Show IES STOP TO SEE A GHASTLY BAYONET DUEl Thrills Are Depicted in Vivid War Diary of f fH H Harvard Student I By Special News Service CAMBRIDGE Mass March 10 A A vivid vI war diar diary by Miner Aimer Audas du Turenne a student at the tho Harvard law Jaw school now living Jiving in Seattle who lost his right eye Ce fighting with the tile First Canadian contingent at Ypres Is published in the Harvard Har Alumni Bulletin lin extracts of ot which follow I hail had completed my ray first year at atthe tho the law Jaw school of ot Harvard Hanard university sity sty says do de Turenne and was spending my holidays in Canada when the war broke broko out Memories of Lafayette La Ln- layette fayette and of or the help given by hy France to America more than a hundred hun bun dred drell years ago the great coming struggle o of democracy against autocracy au au- au- au all aJl all that and more flashed lashell through m my mind and I an American Ameri Amert can decided to enlist It w was s on September 4 1914 at Valcartier near Quebec one of the training camps of Canada that r I en enlisted en en- listed in the Fifth battery Second brigade Canadian field artillery After Cler remaining a short time In camp we left Canada for England a R force of nt men as members of the First Canadian conting contingent In En England Eng land we C were encamped on Salisbury Plain for a n period of four months which was really just as trying as it was at the front and thence we went to France to the firing line Une It was I j inot not Dot until the first German gas attack attack attack at- at tack that we got a real idea of at warfare warfare war war- fare in all its horrors II After Arter a short account of ot the battle baUle of Neuve Neu Chappello Chappelle and the thc first use i I of gas by the Germans do Turenne I dc describes the tIe b battle tUe of f I Ahead o or of us lay a long field and then tilen a row of tall trees bordering the canal then further on another plain and aud a little hill bill At my point of vantage I picked up a pair of or field feld glasses la and looking along the tho c canal nal I could see black lines moving up a hill bill The Infantry was ing fug Occasionally the black lines Unes would stop and then co continue again leaving e every ery time blacK blac dots behl behind 1 them these them these were the dead and I wounded At nighttime it was also I possible to see our own shells explode ex ex- There were here man many batteries bat bat- teries besides my own wn firing whenever whenever whenever when when- ever the they got the order ordel to do so 50 by b- telephone One morning about 10 1030 30 the gunners gunners gun gun- ners were all sitting by their guns awaiting the order to fire some smoking lag ing others chatting Shells were flying fly fly- ing by but far tar off oft and nobody was paying attention we got so 50 used to them I happened to La be fixing the tho bridle of or m my horse home about twenty feet from tho the nearest gun when I heard a ashell ashell ashen shell shen come It seemed to come straight f for for where hero Iwas I I I. was Judging by bT the sound sound- 1 I turned around to see It explode It exploded above my head at about the height of thirty or forty feet I saw the explosion I A large piece of at the outside of oC the tho casing g o of the shell about a quarter of an inch thick and one inch and a I I half ball long struck me mf flush lUSI in the right eye smashing the orbit penetrating penetrating penetrating pene pene- clean through the face tace causing causing caus caus- ing a n bulging of the hard palate o of the mouth whence it was extracted I still have o the piece which I treasure treasure treas treas- ure as a souvenir sou For a moment I Iwas Iwas Iwas was t stunned as though hit b by a sledge hammer then came a east nast nasty y sensation not exactly very ery painful Putting my t y hand t to o n my my face I 1 managed managed man man- aged to reach a little fence by the nearest gun and there the loss o of blood caused me to sit down My 11 companions flying to m my aid I way was waylaid laid on an old fashioned Flemish farm drawn by the shadow of ofa ofa ofa a once decent horse During all that time I was fully conscious and I distinctly dis dis- remember m my trip from the thc place of the wound to En England land Mr de Turenne describes the fol lowing incident of or which he was an I eye witness It It was In the carl early times of this I terrific struggle Somewhere in Flanders Flan ders dens the time trenches stood ani only yards apart On one side were the Fr French on the other the Germans The Germans had attempted a coun coup ter attack and as It was getting dark they thoy were forced to retire with great losses lea in leaving the to dead and wounded on the field Amid this awful carnage carnago 1 two men only remained a Frenchman Frenchman Frenchman French French- man and a German They were enI engaged engaged en en- ga ed in a bayonet duel one trying I to kill the other They were both dancing around In circles like demons demons de de- mons mOilS thrusting and stabbing right and left One had to go and thc they fought It was practically dark by this time The pale moon shone a stele sickly I reflection on these two human beings Their features were drawn and haggard their eyes flashed and bulged out of or their orbits time Ole expression expression expression ex ex- on their faces was ghastly ghastly- that o of utmost despair And Aud still the they danced each fighting for his existence when all of or a sudden this uncanny performance came to an i abrupt stop There was a sham sharp click a thrust and a muffled sound Both Doth bayonets went home both bOUl men stood transfixed both fell dead to the time ground I |