Connecticut western news., 1918-07-04
SYNOPSIS.

tnbmarine; Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri- en, leaves his office in, Jersey City ana British army.
 CHAPTER II-After period of train lAG, Empey volunteers for immediate serv-
 e and soon finds himself in rest billets
 somewhere in France" where he first Aakes the acquaintance of the ever-pres- knt "cootes."
 CHAPTER IIT-Empey attends his first
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 { AZ our part of the line the influx of Isuppaies never ended. It looked like . huge snake slowly crawling forward, never hitch Or break, '' wonderful tribute to the system and efficiency of 6reat Britatn's "contemptible little army" of five millions of men.
 1 Huge fifteefi-inch guns snaked along, HOot by foot, by powerful steam tract tors. Then d long line of -four point Ave- batteries, each gun drawn by six horses, then couple of mine point two" howitzers pulled by immense caterpillar engines.
 ], When one of these caterpillars would pass me with its mighty monster in 3towsa flush Of pride would mount to my face, because could plainly read lpn the name plate, "Made In U. s. A." and n would remember that if wore a name plate it would also read, From the U. & A." Then I would stop to think how thin and straggly that mighty stream would be If all the '.Made In D. S. A." parts of 1t were withdrawn.
 r Then would come hundreds of lim- .Ders and "G. S." wagons drawn by bleek, well-fed mules, ridden by sleek, well-fed men, ever smiling, although grimy with sweat and covered with the fine, white dust of the marvelously well-made French roads. What discouraging report the Ger man airmen must have taken back to their division commanders, and this stream is slowly but surely getting big ger and bigger every day, and the pace is always the same. No slower, no faster, but ever onward, ever forward. Three weeks before the big push of July las the battle of. the Somme has been called-started, exact duplicates of the German trenches were dug about thirty kilos behind our lines. The layout of the trenches was taken aSr yhn%nrraYhS STrhroiffaH by the Royal flying corps. The trench les were correct to the foot; they showed dugouts, saps, barbed wire de- lenses and danger spots. @M.~
 Battalions that were to go over in the first waves were sent back for three days to study these trenches, en- gage in practice attacks and have night maneuvers. Each man was required to make map of the trenches and fa- miiiarize himself with the names and location of the parts his battalion was to attack.
 Tn the American army noncommis- stoned officers are put through a course of map making or road sketching, and during my six years service In the United States cavalry had plenty of practice in this work, therefore map ping these trenches was a compara- lively easy task for me. Each man had to submit his map to the company commander to be passed upon, and l Twas lucky enough to have mine select ed as being sufficiently authentic to use Nh the attack.
 No photographs or maps are allowed to leave France, but in this case it ap- : oeaTed to me as a valuable souvenir of the great war and I managed to snug gle it through. At this time 1t carries no military importance as the British lines, I am happy to say, have since advanced beyond this point, so