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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH way before, and had never been anxious to go west with a shell for company, but I have felt that way since then several times, I can tell you. , The man was telling us ,that some time before they had seen the Turks bringing up ammunition from some storehouses, but they did not come anywhere near. He said their sergeant wanted our messenger to tell them that, too. He would say a few words very fast, then he would shiver again, and his Jaws would clip together and he would try to raise his hand, but . could not.1 Then our sergeant asked the name of the other sergeant, and when the man told him he suid the man was senior to himself and therefore in command and would have to be obeyed. AND CHIEF PETTVFFICEKTU-NAV- Y. He seemed to cheer up a lot after MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE he said this and did not shiver any CAPTAIN GUN TURRET FRENCH BATTLESHIP tASSARD more, so I thought I would volunteer then, so I said to him, Well, mon WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE vieux, do you think we are seeing real Ccpyngta. mi, by RoSy and Bntton Co. Through Specul Anaogemn Wkh the George Muhew Adam Senws shelling now? And then I was going We had no sooner got used to the CHAPTER XIII Continued. to say I would go, but he looked at shell hole and were making ourselves -1- 2I me in a funny way for a second and Coming hack along the same road we as comfortable as possible in it when then said, Well, my son, suppose you halted to let another convoy of mules along came a shell of what must have go and find out. go past, and an officer of the Itoyal been the Jack Johnson size, and we I thought he was kidding me at first, naval division came up and began were swamped. We had to dig three then I saw he meant it. I thought but talking to out officers. He was telling of the men out, and though one of two things about it one was that anythen) how he and his men had landed them was badly wounded we could not was better than staying there, thing at X beach, and how they had to send him back to the hospital, in and other was that the old dugout the wade ashore through barbed wire. fact, the shelling was so heavy that a was fair place after all. But pretty And, you know, he said in a sur- none of us ever expected to come out I did not say anything to the serof alive. it prised way, as if he himself could geant or the other men just went So, it was like keeping your own hardly believe it, the beggars were death out of the dugout. The sergeant and watch, with the shells tuning actually firing on us! That is just man went with me and boostanother for was to the It dirge. impossible like the Limeys, though. Their idea up over me the back wail of the hole. ed is not to appear excited about any- listen to the shells. If you kept your on I flat the ground for a minute to lay on mind the noise for any length of thing at any time, but to act as though time it would get my bearings, and then started off. I your split eardrums, they were playing cricket standing am sure. So all we could do was to I set my course for where I thought around on a lawn with paddles in their communication trenches were, to the low in shell hole and the for wait hands, half asleep. The Limeys are lay and I just stood up and ran, the right, something to happen. certainly cool under fire, though, and I figured that as the shells were for Then on they began using shrapnel I think that because the Anzacs did fallihg so thick nnd it was open and one of our machine gunners, so well at Gallipoli people have not us, ground I would not .have any better who got up from his knees to change given enough credit to the British position, had his head taken clean off chance if I crawled. regulars and R. N. D.s, who were his shoulders, and the rest of him I tripped several times and went there too, and did their share of the landed near and each time thought I was down, a my feet and work, and did it as well as any men little, like a chicken that hadsquirmed because when I got it In the thigh hit, been just could. at Dixmude it felt a good deal as killed. It was awful to see the body left there. After a while this officer started on without I had tripped over a rope. any head move around that Pretty soon another man and I though his way again, and as he cut across way, and we could make our- relieved the two men who were out- And one time when I fell a shell exhardly the road a French officer came up. selves touch it for some time. Then ploded near me and I began to shiver The Limey wore a monocle, which we rolled it to the other side of the side on watch, and as he went down again, and I could not go on for a into the dugout the sergeant shouted caused the French officer to stare at hole. to us that he thought the Turks were long time. All this time I did not him a minute before he saluted. After Then, to one side of us, there was afraid to attack. He also ordered one think I would get through, but finally, the Englishman had parsed him the a more violent explosion than any yet. live eye toward our when I reached what had been the Frenchman took a large French penny The earth spouted up and fell on us, of usInto keep a of rear case our troops should communication trench .1 felt I had any out of his pocket, screwed it into his and big clouds of black smoke, sliding to signal us. When I looked done the worst part of It, and I began eye and turned toward us so that we along the ground, covered our shell try a little gully at the top of to wish very hard that I would get could see it, but the Limey could not. hole and hung there for some time. through the hole, toward the other trench, all through I was not at all crazy about ) That was not the right thing to do, One of our sergeants, from the regular I could