Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-28

Dunn, of the Royal Canadian Regi- meuts in graphic description of the battle fronts of Europe. given at the Greeneville Congregational church on Tuesday evening.
 Sergeant Dunn, who was former Greeneville boy .and an attendant of the Greeneville church. has been lover there" and has also been lover the top" in one of the fercest bat ties of the war, that of Vimy Ridge. It was in this battle that Sergeant Dunn was wounded and picked up for dead. but he is now very much alive
 He tells of some of the atrocities of the Germans and describes them as
 iends unfit to be called human beings. In his talk he said that the question often arose, why don't the allied armies make greater gains? His an swer to this is that the Germans are using women and children for pro- lection, that is, bringing the women and children up into the first lines where it is impossible for anyone with any heart in them at all to fire on them. Sergeant Dunn tells of the time when he went over the top at German lines and there he found wo- men and little children running around some of them in plight too pitiful for words, some of them with no is a sample of the German Kulture.
 Proceeding Sergeant Dunn's talk, Mrs. l.. O. Potter sang the Star Spangled Banner with Miss Letitia Ricketts introduced Sergeant Dunn to the large audience, many of whom knew him personally.
 Sergeant Dunn spoke as follows:
 With Canadian Regiment
 I enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment in Toronto about two years ago and there in Toronto I received some military training. Hundreds of Americans were coming across the borders of Canada to enlist and some Of the Canadians were coming into this country to escape the enlistment. I stand before You as a disfranchised American. but I am with America stayed in Toronto, then one day we received word that we were going across. Then came the day of em- barking. Over 5000 troops went The voyage was uneventful until we reached the English waters. then one day I was standing on the deck two shots from our guns were fired. ing but the rumor was that we were lia blo to be torpedoed. Were here first" was the spirit of the men on board ship.
 We landed at Liverpool and from there we traveled six or eight in a compartment on a train to a camp where we. were trained in trench work. We certainly did get some trerch work. It was in the mud, mud such as have never seen in this country It stuck like glue.
 Of For France.
 South Hamnton and from there em- karked for France We arrived on French soil at a.. m. We did mot know where we were going, but. were %~15 %I,of J,SI oh ~rrf miles. We carried packs on our backs weighing from e5 to 100 pounds and it was a question whether we were army mules or troops. We felt like territory where the battIa of the Marne took place and everything was desolate. villaGes were ruined, there was mot two bricks lying one on the other. It vS's on the march that we got our first taste of war rations. we had not tea, no coffee and no sugar. By those marches every day through war stricken land. sleeping in ruin- cd buildings, with the rats crawling about, we arrived at Mt. St. Eloise where we were told to wait for a. day. They told us to find-a, dry spot; we found it in a swamp. There was pien- ty of water and we slept in it and in tho morning we had to break thu ice from ourselves in order to move. Here it was we got our first taste of the heavies. Heavies are the big guns the Huns use in shelling out the al- lies. When one shot from the guns, the shot weighing e60 pounds, e1plod- es. it will rip the bark off a tree at a distance of 75 feet. Imagine what it will do to a human being. Men are driven. insane by the shell shock. Some are fortunate and recover and others don't.
 SheIled By Aeropianes. From Mt St. Eloise we went to an other place and made camp and here we were shelled out by aeroplanes. We were right behind the front line now. I was assigned to the squad that does the repair work in the front line trenches and among the barbed wire. This squad is known as the Suicide Squad. We have a slin, chance of through clean. When we were told to go out we went; there was no and no hanging back.
 On the Saturday night before East CT we were given two days rations- We knew what this meant. We were two pounds of bully beef and one pound of>hard tack and canteen of water. If you lost your canteen you had to wait until corhrade was done for before getting another; This his Easter Sunday we started. Our ob- | jectiye was to take EcoIe Commune, which was the school of the com 1 and a point of va ntage-. We
  and put them to rout with gas. This l gas is terrible stuff, one whiff and | you go West {die) and anyone who l takes more than one is piggish.'
 Brutal and Treaeiserous.
 In our advance saw some of the 1 most. horrible sights I eyer wish to 1 see Children with no tongues, and 1 no hands, women who had been out l ragged by the brutal Huns. Let me | say right here that the Germans are | no good; they are brutal and treacherous people. I hate them. You | have right in this country American Ized Germans who are doing. all in their power to defeat this country.
 We were attacked by gas but we put on our masks which we had ans came through clean. Then we waited | as we had orders not to advance until we heard the putzput-put of the ma | rhine guns. While waiting there huge | shells passed over our theads forming | a creeping barrage fire. Then we | were shelled and we got the order to l dig ih and believe me, we dug. The |