Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-01-24

will bury your nnd there. providing. Of
course. II doesn't explode In your hands
before you have time to carry out this
order Corporal. fall In two men and
see that this man Obeys the order"
You may be sure that that man never
% much a. looked u. an unexplOded
shell after that.
During the time was At the front
put ak automobiles out Of commission
According 10 al estimate made after .
year Of war. the average life Of an al.
tom0biIe IL eight days and the life Of .
horse Ia about thirty hours.
The first auto lost was due to en-.
CINE trouble. and ! had to abandon II
fOI the saivnge companies to take care
a shell III the city Of Ypres while ! was
having some dinner The third one
lost during the scrap for hill 60 got
stuck In the middle OF q field. and as It
was IN doubtful position ! set fire to II
and trusted to luck that | had done the
right thing The other three were used
up by the fearful condition Of the r0;,ds
We knew several days before the at.
tack came ON hill Gl tint there wa.
something In the wind Our mining
and tuuneling companies had been
working day and night. and noticed
TINT the artillery seemed 10 I've roncen-
trnting In that vicinity Re-enfOrce-
ments were brought up. md everything
seemed to point toward some doings IL
the near future
Two days before the attack came Oh
I was warned to hold myself In rendi.
ness to take II motorcycle machine gun
into action. but was not told any
thing about when l was likely to b
WOnLeG.
Hill 10 itself had hardly any right 70
be called hill. for to me it looked
like little rising ground and that's
all, but we had ninety-two batteries Of
artillery playing ali over 1t. aud they
kept up the heaviest possible lombard
ment for thirty-dve minutes When
you think OF 1868 cannon pouring shells
into such small place US one little hill
II may give you some idea Of what we
gave the Germans who were trying to
hold 1t against us.
The bombardment stopped as abrupt
~ as 1t started. and as soon as 1t ended
the mines we had laid under the hill
were set OF. The earth seemed to
tremble for moment. and then came
q great rumbling roar. followed by an
upheaval Of earth which seemed to
ro0nh IN MI TCho ~
mines had been set or our chaps left
their trenches on the dead run, and
they charged across the crater where
hill GO had been but few moments
before.
The heavy artillery fire we hadtgiven
the Germans had partly dehoralized
them. The explosion Of the mines fin-
ished the job. and they fed like sheep.
Our machine gun was pouring steel
into them for q few moments. but we
had to stop. rs our own men were pur-
suing them. and it was not safe to con-
tinue our fire any longer. 1t was all
over In very short time and while
we had to stand by all night, our work
did not last long during the actual
battle.
SOon after this battle secured my
first "leave" to go to England for rest
Of seven days. and though this Is sup
posed to be story OF experiences
while on the fighting front, l will re-
late something that happened while
was in Glasgow. Scotland.
OF all the cities in the British isles
Glasgow has sent more men to the
front than any other in proportion to
her size. The business firms Of the
city encourage their men to eulist and
do all they can to make things easy for
them to leave their families. In many
cases firms continue to pay men their
salaries while they are at the front
The street car company in Glasgow
has sent thousands. and their places
are taken by women while the men are
away.
Not only are there women conductors
on the street cars. but women drive the
cars too. When one arrives at the sta.
ton In Glasgow 1t seems very odd to
have q woman step up and ask to carry
your bag Women have taken the
places Of the porters in the stations.
Scotland has responded nobly to the