Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-02
SHRAPNEL..
&deEghts on the War
-BY-
OLIVER OWEN KUHN,

one of the favorite tricks of the
Germans is to leave and-grenades
scattered over the ground which they
quit. To these are attached wires
and instantaneous fuses. Should they
be picked up they invariably inflict
terrible injuries and oftenttmes death.
Soldiers usually are a happy lot,
though there may be some grumbling
without a word being meant serious
~: Even going into battle the spirits
of the men usually are high. In dis
GUESSING the moments Immediately
preceding an attack one soldier
writes:
I've were called upon unexpectedly
week or so ago to go over the top
in a surprise attack on a much-elated
and wholly unsuspecting German
corps. Our rest was rudely cut short
and we were hurriedly marched back
to the line; so that one might have
expected a certain amount of grous-
ing;
but no; it was singing all the way.
with the strange antitheses that all
soldiers love-sentimental stuff like
The Long. Long Trail bursting sud
denly into q full chorus Of Who's
Your Lady Friend?' or If You Want
to See the sergeant-Major, 1 Know
Where He Is?' And when we came
near the line and l passed the order
for less noise they began to hum the
chorus, If not sweet at least low"
The depth bomb. which is one of the
most efficient weapons in combating
the submarine, can be exploded from
40 to ESQ feet under the water.
That all is not bed Of roses for
the girl land worker of England is
revealed by a university lass who
spent the last summer helping
farmer till his fields and garner his
crops. She said:
up at 6 in the morning. we had a
glass of milk each and some bread
work. We took our real breakfast
with us to the fields. This we had at
$50. and it consisted Of water and
bread and cheese. The farm laborers
don't take water-they usually have
cold tea (real cold teal or beer.
proved very arduous. During our first
week there the farmer was short
handed. We had to keep on the job
without intermission. and, oh! how
our muscles ached after stacking all
day. We never took a midday meal.
work that we preferred to spend the
time sleeping in some shady spot in
the fields. Our tea we had in the fields
about 4:30. 1t consisted Of lime juice
and more bread and cheese.
There was a hostel some three
a number Of land girls. Here we used
to go for our evening meal. The
SYSTEMATICALLY girls all of them
took it in turns to do the cooking. BY
the time we had had our evening
meal and walked home again it was
usually 10 o'clock"
after the first waves Of an attack
have engaged the enemy ana passed
over his advanced lines. there are
numbers of Germans still effective.
There may be pa party , with machine nine
Torn fight to stem our advance. or
comfortable little crowd hiding In
dugout awaiting their best oppor-
tunity to surrender. They are the
concern Of the 'moppersup.r These
stout fellows are most friendiy to the
last argument of war. and there Is
more personal satisfaction in its use
than in the use Of the bullet"
The war has created many changes
In methods of transportation over the
ers who oftentimes used the great
leviathians hardly would
recognize the mode Of life on these
vessels now.
Too long stay at the American sub
marines periscope will give the OBJ
server "periscope' eye" according to
oficers Of allied navies. The Ameri-
can watch is two hours. but it should
be reduced to one. say the British.
ut was like the devil was hammer
ing nails into the steel lid Of hell" IL
the way q British soldier described
the impact Of German bullets against
his tank on q western front drive.