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Show w THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH f . f m ii if w'pY - TL ' " AN AMBON 50LD1III WHO .WENT 4f AMIlGUYEifEY MACHINE GUNNER, 0ERV1N5 HI fRANC C)l5l7 BY ab thus un inprf EMPEY IS MEMBER OF FIRING SQUAD WHICH CARRIES OUT DEATH SENTENCE. . Synopoia. Fired by the sinking of the Lusitania, with the loss jof American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living, In Jersey City, .goes to England and enlists as a private" in the British army. After a short experience as a recruiting officer In London, he is fent to training quarters in France, where he first hears the sound of big guns and makes the acquaintance of "cooties After a brief period of training Empeys company is sent Into the front-lin- e trenches, where he takes his first turn on the fire step while the bullets whiz overhead. Empey learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always in the trenches. Chaplain distinguishes himself by rescuing wounded men under hot fire. With pick and shovel Empey has experience .as a trench digger In No Mans Land. Exciting experience on listening post detail. Exciting work on observation post duty. Back in rest billets Empey writes ind stages a successful play. Once more In the front trenches. Empey goes "over the top" In a successful but costly attack on the German lines. Soon afterwards Empey and his comrades repulse a determined gas attack launched by the Germans. -- About two In the morning I was awakened by some one shaking me by the shoulder. Owning my eyes I saw regimental sergeant major bending over me. He had a lighted lantern In his right hand. I started to ask him what was the matter, when he put his finger to his Ups for alias ce and whla . pered : Get on your equipment, and, without any noise, come with me. This greatly mystified me, but I Obeyed his order. Outside of the billet, I asked him whnt was up, but he shut me up with : Dont afck questions, Its against orders. 1 dont know myself. It was raining like the mischief. We splashed along a muddy road for about fifteen minutes, finally stopping at the eutranee of w hat must , have been ah old barn. In the darknesa, I could hear pigs grunting, as If they had Just been disturbed. In front of the door atood an officer in a mack (mackintosh). The R. S. M. went up to him, whispered something, and then left. This officer called to me, asked -- jrygtflrent. at the Bame time. In the light of a lantern be was holding, making a notation In a little book. When he had finished writing, he whispered : "Go into that billet' and watt orders, and no talking. Understand? I stumbled Into the barn and aat on the floor In the darkness. I could Bee no one, but could hear men breathing and moving ; they qeemed nervoqa and restless. I know I was. During my wait, three other men entered. Then the officer poked bis head In the door and ordered: Fall In, outside the billet, in single rank." We fell In, standing nt ease. Then he commanded : Squad Shun Number I There were twelve of us. . Right Turn I Left Wheel I Quick Marcel And away we went. The rain was trickling down my back and I was shivering from the cold. With the officer leading, we must have marched over an hour, plowing through the mud and occasionally stumbling Into a shell hole in the road, when suddenly the officer made a lef, wheel, and we found ourfe)yes In a sop of enclosed courtyard. The dawn wus breaking and the rain had ceased. ' In front of .us were four stacks ot rifles, three to a stack. The officer brought us to attention and gave the order to unpile arms. W each took m rifle. Giving us Stand at ease, in a nervous and shaky voice, he Informed : "Men, you are here on s very solemn duty. You have been selected as i firing squad for the execution of a sol dier, who, having been found guilty of a grievous crime against king and 1 stumble, he would turn the air blue. A certain section of our trenches was held by the Royal Irish rifles. For and to driver shouted to the I stop, in his nervousness he put tin the several days a very strong rumor went brakes. We nearly pitched out head- the rounds that a German spy was In first. But the applying of those brakes our midst. This spy was supposed to saved our lives. The next Instant be dressed In the uniform of a British there was