The daily Alaskan., 1917-09-11
Great Confusion.

original schedule they threw bombs among us. It became apparent that VIC would be killed or captured if we stuck there and that we wouldn't get any more prisoners | looked at my wrist watch and, saw that there re- mained but i've minutes more of the time which had been allotted for our stay in the trench, so I. blew my whis. to and started back, I had seen PFi' Yate Green tSo. lTT,9SW knocked down by Q bomb In the next section, and l bpicked him up and carried him. out lover the wrecked parapet, took sheL ter with him ip the first shell hole, but I found that he was dead and left him there. 4 few, yards tartRey back to- ward our line I found Lance, Corporal Glass in a, sheIl hole with part of his hip shot away He said he thought he could get back if'I helped him, and 1 started with. him. Private Hunter, who had been, in a. neighborlng shell hole, came to our assistance and, be- tween gs Hunter and got Glass to our front trench,
 We found them lining up the surviv- ors of our party for a ron cal, That showed so many missing that 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 CharIesop, Private Saunders and l wont out, We brought ] in two wounded, and We saw 2 number of dead, but on account of theIr black. ened faces were unable to recognize I them. The scouts later brought in sev- eFal bodies,
 Of 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 "m, b, R." (misslng; believed Killed on our rolls. have learned since that some few of them have been reported through Switzerland as pris- oners of war in Germany, but most of them are now officially listed as dead.
 All OG the survivors of the raidIlg party were sent twenty miles 10 the rear at ! o'clock, and the noneommis- stoned officers were ordered to make reports in writing concerning the en- tire raid never slept more than an hour at 6 time for several days and nights, ! would doze oH from sheer exhaustion and then Gpddealy find my self sitting straight up, scared half to death an over again.
 There may be soldiers who won't get scared when they know they are In danger OF even when people are be- ing killed tight around them, but Pm not one of them. And I've never met any of them yet 1 know a'boy who won the military cross in the battle of the somme, and l saw him on bis knees before bis platoon commander, shamelessly crying he was, . coward and begging to be, left behind. just when the order to advance was given. h this Var iR every erensIye. big or small, the man whs has been train, | ed to throw s bomb thirty yards + 1 bpsieg and more important. than the l fellow with the modern rife, which 1 will shoot a mile and half and make q hole through a house. In good many surprising ways this war has carried US back to first principles. l remember 2 cgusaders mace which once saw in tho British museum that would make a bang up knob kerrle, much better than the Kind with which they arm our No 4 men in a raiding section. It had a round iron head with spikes all over 1t. wonder that they haven't started fRctSHS to turr them out
 l Tricks of Bombing.
 | When the CaDadianss first introduced bombing the bombs were improvised out of mess tins, the. fuses were cut according to the taste and Judgment of the individual bomber, and jusl when the bomb would explode Wal more or less pCohlemAttcal Frequent l ly the Germans have tossed our bombt back Into our trenches before they went otf, That was dangerous and 1T ritating. They can't do that with { Mills grenade Or any of the improved factory made bombs, because the meI know just how they are timed and art trained to know just how to throw them. Then the Germans used t work little bomb trick of their own They learned that our scouts and raid CTS were all anxious to get a German helmet as a souvenir. They'd put bel mets on the ground in No Mans LRnt or in an advanced trench with bomb; under them. In several cases mel looking for souvenirs suddenly became mere memories themselves.
 In several raids when bombing wal new the Canadians worked a trick or the Germans with extensively fatal ee feet. They tossed bombs into the German trenches with six inch tusei l aftonhaA m fha Goy-rn ana kha1, IooIrn rnI