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Show EVILS TRENCH' IS HELLOF BATTLE igli&h Officer Tnken PrU-ner PrU-ner by Germans Writes of Experience. 1E1XS FILL THE AIR en Surrounded by Enemies En-emies Fight With Desperation. Des-peration. CaM Arrnn urst W';. London tUKj cx? Uiru;:ocil Now Sr k. ) NTXVN" . 1"V o. 1 1 . T h a following Id from letter written by an of near is dovt a prisoner In the binds of Ctrir-ass: I Tua; to exr'i'-n -o you how I ecarrs a prisoner cf Oennans, zd hat his ha? p?.ried to mo since fell Into their hinds, Teu know t regi"-eiu has been t:i the thick of ie flgMlng around Ypres, anj thai have had terrible losses. Often I or-ier that 1 m Alive. W bJii been res.ft.ir.? the O-r.nn fcr eeveral duys. and on this irtlrilar risht tny company wsa la srrs about two lube's from the ftd-miced ftd-miced twachas In a vii'aga. We er fairly comfortable- In tha housed, iooiad forward to having our first ai seep for several days. T h-idne - bed. brt at I a. m. I was aroused, r try plriet. who M a wended 'f r bad era w : e. 1 1 ' : : o t h e u . jls o illy hurt nd wished to see me. I went o-ia-de ar.d fo-:n,I p le-tery-nt . He was very badly tended In ?h thl;h. and has since i H- toid me a! arming news a; a trench w-e called the "1 evil's r. :."" because It his been taXen and 'lien e or'ien. had fallen one rs;c i-to th har.is cf the- Ger-rns, :i ;ha e.:i trie, men of cur reg.mer.; to were In tt hrw.1 eit-er been k'.: ed ir-. i e p r. so r. e rs. He a 1 v 1 se d to co-.e" rn ;.- company and go end tiis 1L I tilled rr.y color-sergeant, io rot the m-n cut of the houses s s:o3 as r-.'.M. and u usiered U: the dark.. re Death Cheerfully. Th?? hrava fe'.lrTrs. a'thoTh worn t t-y days of lighting, re.--onrt J iiily to ihe ?r) ard I never hear-j wjrd of jrumbl;np er ccmp'.rtir.t. We irche-1 tff: cf the villa In t-. darx- ard l-' tr.B wcil-known rtad the trer.che. On cur wav Wf had 1 fa ihrouca another vi.:- al-out V1 rards from o-;r ad'-arced lire?, ase'ry izmiz'n li wj rrejvei a v:l-y v:l-y from ore of the houses, v.h.ch !&d t to cf my men. Th r-A:r.!er r-A:r.!er of th ccnip?.ny, w;ihn;t a;r for crciers. tattered In ::.e r. hert'.ron fs-tnty Grrran sol-rs sol-rs t: -: .- an of':er s-;rrer.drf-i. Ve ziarchd on doTi the dr-sete-i wh3 -we were agj'r. f.re-i ?oo. I Prized the German o;'f;.-tr by :e ey-'f cf the reck and tvld him tho-Jt oct to h:a rorr.ra:rl'-'s to rer-ler. He Immediately did so. '3 Ir C-ermans ar.d two o!f;r-;ra lv themseivea cp. When we had armM them I eect th-m bark un-l un-l a strong escort, whtrh left me tj o-1t a ll'Xe over half a corr.-l-"7- We kfi the vllg-e ani con-cued con-cued our ciarch. are Officer la Slain. I txiat to b-h3 Uutrant ;co.-toitTe. Hi tcK.k thrM mn 'ti :m a.id disappear-! In the t-mus. Shortly i.'te-rward w hearj ?arr firm? from our let frnnt. an oil no: retMrr.. I sjbserjor.Uv H that he cad wanierei orf t lfft, and had come upon on of trenc!s which hai bn rap- by the tnerr.y. Instead of r-3THsz r-3THsz to me. he teerr.j to have urst'l the eM3T ifit'a his ti-eo -c-Maicrj. Ail were, at once aho: Ai'-er waiting sole little time I n -J four..l "trie devt! "F3 raoccar.iea except by the -aa aad a great number cf wounded ' 0-rre.n:er.t mixfd up wltii -lay wounded Grrr,arj. The trench, ".h wa8 a feorrtfci sight. Many unese poor feiiowv had bn tay-."-ed and had fearful wounle. One tneni told me tnat the Gerrrara ia tr:ri thera by surprise two Jars before a.-,d had .-apturej tne S,. . I a64l him what ruLd be-m be-m ,1 "I"1" H' then expiaJnM -h e7. had continued their ad- V'11, 1 th'n realized that the ... ?v 4 P'red In the villare tho, who had taken this posi- andary for Leader. I did not know what to do. I nt IT the enemy had ciptured .4 ?? th,r hjlti P'MtSly taken "f,'. ,Ir tre--e3 ere not ron-J ron-J w?r not at that time. 'rJ. ro conception cf how 1 '.' l! to know what la hap-elsewhere hap-elsewhere during the night. . nT:ar3 tak on "Jr poil-ons poil-ons and tnen push on, and whin r,!T COInes you find them riifht in iir7ar-, Tou ' be sur- j5h, u.vesB your auPPorta are able ' orire thera out. Lrder these clrcnmstancea I de-i de-i J5 my dutv to hold on to kn. . s tr-n'i" until dayllirht. . 1 would be shelled aa soon L . so I had ell the Med band-red up and those who i 'h "illag rrora which I had flrf;liy" '"" ht appeared a fr-rire fr-rire of ehrapnel was opened on , I;... counted as many as sixty id . a ",T".ri" to th minute. We .ti in the trench, but, In epite j" covsr. lost a great rnary men 1 Escape Hopeless. Suddenly I heard heavy flchtlns Jl'T Kht an'1 through the slowly ;"J-pearlng darkness I raw a mass shV' 'i' ri:sh t!l trench on our Mny of our men made good . ir tfcap, by running wit at the c. but th.e remainder were takn goners. VT,en I saw the trench "captured I wished to open fire. ' 'ared not do so becflu.oe of our ?M prisoner-. Then I saw ;r-p,:n on our left was also In . hands of the r;.;rmani and thit jniej of the:n were rlz'nt brhlnd trench." occupied by my ''.' were, in fact, a little islnnd -'ojndfcd by a sea cf enamles. Tlia Germans toet no time and aftor a further bombardment a tfacked my position. For some tlmo we held them off. but surrounded end er-piad er-piad on all Rldr-s. we could do nothing. noth-ing. Whn they brought machine gun to hear on us the game was up and we were obliged to surrender to save the remainder of our nvm. That Bsmtj evening I whs placed In a nec-ond-rlass compartment with eight nf h'T offlern n nd nine Germn n ho1-riiers. ho1-riiers. I lidd had no fond for twenty-four twenty-four hours and for twenty-fur hours more we were Klven nothing. At tne end of t wen ty-lour hours the soldiers cuve uh some bread and 'butter. Thev seamed very afraid to do po and told ua to eat it without being seen. |