Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-20

Another nice little part that an in- fantryman is always called upon 10 play is to join the rebuilding party. If We have taken a trench after heavy l artillery fire. chances are that trench l is in a had state-all caved in and I blown to pieces, you know. Well. it has 10 be rebuilt to be held. So the boys work turn on and turn of. four hours. all night long.
 Artillery Help.
 'NOw for the boys that help the in- fantry: and I take off my cap and give it to them We could not gel along without them. Each mar to his part. Take the light artillery. for instance Most of these guns are three inch and they are from one to two miles back of the first line trenches They are used to breax Sp attacks Too light for anything else.
 Then comes the heavies. five to eisl'; miles back. They are the boys that smash the BOche trenches. All sizes are these. sizes. mines. twelves and even the monster seyenteens. The heavy artillery also lays the barrage fire you hear so much about The Germans first used the barrage 10 keep us from bringing up ammunition and achievements to an attacked or a captured position. But the French perfected the barTage and first used it to cover infantry advances. But ~ant to tell you, that no matter how perfect they get it. you have a sort of creepy feeling when you advance behind those fizzling. snorting. burst ing shells. They make the ground il front e you look as though fiery ser pents were cavOrting there. You are always afraid they will not lift the fire in time. You walk right toward sudden death. wondering every step if that bloody artilleryman out of sight a few miles behind you will elevate that gun muZzle fraction be- fore you enter the shrapnel shower.
 Tanks.
 You hear a lot about the tanks. and l want to say here that they are the greatest instrument of war vet discovered and put into use. BUT. they have their failings- You read in the papers about the infantry adyaRC- ing laughing behind the tanks. But consider; We never heard of them until enc day they were run out and we were ordered to advance. BEHIND them Sounds good. don't it? But remember we had 70 advance under fire snd those bloody tanks could only go three CT four miles an hour Pretty slow going when the Dutch are pen pering you with everything they can send from a muZZle. Lots of people wonder why we do not assemble a great lot of these tanks at one s,-it and sweep forward clear thrOngh the German lines. The trouble is. that . while tank can take ground better than anything or body in the world, it cannot consolidate that ground. wit ness the Camb-ai fight. The littIa Oli infantryman must do that. He must dig and bring up food and water and ammunition and machine guns.
 The Army's Eye.
 The aviator is a great boy. He ;s the eye of the army. alright. Every battery has its own individual plane now ,a-days. With the aid of wire less the gunneIs get the range to an inch before the fight. When the ln- fantry go over the planes go ahea of them I'm strong for the fhers. al right
 Pioneering
 And there is another set of bows I want to speak of. if you don't mind: they are the pioneers. Strictly work CTS. these boys; not fighters at all. They carry a shovel instead Of a gun They work under fire. too. I remem- Der at the first battle of Ypres. in June of 1916. was with party out on pa- trol when we met a gang of the pio- neers advancing towards the front lines. Where are you soins?' called out our officer. To the front line to consolidate a trench replied one of those chaps. Where are your armsT asked the officer. We are workers. not fighters answered the fellow They don't fight. but many are killed.
 About the French
 The French? You ask of them? I admire them more than can tell you. You cannot praise them too highly. no matter how hard you try. I'm proud of the record the Canadians have made for I'm one myself. but those French fighters are devils. Their seventy five is a miracle. There is a saying on the.battle line that the safest place 10 crawl is in a shell hole. for the gun won't strike twice in the same place But I have seen French seventy-five gunners place thirty shells in the same old hole out Of thirty-twO shots. Six shots a minute they shoot. too. with two mile range and an eighteen pound or three-inch shell.
 Don't let them tell you France is anything like through. She is full of fight yet. Those French troops are better than the Prussians. man for man in any old kind of fighting.
 And I also admire the English. Il am free to admit that did not think much of them when we first went over could see nothing but the Canadians then. But I quickly changed my mind All those English regiments are great fighters. None better in the world And the English officers are as fine lads as one could wish to follow. AL ways out in front of. the men: not stulking behind like the German Of ficers always do in an attack have seen mere English lads in their teens walking in front of their men in a rain