see was barbed wire and going west. The mouth of the communication especially before enlisted men, so our French infantry, said it was a shell smoke and two or three corpses. I officers did not laugh, but the men did, from a Turkish trench had been battered in and the howitzer. began to shiver a and I was and so loud that Limey turned around That was only the first one. The afraid I would get little, trenches it joined with were all filled too. shell and caught sight of the Frenchman. worst thing about them was the smoke So I began to think about shock, and up. There were rifles sticking out Murray He started back toward him and 1 people who think Pittsburgh is how he looked when took him of them in several places, and I they a to see sure be would of about there those light, smoky ought fifty thought off the wall. But that did not stop the thought probably the men had been buried alive in them. But it was too lor that, more likely, the Limey would big howitzer shells bursting, one after shivering, so I thought about my grand- late report him. Our officers should have another. then, if they had been caught, so mother and how she looked the last We could not tell what the rest of placed the Frenchman under arrest, time I saw her. I was thinking about I climbed over the blocked entrance to our line was doing or how we wpre at that. her, I guess, and not keeping a very the communication trench and started The Frenchman expected trouble, standing the awful fire, but we felt good lookout, when a man rolled over back along it. It led up through a sort too, for he pulled up very straight and sure they were not having any worse the edge and almost fell on me. He of gully, and I thought it was a bad stiff, but he left the penny in his eye. time than we were. , In a few minutes was from the other trenches. I carried place to dig a communication trench because it gave the Turks someThe Limey came up to him, halted a we heard the good old 75s start him into the dugout and then went out in, few paces off and, without saying pounding,' and it was like hearing an again and stood like the side of a hill to shoot at. my watch until the thing a word, took the monocle out of his old friends voice over the telephone, relief came. We were once in a while I would have Every r doing to climb in and out of a shell hole, eye, twibbled it three or four feet in and everybody in our shell hole shifts. the air and caught it in his other eye cheered," though no one could hear us and parts of them were blocked where When I and we could barely hear each other. the man got into the dugout again a shell had caved in the walls. In one when it came down. was coming to. He was just Do that, you blighter, he said and Still we knew that if the 75s got about as near shell shock as I had place I saw corpses all torn to pieces, faced about and was on his way down going in their usual style they would been by this time I was so I knew the Turks had found the the road. They had it on the French- do for an enemy battery or two, and only once in a while, when Ishivering range and had got to this trench in not did that looked good to us. The 75s watch man after that. myself. He said four men had great shape. At another place I found This Phillippe Pierre, of whom I made the noise worse, but it was al- been sliced to get to us be- lots of blood and equipment but no up have spoken, told me a story about ready about as bad as it could be, fore he came; trying had lost bodies, and I figured that reinforcethat two Limey officers that I hardly be- and a thousand guns more or less II men out of their 32,they the ments had been caught at this spot including lieved, yet Phillippe swore it was the would not have made it any harder sergeant-majo- r in command and two nnd that they had retired, taking their truth. He had been in America before to stand. that they were almost out casualties with them. One of our men shouted in the ser- corporals; the war, and he said he had seen one The Turks still had the range, and of ammunition; that the trenches on of the officers that the story is about geants ear that the men in line ahead both sides of them had been blown in they were sending a shell ipto the of us and to the right were trying to and that many times in New York. they were likely to go to trench every once In a while, and I He said there were two Limey off- give us a message of some kind. The at pieces any moment. He said they was knocked down again, though the icers going along the road arguing sergeant stuck his head above the all the Turks would attack shell was so far away that it knocked thought about the German shells which the parapet and had a look. But I stayed behind their barrage, for he said the me down with force of habit more Turks were using. One of the officers where I was the sergeant could see curtain of fire did not extend more than anything else. I felt dizzy and said they were no good because they for himself and me, too, as far as I than a hundred in front of their shivered a lot, and kept trying to think yards did not burst. Just about that time was concerned. trench. What they wanted us to do of Murray or anything else but myself. a shell came along and' they picked He shouted at us that the men in was to So finally I got to the top of the a man back with the themselves up quite a distance from the other trench were trying to signal news andrelay hill over which the gully ran, little adto either word the get where they had been standing. An- something, but he could not make it vance or retire or await reinforce- and on the other side I felt almost other shell whizzed by and landed flat out because the clouds of smoke would ments, did not care which only safe. Just down from the crest of the on the side of the road. The officer roll between them and break up the to be they to ordered do something. There hill