a blinding flash and a deaf- staff officer. Several stories had been ening report. All that I remember is told about an officer wearing' a red around his cap, who patrolled the that I was flying through the air, and band front-lin- e and communication trenches a soft in would land If I wondering ' asking suspicious questions as to loca spot Then the lights went eut emplaceWhen I came to, Atwell was pouring tlon of batteries, machine-gu-n and mortars. a shell trench ments, If out bottle. his on of water my head dropped In a battery, on a machine gun - On the other side of the road the coror even near a dugout, this spy was poral was sitting, rubbing a lump on blamed. while his, forehead with his left hand, The rumor gained such strength that his right arm was bound up In a an order was Issued for all troops to lie was moaning bandage. immediately place under arrest anyone very loudly. I had an awful headache to the description of the answering of side on left the and the skin my face was full of gravel and the blood spy. Atwell and 1 were on the qul vlve, was trickling from my nose. We constantly patrolled the trenches ambulance'1 was turned over But that at and even in the day, but the night, with was In the ditch and perforated eluded us. . spy always holes from fragments of the shell One In a' communication One 'while day f the front wheels was slowly revolvwe were horrified to see our trench, Ing, so I could not have been "out" for Old brigadier general, Pepper, being a long period, brought down It by a big private of the were still shells .The screaming Irish rifles. The general was but the battery had raised its Royal In walking front, and the private with fire and they were bursting In a little fixed was following In the bayonet wood about half a mile from us. rear. jltwell fcpoke up. "I wish that offiWe saluted as the general passed us, cer hadnt wished us the best o luck, The Irishman had a bread grin on bis Then he commenced swearing. J face and we could scarcely believe our couldnt help laughing, 'though my eyes the general,' was under arrest. head was nigh to bursting. After passing a few feet beyond us, the Slowly rising to my feet I felt myself general turned, and said in a wrathful all over to make sure that there were voice to Atwell : no broken bones. But outside of a few Tell this d n fool who I am. Hes bruises and scratches I was all right. arrested me as a spy." The corporal was still moaning, but Atwell was speechless. The sentry v more from shock than pain. A shell butted in with : "None o that gassln out o you. splinter had gone through the flesh of his right forearm. Atwell and I, from Back to headquarters you goes, Mr, our first-ai- d pouches, put a tourniquet Fritz. Open that face o yours again, "on his arm to stop the bleeding and an' Ill dent In your napper with the then gathered up our equipment butt o me rifle. The generals face was a sight to beWe realized that we were In a dangerous spot. At any minute a shell hold. He was fairly boiling over with shut up. might drop on the road and finish us rage, but-hoff. The village we had left was not Atwell tried to get In front of the very far, so we told the corporal he sentry to explain to him that It really had better go back to it and get his was the general he had under arrest, arm dressed, and then report the fact but the sentry threatened to run his of the destruction of the ambulance to bayonet through him, and would have the military police. Jle was well able done It, too. So Atwell stepped aside, - to walk, so he set off In the direction and remained silent I was nearly of the village, while Atwell and I conbursting with suppressed laughter. One tinued our way on foot. word, and I would have exploded. It Without further mishap we arrived Is not exactly diplomatic to laugh at at our destination, and reported to bri- your general In such a predicament. The sentry and his prisoner arrived gade headquarters for rations and billets. at brigade headquarters with disasThat night we slppt In the, battalion trous results to the sentry. The Joke was that the general had sergeant majors dugout The next mornings I went to a first-ai- d post and personally Issued the order for the had the gravel picked out of my face. spys arrest It was a habit of the genThe instructions we received from eral to walk