| Show life ilfe in a rifle pit 1 CAMP CAM before sera SEBA sevastopol sebastopol SEBASTO por POI april 27 within the last week I 1 have been twice in the trendier tren gies dies both times in the advance trench and the rifle pits in front ot of it and for the first time I 1 tried the new rl wl enfield Er ifield rifle a smaller bore than the minie they carry beautifully while clean clea 1 h for about twenty rounds but then they begin lo 10 lead anu and do not carr earry carry y so well when I 1 first sa saw baw w our ur men firing last sam SaW rilay the mst from th the a rifle pits pils they thy had noides no idea of range or tor distance tance two ithem weir firing at the same place one with his sight up for other for goo yards I 1 told them it was ws to too much aid aud and with the ilie sight t up for 1 I put ti two 0 shots in succession th through th the loop hole that the russians were birin firing at them from As 1 I sat eaf about a quarter afan of an hour abter after i wards half hilf asleep in the tile pit they called to me and said that three ahre men were coming down from the batteries towards the town I 1 I 1 told them to elevate ele elo vate for lor yards I 1 they made them dodge from house horsem to bouse bause but when they got into we th e s street reet they thought they were out of our range and coolly balked walked arm in arm down the middle middie afaf the street I 1 could not nt quietly stand that thai I 1 took the best rifle put the sights for and calculating the tilee distance dr stance to be about 1000 yards I 1 fired high the man on the right drop ped dikea like a stone and the other two rushed into a house lie he lay lax there for some time thay afterwards ter wards managed to get hi him mInto into a house this sh shows wit whit what the rifles will do when properly laid afterwards I 1 saw two carts laden with pow der boxes going doing from rom the town to the batteries at what I 1 gue guessed sed to be 1100 yards I 1 took look a rim rifle and soon caused the drivers to run for the batteries and leave the carts to come as they could our men said I 1 knocked over five or six but I 1 only feel certain about one I 1 was ent rent r sent out of the rifle pits again on tuesday the bot hut the russians were very shy that day and gave very ery few chances I 1 had s v regular regul ar duel with a russian in in the nearest rifle pit to us 50 yards in about balfan half an hour he gave up ul gring firing and tind as I 1 had put rut about four shots out of seven through brough his loophole I 1 thought I 1 must mut hav ellit eilt elit him I 1 left a namesake ake aie of mine mine in in my y company to watch him very soon the rus ans bian sian who bythe by the by was a splinted shot gired fired a again gain and put the ball right through private pr ivale 1 8 1 cap because lie he did not bol bob hib his head lead whip he lie saw the smoke they bigan bogan to fire 69 at us in the pits plis from the great gun in the redan yards from the file piti pit I 1 was in and with two men loading rifles for me I 1 bullied them EO so mich that they were uerih half an hour loading the gun for I 1 had a very sharp por corporal watching the gun ners nerg with my ray telescope and directly they appear ed I 1 fired into the embrasure mb As soon as I 1 saw therun was loaded I 1 made the men lie down close under the parapet until they fired the shot caine cainO cioe cloe heads but hut did no harm hirm the same thing went on again arrain but they only fired four hour shots siles ct at us altogether and did no harm we lost no men ran man that day but on saturday I 1 had ahr three 0 men killed and one wounded of my party par tyby tiby by round shot two were only a few yards arouline fr from ouline ine lne and were cut right nhit in two by a 25 pound u n sh shot A id 1 pj have told t isyou you a few incidents of my enca ence in the trenches and now lowi I 1 it take ke no n 0 notice of shot shat or thell sheil except to take lake the necessary rie cessa ry precautions to get gel out of the way london times lines I iines |
