The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-02-19

Throwing Hard Grenades.
an rest hillets The next day our cap,
tain asked for volunteers Tor bomhors
school | gave my name ana was ac
cepted. | had ioinod the Suicide club
md my troubles commenced. Thirty.
two men of the battalion including my
Eelf, were sent to L---. where wv
wcnr through n course ia bomDing.
Here we were instructed u the uses,
methods Of throwing and manufacture
Iof various kinds of haud grcaudes,
from the old "jam tin,' now obsolete,
20 the present Mills bomb, the standard
of the British army
1t all depends where you are AS to
what you are called. In France they
call you "bomber' and give YOU med
MS, while in neutral countries they
cal you an anarchist and give you
"llfc."
From the very start the Germans
were we'll equipped with effective
bombs and trained bomb thgoNcjs. but
fhe English army was as little pro-
yared in this mporan. department of
lighting as in many others Al houb-
ing school an old sergeant of the Gron-
adler guards, whom | had tie good
fortune to meet told me OF the diseour-
agements this branch of The service
suffered before they could meet me
Germans on an equal footing. pad-
hSts and small army people in the
a. $, please read with cure) The first
English cxpcditionary forces had no
bombs at all, but had clicked lot of
casualties from those thrown hy the
Boches. One brglH morning someone
higher up had an idea and issued an
order detailing two men from each
platoon to 20 to bombing school to
learn the duties of n bomber and how
10 manufacture bombs Noncommis.
stoned officers were generally selected
Tor this course. After about two
weeks at school they returned to thclr
units In rest biIlcts or in the fire
trcnch nc tho ooso ,n,,,ht ho ond aa4
huey too,,ina r'oi, ,,Ia,o,,,, ,''. ,,..,.
make "jam tins"
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