through the trenches on division headquarters read that we rounds .of Inspection, unattended by were out to catch spies, patrol trenches, any of his staff. The Irishman, being search German dead, recounolter In No new in the regiment, had never seen Mans Land, and take part In trench the general before, so When he came raids and prevent the robbing of the acrosshlrn alone in a communication dead, trench, he promptly put him under arI had a pass which would allow me rest. Brigadier generals wear a red to go anywhere at any time In the sec- band around their cap! tor of the line held by our division. It Next cl ay we passed the Irishman gave me authority to stop and search tied to lb wheel of a Umber, the beambulances, motor lorries, wagons and ginning of his sentence of twenty-on- e een officers and soldiers, whenever days, field punishment No. 1. Never toy suspicions deemed It necessary. before have 1 seen snch a woebegone Atwell and I were allowed 'to work to-- expression on a mans face. gefher or singly ft was left to our For several days, Atwell and I made Judgment. We decided to team up. . ourselves scarce around brigade headAtwell was a good companion and quarters. We did not want to meet very entertaining. He had an utter the general coat.c.iiipt fordasger.-but-wapot fool- - The spy was never caught? hardy. At swearing he was a wonder. A cavalry CHAPTER XXIV. regiment would have been proud 6f him. Though born In he had spent several y&ars In The Firing Squad. New York. lie was about six feet one, A few days later I had orders to reand as strong as an ox. port baCk to divisional headquarters, We took up our about thirty kilos behind the line. I a in large quarters of the royal engineers, and reported to the A. P. M. (assistant proHipped out our future actions. This vost marshal). lie told me to report dugout was on the edge of a large to billet No. IS for quarters and racemetery, end several times at night tions. 9 returning to It, we got many a fall It was about eight oclock at night stumbling over the graves of English, and I was tired and soon fell asleep In French and Germans. Atwell on these tie straw of the Lillet. It was a miscessions never Indulged In swearing. erable night outside, cold, and a drizzly a r. S r t J though i CHAPTER XXII Continued. I 20 ... blood-soake- d over-"hea- d, - T I If. -- s Eng-Isn- -- -- 1 d, r-'- - 0 INDICATIONS ARE THAT ENEMY WILL RETREAT TO THE AISNE AS HE DID IN 1914. BLOW UP MUNITIONS DUMPS AND BURN STORES WHICH THEY COULD NOT REMOVE. ANOTHER ATTACK OFF CAPE COD, SHOTS FALLING ON MAINLAND. Franco-Amerlca- Franco-America- n Continue Allies Have Upper Hand. Only Poor Markmanship of the Huns Prevented Destruction of the Tug and Bargee and Death of Crew Numbering Forty-On- With the Army lu France. North of tiie Marne the Germuus are making rine attached a tow off the eastern- n Army Driving Germans Steadily Back, Inflicting Heavy Losses and Taking Toll of Prisoner and Ammunition. - Paris.1 The Germans tune lost ih second liattle of the Marne. All the latest dispatches front the front Indicate that the German high command lias ordered a retreat. Whether the euenty will retreat to the Aisne river, us he did when .dsf feu ted on the Marine in JJ91T, depend upon .the strength of the alHes-i- u fob lowing up their victory. In crucial wa$ the circumstances are different The first battle of the Marne was oien warfare with trench systems no nearer the Germans than the river Aisne. When the Teutous fell hack they did not stop until they had reached the ajsteui of scientific trenches they had In their rear, constructed wisely trenches w ldch were the wonder and the envy of the French and British. In the present mode of wnrfure trench systems are much closer together and retreats do not cover no mueh territory as In 11)14, unless the defeat has been as dlsasterous ns that which befell the British and French In llcardy or the defeat which was Inflicted upon the French and British, beginning May 27, in the very region which Is now witnessing a German re- erse. ' ; IIow badly the Germans have been defeated we can only guess. The developments of Sunday pointed to a severe reverse. The Fra army, which moved out of the Paris zone and attacked the right flank of the enemy Thursday morning, made rapid progress In a few hours in a thunderstorm