was one of our artillery positions, walked over, dug it out of the ground, words. So he laid down again in the was not a officer left with the good old 75s giving it to the commissioned and took away the detonator and fuse bottom of the hole. But after a while with either of the detachments, you Turks as fast as they could. I told to prove that they did not explode he looked over the parapet and saw see, and you might say we were up the artillery officers what had hapThe only thing that would make a man just leaving their trench, evi- in the had a drink of water and me believe that story is that Phillippe dently with a message for us, and he in the air only te were really as far pened, I would take a as we could thought nap. But when get. ground Pierre said they were Limey officers. had not gone five steps before he was The man thought there were other they telephoned the message back to No one but a Limey would remem- blown to pieces, and the lad who fol- of our lines not far behind us, but we division headquarters the man at the ber such an argument after being lowed him got his, too, so they stopped knew better; so then he said he did receiver said something to the officer knocked galley west by a shell con- trying then. see how any one could get back and he told me to stay there and be not cussion. I do not doubt that a Limey And all the time thei 75s were from there to our nearest lines. I ready. I thought sure he would send would do it if it could be dene, though. sending theirs to the 'Turks not far did not see either. Then we all fig- me back to where I came from and over our heads to 000 yards behind ured we were CHAPTER XIV. forgotten and would not I knew I never could make It again,' us, and the, howitzers were dropping come out of there alive, nnd jou can but I did not say anything. their bits of iron in every believe me or not, but I dir not The Croix de Guerre. (TO BE CONTINUED.) much When we had been on the shore vacant space and some that were not care Anything would be better than for about three weeks we found our- vacant. It was just one big roar and just staying there in that awful noise No Lick, No Candy. selves one morning somewhere near screech and growl all at once, like with nothing to do, and no water. Im going to buy some candy with under the heaviest fire turning the whole dog pound loose Our sergeant said he would not ask my penny, lisped a little I ever experienced. Our guns and the on a piece of meat. any man td attempt to carry the mes- girl. The concussions felt like one long sage, because lie said it was not only Turks were ut it full blast, and the Ini not, said her brother, who Is of boxes on the. ear, and our certain death, but noise was worse than deafening. string Im going to absolutely useless. not quite six years old. ' A section of my company was lying throats were so dry that it hurt to And he began to show that he was save mine and buy another Thrift out in a shell hole near the commu- swallow, which always makes your near shell shock himself. stamp. nication trench with nothin? to do ears feel better after a strong concusThen I began to shiver again, and I Well, I want some candy, argued but wait for a shell to find them. We sion. One after another of our boys thought to myself that anything would the girl. were &lff nd thirsty and uncomfort- was slipping to the ground and digging be better than sitting in this hole waitAw, go ahead and buy your candy," able, and had not slept for two nights. his fists into his ears, and the rest of ing to go cafard, so I decided to vol- replied her brother, but Im going to In that time we had been under con- them sat on the parapet fire step with unteer. I did not think there was any save mine and buy a Thrift stamp stant fire and had stood off several their heads between their knees and chance to get through, but it fieemed cause daddy said that will help lick the raiding parties and small attacks from their arms wrapped around their as if I Just had to do something, no kaiser, and he says if he aint licked heads. enemy trenches. matter what. I had never felt that there wont he any candy." Albert I Dope: EX-GUNN- , Our sergeant came to me after a while and began acting Just like people do at a show, only he shouted instead of whispered in my ear. When people are looking at one show they some always want to tell you how good other show is, and that was the way ' with the sergeant. You should see what they did to us at St. Eloi, he said. "They just baptized us with the big fellows. They did not know wnen to stop. When you see shelling that is shelling, you will know it, my son. Well, if this is not shelling, what the devil is it? Are they trying to kid us or are you, mon vkux? which is a French expression that means something like old timer. My son, when you see dugouts caved in, roads pushed all over the map, guns wrecked, bodies twisted up in knots and forty men killed by one shell then you will know you are seeing shelling. Then one of our men sat up straight against the parapet and stared at us and began to shake all over, but we could not get him to say anything or move. So we knew he had shell shock. And another man watcheu him for a while, and then he began to shake, too. The sergeant said that if we stayed there much longer we would not be fit to repel an attack, so he ordered us into the two dugouts we had made in the hole, and only himself and another man stayed outside on watch. The men in the dugout kept asking each other when the bombardment would end, and why we Were not reinforced, and what was happening, and whether the Turks would attack us. It was easy to see why we were not reinforced no body of men could have got to us from the reserve trenches. The communication trenches were quite a distance from us and were battered up at that. 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