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Show J r tiir t- - provo post AIM CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS FOURTEEN' Jmonths X THETRONT Account AT Home Visitors To Los Angeles one of our chief attra tions ia the purveying of sat eyeryonefwho deals with us. We sell qUft;. ity lumber at a correct price. Ask anybody who knows anv thing about lumber what they know about us. Well abide YES, An American Boys Baptism of Fire 7-- San Diego Oakland San Francisco F TO GWft REAL T" HATS OUR 17 ACTION CHtLP ATTRACTION fY(E Bj WILLIAM J. ROBINSON Cepyrfgbt, Utile, Browa A Greatly Reduced Rates fa. Tbe most graph! account t the great war that haa yet been written mom from tha pea of a Boato boy, who haa Juat returned from Franca, where aa dragoon guardsman, dispatch rider and motor-odriver ha served fourteen month adsr tha British flag. Out of thirty-an- a motorcycle dispatch riders ha waa ana af low survivors, WILLIAM J. R0BIN80K There la a Sharp corner as one turns CHAPTER VIIL out of the square, and I knew it would be impossible to twist her around it at Second Battlo For Calais. rest of seven days seemed very the pace we were going, so I tried a short, and I was back on tha stunt I had read abont racing drivers doing on the hairpin curves. I gave Job at Poperlnghe all too soon. Ypres, which was six miles away, her more power, jammed on the brake, bad been comparatively quiet all win- and we skidded around on two wheels ter. In fact It bad been so qnlet that we were between the devil and tbe deeD sea. and 1 felt that no chances divisional our Twenty-sevent- h had moved In there. As tbe we couid take were too long consider spring drew near the Germans began lug the fix we were in. Tbe bacon boxes held together all to shell around tbe city again, but very few shells landed directly in tbe right, and we got out of It withoutbe-tatouched, but It waa more by pure city proper. luck than anything else. "What got There was a big gas tank on tbe down toward Krustadt. and my goat waa that during "the whole tround this place the shell firo would thing the officer sat there with a cigar In bis mouth and a monocle In his eye be rether heavy at times. The city md didnt even look as though be was wss much knocked about even then, nervous. but it was nothing to what It was st When we got back to oUr own headthe end of the second battle for Cahe said Thank yon" and requarters lais." marked to another officer that one Before the beginning of this battle d d fool" had wearing a the kaiser was qnoted as having said wooden uniform escaped that day by the that If be failed to break ns this time breadth of a I prehe would lay the city of Ypres to the sume be 'Was gnats eyelash." referring to me. and 1 ground street by street He failed to agree with him heartily. Believe me, break ns, all right. and he kept his that ride did me out of a years growth. word, for today the fine old city of I certainly pitied our transport men Yptea ia nothing bnt a shapeless heap during this time as I never pitied them of broken bricks before. They conld not help being For weeks before the attack our air. nervous while waiting to go through men were bringing in reports that the the city, which they had to do, as there Germans were massing heavy bodies was no other way for them to go. Tbe of fresh troops Just in front of our po- ambulances, too, suffered heavily. sition. All onr transport trains went , All night tbe bombardment continued through the city, onr men were billeted with unabated fury, yet onr supplies there, and one of onr divisional bead went through tbe city to the men just quarters bad moved Into the city, the same. . Tbe Germans still continued to bomTbe next morning I was ordered to bard our positions in this vicinity, but report in my car to a young officer of they left the city Itself severely alone. the intelligence department The offAll winter It had been as safe to go icer told me that ha bad orders to go through Ypres as it would be to go to through Ypres to a little place called church, consequently an order to go to Potij:'.e end to report himself to the Ypres ' did not 'bother anybody very divisional commander there. much. There was absolutely no other way to get to Potljze except through Yprea, . I was at the divisional headqnarters In Ypres with a staff officer on the aft- and yon may be sure we wqre feeling ernoon the bombardment started. We none too pleasant abont tbe prospects. had gone to the city on horses, and we We had to go alowly, even at tbe start, naturally expected to come back that as the road waa filled with all klnda of way. I suppose it was abont 2 oclock transports. After we got through tbe when w arrived there, and 1 put the Tillage of Ylamertlnghe we fonnd the horsea in the yard behind several buildgoing a little better, and we got along faster. The road from