which had driven the Germans to shelter. The progress during the first duy was somewhat exaggerated la the reports of correspondents, but, on the whole, It was sufficient to overrun the strongest enemy positions and to sweep up nearly 15,000 prisoners and more than .100 guns. At the end of the second day the French and Americans had enptured 17,000 prisoners and neurly 400 guns. On the third day nearly 20,000 prisoners had been taken. In asmuch us the Germans had filled the towns near this front with food and military supplies, they lost an amount of material which cannot speedily be replaced. In this way they were progressively weakened as the Americans and French advanced, and although they threw In thousands of reserves they were not able to" prevent an allied gain all along the line from Fontenoy on the north almost to Chateau Thierry on the south. Soldiers of France and Americans on Sunday ripped a gash Into the huge triangle at its apex, lu doing this they wou the southern plvol of crown princes armies within. the triangle, the city of Chateau Thierry, u the north bank of the Marne. The Germans evacuated It at 8.30 oclock Sunday morning. An hour later the Banner and the tricolor were hoisted on Its buildings and 200 civilians, herded In the cathedral by the Invaders, wept tears of Joy and cried Vive lAmerique I - Daring the .week the British., made Several local attacks of note. Chief among these was one In the Flanders sector ngalnst the village of Meteren. An advance was made on a front of two miles, the village was captured and some ground beyond. Muny prisoners were captured. Star-Spangle- half-starve- e J TO COVER RETREAT Aisne-Maru- - V 1 Burisd With Honors. country, has been regularly and duly tried and sentenced to be shot at 8 :2S a. m. this date. This sentence has been approved by the reviewing authority and ordered carried out It la our duty to carry on with the sentence of the court "There are twelve rifles, one of which contalne a blank cartridge, the other eleven contalhlng hall cartridges. Every man ie expected to do his duty and fire to kill Take your orders from me. Squad Shun ! We came to attention. Then he left My heart was of lead and my "knees -- shook. e d d Crop Movement Situation Serious. Boise, Idaho. The crop movement situation In Idaho Is serious. This Is the conclusion that the state council of defense, the federal food administration and the state farm market bureau have come to. There Is marked Increase In the area planted to wheat and there will, be a correspond lngly big yield. Tojbondle this crop there are not sufficient storage facill ties in sight at thfr present Either suitable storage must be provided, or the equivalent sufficient cars, made available to move the bulk of It that cannot he placed in storehouses. , French Cavalry In Battle. Paris For the first time since the Empey, Marne battle French cavalry played a merit, telle the gripping etory of part In the victorious advance. In the a coward, whose streak of yelChampagne offensive of September, white. low turned 1315, cavalry patrols were engaged, but their activities were hampered by the (TO BE CONTINUED barbed wire ot, trench warfare.. In Ilindenburgs retreat they did use sevInculcating the Spirit It was holiday week, but ft mother, eral units. Last week . they came, back and' child had managed somehow to into their own, not as dismounted, get a whole seat on the car. Sudden- units, as which they have performed such gallent work In every battle since ly the little girl slid off the seat and facing her mother, cried out with March, but ln the true cavalry funcOh tion as scouts and skirmishers In the anguish In her childish voice: HHiOverV'T "forgot lo git anything- Tet .fair of the advahcibg lnTantry teacher. Crowder Urges Early Preparation. Well what nv It? the mother anWellington. Provost Marshal Genswered tartly.' She didn't git nuthin Crowder has issued an appeal to sat eral she Hie child and down fer you, all to men of class 1, calling upon them to on the the seat, hard keep partly woman la the aisle from taking any begin now their preparation as solprivileges, and partly, perhaps to im- diers and not wait until they actually press on the child the Christmas spirit all have been ealb'd into enmp. she saw 1t , In the next Inetell- - - Stilt on the Job. "The seems to