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Show 1 PR1IVGESS 10 " FIRST TO EE Gffl rc Private Jack Lingvood j 1 Says Solctiers Thought the Smoke Was Camouflage. ' Dosrrihin in mrist vi'.'iil trrm.s tin1 0 ! fnoIiriLTs with which tin- ''an;ili;ui olio ol-io , fli(irs h:iv tfic first, trrriltic ci'-ui! ft- Ln (inrman man lillin;,' as rnllin towariln rpy thorn a'-ross 'u Man's lan.l I'rum Un-'.s Un-'.s . lsi;ir i'rnnt. lint- of I h'(; I'rus.sian host, Jr' M r t t ; Jack l,inj,wooii, ono of l.lio scun: on' of thf! oiJy I'oni.ainin survivors of tho ?,,hl original .famous I'riioi'ss I 'at (ana-iian I'O roiinont., is prr i n rr out; of tin; most in- loroslint; war heroes Malt .ftkn lias fn-ar fn-ar toriaiiusl at any tiim. 'iiliin tin; .asf I ya r. rm, Allhou;;h lanwooii walks with a per- 1 U ciiptililc! limp, it woiihl la: liard to real- i'.n that he has Ijvcii shot throu;;h lioth t )j knees, liml tour rilis lilown in, been e o ''asse-l'' ami then blown up at sea by nlil a (lermau submarine nn.l b'i't to float red, in' the water for twelve hours before 't-'' beiu rescued. j It is not an easv matter to Ret Lin;.'-'j-"' wo,..d to ttilk in 'detail of his expen-r expen-r ( (dice, as a member of lhu l'riuiM;s Pats, ilits because he seems to lllare the reluc-"la; reluc-"la; tani-o of other returned soldiers to ro f"'" trio much into didail about, thinj.'s that "fil lirLl'f",M "1 '"''ween the front line 0 ' trendies. I'rti r.inwood declare. 1 last niejhl., how-sini how-sini ever, that the atrocities of the Pros-p Pros-p ( niii us. their fiendish cruelty and illhll-"" illhll-"" innnitv in n not be oversi a t e.d. , .J It was in the attack of the Germans, mil! lii'Hinniiii? thi-ir Vpres assault, that j;ns was seen for the first time, lanywood j described it as a black cloud rolling to- 1 ward them and remaining closi' to the SI ground. They did not know it was gas, J lint believed it a ciiinoufln;,'c to conceal ' an attack of the enemy. Accordingly C the machine gnus were set in action, j When the cloud lifted the allied sol-I sol-I diers wlio had not been gassed who I liad saved themselves in the absence of ) masks liv burying their faces in the mini of the trenches until it passed. Not silw t'U! Vi'ossian guard soldiers piled up like flour Macks. They had been caught by the machine gun fire as they ap-iy ap-iy i pioached back of the gas cloud in mass formation. And Lingwood pays a high compliment compli-ment to the.' military status of that sanio CA' Prussian guard, whom lie characterizes ast i as "probably the most magnificent sol-'.sep' sol-'.sep' diers the world ever saw," but those of their fellows who came on later were '' slj not as good fighters as Canadians of the ;!esl "Princess I'at ' ' regiment, for they were -icpj driven back from the allied trenches Sm four times in hand to-lia nd fighting and nithi each time with terrific, loss. 1 Lingood is appearing in a sketch ! called 'Over There" at Pnutagcs. |