Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-23

| given. wo found that everybody was
toclnS the line. as It wcrc. to the sec
ond.
All seemed Just ideal for tho swoop
Itself. whom, TO our dismay. We heard
4 movement and q hoarsc voice raised
as II in challenge. The next minute a
German sentry doomed up few yards
in front.
That was brcathloss moment. lit
orally. and otherwise.
!. We could hear our hearts beating.
But not man stirred.
The sentry stood still. Would he
never go?
Mo-
| Well. then, we knew what had to
be done in such a circumstance, and
the man nearest the sentry did i,
There was Just tho slightest move
ment. tho slightest exclamation
smothered almost as il was uttered.
and the sentry lay nat
How was it done?
Oh. VIC can all wrestle bit Be-
sides, rife shot would have broucbt
hell about our ears.
On TOP OF MASTER BoCIIE
IN GERMAN TRENCHES
! But there was not i moment to he
lost then.
| Once again came the prcar-anred
signal. and with rush. quiet hut
speedy. we had cleared the few re-
naming yards between us ana the Ger
man trenches and wnre down on ton
/ Of Master Bochc
My word. but ne was the surprised
man. Almost at the moment he saw
US tho heavens seemed to open.
| our guns, way back had burst out
ana let down curtain beyond and
around us. The Huns. whatever mum
bcrs they might be in. could look for
no rc-enforcemcnts penetrating that
circle OF shells. They had to tight i.
cut with US or give up.
| There was nothing else for it.
| Wei! some chose one thing, some an
other.
At the point landed at with two or
three others we came plump upon a
machine-sun crew.
They were taking 1t Jack-easy, be-
Ing sure. evidently, that IN such a
night, with the rain increasing steadily,
there would be no dirty work" by tho
British. Wher they saw us they Jump
ed up thunderstruck. marveling, no
doubt, why sentry Fritz, who had
spoken a few minutes before, had not
|
But they soon got over their fright
backed Off, siunG out their bombs and
were just about 10 let US have than
fair and square when a yell-a British
Eeli--riEht behind them made them
jump for the second time
| And that Jump was their undoins
| The yell came from another lot of our
boys. The machine Cunners. fairly
caught. gave themselves up and were
4 jcrkcd over the parapct like bags Of
coal.
! SO much tor them.
! We had got our bunch safely and
without a scratch.
What about the others?
| \ devil OF ro* was going on down
to the right.
! We could hear it above the crash OF
the shells. One or two OF US scurried
down and found some OF our chums
in hot combat with cornercd crowd.
This crowd was in n dead-end trench.
| and knowing that they could not be
taken from behind they had offered
| battle.
Well IL they couldn't be taken from.
| behind they could be taken from above.
we Skinned over the parapet. and in
Il trice were looking down on them.
/ ponOS IN naEd.
That finished IT,
Up wen, their hands. and ou, they
marched. Within a few minutes VIC
I were trotting quite n respectable bunch
! back 10 our lines. which we reached
I without the loss OF man. although
! one o" two had got nasty knocks.
The whole thing had gone like clock.
work. so much SO that Fritz. wben
our barrase lifted, sent his bullets nv.
ing into space.
We were in our own trenches before
! INC storm broke, and I think the pris-
. oneSs were as pleased at its lateness
as VIC were. But their cnragcd com
panions did not forgive us.
! Two nights later they made descent
on our lines. or at least attempted it.
! which brings me to another adventure.
| And pretty startling one il was.
1t so happened that 1 was out BIT
from our lines that night on a certain
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