Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10
ONE CAN KILL TWICE AS MANY GERMANS
IF HE HAS A CIGARET TO PUFF STATES
ENGLISH OFFICER SERVING CAMP DODGE

mind so much. but when it ralneh
there were great walls of water. when
washed US out of our dug-outs, ana
drenched all our belongings.
I'VE lived like worms, dug INTO
holes Just big enough to lie in. Inc
dead and wounded were everywhere
t We stumbled over our comrades, thelr
horses and mules at every step, =
| But the Turks, Sergeant Mizen says,
! were clean fighters. Their methods
were sportsmanlike. At that period
of the war. the English knew nothing
| of the use of poison gas. They mad
no protection against gas attacks.
The Turkish forces were familiar with
! this method of warfare, but they used
no poison gas throughout the engage
ment in the Dardanelles. 1t would
secm that they realized the handicap
81 their opponents, and did not take
advantage OF it.
It was during one battle there, that
the English forces captured a Turkish
woman, dressed in the uniform OF
soldier. She was camoufiaged with a
leafy bush, and had deceived the
Britons for days. They had seen the
bush. but had not known that it con-
cealed zone of the enemy.
| Capture Woman Sniper.
The woman had been a sniper. and
when captured had on her person the
! identification tags of nine soldiers
whom she had killed. For each of
those she would have received boun-
ty from her government had she not
! been captured.
And did you shoot herr" was the
query made of Sergeant Mizen.
Shoot her? Right-o!" he replied.
"She was our enemy; she had killed
our men. Why should she liver
But soon came an order to hurry to
France. And in sector at the
Somme, this sandy-haired English ser
geant saw desperate fighting. He
went lover the top" there, and his
hayonet sent more than one ,"Fritizie'
to eternity. He became accustomed
to the "whizz-bangs," the Jack
Johnsons." the traction engines" and
i the flying pigs which came hurt
ling over from German lines. He
learned to light a cigaret, when the
order came TO go ''over the top"
"One can kill twice as many Ger
mans, if he has a cigaret to puff, -
the sergeant says. "And those boches
will offer you anything for their
lives. They beg for mercy, and prom
Use all sorts of yaluables if you'll
spare them. We don't do it, though
A dead German is a safe one. Kill
him, or he'll kill you"
And the sergeant says that one has
incredible strength when he gets into
a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy
He says he once saw a German al
most twice his size and run his bay
onet into his throat.
And in over three years of service
Sergeant Major Mizen has had only
10 days leave of absence when he
went home to Portsmouth to visit his
wife and baby. Little Dick, whom the
1 sergeant calls "WhiZz-bang," was born
since the war began, and his father
has seen him only once. He couldn't
! even say goodbye to his wife and
baby before he came to America.
At Camp Dodge, the "dug-out" OF
this soldier is unique A card on the
door announces that it is "An English
mans home" and one peep inside
convinces one that it is indeed. Pic
lures of his comrades, some labeled
killed." portraits of King George and
Woodrow Wilson, and most prominent
of all, little Withholding" decorate
the walls.
! Flags Of the allied countries are
there, too,. and in a conspicuous cor
ner are photographs of Major General
E. H. Plummer, commandant. Camp
Dodge. and Brigadier General R. M
Getty, acting commandment.
And out here at the cantonment
there are no "Asiatic Annies," those
dealy guns used by the Turks. It's a
peaceful place, that "Englishman's
home" The soldier huns a little
song. as he sits at his desk in his