The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-28

ors, and the firing party was provid- ed by Scottish soldiers of the Royal Artillery, by whom she was recognized as the nurse to aid them under fire.
 Here in the fighting zone we feel that we are within sight of big events. Night and day the gunfire rages, growing more intense as the hours pass. The enemy are massing fresh guns and men at every point of their line.
 They are paying the British batter 1es the compliment of directing their heaviest fire toward them, and the air is black with German aeroplanes at tempting to fly over our lines with the object of locating gun positions.
 Our British airmen are also in evil dence, and they are making it hot for the enemy.
 They speak much of a young Scotsman who bids fair to rival Cap tain Ball. He has served on the wes- tern front with distinction, and was sent here for that reason. He is up aE day long, and we can always tell him from the fact that no sooner does he appear than the enemy concen-
 
 him.
 The other day I watched this in- trepid Scot over our lines. Three ene- my machines tackled him at once They tried to surround him and cut him off from his comrades who were acting under his leadership. Two of them opened fire on him with ma- l thine guns. and as they circled around him, splitting fire from their machine guns, the odds seemed against the young Scot pulling through. He man. | oeuvred his machine with marvellous | GeXterity up and down, in and out, | round and round he scared, never giving the Huns a chance of getting him, but always alive to the chance of getting them.
 His chance came. One of the Hun pilots made sweep at the Scot, who
 discharged his machine gun point
 blank at the Hun, and the latter
 crashed down to earth.
 l The other two assaiIants were then
 turned on quickly by the yoN; Scot
 and with the aid of an Italian machine
 these two were driven down behind
 the Hun lines.
 | On another occasion this same air
 man was flying high over the enemy
 lines, when fire was opened from the
 batteries below. The fire was SC
 fierce that the airmau seemed to find
 it impossible to move about without being hit. He was, in fact, struck by
 a fragment of shell, and his machine
 reeled in the air as though about tc crash to the ground. It descended very quickly and our hearts jumped to our mouths as we thought of the cruel fate that awaited that young Eero. To cur amazement his machine
 righted itself, and he scared upward again among the clouds, completed hi:
 observations, and flew back through a big squadron of enemy machines. The other day the enemy made {
 sudden attack on point on the Piavt
 line held by a British battery and foul
 armored cars. They tried to cut of
 the battery by a surprise sweepdow1
 of cavalry, but the men on the armor T ed cars were quickly on the scene
 and they attacked the enemy's caval
 ry with such vigor that it was put tC flight.
 I believe this is the first recorded instance of a duel between the hors'
 ard it's modern rival, and apparent. the enemy horses were as much ter rified as the German soldiers on thu western front were when tanks frs appeared. As the enemy horsemen fell bacl thefore the armored cars the Britisl gunners got to work and the German
 and Austrian riders were shot dow . by the score They had to retrea along a narrow shelf of mountainS ant could only go single file. The gunner got the range finely. They fired shel after shell, and in response to eacl bursting shell the onlookers saw hors 7 and riders rise in the air and thel tcpple down earthward again.
 Infantry pushed forward to assist il picking off the horsemen, from neighboring ledge, and it is safe to sa, that not a fourth of these mounte' men managed to get away.
 The enemy had their first brusl with Highland troops few days age They made a sudden appearanc aGainst the Italian position on tn right and brought with them To of leaflets for distribution, telling tn : unusual stories about the seh1shness O l the British and French and the wa. they were duping the Italians. l The Highlanders kept under cove until the Huns with their leaflet D were on the parapet. Then the ma chine guns parked and at the sam | time stalwart Highlanders swarmet
 over the parapet, throwing themselve on the Germans and Austrians witt ;, bayonet and sweeping them back. U The enemy wars taken completel | by surprise but a greater surprise wa t yet to be theirs, for the British ma e chine guns and mountain batterie C moved out in order to catch the fo e as they retreated through the ravine Il They were caught and moved dow $ by the hundred. The ground owe : which they retreated was dotted wit
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