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Show FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS. Insurgents Make Effective Usn of Terrible Hand Grenade. Reginald Wyon In his recently published pub-lished book on "The Balknns from Within" writes from the Interior of n blockhouso on the Turoc-Bulgarlnn frontier: "We are shown captured bombs, heavy cylinders used for blowing blow-ing up buildings and the dreaded baud grenade, whose short fuso Is calmly lighted by a burning cigarette and hurled among the attacking Turks. A man must Indeed have nerves of Iron to do this deed. PIcturo a devoted handful of men surrounded by an overwhelming over-whelming force of Turks, slowly but surely drawing nearer. Now they are a hundred yards away, fifty yeards luckily they shoot abominably but It Is too far to put tho weight with effect. ef-fect. "They must wait, though here and tnore a bullet fired nt random thins out tho little band. A rush now. See! One cooly lights the fuso and quickly hurls It at the foe. He must make no mistake, his aim must bo correct and his arm strong. A slip at the moment of throwing means his and his com-rades's com-rades's lives instead of the Turks', for the fuso Is very short. Hut he hns thrown It well; the Turks see It coming com-ing and halt In blind fear. "A deafening crash, screams and yells of anguish, and tho Turks break and run, shot down by tho triumphant Insurgents. Down Into tho valleys they fly, to tho nearest village, where their officers, anxious to savo themselves ascmblance of authority, order Its massacre and Tillage. And tho next day wo read of tho extermination of another hand." |