The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-10-02

| him think DlaCkSndke ldu III oH HILL
Lord, but he can run, when the direc-
! ton is towards Germany, but he does
not seem to be keen to get to Paris.
| Did you ever get into the. middle OF
| a street and see street car coming
| to beat the band, and get paralyzed
where you stood and could not move
in any direction, have the cold sweat.
break out all over you, and feel that
the thing would sure hit you, and imagl
| inc that you had been there million
wears in a few seconds that it took
/ the thing to miss you and go by? II
| so, and it has been at night, and you
were the only person in the street,
you can get a small idea of what the
sensations are of man on the road
in a machine, at night, and bomb
ing plane comes over and drops call
ing cards promiscuous like.
You forget that the plane is moving
about 50 miles an nour, and that it
is about half mile high and that a
bomb doesn't hit the mark once in
Thousand times, and that there are
hundred other things he is trying to
| hit, and that he may not see you at all.
You, simply stand still and wait for
the thing to land, and presently you
lhear the z-z-z-z of the falling bomb,
4 and you grit your teeth AMI then about
half mile away you see the red flash
of the burst and the second one falls
a little further away, and your heart
gets out of your tummy and you again
breathe normally, but just the same
| it gets you the same way every time
bomber comes over, and I'll take
mine in the machine gun bullets, Whiz-
bangs and crimps, tack emmas and
C. /. cans, but deliver me from air
raids. You get altogether too many
thrills for your money.
l suppose you often wonder what
whiz bang is, also some Of the other
names applied to things over here.
I'm try to tell you what they are.
/! A whiz bang-77mm> high velocity
shell that all you hear of its coming
| is whiz bang right at the same second.
A crump-6 howitzer shell that
comes along very slowly and bursts
with a c-r-u-m-p like sound.
Tack Emma-Trench mortar shell.
So called because tack emma" is T.
M. in the military alphabet.
| G. L. cana large howitzer she'll
f210mm or 300mm. Usually makes an
awful racket in passing through the
air. They also sometimes call large
shells street cars" escort wagons"
and the like.
have sent home Luger automatic
by the colonel who left some time ago.
In 1t the boche has beautiful shoot
ing pistol, but it will not. stop man
as bullet from our As automatic. One
of the latter will stop man right
where it hits him. but the little bullet
from the Luger will often fail to make
!. a man STOP Cuts clean little hole
and goes on, while the AS hits like a
mule kicking. T. ns. 49,
A few days ago I had the pleasure
of seeing moving picture film shown
| by the French army in which our
troops were shown in action and had
no trouble at all in recognizing many
features of the ground in the pictures,
land you could see the troops in ac-
ton very plainly. There was one bat
terry of German artillery shown as it
was captured, and after the men had
turned the guns around were firing
the huns own ammunition at them.
saw the same battery perhaps an hour
after it was captured, as it had been
left behind when the men went for
ward. t5 '> . ..u ."st
1t takes, some nerve to get those
pictures, and they are not fixed up
at all for the benefit of the public. II
man has been in one of the scraps
where they have been made he will
have no trouble at all in picking out
the places and also in recognizing
many of his comrades. The French
army uses the money earned by ex-
hibiting the films for their Red Cross,
thus making source of revenue as
we'll as an entertainment for the pub
llic, and often the films are shown
within three weeks from the time they
are taken. Gives one sort of fun
ny sensation to see yourself in film
doing thing you do not remember
at all. They caught me in the act Of
1 taking a fuse from German shell,
out in a shell hole. I did the little
stunt all right, but had forgotten all
about it. I took the thing apart so
that one of the men could have it for
souvenir.
I. .n. a Love to all, =.
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