The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-04-18
Dead Bodies Piled
On Dead Bodies
Horror of Hun Menace and Exaltation of the British
Troops AS outnumbered, They Go Forth to
Die, Told by War Reporte. They
Kill Until Sick of Killing.

have fought for would be teopardised
and this four years Of war would have
been in vain for Us. That seems to me
the only explanation Of things that have
been done by masses of our men. or by
small bodies Isolated in rearguard ac-
tions-astounding things in endurance
and sacrifice.
Yesterday I saw some of those men.
who have been fighting in the battle Of
Arras. heroes of the heaviest blow the
enemy has received since March 21.
There were some London regiments
amongst them. and their band was play
ing tattoos as evening set in amid the
great glory of the gold-hamed western
sky after a day of storm.
DEAD BODIES ON DEAD.
The colonel Of their battalion-it was
the London Rife Brigade-came out aft
er sleep and wash and shave All his
kit had been lost in dug-out. but he had
borrowed a razor from his batman. and
nobody would have guessed that this
smiling man, with perfectly ySbright eyes
and easy maners. had Just come out of
battle. where many of his men fell
around him under frightfu1 shelling.
where he had been firing a rifle all day
long at crowds Of Germans. and where
he had seen dead bodies piled on dead
bodies as the enemy came up in waves
against the blasts of machine-gun bull
let's and the fire of our field artillery.
lie spoke Just a word or two about
the tragedy of losing many of his best
and bravest, then put that thought aside
and told of their heroic defense and
slaughter of the enemy
FOURTEEN DAYS OF KILLING.
They go on fighting by night and day
from one day 10 another. falling back
most of the time under this tide and
spate Of men and guns. but holding them
all the time by machine gun and rife
fire. by field batteries getting into ac-
tion as soon as they have taken up new
positions. by desperate little battles in
which one or two battalions. or one or
two companies. hold up waves of Ger
mans until their own line has fallen
back in an orderly way to new defensive
ground.
Tor fourteen days they have been kill
ing the enemy as he advances across the
open of the old, barren battlenelds. nak-
edly exposed to their fire Immediately
the gaps are filled up by those grey
swarms behind. and our weakened forces
come further back to a new ditch or
road from which they fire again. and kill
again and fall back again, because the
enemy Is reckless of the cost of his ad-
vance. and his tide never ceases its drift.
so TIRED THEY COULDN'T STAND.
Our men have been lighting for many
days and nights like this after the FIRST
storm of shells and gas, untii their
boards have grown long and their faces
haggard and worn for lack of sleep. and
their clothes have become torn on wire.
and covered with DUST Of mud and chalk.
saw small party Of them today so
weary with this endless battle that they
could hardly walk. and were holding
hands like t-ired children and leaning
against each other like drunken men, but
for the most part they hold their heads
UP gamely and shoW no lsind of dismay
because so far luck has been against
them
-BUT A LIBERTT BOND TopAr-
Every bond \ safeguard against Ger
slavery.