The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-09

thlS interview With a HlgnlandeI periences he had on the eve of Fritz is much more worrie fensive than we are." In thes whom I interviewed summed uI which the Huns are making to been through three years of figl clutches of the German hordes great tidal wave upin the West Don't think" he said ''that we are unprepared for this onset. We knew pretty well all along what was coming. At the spot where our lot lay, down at M, we had raids every week practically all last win ter, and some weeks we even made two a week. During the whole or that time, too Fritz was testing us every other day and night with his internal mustard gas, flammewerfer and mortars, to say nothing of mak- ing continuous aerial Visits-or try ,ng to make them-over our lines So .you see, we were in the thick of it, and picked up enough information one way or another to ascertain what his intentions were. "Let me tell you about the raids first. They became quite a habit with us, and latterly we used to go over-it was only a matter Of eight yards to his trenches-with as little concern as need be. F'ritz's lines, of course, were very lightly held in front, and so we devoted most of our attention to his machine-gun posts upon which we would sWoop at any hour of the night, clean up, and carry away just as many of the little. garrisons as didn't care to put up fght7for it.
 Nasty Outpost Scrap.
 s-rhis was a bit of change from the old-time raids, when we used to go over in scores, penetrate into his dug outs, wreck them, and carry otf big punches of prisoners. We couldn't have got big punches latterly, unless we had gone into his second or third lines, but we were not worrying about that. All we wanted was a Johnnie or two as. often as possible, and I may say that we never once failed to catch a bird, however stiff a tussle they put up.
 ''One night, remember, we had a rather nasty scrap with the gar rison of one of the outposts. We had come down on the same place so of ten that every succeeding time we went over we found it stronger. On this occasion. there was quite a little army of them-comparativ speak ing-and, as they were eternally on the lookout for us, we knew we would have a devil of a job in col Iaring any of them. Well, we had, but collar one we did, although it took us all we could muster of mus cle and ingenuity to get him.
 ''It happened this way. We split into three parties. one going straight for the post, and the other two going round it's Hanks. The frontal lot, as soon as they got over, were to make a bit of a demonstration, one of the flank lots were to ditto a few min utes later, and the other flank boys were to creep up, haul out one ol two of the defenders, while they were engaged and clear off with them iNeatness and dispatch, so to speak were to be the essence of the raid and we es practiced till we were per feet.
 ''The plan worked admirably up tC the point where the second flank To got into touch with the enemy. Frit had evidently left nothing to chance and, being as fly as they make them he was prepared for every emergen cy. At any rate, he seemed to hay eyes all around this night, and, eve1 when he was being kept busy witt two of our lots, he found time to pu up a good defense against the third However, as say, muscle and brain triumphed in the long run, and W managed to yank one clear in tn hurry and hustle and darkness.
 That was all we wanted, and W came home quite pleased, for he wa 8 young Hun, and therefore mor likely to be talkative than any of tn veterans who were, no doubt wit him that night. But what I wante to bring out is this. In all thes raids, generally speaking, the Ger mans showed as little disposition t fight at close quarters as ever, an usually, on the way back to our line they told us how fed up they wer and how much they feared the con ing slaughter. They 6admitted tn; they would make a good show first-but it was what would happe after that had it's terrors for ther
 hope their terrors will be justifie End I rather think they will
 "All the same, Fritz was givir our lot a bad time recently. Rai he didn't bother about, to any gre extent, at least. Probably he kne that against men who were so expe at the game as we were he wou have little chance, or perhaps ha ing his plans all laid he was n worrying much But what he d give us was mustard gas galore. ; occasional spurt of flame, and al amount of trench-mortar straf, Then the f1ammenwerfer would spu out every now and then, just to Ike us on tenterhooks, I suppose, as
 when that big smash was comir Every other night, too, their airm would come along and drop bonn promiscuously, but doing less dama than they would have done had tn cared-or been able-to visit us
 the day time.
 "Oh, yes; we saw plenty of a scrapping, but it was always over t Hun lines. I have told you how ne we were, so that we could see all t fighting there was. One evening.
 few Gothas made a rush for o
 sector, and began dropping bonn
 but before the game was over tt
 were attacked by one of air squs
 rons.
 Tt was a pretty a fight as ever
 saw. The machines whirled, sl 41. ok,