Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-02-07
CHAPTER xIl-contInusd.

ground, but during the three week
j was In the trenches on the Gnllipoll
peninsula we made four grand attacks
and many minor ones. 30 | know In n
general way what they are like. Each
wave In organized like the others.
First come three lines OF what you
might call ~grenadiers. though they are
not picked for size as the old kings
%grenndiers used 10 be. They are de-
ployed IT, skirmlsh formation, which
means that every nan Ia three yards
from the NEXT. They were armed only
with g~renades, but, you can take II
from mo. that In enough Behind them
some " lines. also In sklrmlsh for
nation, and armed with machine guns
and grenade rifles. The first men on
the left cnrry machine guns. then come
tnree rifle ~xrenadiers, and Their nnoth-
err machine gun and so on down the
length OF the line. After these come
TWO lines OF rifemen with liked bay
onets.
Then come the trench cleaners, or
moppers-up. Rs we call them. They
we're some gang. believe me. Imagine
a tenn OF rugby players spread out In
1--we lines-Only with hundreds OF men
on the tenn instead OF eleven, and
eaeh man n husky, capable OF ham
ding a baby grand plano single
handed. These fellows were armed
with everything you could think OF.
and n whole lot more that you could
not dream about In n nightmare. Il
used to remind me OF n trial | saw
In New York once. where the police
mad rnided a %yeggmeD's fop and had
all their weapons In the courtroom as
exhibits.
The r,oppers-up were heeled with
sticks. clubs, shillelhhs. black-jncks,
two-hnnded cleavers. axes. trench
knives. ponlnrds. up-to-date tonia-
hawks, brass knuckles, slung shots
anything that was ever invented for
crashing n man with, l guess, except
firearms. These knock-down, drng-out
artists follow the rifemen very closely.
Their Job was 10 take care OF all the
Turks who could not escape and would
not surrender.
There are lots OF men H. any army
who will not surrender, but | think
probably there were more Turks OF
that gameness than men In most other
armies. | have heard that IL Is n part
OF their religion that "A man, II he
dies fighting, goes TO n very specially
fancy heaven, with plenty to eat and
smoke. And ! suppose n be surren-
ders they believe he win be put in
the black gnng, stocking for eternity
down below. II was awfully hot nj the
Dardanelles and | guess the Turks
did not want II any hotter, for very
few OF them ever surrendered, and the
trench cleaners hao n lot TO do. Their
Job Is really important, for II In danger
u to have groups of the enemy alive
and kicking around In their trenches
after you have passed. Almost every
prisoner we took was wounded.
The n thing ! do not like 10 have
people nsk me Is, "How does II feel to
kill n man7" and ! think the other
boys feel the same why about Il. Il
Is not n thing you like to talk about
or think about either. But this time,
at "" beach, when we got past the
first and second Turk trenches and
were at work OF the third, | do not
mind saying that ! was glad whenever
i slipped my bayonet into a Turk and
more glBd when l saw another one
coming. l guess | saw red all right.
Each time l thought, Maybe you are
the one who did poor old Murray"
And could see Murray as he looked
when they took him down from the
storehouse wall. Then 1 would stick
another one.
Tho nth.ra f.n,, a.. R....-
red-hot, too, and they went at the
Turks In great style. There was
nothing to complain about IN the way
they fought, but | wished that we mad
had a few more boys from the Foreign
Legion with us. l think we would have
gone clear on through to Constants
nople.
But the Turks were not as bad as
Fritz. They were just IA good or bet
ter as fighters, and a whole lot whittier.
often. when we were frying IN the
trenches and not a drop OF water was
TO be had, something would land on
the ground near us and there would be
n water bottle, full Sometimes they
almost b~ombarded Us with bottles,
Then. too. they would not Ere on the
Red Cross, az the Germans do; they
would hold their fre many times when
We were out picking up our wounded.
Several times they dragged our wound
I'd as close as they could TO the barbed
wire that w might fnd them easier.
After Murray died I got to thinking
= lOt NOW than I used 10, and though
! I'D not have any bunch exactly. sttIl