Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-31

I lictIe 100 close for comfoi
Then I made n lovely .Hc. ]
was to establish an aid posk near bat
talon headquarters and went blithc-
Ily on when I met n company COM
mander and asked him where to go.
Back there about n quarter OF n
milc." he replied. This Is the front
center company. If you keep on In
the direction you nrc going YOU arc
going up over that ridge and Fritz
will be waiting for you with ma
chine gun"
Escapes From Trap.
So my sergeant and orderly and
myself didn't waste any time in clear
ing On the way back I found n gallon
can full of water, got into CORFU
gated iron shelter and had wash and
n shave. It certainly felt good.
don't believe had washed for 36
hours. II was warm and bright.
could look out of my shelter and see
our support lines digging themselves
in several hundred yards away. The
cannon fire ceased, the machine guns
settled down to an occasional ftful
| burst and II was midday Of beautiful
spring day.
A couple Of patrIdges flew over me.
| What did they know or care about all
this noise and racket. and men getting
I'D and killing each other?
| Along about 3 o'clock things began
to liven I'D again. In the meantime"
nedquarters had been established Ii
f14sunken road with banks about Il
feet high on either side Qater this cut
was half filled with dcad.) My aid
post was a dugout nearby and gradu-
ally things got hotter and hotter.
| Our men had dug themselves in ami
were popping away with their rifles.
The field batteries behind us were put"
ting ZIP n barrage. airplanes were cir
cling overhead, both ours and the Ger
mans. The Germans put up counter
barrage. the machine guns were going
| like mad. 7 wns standing with the
colonel on a little rise OF ground above
the sunken road when the Germans
broke, through about mile to the
north of us. They could lie plainly
seen pouring over the ridge in close
| formation.
Tanks Drive Huns.
Then the tanks came up and you
should have seen them run! Just like
rabbits! The tanks retired: the Boches
reformed and came at 1t again. They
tell me that at certain places our men
withstood IS successive attacks and
| that the Germans went down in thou
sands. One Welshman told me that
his gun accounted for IS in three min
utes during one wave.
| Machine gun bullets were nippins
around me. the shellfre was getting
hotter, and even though 1t was n won
derful sight to watch ] decided dis
cretion was the better part Of valor.'
or something like that, and got down
IN my dugout.
was sitting there smoking q cign-
rette when my orderly came down and
said was being relieved and was to
go hack with the ambulance. Fifteen
minutes later the man that relieved
me was captured. But I ar, gettinT
ahead of my story.
| went hack to the advanced dress
ing station through the hottest shell
fire I ever experienced. More than
once I went down on my face when a
shell burst and the pieces went whiz-
zing over my head. I spent the night
IN mined village where the advanced
dressing station was located. and all
night they shelled II to blazes. 1t was
remarkable how few casualties we
had.
Shell Hits Post.
About II o'clock the morning OF the
third day a shell blew in the side OF
our post, but luckily no one was hurt.