Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1916-08-18 | Page 5 | Verdun Watchman Would Have Busy Time at His Post Today

verdun watchman would have busy time at his post today keford the HIP present grent great war the city of verdun was nn nil old fashioned place with some vell rin ancient clent c uston us tonii iq among which wits was tile flight watch watchman ninn ailed cro cross s nur nurse w has ailts R recounted in lo le crl cri to do carls tier lier im press lons of the alie first bombardment of if verdun a year ngo ago she arrived tit nt flight und vils ns very tired utter after a fatiguing journey some time later inter she was ns n awakened by tile bursting of 11 F shell hell and the ringing of n big boll bell in n i clock tower tills this wits ns followed by a lugubrious silence which wits broken by the slow mow und monotonous voice of the he night flight watchman who culled called out from the high tower tile iro fire Is in tho the fauborg finnborg pave inhabitants of verdun get cupl up I 1 then came mother another shell explosion and the clang ching of the belt bell I 1 the he voice of the guardian of the night wits again heard the fird Is tit nt tic the station inhabitants of verdun get UPP up I 1 then anine more hombs bombs more bell clanging and in the intervals of silence call e file ho voice of the he bell ringer lit in the ho sione drawling impassive voice the iro fire Is nt at tile square of armes the ire fire Is tit nt the fauborg get cupl the witte liman of today would have it busy time notifying tho the Verd unites it if any remain of the thousands of shells showered upon that city devoted t ti i destruction