The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-27
ARITlUQ GUY F<fIpF<Y
MACHINE GUNNER SERVING n FRANCE
SYNOPSIS

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CHAPTER IFired by the news Of the
istnking Of the Lusitania by q German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Amert.
can. leaves his office In Jersey City ana
Igoes to England where he enlsts In the
British army.
CHAPTER n-After a period Of train
Ice and soon finds himself In rest Bullets
,spomewhere in France" where he first
makes the acquaintance OF the ever-pres-
lent "cooties."
church services at the front while q Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empey's command goes
into the front-line trenches and Is unoer
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER v-Empey learns to adopt
the motto Of the British Tommy' II you
are going to get 1t, you'll get IT. 30 never
cIxPrER v1-Back In rest billets. EN-
iieSSSsrIs: "a Ss.S 0'S AfS' ~
CHAPTER v1I-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER vIII-Back in the front-line
trench, Empey sees his drst tr1eno OF inc
trenches "go West"
CHAPTER K-Empey makes his hrse
visit to q dugout in Suicide Ditch"
CHAPTER X-Empey learns what con
.stitutes 8. days work. In the front-nns
ttranch-
CHAPTER XI-Empey goes ''over
the top" for the first time in charge
on the German trenches and is
wounded by a bayonet thrust.
CHAPTFR XII-Empey joins the
suicide c, 80 as the bombing squad
is called.
CHAPTEP XIII-Each Tommy
gets an al bath.
CHAf,-- ( XIV-Empev helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER xv-on Listening
post" in No Mans Land.
CHAPTER XVI-Two artillery
men "put one over" on Old Pepper,
their regimental commander.
CHAPTER XVII-Empey has mar
row escape while on patrol duty in
No Mans Land.
CHAPTER XVIII-Back in rest
billets Empey writes and stages
farce comedy.
CHAPTER Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themselves while
ION their own"
Chapter XX-Empey volunteers
for machine gun service and goes
back into the front line trenches.
CHAPTER XXI-Empty again goes
cover the top" in a charge which
cost his company II killed and 81
wounded.
CHAPTER XXII-Trick with
machine gun silences one bothersome
Fritz.
CHAPTER XXIII-German at
tack preceded by gas wave, repulsed.
?CHAPTER XXIV-Empey is forced
to take part in an execution as
member of the firing squad.
Lloyd had gone. When the trench
;mortars opened up, maddening ter
tror seized him and he wanted to run,
ito get away from that horrible din.
anywhere to safety. So quietly sneak
ing around the traverse, he came to the
entrance of communication trench,
and ran madly and blindly down it,
running into traverses, stumbling into
muddy holes, and falling full length
over trench grids.
Cropping blindly, with his arms
stretched out in front of him, he at
last came out of the trench into the
village, or what used to be village,
before the German artillery razed It.
Mixed with his fear, he had Pc
culiar sort of cunning, which whis-
pered to him to avoid all sentries, be-
cause if they saw him he would be
sent back to that awful destruction In
the front line, and perhaps be killed
or manned. The thought made him
shudder, the cold sweat coming out in
beads on his face.
On his left, in the darkness, he could
make out the shadowy forms of trees;
crawling on his hands and knees, stop
ping and crouching with fear at each
shellburst, he finally reached an old
orchard and covered at the base OF
shot-scarred apple tree.
+, He remained there all night, listen
ing to the sound of the guns and ever
praying, praying that his useless life
would be spared.
AS dawn began to break, he could
idiScern little dark objects prOtrudlng
from the ground all about him. Curl
tosity mastered his fear and he crawled
to one of the objects, and there, In the
iuncertain light, he read on little
wooden cross:
sPte. 81. S. Wheaton, No. 1910, 1st
London Regt. r. F. Killed In action.
April 25, 1916. r. L p" Crest In
Peace).
I When it dawned on him that he had
been hiding all night In a cemetery
his reason seemed to leave him, and a
mad desire to be free from it all made
him rush madly away, falling over lit
tie wooden crosses. smashing some and
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