Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-15
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OF Interest To Readers.
Lieutenant C1ningsby Dawson tells
the folloSing personal experience 10
"No Mans Lsnd," in the current
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:
My major tuld me that was to
be ready at tnree-thirty next morning
to accompany MIN up front TO register
the guns. la registering guns you
take a telepnonist and linesmen with
you. Tney lay in line from the bat
terry to any point you may select as
the BEST from which TO observe the
ensmy's country. This point may be
two miles or more in advance of your
battery. Your battery is always mid
den ana out of sight, FIR fear the en-
envy should see the fash of the firing;
consequently the oflcer in charge of
the battery lays the guns mathemsti-
cElIy, Dat can MT observe the eff sct of
his snOts. Inc officer VINO goes for
ward can see the target; Dy teispnon.
ing ais corrections, n, makes himself
tine eyes OF the officer al the guns.
It had Deen RAINING wnen Ne crept
out OF our kennels to 20 forward.
Every thing wss Gin. ana eiammy, and
spectral. AT tns hOJr OF dawn one
len at mis- Drayest.
We entered trench. Holes were
scooped out an tue SIDE Of it just large
eno0gn 10 shelter man croucnIng.
EAcn mule contained a sleeping
soldier VINO looked as dead as the oc-
cup Mt of catacOmp. Some of the
holes nad oeen clown in; all you saw
OF tne late occupant Was a protruuIng
arm or leg AT pest there was a nor
ria similarity between the dead and
the living. IL seemed that the walls
OF tue trenches nad been built Out OF
corpses, for one recognized the UNI
forms of Frenchmen ana Huns Tnsy
WERE built out of them, tnougn
whether by design or accident It Was
impossible 90 tell. We came to d
group of men, doing some repairing;
that part Of the trench mad evidently
been strated last nignt. fney didn
know where they were or how far IL
Was TO the front-line. We wandered
on, still laying in our wire. The col
onei Of our brigade joined US. an We
waded on together.
The enemy smelling was growing
more intense, as was always the way
on the SOmme wnen we were bringing
out our wounded. A good many vi
our trenches were directly enrilaued;
shells bust just behind the pafaper,
when they diun't burst on it. lie was
at about this point in my breaKing-in
that / received GLOW on the neao-
and thanked Goo for the mao who IN
vented the steel helmet.
''All of sudden We halted, making
ourselves as small as could De. la the
rapidly thinning mist anead oil u5 men
were moving. they were stretcner-
bearers. The odd thing was that tney
were carrying their wounded away
from, instead OF toward US. Ingn IL
flashed on us That they were huns.
We mad wandered into NO Mans
Land. Almost at that moment We
must have been spotted, for smells
commenced falling at tne cue of the
trench by winch We had entered.
Spreading out, 50 as not To attract at
tentlon, We commenced to crawl TO-
ward the otner END. Instantly that
also was closed To US ana cur1sin OF
shells started cropping DehiDo Us.
We were trapped. With perfect cool.
ness--R GOODNESS wnicn, Whatever /
looked, did not share-we went GAVIN
on our nanos ana knse wTigg ing our
way through the corpsss aud smell
holes IN the direction OF where our
front-llne ought 20 be. after what
seemed an age, We got back. later
We registered the guns, anu one OF
our otnceIs. VINO nAd been laying in
wire, was killed In the process.
ION the way out, when We mad
come TO part OF our Journey where
the tension was relaxed anu We could
be less cautious, l saw a signaling Off
Ger lying asleep unoer DlacKened
tree. / called my majors attention
TO MIN, saying: Look at that silly
as, sir. hell get something that he
doesn't want il ne lies there much
longer
My major turned his head, and
ssid, briefly, Poor chap, mes got IT.
Inen saw Inat mas hsuluer-blade
bRd burst through his tunic and was
pTotruuIng. HE'D been coming out
walklng freely and feeling InaG the
danger Was over, just as We were,
when the unlueAy shell hsG caught
MIN. tbs name must nave been
written On IL our men say wnen that
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