Ylamertlnghe to ings. As 1 was still on dnty, I didnt dare Yprea ia almost straight, and one can ee right Into the city before one comes go very far away, for I didnt know at what moment the officer might show within two kilometers of It Aa we swung Into this straight up. The first inkling I got of anything stretch I noticed several German aero1 was when tbe beard unpleasant scream of several shells coming through planes over the city, and It waa plain to be seen that they were dropping the air at once. Right then I acted on tbe impulse bombs. This time they were dropping that seizes every one at such a time petrol bombs, and tbe Instant they exand went through the nearest cellar ploded they would spray petrol all windovr, where I landed on a pile of over the place and a flame would shoot potatoes I was content to stay there, np Into the air. In this way they were too, nntll an orderly found me and told setting fire to the city. It was a sight that I shall never forme that my officer wanted me. The Germans had been bombarding ns get Tbe shells were falling jUst the abont half an hour then, and there was same, and, what with the ground fairly no sign of any letting np yet trembling from the terrific explosion, Tbe 'orderly told me that the shells the smoke from the bursting shells and were dropping In st the rate of forty-on- e burning bouses, tbe flames and dust that .filled the air, it made a scene that to the minute, and I remember would need a Dante to describe and do who on fool would be earth wondering enough to count the number of shells it Justice. The thought that we were to attempt falling. I reported to my officer .and fonnd him as cool as a encumber He the passage through all this was terriasked me where tbe horses were, and fying. An awful fear, almost panic, when I told him he said for me to leave seemed to grip me, and I longed to them there and to go and find a car of jump from that car aud hide my face from the flaming hell which seemed to some kind. be stretching out Its tentacles of fire to I knew It was mighty serious when be would abandon the horses, and 1 draw us Into Its gaping maw. I felt weak all over and waa wet started out with tbe fear of God in my with cold perspiration. I looked at tbe heart and wondering w here in the dickens I would find a car in that inferno. officer, almost praying that be would As a matter of fact,' 1 did find one, or glTe the order to stop, but even as I at least it had been a car at some time looked I knew there waa no chance of or other. It was an ambulance which that He waa aa white as death, bnt had had the body blown off, and some there was a look of determination on his face, and the clenched teeth and one bad built a couple of little bucket set jaws gave no promise of his backseats out of empty bacon boxes. Bacon boxes or not, it certainly looking down. I think, tbe bulldog grit that he was ed like a million gold dollars to me at that moment, and 1 wasnt so alow showing helped me, for I resolved that abont nabbing it, Tba engine was all while I might get so weak as to be unright, so I decided to taka a chance on able to drive that car, I would stick by the rest of it bolding together until I him as long aa 1 could hold ont And be certainly showed that he was got my officer through the city anyway. I pulled around In front of tbe headwhite" clear through, for be told me to' stop a moment I did, and be got quarters, and the officer jumped In. It seemed as though the whole city out of the car. was being torn from its very founds-ttoa- a Robinson," be said, "Ive Just been so terrible was the din. The thinking that there wont be any need bouses were going down in every quarfor you to come any farther. It la a ter, and on tha face of it it looked like rotten business, and as there are ambulances going np all tbe time, 1 can pure madness to go through at alL Wagons, horses, autos, bicycles, were get a lift In one and will stand Jnst aa much chance of getting through as piled np everywhere.. Men, women and children, soldiers and civilians were lytbongb yon were to take me. 1 dont ing dead and dying In every street 1 believe in any one taking unnecessary should say that about 50 percent of the risks, and In thla case it would be risksheila were landing in the Grand place, ing an extra man and a car, too, and I and 'the building were falling all dent mind going on In an ambnlace around and practically covering np the the least bit." , road. I thought it was Just about one of tbe We had a straight run of abont 200 finest things I bad ever beard of a man yards before we got to the worst part doing, and 1 want to say right hero of it and 1 certainly saw to it that tbe that sucb things as thla are typical of old .bus made tbe most of what she the true British officer. There art men bad. 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