The daily Alaskan., 1917-09-10

rection of . bayonet thrust and con- trolled by a button at the left hand grasp of the rife. Besides his rife, all of these men carried six or eight Mills No. s hand grepades, weighing from pound and five ounces to q pound and seven ounces eeSh.
 The Lineup.
 They are the same shape as a turkey egg and a little larger Upon with drawing the firing pin a lever sets a four second fuse goiag. One ot. these grenades, will clean out anything hV- ing In a ten foot trench section. It win also xiii the man who is throwing 1t if he holds 1t more than four sec: onds after he has pulled the pin. The third man of each ten was an expert bomb throRer, equipped as lightly as possible to GiEe him freedom of ac- ton. Be carried few bombs himself, but the main supply was carried by the fourth man, who was not to throw any unless the third man became e casualty, In which case No. was to take his place. The third man also carried knob kerrie, heavy bludgeOn to be used in whacklpg an enemy over the head Ours were made by fasten- ing heavy steel nuts on stout stick of wood, very bpsinesstke contri- vance. The fourth man, or bomb car rier, besides having a large supply of Mills gFenGdes, had smoke bombs, to ba used in smoking the Germans out of dugouts. and later, # necessary, In covering our retreat, and also fumite bombs. The latter are very dangerous to handle. They contain mixture of petrol and nbosphprous. and weigh three pounds each, On exploding they release g liquid fire which viii burn burn through steel
 The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth in line were called utility men. They were to take the places of any of the first four who might become casual ties. In addition they. carried. two Stokes gun bombs each These weigh nine pounds apiece, have siI second fuses and can be used in wrecking dugouts. The ninth and tenth men were sappers, carrying slabs of gun cotton and several hundred yards of instantaneous fuse This explosive is used in demolishing machine gun em- placements and mine saps. The sap pers were to lay their charges while ye were at work in the trenches and explode them as soon as our party was far enough out on the return journey to be safe from this danger. In addi- ton to these parties of ten there were three of us gho carried bombs and had orders to keep near the three officers, to take the place of any one of them that might so down and meanwhile to use our own Judgment about helping the jolly old party along. was as- signed one of the three.
 Tn addition to the ratding party proper there was a relay call across No Mans Land at ten pRces interval making a chain to show us our way back, to assist the wounded and, in case of opportunity or necessity, to re- enforce us. They were ordered not to leave their positions when we began to come back until the last man of our party had been accounted for. The final section of our entourage was com posed of twelve stretcher bearers, who had been specially trained with us, 30 that they would be familiar with the trench section which we were to raid,
 The Raid and Its Result.
 There were two things which made is possible for our raiding party to get started across No Mans Land. One was the momentary QplckeninS of the blood which follows a big and unac- customed dose of rum, and the other