New Britain herald., 1918-02-28
MEN WHO RETURNED
 SPIN THEIR YARNS
Knocked Out, But Not Silenced,
 by Enemy Guns

5T,e, mission in getting recruits among British subjects in the United States. ] You'd better change your clothes, me ! boy,
 And get behind the drums. And march to meet Brittania's foe Before the tyrant comeSi Stop thinkin' and a. readin'
 Till your brains a-swinlrnin' round, Of the boys out there a-bleedinS
 On the muddy. bloody ground. Just ask yourself the question,
 Do you think it's fair or right For you to do the readin'
 While your pals get out and fight? There's no two ways about it,
 And the answer quickly comes, You'd better change your clothes, me
 boy,
 And get behind the drums. They'll lead you to the hollowed soil
 Where flows the blood of men Decidin' which shah rule this world
 Between the sword and pen. Democracy or Tyranny
 Which is it going to be?
 They're trying to blow the world to
 Hell
 And Astif1e liberty.
 So youd better change your clothes,
 me boy,
 And get behind the drums. And march to meet Brittania's s foe
 Before the Tyrant comes.
 D Ts
 Queens Own Toronto Rif1es.)
 Have the brigade bombers as semble under command of Major Smith and for Heavens sake get those machine guns.'
 These were the orders given to our company commander by the Colonel His anxiety was due to the fact that we had already gone over that top twice in an effort to silence four of Fritz's guns that were causing us no end of trouble. Each time we were driven back by those murder-sp putting devil weapons.
 was a bomber and a member of what is termed by the boys the "sui- eide club",- exclusive club for bombers only. My feelings were not exactly cheerful that morning when told that the brigade bombers were going over' that night, and I was not particularly encouraged by the re- marks of my chum-
 ''Say, Dick, would you like some daisies or shall I send home for tu lips?" meaning of course, that he would see to my grave being dec- orated. He, poor fellow, was blown to pieces that night by @ high explo- sive, but we did find enough to make a grave.
 At eleven o'clock over we went. There was not word, not a sound to indicate any movement Each man was equipped with a. bag of bombs Crawling silently on our stomachs made the distance of sixty yards a l long, dreary Journey. It took two l hours to reach Fritz trenches. Star l shells were continually lighting up l the landscape, making every object l clearly visible but by lying perfectly l still in the mud and water we were 1 evidently mistaken for dead men. We 1 finally reached our objectives, but with no clear understanding as to their exast positions. So we lay cau- l tious1y underneath their cursed | barbed Wire-that wire on which so many of our boys had already fallen l in the previous attacks. By dint of 1 much care and cautious whispering l each squad, composed of three men l each, received directions as to which part of the line they were to rain | their death-deaIing bombs.
 was about to resume my crawl to the position allotted to my squad r hi | ward me. It came from my chum Jerry Thomas.
 Say, Dick, if get mine I want you to send my stuff to my mother He gave me her address and I re- membered. But have not seen Jer- ry since that night
 l 'Bangi'' went a bomb and we knew then that the Major had let fly 1 Further concea1ment was impossible | We sprang up with a fiendish desire tc give Fritz Hell. No sooner had the
 bomb exploded than with 0 murder ous rattle their machine guns opened
 up and that gave us the information
 we wanted as to their positions
 ''Bang!' went another of our bomb
 and by their yells of pain we knev we were getting home.'' , By this time several of my pal had fallen. TWO or theIr guns hat s been sent west, and we went afte . the other two like wildcats. We wer , 1 filled with an unfloly desire to xii - and destroy. Were not those He1Iis1 . weapons responsible for the deaths 0 - so many of my comrades? Now, af F ter two failures, two previous attack
 by our regiment having been beatel
 back with great loss to us, now w | vuero getting a S1vaee iOv from th fact that even while we were destroy I ing the Huns defenses, our men wer 7 | gathering for another attack. So w . I<ept at it until the two remainin f o,us were destroyed, and a terrib1