Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-04-24

toward each other. The bayonet clash
was brief. The ground quickly was
strewn with dead and the Germans
backed up TO the stub of a trench
which was, 10 the soldiers. like the
root Of an aching tooth. Wire en-
tanglements stayed the pursuit of the
Canadians. who, however. hewed their
way through.
He Blows Up Machine Gun.
Six hundred and fifty men went
over the top" with Hanna. Perhaps
two-thirds of this number went on to-
ward the trench, but this remnant was
decimated by a machine gun which
the Huns had set up on the parapet
The crew of this gun played 1t on the
Canadians like q hose and all the of
ticers were killed or injured. Hanna
plugged on in the face OF the dreadful
fire. He had Mills bomb and this
he hurled at the machine gun and
smashed 1t. killing or injuring the
men who were feeding In the bullets.
1t had done its deadly work. Hanna
was standing alone. All about him
were lying his comrades, either dead
or badly wounded. Part of the bat
TALON had spread and, he assumed,
would come around back of the trench
and enter it from the other end. he
jumped into the trench and in a sec
ond saw a row of stalwart Prussians
coming single file-this was neces-
30 f.Fs he
northumberland him. They rushed
him. As the first one was about five
yards away he pulled the trigger on the
only cartridge he had In his rife. The
cartridge was well aimed and No. / OF
the Fifty-fifth Prussian guards was out
of the war forever.
The second one charged over his
fallen comrade, but met the bayonet
held in the viselike grip of the young
lumberman from Vancouver. A third
Prussian-also of the Ffty-flfth-
dropped down In the trench as II he
had collapsed, but as this was no time
for taking chances Hanna. now realiz-
ing that he was alone in nest of the
enemy, used his bayonet with effective
results. A fourth Prussian appeared
almost from nowhere He had the
stock Of his rife in both hands Oh lev
el with his shoulder and was prepar-
ing to drive the other end home In the
form of the Canadian. But Hanna was
too quick for him. There was a mo-
mentary grinding of teeth. a clash and
the fourth Prussian measured his
length on the earthen floor.
Blows Up TWO DUaouts.
Hanna then tells Of what hap
pened during the next few minutes.
Il then discovered that ! was alone
in the trench and ! was wondering
wh1re the other men were. / moved
along, and at the entrance 10 a dug
out, which was. of course. dark, /
heard the buzzing of voices. I, Of
course, knew that was In dangerous
position. I had no bombs. had used
my last one on the gun. | looked
around and discovered a German bomb.
About that time heard the Prussians
coming out of the entrance TO the dug
out and waited TIL they were about
on top of me when let the bomb fiy.
1t went of right In their faces. 1t was
quiet then.
81 moved on few feet furthe. and
saw another dugout entrance. 1t was
the other end Of Z. There / heard
more voices. It didn't look very prom
Using for me- l hunted around quickly
and found two more German bombs.
threw the two into the dugout, hold
ing them just long enough so they ex-
ploded second after they left my
hand. There was no more noise in this
dugOut"
Hanna's story stops here when he