Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-09

flanked him, and made rush from a dozen yards distance. Up went the Huns left hand and he shouted "Kam- erad" but the other hand still pull ed the trigger. Could you have taken him prisoner? The Indians you fought never did things as bad as these peo- pie. The devlish devices they leave behind would put an Indian to shame. Every conceivable contrivance is there in his wake to catch the unwary. Mines and bombs are planted and ex- ploded in the most cunning ways when the advancing troops take possession. Gas is freely made use of and in this weapon he is an adept.
 They sent gas over six hours straight at the start of the battle mentioned. Of Course I only took a very small part and saw very little so have only a partial knowledge of an operation that extended over a front of 75 or 80 miles and drove the en- en1y back at some points nearly 25 miles.
 Coming hack to the uae of the gas; They employ several kinds of gas that will kill almost instantly, but our masks, if put on in time, are good protection. At times they send over a gas that causes violent sneezing and vomiting, following it up with the deadly gas. The idea is that the first will cause the prospective victim to loose his mask yand if he does, good- day for him. ',
 wont attempt to describe my own feelings when nnder fire. 1 do know this: If any man isn't scared he must have something wrong, but most of us fortunately, can even then keep our heads and go right on. One does get used to this sort of thing to a certain extent.
 An old high explosive shell is fear full weapon and can do a terrible ann out of damage, and the same is true of an aerial bomb. These latter will make a hole 10 feet deep and 30 feet across in the hard road, and the con- cussion is very heavy. One dugout, for instance, wefound had been hit by one of our six inch shells. It passed through the roof at an angle and ex- ploded in the ground at one side. There were two occupants in it at the time and the shell had taken the top off one's head and shock had killed the other. Both were sitting in their or iginal positions.
 think the worst sensation of all IS to have an enemy plane, loaded with deadly pills, hover over you, trying to locate the right spot before letting them go. They did that to us and also gave us dose of machine gun bullets, but so far we have had re- markable luck, having few casualties.
 One boy from Bisbee, Ariz., was wounded seriously by shell splinter but so far he is the only one from Ari- Zona.
 was on a detail of six men, who were in the French front constructing an observation post, in a very exposed place. We were on one side of the canyon and they on the other, their guns warming us up in great shape, but we completed our 40 feet of under ground construction work and timber cred it up close in three days. We ran tunnel from the shelter of sun ken road and raised to the surface, camafouging the opening with sod laid over iron plates. Of course about everything is done at night. You can look out across the close up regions during the daytime and scarcely see a living thing but at night the roads are alive with hundreds of truck wagons, soldiers, and transports of all kinds. Not spark of light dares to be shown and 1 often marvel how such an en- ormous traffic can be maintained un- der such conditions, but it is and goes on without hitch.
 We have been taken away from the part of the front 1 speak about and transferred to another part, after two months of it. Am now billeted quite ways back (15 miles) and near a pen where the prisoners from our last