Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-28

More than once In a hospital | hay
seen u Titled Red Cross nurse fetchin
ana carrying for wounded soldIe
perhaps the one who In civil life d,
livered the coal at her back door. Tt
day she does not shrink from llghtn
MS fag or even washing his grim
body.
Tommy ndmlres Albert of Belgium b.
cause he Is not Il pusher of men; h
leads them. With him it's not cas-
OF take that trench" II Is come u
ana We will take it,"
1t Is amusing to notice the dIileren
characteristics Of the Irish, Scotch anl
English soldiers. The Irish and Scotci
are very Impetuous. especially when i
comes to bayonet fighting, while tn,
EhSliShnan though "A tritle slower
thoroughly does his bit; he is more
meihodlcal and has the grip OF n bull
dog on Il captured position. He (,
slower to think that Is the reason 'hy
he never knows when he IS licked.
twenty minutes before going o,Sr
the top the English Tommy sill SIT on
the IRE step and thoroughly examine
the mechanism of his rise to see that II
Is IN working order and will fire prop.
ery. After this examination he is sat.
lSfied and ready to meet the BocheS.
But the freshman or Scotchman sits
on the fire step, his rifle with bnyonet
fixed between his knees the butt Of
which perhaps is sinking into the mud
the bolt couldn't be opened with a
team OF horses il is so rusty--but he
spIts on his sleeve and slowly pollshe,
his bnyonet when this is done he usi
is ready to argue with Fritz.
II Is not necessary To mention the
colonials (the Canadians, Australians
and New Ieaianders), the whole world
knows what they have done for Eng.
land
The Australian and New Zealander
Is termed the "Anzac," taking the
naine from the first letters of their OF.
iicial designation Australian and New
Ienland army corps.
Tommy divides the German army
into three classes according to their
hshting abilities. They rank as fol.
lows: PruSsians. Bavarlans and Sax.
ons
When up against n PrussIan regi.
ment II Is n case Of keep your napper
below the parapet and duck. A bang.
bang all the time and Il war Is on. The
BaNnrlans are little better, but the
SaXons are fairly good sports and are
willing occasionally to behave as zen.
tlemeh and take 1t easy, but you can.
not trust any Of them overlong.
At one point Of the line the trenches
were about thirty.two yards apart
This sounds horrible, but in fact il was
easy, because neither side could shell
The enemy's front-line trench for fear
shells would drop into their own. This
eliminated artillery fire.
In these trenches when up against
he PrusSians and Bavarians. Tommy
lad hot time of ii, but when the Sax.
ms took over" It was picnic; they
would yell across that they we're Sax.
ms and would not fire. Both sides
would sit on the patapet and carry on
| conversation. This generally consist.
ID of Tommy telling them how much
lie loved the kaiser. while the Saxons
Tommy that King George
vas particular friend of theirs and
oped that he was doing nicely.
When the Saxons were to be relieved
y Prusslans or BayarIans, they would
ell this information across No Mans
and and Tommy would immediately
umble into his trench and keen his
cad down.
If I'm English regiment was TO be re.
eyed by the wild Irish, Tommy would
I'll the Saxons and Immediately a vol.
y Of Bonner ind Blitzens" could
e heard and II was Fritz's turn to get
crick in his back from STOPPING. and
le people in Berlin would close their
indows.
Usually when IN lrishman takes over
trench. just before stand down" in
lie morning, he sticks his rifle over
le top, aimed In the direction of Der.
n, and engages In what is known as
le mad minute" This consists If
ring fifteen shots in a minute. He
not aiming at anything In particular
just sends over each shot with
'ayer, hoping that one of his strays
Ill get some poor unsuspeetlng Fritz
the napper hundreds Of yards be-
nd the lines. II generally does that's
le reason the Boches hate the man
ON Erin's isle.
The SnxonS. though better than the
russians and Bavarians, have nasty ,
All OF treachery In their makeup.