have gone out of style, remarked the Observer of Events and Things, but dont make any mistake, door-knoc- riTu iruri,vfm H k Troops Their Forward Drive, and Germane Now Evidently Realize That e. Orleuua, Muss. preparations for u further retreat lu the angle between the Murue and the Ardre, ou the eastern side of the salient, the enemy lias been blowing up muuliiou dumps and banting stores which-- they have not had time to tv- tu,rve. Ttie enemys" position is in most polut of Capo Cod on Sunday, sunk three liurges, set a fourth and their (ug on fire and dropin-- four shells on the tuninlund. The action hulled an hour und wus UluhnlleiigodeXeept for two hydro- plunes from the Cbatnani aviation heuvy wooded aud broken country, station, which' circled over the without main rouds and railways in causing her to submerge for shupeto use. only a moment, to reappear and rethe Solssons-Marnfront sume firing. the Germans have only oue railway The lug, the Perth Amboy, was line from the Aisue lu the neighborowned by the Iaddgh Valley rullroud, hood of Mourg to liuzoches, where it aud, aecordlug to estimates of maJoins the main Hue of the Solssous-lUielui- s rine men here, wus wortn about $100, road. The latter roud Is still (XX). The value of the barges was In condition for use for a certulu dis- estimated at approximately '.K),(XX). tance ou each side. of Buzoclies, but The crews of the tow, numbering the Junction there is being bombed 41 und Including three women and d e t constantly. The remaining force of the enemy muy possibly full back to the tine of Veale, abandoning the Crls aud the commanding plateau surrounding the Crlse and Vesle valleys. That the Germuus uovV realize to the full that the allies have the upper bund in the buttle seems uppurent froth reports that they are burning villages ochlnd them in their retreat and destroying large quantities of munitions aud wur materials throughout the entire salient which they liuve found it Impossible to move, owing to the rapid strides of the allies. Big guns now are throwing Bhells fur behind the lines, searching out the entire countryside, wiiite allied alrpltuies are harrying the retreating columns with machine gun fire. The efforts of .the Germans to ren forces were tard the particularly heavy Monday In the region of Grlsolles and respectively northwest and north of Chateau Thierry, where the Americans are giving battle. On all three sectors the enemy lost further ground, and his forces In the Chateau Thierry pocket were therefore pluced In greatFranco-America- Bezu-StGermul- . five children, escaped amid the shellwere fire lit lifeboats. Several but only, one seriously. Tula to be John Itotovlch, an of the tug crew. Ills right torn away near the shoulder by ji shell fragment. The barges, In tow of the tug Perth Amboy of the l.ehigh Valley railroad, were hound from Gloucester for New wounded, bnptieiied Austrian, arm was York. One was loaded with stone, but the others were light being on their return trip after bringing coal to New Englund. The Httuck was without warning nd ouly the. poor, marksmanship of live German gunners permitted the esciiH of the crews. The fight took place three miles south of the Orleans coast guard station, at the tip of the cape. The firing brought thousands to the beach. The flushes of the guns and were plainthe outline of the not was seen. thought of Danger ly until a shell whirled over their bends and flashed In a pond one mile Inland. Three other shells buried themselves In the sands of the bench. one-side-d CASUALTY LIST CROWING. er jeopardy.' Realizing the seriousness of his Army List Contains 10,831 Names, and predicament, the German crown prince Marines 1885 is said to have sent out distress sigWashington. Casualties In the army nals to his cousin, Crown Prince marine corps overseas Increased and of Bavaria, whose men are fac- D83 during the week, compared with ing the British In France and Flanders. C47 the previous week, and aggregate Itupprecht dispatched several divisions 12,716 with the Includon of Sundays of reserves. To offset this Field Marlist of 11)9 und the marine corps shal Haig immediately detached an army . of 20, list equal number of divisions of picked While (he weeks total casualties British troops from Picardy and wore the largest announced, It Is unmoved them Into the battle area souththe tituvy fighting ln which the likely west of Kheims. participating In France and Flanders the British Americans have beejp last Monday is included In the continue to harass the German lines since with small attacks and raiding opru totals. In ihe 12, 7tG casualties, total deaths, tlous, while the Italians are keeping 291 men killed nt sea, men up their pressure against the Aus- Including killed ln action, dead of wounds, distrians both in the Italian theutre and ease, accident nnd other onuses, numin Albania. bered 5100 army men, 4121; murines. 