Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-11
Continued from PaEe One


from the enemy. with the hoche dropping
his stuff here and there. taping out the
roads. irving TO knock out our batteries
he had located with microphones or by
air observation. You know YOU can
locate a gun to pin point by micro
rhones. We developed this stunt better
than the Germans. by the way. and bea t
them absolutely at underground war
fare, where YOU have 10 locate the other
fellow by microphone
walking past our various sun place
ments. and watching what was Soihs
on. we would come TO some point from
which we could see the actual attack.
Usually. this would be seen about from
n miles distance. though In some OF the
Somme battles | remember being so close
that | could see the whites OF the Ter
,nans' ewes. That was like being Ill
box at the theatre.
"ro tbn naked eye all that one sees
in an attack is little brown ants sud
denly rising out OF the earth, going 10Y
ward very slowly in little groups--and
suddenly disappearing agafn-in an
enemy trench, that is The men were
never exposed IN the open more than .
nuarter Of On h0ur--human nerves
couldn't stanu it. Then we would know
by watching IN. German signal rockets
whether the objective had been gained
or not. Red lights would go up N the
pale lsht Oh '"e wa"
sight.
we wouIu W~lh OH a''u ,t.., ,"sv '"r ~.
OF pattIe conl."s ', %" o,,.ir,. 80, =,
support t'oops 80 Iii -,
was az -, ,1I r,,,h INV.
Nto U, Io" az. pnrhans ,.,,. a,
pooe 80 rjnsir, nm /. trench mortar
, so,,' ,,i,>',I6 ,.iF "a ,be nep ana M,
- a -. v,ero going to do ~ II haf
80, rood dav Win a large bag
,haro y,.o,7Id come Iittls columns Of pris
oners-yarv!ng in number from SO tt
o5O brought back by a handful Of Tom
mics. They were always exceedingly
Keen 20 get back out Of shell fire ant
very pleased to be ou. OF IT, never
saw that stun, OF their trousers button!
being cut off so that they had to use
their hands 10 hold them up. No need
for IT. They were jolly glad 10 be ou
of it.
walking wounded
Then would come the walking
wounded-a terrible sight 10 see. Otter
both English and German helping eacl
other, WIN thelr arms around eacl
o'hers hecks' lou see 'neF oiten ha'
a eouple ~. n w n"IN PACK 10
/ 800 ,,'e,,i,,,, n,,,.iso o. uueue
| ,io, Many , noor cha, dios % ,r'.
u,a,. h,cI, We would SEQ tha,, .oi, ~, Wv
t,ou' we Gould do no,bin, Co. -. a,. ""1
,yo,,Id ta,sc some of then, si,
hours to stasger back to the dressin,
station.
"Of course, We talked to as many O
| the men as possible. In this way w
would get a very vivid picture of wha
had happened but it would have TO b.
supplemented al divisional headoua rters
! There we were allowed TO see the re
ports of each division, coming In from
I every kind OF source-by sirnIano ,elo
phone. runners, light signals pipeon
and SO on. These divisional beadn,,a ,
ters were usually in dugouts
There we could learn eyery,bi,x ,h,
any one knew about the battle viii "a
general STAFF officer In exnIoi, ,ha ~,
! Iotins 10 lis Then we Vol, -, W
nnd go as hard as ever va ,,',,,s -. "
other diyjsior and 60 q, NJ " an
cover nhou, four divisio,s A., We cour
;,, 1,-o u.o,,ld w ~ one morn
,,, s,,I y" III tnis wa
un"i o"' p'oodpF Nlsltlng IN
corps heauquarters on our way bacl
y There we would get details of late
events from the divisions we had co,
cred earlier.
"we'd get hack TO corresnondenc
headquarters some time in the afternoo
and start writing like mad, While W
wrote our stun was being censored.
~., u..,,,,, C.n..
} Ihe PUBIC seems 10 nave hsd DOG
IN their heaus that we were hesNig Ger
sored' ihis was not SO VI course
had 10 hiue ,ne oruer oI pattle from Ut
enemy ana 'nereIore the censorship
mention OF resifhehts was ierociou
untll we Knew .he enemy hhew lhe I' N
cstion pr certdih un,', OF COURSE "
couldnt mention H. lh's prihss me
point that hssn oee, eApiaIneu'
tue Ensiish peoSie saw 'hst tne Hustrt
Han ana CANADIAN troops were mei
toned over anu over again when britlf
troops VINO hSu Ieen ngnIns ns wtn one