El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1921-01-10

I this column daily during the next several
| months. Today's instalmsut. continuing
] the general narrative relates experiences
on The 1Ieuse-A rome battle front
! It is EuEgeEted that readers clip these
D articles each day and paste them In scrap
I books; they VIII not be reprinted and back
/ numbers cannot be supplied.
| OCTOBER 25 from . to 5 a. m. very
l " heavy artillery fire, not drum fire
but more heavy guns engaged than
I heretofore; both sides firing rapidly
/ and sound Of shell explosions mingles
with that OF the guns; much air actiy-
/ ity also.
I Exceedingly desperate fighting east
and north Of us. German planes drop
I bombs all around US IN afternoon.
Heavy barrage opens at s p. IN.
Units Of all sizes from smallest to
/ largest are employing flanking tao
tics; if there is no flank It is necessary
TO make one. In the adopting Of this
/ principle and the ability to push the
successive movements through and fol-
low them up lies one Of the notable
/ contributions Of the American forces
TO victory. Advancing lines seesaw IN
stead Of advancing to successive
I parallels. Method is irresistible so long
as we maintain the offensive and have
ample reserves.
Great old barn near here has heavy
black walnut planks for stalls and
haylofts.
p October l9lS-EnOrmOuslv heavy
firing all along line from s last night
to 6 this morning. Heavy barrage on
I tonight and attack ia effort to
straighten out the reentrant angle east
OF the river Verdun forts and guns
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I itv northeast and north and wonderful
display Of signal lights and rockets of
all coiors along the front lines.
Last night was blaeker than black
} but the guns flashed ike continuous
sheet lightning along the horizon. To-
/ day was sunny and clear with misty
! distance. In afternoon had ENJOYABLE
walk to several Of the Verdun forts
and watched great shells falling in and
around the city and big guns busy
I bOmbarding enemy positions a few
miles away over the ridge
Our c0mmuniques say nothing Of re-
I tIrements but only advances, As a
matter Of fact Banthevilie was taken
twice and lost twice, once by a
/ National Army division, and once by a
regular division before the Goth took
/ it and held It. Brieulles has also been
taken and lost several times. no use
] suppressIng reFerses. later news simply
excites suspicion and casts diseredit on
I all French troops, Judging from read
ing the official commuuIques between
the lines, evidently retired after adj
Tancing west Of Bots Gran Montague
and also beyond ConsenTOye-Damvillers
road northeast of heres nothing said in
| eommuniques about retirement, but one
notes advances twice or three times
/ over the same ground
Is October lglS-Ihe exclamation
point has no place over here, positive
/ y no disposition or opportunity for
| Aly-Goddmg. Emotion and enthusiasm
alike impossible. Dull Job, of necessity
that knows no limits whatever, and in
/ which there Is neither choice nor es-
] cape. Sense Of duty and obligation
[ fills al, and everybody ready 70 stay
with It TO a complete and final military
I victory. But general sense is confined
I to determination that Germany must
not win, and dim feeling IN defined,
! that peace and welfare and happiness
| Of world are menaced BY Germany.
/ Deep convictions lacking, It is rather
a feeling, but nothing TO stir powerful
I emotions. To all it seems perfectly nat
ural that we should be here and doing
7 Just what we are dong; nobody ex-
/ periences any. feeling Of strangeness-
/ There NAV be those Wh3 thrill and
/ think poetic thoughts as they con-
| template, for example, the battlefields
Of Verdm, hills of sOrrowful heroic
memory. or the city itself, but if so
have failed to meet any such. Nobody
can rhapsodize within 100 miles Of the
front lines.
IS October l9lS-Heavy firing all
last evening and most Of the night, but
/ from to 6 this morning was unusually
heavy bombardment, harrage, drum
| fire, continuous pound Of heavy guns
and 75's with big howitzers at inter
walls. Artillery material is being used
on a larger scale IN these American
operations than at any other time dur
ing the entire war
Fair day but misty. We receive
word Of a great offensive TO take place
/ November ]. Intensity Of struggle on
both sides increases. Traffic up here
! is so dense It Is impossible to limit It
TO hours Of darkness.
Fromereville Just east Of rs is shelled
again today; same range as our head
quarters. Night absolutely elear. Great
air activity. The guns Of Nerdun are
busy all night.
Continued tomorrow
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