679. The wounded aggregate (5911 Pershing Praises Soldiers. men, 5817 ; marines, 1124. TIiomo Purls. Your country Is proud of army Including prisoners total 675-a- rmy missing, you, and I am more than proud to commen, 593 ; murines, 82, mand such" men as you. You have General Pershing fought splendidly. CZAR NICHOLAS EXECUTED. thus addressed wounded American soldiers lying In the American Ited Cross Was Shot by Order of Bolshevik GovIn each hospitals In Paris Monduy. on July 16. ernment ward of every hospital he talked to the Ixmdon. Former Emperor Nicholas men. of Russia has been shot a Russian wireless statement announces. Noose Closing Around Mooney, The former empress and the young San Francisco. The California suAlexis Romanoff, the former preme court has affirmed Its preliminhave been sent to a place of ary order denying a new trial to Thomas J, Mooney, now at Fort Sun security. j The central executive body of ihe Quentin state penitentiary facing execution for participation in the pre- Bolshevik government announces that at Its disposal Important mateparedness day bomb explosion here It has rial documents concerning the former two year ago. emperor's affairs, including bis own diaries. Honduras Carts Lot With Allies; The message announces that a Washington. Honduras, which - conspiracy was broke diplomatic relations Vlth Gerwith the object of wresting many on May 18, followed that, action eror from the authority of the last Friday by declaring war, Tim council. In view of this state department was notified Monday the fact the president of the Ural regional of the action. council decided to execute Hie former rujer, n .d the decision was carr.ed out May Give Wert Square Deal on Wash. ouly 3G. Director General . Fpokane, McAdoo of the railroad administration, "Corn Price Dropping. t the conference here Monday with Chicago; Farmers ure selling corn shijfpers, stated .that graded rates for uuItheiniermouuMUtt-,ter-ritorfro. iv. Till fact Is fully reflected by Spokane. y ure In contemplation. the losses of &L 3S tj 10 2 So lu corn values during last week. The downward course was steady, under presStrikes Band of Lightning Sheep. Americas ."hundred sure 'from the "lau cosed number of" ln a band of 20f were killed by bears. The July future ranged he. holt qf lightning which struck them tween- ?1.64 and $1.48. 3)1, ami only during the progress of a severe electri- showed moderate reaction 4 from lh cal storm which raged in .this section bottom level, the August future bo-- t Ittip-prec- ht ' heir-apparen- t, counter-revol- utionary ex-en- N q sict Fork,-Utah.Hv- p t at su. early U9urMandayl-- . wmr$t.ffirsr.5Tr. D 3S und tepem-ber between? $1.64 1,15 nnd Ban on Turkey Broiler. Washington. The food administration has appealed to hotels, dubs and discontinue serving restaurants t turkey broilers. Farmers also w'ere urged not to soil turkojs until they , are matured. W. S. S. Sales Reach High Mark. Cholera Appears ln Moscow, Washington. Treasury receipts London. Cholera has broken Put in from,, suies of war saving and thrift to a Russian wire- stamps inrt week reached the new Moscow, according .less message- Within the part 2f of S.7,G.H,00Q. Total sales for the hours, the message Fays, there have first seventeen bunking days In July been registered la Mo-c- w 22 ( know u were S11T.S7 0. rvg-or- d -- subma- An enemy '' Wilson Sends Message to Roosevelt. Washington. Upon learning ibn? German aviators had confirmed t!. death of Lieutenant Quentin ILm. v elf, president WiLon sent w mesHnre of condolence to Colonel RooMoelt at OjrterBay. Will Pay Indian War Vetera". The commlismner of Washington. pensions has advised Senator W, II. King that he bad approved nni ihe mnrtcr rolls of CO re To !'cu w r f Tr minion -- ) 1 |