Show To OVER VE R THE TOP I Continued From Page 1 1 I harm on tho the enemy enemy In In other words he lie Is able ble to get jet his own back But Bul the chaplain Is empty emPt handed and i ia is at the mercy of the enem enemy if he encounters them so It ft Is 15 doubly doubt brave bravo for him to go over o the top under fire and bring brin- brinIn In n wounded Also a chaplain ln is not required b by the tho kings king's regulations if to go 0 over in a charge but this one did made three trips under the hottest kin kind of fire each cach time rc- rc re returning turning with a wounded man on his back bad badOn On the tue third trip he received recel a bullet through his left arm but lut never nc ported re-ported tho the matter to the doctor until late that night nIght Just Just spent his time administering to the wants of the wounded lying on stretchers waiting waiting- to 1 be carried to the rear b by ambulances am am- S The rue chaplains In the British army are arc a fine tine manly set of or men men and are greatly respected h by Tommy y CHAPTER CIL XIV lick and nOlI Shovel I I T HAD D not slept long be before ore the sweet 1 voice olee of or the tho sergeant Informed that 1 No 0 1 section had clicked for tor another blinking digging party I smiled to myself with heel deep satisfaction I had been promoted from a n mere digger to toa toa toa a member of the Suicide club and was exempt from all 11 fatigues Then camo cam an awful shock The ser sergeant looked I over 1 In m my direction and said throwers think that I Dont you oU bomb I ou are arc wearing top hats out here I to orders youve you've been taken I I up on the strength of this section and will have to do o your our bit with the thc pick and shovel sho same sames fl as s the rest o of us I put up a howl on m my ins' wa way to Jelm get Jel m my shovel sho but the only thing that re resulted resulted re- re suited was a loss of good humor on m my part I We fell tell In at 8 S o'clock outside of our billets a sort of masquerade de part party I Iwas I was wa as disguised d as a common laborer I had a pick and an shovel and about one onehundred onehundred hundred empty empt sandbags 6 The rest about two hundred In all were equipped equip equip- lied led Picks Sh hoel o e II sandbags sandbag equiP I rifles Tines and ammunition The party moved out In column of rs taking the road len leading to the trenches Several Se times we had hall to string out in the ditch to let long columns of or limbers artillery and supplies get past In st st. Tho The marching under these conditions conditions condi condl- was necessarily slow Upon ar arrival arrival ar- ar rival rl at the entrance to the communication communication cation trench I h looked hooked at m my Illuminated mum Illum mated wrist watch watch watch-It it was 11 ii Before entering this trench word i iwas was passel passed down clown the tIle line no talking or smoking lead off ore In single file lie covering co party first This covering party consisted of thirty men armed with rifles bayonets I bombs and two Lewis machine guns gum The They were wele to protect us and guard against a surprise attack while WillIe dIgI digging digging dig dIg- ging Ing In No Xo Mans Man's Land The communication trench was I about half a a. mile mite lon long a zigzagging j t working party p while out In I J front to prevent surprise and nd I capture by German patrols Tomm Tommy Tommy Tom- Tom I m my loves lo this Job I dont don't think i Crater Cruter A large circular hole in the thc I ground made matJe by br the of ofa I a 1 mine According to tl Tommy always ah a s 's occupies ocI oc oc- oc- oc clIl g a crater with great credit lt to himself But sometimes the I I Germans get there first The name given gl to a R bomb the shape and ani size of a I cricket ball Tommy Tomm does not use j jIt It to play cricket with I t tA I a A 4 I hitch ditch e eight g feet deep and three feet tec wide wille Now nn and again German shrapnel would whistle overhead o and burst in our vicinity We e c would crouch against the earthen walls while the shell fragments fragments frag frag- ments slapped the tho ground round above us Once Fritz turned loose with a machine machino machino ma ma- chino chine gun un the bullets from which cracked through the tho theIr air Ir and kicked up the dirt lint on the top scattering sand and pebbles which hitting our steel helmets sounded like hailstones Continued Tomorrow |