The daily Alaskan., 1918-01-28
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS William J. Robinson. a young American | on business trip in London, catches the war fever and enlsts in British cavalry regiment and lands ct Ostend in October, 1914
 Made driver of an armored car and takes part in battles about Ypres. Transferred to the army service corps. has further | fighting experiences as motorcycle rider with machine gun attached and as a dis patch rider.
 Describes Christmas of 1914 In trenches south of Ypres. Fearful losses. Kills a sniper and tells of Belgian spies. A brush with German cavalrymen. Tells of motor work and work of chaplains, doc tors and nurses.
 Witnesses Royal Horse artillery in ac- ton. Has narrow escape and takes rel uge In a cellar. Is seut to Paris.
 Describes bomb throwing and aeroplano attacks and the bombardment of village Kills a trench digger
 The mining and capture of Htll GO. Se- cures leave and describes war incidents In | Glasgow. Returns to Ypres in midst ot bombardmcnt.
 Motors with an officer through Ypres to Poti2ze amid bursting shells and bombs dropped from aeSoplaaes. A terrible ride. In the spring of 'I9l5 the kaiser paid a visit to the German ,"curhes. guess he came very quietly, for the first we knew of it was when the Germans ill the trenches opposite uS raised a big board above their parnpCt on which was printed something like this: THE EMPEROR WAS HERE YEsTER-
 DAY.
 HAD YOU ONLY KNOWN!
 THE ENGLISH WERE EVER SLOW!
 Our chaps printed a board which went them one better. It said: THE KING HAS BEEN HERE TWICE.
 TOMORROW THE PRESIDENT
 OF FRANCE COMES. WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO TELL YOU
 NOW.
 FRITZ, YOU ARE HARMLESS!
 To carry the joke to the end, some body dug up d silk hat from some where. and about o'clock all the fel' lows began to rnacr They stuck the hat on the end of stick and carried it along the trench so that it could be seen.
 That hat was absolutely riddlrd with bullets. but they carried it clear to the end O: the trench. and then they threw both hat and stick ovcr the parapet, So that the Germans ccIld see how they had been fo lrd Aul how our fellows howled,
 The Germans wcyn So mad l think they would lave d"uc Us violence had they had the opportunity. A little thing like that means u lot to the boys in the trenches, and it is the subject of conversation for days and days afterwurd,
 Later We began lo lave more trouble with spies. We cdurht bIu"hCs of them hut there always seemed 10 be more about. Occasionally there would be Belgian among them. but for the most part they were Germans, and we could not understand it. We caught them in all suiscS, but for the greater part they seemed to fany! kills as be ing above suspicion. On the face Oi the thing thi4 is Infectious. for who can initiate the Sro,"" accent so as e get by ill the British lines?
 In one week we caught fourteen Ger mans wEO were wearing the kilt, and 1 they all seemed very much surprised that they should have been captured while posing a5 S@otchH2n.
 To put a stop to this spying it wa! decided to close all roads for pcriOC of twenty-fOur hours. All men wert warned that from o'clock on sucf and such a night until Q o'clock tht following night they were not to leave their units without the special paS' provided for these twenty-four hours.
 Sentries were placed 200 yards apar on all the roads in the daytime and 1Ot yards at night. All these preparations were made very quietly and the great est secrecy preserved. I was detailed with my car to patrol certain rOad' during the twenty-fOur hours, and, O ! course, all the other roads were pa trolled too. We had orders to stop eV cry one we met, and if they were no provided with the special pass we wer, . to take them prisoners regardless O what uniform they were wearing. l looked like tireSome work, but it prov ed to be rather exciting. I started over my route promptly a 9 o'clock, and you may be sure wa } all on edge to make a capture. M, , car was flying the flag of the arm, corps headquarters, so I was not both cred by the sentries stopping me. went over the route the first time with out meeting a soul who wasn't quit all right. I was much disappointed '