The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-04-29
INTERESTING LECTURE
BY MR.. L. Il. NELL.

Neill at the A. r. ?. church on FRI
day evening, in which he described
in vivid picture the crossing of the
3Gth division over seas, and how TIE
submarines attacked them and how
they zig Jagged across the sea to
avoid the U-boats, how they went INTO
camp and from camp into the front
line and then on down to the Hin
denburg line, and what it was, and
how a dead German could explode
and blow you up, was very interest
ing and instructive.
He drew on the blackboard the Diff
ferent positions Of the two contend
ing aries and told how they man
aged to camouflage the enemy IN
order to get to the front line trenches
and how they would take pleasure IN
shooting down the airmen just as
they would have sport in the Shoot
irg of birds. His company was a
member of the 1l9th regiment of the
30th division and went into the Of
fensive with the 30th in an attack on
the ;Hindenburg line the latter part
of September, and remained until the
famous line was broken, and WhcA
his company, $50 strong went in:
came out with only so men, and the
wonder was that any of them got out.
He said. the Hindenburg line was
just one machine gun after another:
en- banks and in trees and every
where there was gun. The only
way they managed to go up against
i, was to take the line when it was
unawares, because If they had not r
would have been impossible to stand
before it and live. They simply go+
there first with the men and the guns.
The Germans had all sorts Of death
dealing appliances. Even when they
would throw up their hands and
shout Karaerad if you were not on
your guard they would manage TO
touch their breast and of would 80
a Gun and down you would go. Nice
walk ways were laid with all sorts
OF explosives and if you happened -
step on the right one up you wouid
20, and he mentioned a cat 4 aat:shs
Saw in one Of the. trenches that had
been left hanging with a. wire
through its leg and some*of our men
Thought the. poor animal had gotten
it there in going through the wire
mesh, and in order to relieve the poor
thing some one undertook to remove
the wire and off went the explosion
and up went the cat and the good
Samaritan, and even sometimes when
YOU undertook to open door, the
thing would explode and YOU and
your comrades would 60. But Win
all this the Sammies were too smar:
for them and the great HindenourS
lire was broken and the enemy bad
to give up.
He concluded with an appeal to the
people to come across and put the
Liberty Loan over the top. and do
their part and keep the faith, quot
ing the touching poem of Col. John
McCrae who fell deadly wounded IN
the second battle Of Ypres, We
Shall Not Sleep" and there is nc
more elopent appeal that could be
made as an inspiration to war giving
and war sacrifice and after war CIV
ing and after war sacrifice than this
touching and stirring little poem.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the Crosses, row on row.
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly.
Scarce heard amidst the guns below
We are the dead
Short days ago we lived. felt dawn,
Saw sunset glow.
Loved and v re loved, and now we lie
in Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe.
To you from falling hands we
throw the Torch,
Be yours to hold 1t high;
If We break faith with us who die.
We shall not sleep, though poppies
grow
In Flanders fields"
What more touching and moving
appeal could be made to any one to
do his part and keep the faith w:th
those who died, in putting over this
Liberty Loan which is now on, so
that we may close up the business