Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-17 | Page 10 | Belgian Battery Does Good Work

BELGIAN BATTERY DOES GOOD WORK By COUNT MOURIK DE BEAUFORT In Belgium, Nov. 161 joined a battery just in time to be able to see some splendidly quick work by Belgian Bel-gian artillery in changing their position po-sition Orders had been received that we move nearer Nieuport so as to be able to support the former Belgian regimentul line. My friend was cursing. No wonder. To move a battery in clear daylight, in full view of the Germans along the highway, is a task that carries heavy resppnsibilities and chances that could have been avoided. "We will be lucky if we get through there,'' remarked the commandant. com-mandant. "Look! The beggars have spotted us already." He had hardly uttered the last word when a shrapnel whizzed by us and fortunately exploded at a sate distance. It was a critical situation. Our battery was played south of the main road, the only thoroughfare by which we could reach Nieuport. The Germans Ger-mans had our range, but there was no time for consultations. Each gun started off alone at four-minute four-minute intervals. How those horses