The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-03-21

of the twenty-five were dead or down.
The emplacement was held by eleven
Germans. Two only were left stand
ing when we got in.
When we saw the gun had been ST.
fenced and the crew disabled Godsall
and I worked round to the right about
ten yards from the shell hole where
we had sheltered ourselves while
throwing bombs into the e~mplacement
and scaled the German parapet. We
rushed the gun position. The officer
who had been in charge was standing
with his back to us. firing with his re-
volver down the trench ut our men
who were coming over at another
point. I reached him before Godsall
and bayoneted him. The other Ger
man who had survived our bombing
threw up his hands and mouthed the
Teutonic slogan of surrender-"Mercy
kamerad" My bayonet had broken
off in the encounter with the German
officer, so I picked up a German rifle
with a bayonet fixed, and Godsall and
I worked on down the trench.
The German who had surrendered
stood with his hands held high above
his head, waiting for us to tell him
what to do. He took his eyes
off Of us eve to look at his officer, ly-
ing at his feet. AS we moved down
the trench he followed us, still hold.
ing his hands up and repeating, "Mercy,
kamerad" At the next trench angle
we took five more prisoners, and as
Godsall had been slightly wounded in
the arm I turned the captives over to
him and ordered him to take them to
the rear Just then the men of our
second wave came over the parapet
like a lot Of hurdlers. In five minutes
we had taken the rest of the Germans
in the trench section prisoners, had re-
versed the fire steps and had turned
their WI machine gun against those
Of their %retreating companies that we
could catch sight of.
AS we could do nothing more here
I gave orders to advance and re-en'
force the front line. Our way LED
across a field furrowed with shell holes
and spotted with bursting shells. MOI
q man hesitated. We were winning
That was all we knew or cared tc
know. We wanted to make it q Ger
tainty for our fellows who had gone
ahead. AS we were proceeding toward
the German reserve trench I saw foul
1 ~ 0sNr v,0r orro ,ort1xy ,nxx,n,,pHo1 II,
ing in a shell hole. I stopped to ash
them what they were doing there. A:
I spoke I held my German rifle ant
bayonet at the position of guard" thu
tip Of the bayonet advanced, abou
shoulder high. I didn't get their an
swer, for before they could reply
felt a sensation as If some one hat
thrown a lump of hard clay and strucl
me on the hip, and forthwith l tum
bled in on top of the four, almos
plunging my bayonet into one of them
q private named Williams.
MecIintoek Badly Wounded.
swell, now you know what's tn
matter with u.s." said Williams. wv
didn't fall in, but we crawled in"
They had all been slightly wounded
I had twenty-five pieces of shrapne
and some shell fragments imbedded /,
my left leg between the hip and tn
knee. l followed the usual custom o
the soldier who has "got it." The frs
thing I did was to light a flag" (ciga
rette), and the next thing was to in
vestigate and determine If I was IL
danger Of bleeding to death. Their
wasn't much doubt about that. Ar
terial blood was squirting from two o
the wounds, which were reveale,
when the other men in the hole helpe,
me to cut off my breaches. With thei
aid I managed to stop the hemorrhag'
by i%mprovising tourniquets with rag
and bayonets. One I placed as higl
up as possible m the thigh and tn
other just below the knee. Then w