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Show FIGHTING IN THE BALKAN8. Insurgents Make Effective Use of Terrible Hand Grenade. 1 Reginald Wyon In his recently published pub-lished book on "The Balkans from Within" writes from the Interior of a blockhouso on tho Turoc-Bulgarlan frontier: "We aro shown captured bombs, heavy cylinders used for blowing blow-ing up buildings and the dreaded hand grenade, whose short fuse Is calmly lighted by a burning cigarette and hurled among the attacking Turks. A man must Indeed have nerves of Iron to do this deed. Picture a devoted handful of men surrounded by an overwhelming over-whelming force of Turks, slowly but surely drawing nearer. Now they are a hundred yards away, fifty yeards luckily they shoot abominably but It - is too far to put the weight with ef-feet. ef-feet. "They must wait, though hero and there a bullet fired at random thins out the llttlo band. A rush now. Seel , One cooly lights the fuse and quickly hurls It at the foe. He must make no I mistake, his aim must be correct and his arm strong. A slli at tho moment of throwing means his and his com-rades's com-rades's lives Instead of tho Turks', for the fuse Is very short. But ho has thrown It well; the Turks see it com-lng com-lng and halt In blind fear. "A deafening crash, screams and yells of anguish, and the Turks break and run, shot down by the triumphant Insurgents. Down Into tho valleys they fly, to the nearest village, where their officers, anxious to save themselves asemblance of authority, order Its massacre and pillage. And tho next day we read of the extermination of another band." |