The Arizona copper camp., 1918-07-06
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER Y-Fired by the news Of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Amerl-.
can, leaves his Office in Jersey City anu
goes to England where he enlists IN Sns
CHAPTER II-After a period of train,
ing, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv-
Ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
somewhere in France" where he hrsf
makes the acquaintance Of the ever-pres-
.ent Coolies"
CHAPTER III-Empey attends his first
church services at the front while Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empey's command goes
into the front-line trenches and Is under
hT 4 foT aez The firJt t!n1 pnna learns to adopt
the motto of the British Tommy, If you
are going to get 1t. you'll get It. SO never
CHAPTER vI-Back in rest billets. Em-
pey gets his drst experience as a mess
CHAPTER vII-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAP1ErS VIzl-BacK in rne Ironr-nne
trench, Empey sees his first friend Of the
trenches "go West"
CHAPTER N-Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout in Suicide Ditch"
CHAPTER X-Empey learns what con.
stitutes a lays work" in the front-ins
CHAPTER XI--Empey goes cover the
top for tn, first time in a charge on the
GERMAN ltuAShCS anu ID WOAh0CQ w .
. bayonet thust
CHAPrii p .I-r,mpey JOINS the sui
eide club The bombing squad is called.
CHAP XIII-Each Tommy gets az
.ancedtrench under German fire.
,e4API5R XV-On listening post" in
70 Man Land, 81
RA7saVR xvI-Two artiilerymen 'put
one owe on >s'"-5asRer. their regimentai
cCIsIAaHffEiR CTIHsIAaHER xv1l-Empss<.nas narrvr 90,
cape vile on patrol duty Mn No Mans
: CHATTER xvIII-Back in rest billets
Empeywrites and stages farce c1omedy.
CATER XtxsSldis-s 1s have many
own"
It's not necessary to menuotn tic
coloials (tffe Canadians, Austr hlians
andNew Zealanders), the whole tworlC
kn@s what they have done for, Eng
lai.
The Australian and New Zealaander
is termed the "Anzac," taking the
rame from the first letters of theif Of
kcial designation, Australian and New
Zealand army corps.
Tommy divides the German Army
into three classes according to ktheil
nghting abilities. They rank as fol-
lows: PrussiaAs, Bavarians and Sax
! Ons.
When up against O PruSsian regi.
ment it is case Of keep your nappel
below the parapet and duck. A bang,
bang all the time and war is on. The
Bavarians are little better, but the
Saxons are fairly good sports and are
willing occasionally to behave as gen
tlemen and take it easy, but you can
not trust any of them overlong.
At one point of the line the trenches
were about thirty-two yards apart.
This sounds horrible, but in fact it was
easy, because neither side could shell
the enemy's front-line trench for fear
shells would drop into their own. This
eliminated artillery fire.
In these trenches when up against
the PrussianS and Bavarians, Tommy
had hot time of it, but when the Sax.
ons "took over" it was a picnic; they
would yell across that they were Sax,
ons and would not fire. Both sides
would sit on the parapet and carry on
a conversation. This generally consist |
ed of Tommy telling them how much
he loved the kaiser, while the Sexons
informed Tommy that King George
was a particular friend Of theirs and
hoped that he was doing nicely
When the Saxons were to be relieved
by Prussians or Bavarians, they would
! yell this information across No Mans
Land and Tommy would immediately
! tumble into his trench and keep his
head down.
If an English regiment was to be re-
lieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would
tell the Saxons, and Immediately vol
ley of "Donner und Blitzensp could
be heard and it was Fritz's turn to get
q crick in his back from STOPPING, and
the people in Berlin would close their
windows.
Usually when an Irishman takes over
"a trench, just before "stand down.. in
the morning, he sticks his rifle over
the top, aimed in the direction of Ber-
lin, and engages in what is known as
the "mad minute" This consists Of
firing fifteen shots in minute. He
is not aiming at anything in particular
Just sends over each shot with
prayer, hoping that one of his strays
will get some poor unsuspecting Fritz
in the napper hundreds of yards be.
hind the lines. 1t generally does; that's
the reason the Boches hate the man
from Erin's isle.
The Saxons, though better than the
Prussians and Bavarians, have nasty
trait of treachery in their makeup.
AT one point of the line where the
trenches We're very close, stake was
driven into the ground midway be-
tween the hostile lines. At night when
1t was his turn, Tommy. woulh crawl
to this stake and attach some London
\ papers to it, while at the foot he would
place tins of bully beef, fags, sweets,
and other delicacies that he had re-
ceived from Blighty in theever looked
for parcel. Later on Fritz would come
out and get these luxuritE
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