Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-05
CHAPTER xIl-continued.

II
no one man can see all of an attack,
winch may extend over miles of
ground, but during the three weeks
was IN the trenches on the Gallipoli
peninsula we made four grand attacks
ana many minor ones, so | know in a
general way what they are like. Each
wave Is organized like the others.
Flrst come three lines of what you
nlght call grenadiers, though they are
h0t picked for size as the old kings
erenadiers used to be. They are de-
pioved II skirmish formation, which
means that every nan is three yards
from the next They were armed only
with grenades, but, you can take it
from me, that Is enoughl Behind them
come TWO lines, also in skirmish for
nation, and armed with machine guns
ana grenade rifles. The first men on
the Ieft carry machine guns, then come
'hree rifle grenadiers, and then anoth-
er machine gun and so on down the
lehgth OF the line. After these come
TWO INES of rifiemen with liked bay
onets.
linen come the trench cleaners, or
moppers-up, as we call them. They
were some gang, believe ne. Imagine
team of rugby players spread out in
TWO llnes-only with hundreds of men
on the team instead of eleven and
each man husky, capable of ham
ohng baby grand piano single
handed. These fellows were armed
with everything you could think of,
ana whole lot more that you could
not dream about in a nightmare. 1t
USED to remind me of a trial | saw
In New York once, where the police
had raided yeggmen's fiop and had
all their weapons in the courtroom as
exhibits.
The moppers-up were heeed with
sticks, clubs, shillelahs, black Jacks,
two-handed cleavers, axes, trench
knives, poniards, up-to-date toma-
hawks, brass knuckles. slung shots
anything that was ever invented for
crashing a man with, l guess, except
firearms. These knock-dOwn, drag-out
artists follow the riflemen very closely.
Their job was to take care of all the
Turks who could not escape and would
not surrender.
There are lots of men il any army
who will not surrender, but l think
probably there were more Turks of
that gameness than men in most other
armies. l have heard that il is a part
n iCin haf
dies fighting, goes TO a very specially
fancy heaven, with plenty to eat and
smoke. And l suppose If he surren-
ders they believe he will be put in
the black gang. stocking for eternity
down below. 1t was awfully hot at the
Dardanelles and l guess the Turks
did not want it any hotter, for very
few of them ever surrendered, and the
trench cleaners hac a lot to do. Their
job is really important, for it is danger
Gus to have groups of the enemy alive
and kicking around in their trenches
after you have passed. Almost every
prisoner we took was wounded.
The one thing do not like to have
people ask me is, "How does it feel to
kill a MANI" and l think the other
boys feel the same way about it. 1t
is not a thing you like to talk about
or think about either. But this time,
at "V" beach, when we got past the
first and second Turk trenches and
were at work on the third, do not
mind saying that was glad whenever
1 slipped my bayonet into Turk and
more glad when l saw another one
coming. l guess l saw red all right.
Each time l thought, maybe you are
the one who did poor ole Murray"
And l could see Murray as he looked
when they took him down from the
storehouse wall. Then [ would stick
another one.
The others from. the Cassard were
red-hot,. too, and they went at the
Turks in great style. There was
nothing to complain about in the waV