritz on the napper with a singing
wallop. and as he turned around, I
yelled out, Hands up!" and covered
him with my gun.
The man rather fancied his chance
to escape, and he took to his heels,
but he had not gone far before I
brought him down.
\ As soon as his comrades heard the
close report of my gun. one or two
rushed on the scene and so we retir-
ed to a shell hole, and laid low for
4 la Bit On looking over the top of
the shell-hole I saw. a German APP
parently watching for us, SO, picking
up a bomb, I let drive, and the I'M
fortunate Hun paid the penalty. AS
a result of this raid, the Germans
! opened rifle and nachine-gun fire,
which spread all along the sector.
This all come about as the result
of a. well-aimed brick.
II A Shipping Adventure.
i may say here that was regard
: ed as a first-class marksnan, and in
q consequence was forever going over
the top on sniping expeditions. This
: leads me up to relate TO youz6f my
t duel with two Germans, one a Uhlan
| rxyIan oh r 81
ID II penetrated into the wood, but
} could not see any sign Of the enc.
my. After returning and reporting
) the result Of my search. I again wen1
8 deep into the wood.
Suddenly in the gloom, I heard 6
$ noise as though someone was work
9 ing his way through the foliage, ant
thinking It was one Off our men,
2 iyelled out typical welcome.
To my surprise. however, a BIZ
!, German rushed into the open yelling
j like a frightened child I nao me
}, Germans before In the. woods, and
It knew that they very rarely wen
Il alone. so I refused to fall into TIL
. trap and allow the Hun to come to
el wards me. I had no sooner finishe
e him than big Uh1an stepped GU
i from behind a tree.
i He faced me, and I looked straigh
at him and then he began to laug
d and sheer, as though he was amuse
p at my appearance and that was sue
d a puny creature. He then took m
= by surprise, and, before. could rails
sr my rifle, he let fly. I fell flat on m
" face, and the bullet whizzed past m
8. body. Before the Uhlan could get hi
~ rifle to his shoulder I had accounte
lg for him.
re After this 7 made NV xUav ont r
lel the wood after great difficulty an
managed to reach open ground Her
was taken for the enemy and Sc,
A eral of our fellows let drive at m
a. but kept low, and they missed me-
~ managed to crawl within three yart
70 of our lines, and then yelling don
~ fire, I'm a K. o. S. b. made or
se dart for the trench and landed rigl
on top of lieutenant.
"a Every soldier in France fair
,a jumps for joy when the tanks go To-
- ward. They certainly take the wir
a out Of Fritz, for he has either to ru
~ and be brought down with our riff
- fire or get crushed to death I ha,
- seen farms which have been on
II partly destroyed absolutely flattene
> with, the tanks.
W. In the reent battles we brought
: a young German, who seemed to
as uengnted TO be taken prisoner.
he told US that he had been in IL
of trenches % days without being r
10 lieved, and that he had no grub f,
nearly a week. Someone gave hi
va la biscuit and drink and he we
wv away muttering, WAR finished f
=. me-"
al have had some lively times Will
10 out sniping. went out one mornin
re and by the time I returned I had a
10 counted for five of the enemy.
After had brought down my fir
od victim I was watched and ported E
N but I crawled from cover to cove
NJ and as another sniper rose to fire
W. the spot 1 had just vacated I fir,
2 and caught him alright
on Another German came on II
,dl scene, and I also bagged him. TIL,
III two Germans came our, ana l
70 them get as near as possible and tn,
81 accounted for them both.
M After this success our lads we
- able to get on with their digging.
MT Torpedoed on Hospital Ship
tut Whilst crossing over to England ,
I board hospital ship, the pirates di
ew turbed my rest by sinking the vess
We The explosion when the torpe,
" crashed into the engine-room w
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