Show TELLS OF DEEDS OF DARING BARING ON FRONT AT american motorcyclist relates the dangers of carrying dispatches RIDER WINS VICTORIA CROSS six killed in one instance before seventh fie delivers ers message tr trench a poo pools made up before da divided after action london the dally daily express publishes the following J robinson BIm mar wag ans born and lived the first fint six yea years r a ot of his life at ses you lou m will III have a realized realize d that he Is an american A or ae me Us he f landed in england it on a apte september her 10 1 1914 he H S had been here before he was still a young in man a A A year after he landed he be found himself without a job A fe few 7 daya day let later he A nas a trouper to la the fifth dragoon guards he had bad it doue a A no a soldiering iddle ring before he could im not r ride I 1 a a horse horae ile he spent a few days daya in a 8 riding school I 1 at aldershot aldershof Alder shot and by way ot of stopping chatt chair at his bla pe expense P 1 in barracks barrack at up to a big chap who he ho be found failed out afterward had been beav weight champion c li map A of the army acray unit and began a fight by hitting him in the face that made ads them the friends friend on october octoba er 8 he be landed at ostend and on the afternoon f ernson of the third day came under fire at rollers let he had bad boom been in A the arm army ju just t oer coal a mouth month he spent 14 me months ad its at the front as ne motorcar arher inot motorcycle oretel dispute dispatch I 1 rider and ad motor far lamel machine ifil go gun dvor d vor lver and has bus written tile the story of his ad ventures and escapes escape in a very read able volu volume in alv M fourteen months month at the front froat by william Will iaia J 11 I 1 hin bin I 1 son I 1 shellfire corner soon after he reached fee front private Hob ruama loson became temporary tare P ry driver to gen sir julian J u ang chit hee 21 and he was waa in 1 cypres ypres till when hae the farat ll 11 sh shelling began I 1 rom im that be was as switched off to armored cars and ad then to motor machine gues with which he ought in ditches at hell tire C co ncr on an the menlo roid rod it was while tie he was sas on till this job that he saw a motorcyclist vin via the va victoria torm cross he ipar dt scribes ribe the incident thus thas volunteer dispatch r riders I 1 der tor for do dan g ger or war work were called for about eighteen of our chaps offered them selves sells and of course all were accepted A dispatch dl ind had to be carried boot two too miles along the road mad which fall follows the book bank of the iser cant canal the tend road was constantly being swept mold hir bv german machine nanch lue gun aud and rifle fire the dispatch was na to be handed to a french tire eh commander who was wall waiting at tor for it the first man started and ad an was soon out of of sight eight they waited in v a a certain length of time for a signal that he be had arrived and add then called no iso 2 these abma are maile made by holl heliograph holograph graph hot but while they are good for this und kind of work tile the germans mans can see ace the signal a as well a as a we cau can no 2 started ou out but we aliv him go down beaole lie fie hud had gone a 1 bu hundred ard yard th then no 3 started it was pitiful to watch tah those e poo poor r chaps chapa IN ft hen a ha man a knew it was vas it his is turn next I 1 ca m I 1 I 1 bec eec tile poor fellow nervously Wari flag on his machine bcd he I 1 prime the he engine then hed open and d close the throttle quickly e 1 I I 1 times anything in tact fact to keep himself be busy y st six of the theae fellows fellow went down dow 1 in suit s than half sum a hour no r wax was a fel fellow base name I 1 do don I 1 voting know mor I 1 wah elih I 1 did tor for he was gumly the nerviest ner man I 1 ever saw N T was hardly out at of at the tor officers I 1 mouth before 11 he hod bad his dispatch and it was ana on oc his way say about his fie ini minutes late inter the signal shim came that the dis fam patch I 1 led had bram been dell delivered zy my officer told me afterward that tile the french general to whom he non had handed the dispatch had taken tak en the MiH taire off his own breist fir cst and pinned it on me that of this Y young g dispatch rider he wag 1 also Is later j awarded cited the actoria vt tin cross and given a commission it la Is things like this commission tile that make one proud to belong to such rb an a army sniping a sniper sri after spending christmas 1914 ll if tile the 1 prea tr trenches atille helped a sec second d lieutenant 1 in the royal elma engl A sers to snipe a gorma german sniper on t the h Dicke husch lausch hollebeke Hotle Holle belie buke road read As diey ry rode over ever a wooden bridge a toilet whistled neither spoke but on the way my back three hours houra later the ad cor sold said that blasted sniper has potted at me once too often well we 11 leoe ime the road here and sneak k do down adza opposite the hedge under cover r of the trees teth tethering ring their horses borca they crept near flear the bridge waited A until fit a aug wagon passed and heard the snipers shot from bell behind A it tory crawled a hun bun dred lards ards and on baited led soon they heard the rifle crack again not net f far r way away creeping a little further they waited tied again get batching the 11 trees 1 watching they ib ey came so a c close as to f the be sniper P without seeing him III that at next mt time the he fired they heard the ejector fly back and ah the e halt bolt snap then them they spotted him U he a was ana well up a fr tree a with his bootha rifle fitted on a tripod so that uh whenever lie he heard ancone on the wooden brad he be bad IN n 8 only to pull the trig gor but he had bad ended called his sniping the lim lieutenant and P private riva robinson b fired together Rether tf and ad air ir sniper pr came down like a thousand of bricks th the british tommy of those days according to william J was us a great gambler as well as a great fighter our one of his far forms of gambling wal wai a ro kind of tontine known as a ven trench pool about ten tea fellows got together and each put ten francs in a pool just before they went into action they left this bonev with soral someone 11 1 behind the lines tor for they would wind be a in action am w here fr from six 1 do anva to III three ree sham w weeks k the b a idea of tile the po pool 1 w was this dball the who all lived to t get go b back ck would take the money and I 1 split I 1 it evenly e enly among along themselves iare it onla on ya one a lived I 1 he won boult have the who whole lot 0 daredevil devil oth officer the tonalities la kept c canaries rt cospa mim mice dogs does cuts cats goats and even pigs at alv pets and would go hungry before the pet hungered the bi biggest aga it daredevil that abin so son heard of w waa a known as 8 the mud major jors an artillery officer who kept his own aeroplane pi for far range finding purposes when mile he wanted to correct cormet fl a range mage he just how flew over and dropped breall oo am the I 1 len lr lar spot ot we he wanted idahl his guns guna to hit it tho then he went at back and A set at the guns no to 1 work one or day dav being b ing annoyed with a german germa u 17 inch c li howitzer la kitlar he hew he oer A with w a pound bomb nose lived dived to I 1 within feet dropped the bomb and blew the howitzer to atoms he returned oil with his planes riddled with mth bullets ld mr robinson imick in few words what he iha happened rimmed to two men a woman and ad t two no of children idren when hen a dropped a bomb in the lie square at ghe it 11 1 it enough here to say that they war were kallid id and ad that lot tile the bisel one of the to men was rid ing vis nils found twisted and bent on a lamppost about fifty fl fly Y yards do tio awne he fie also describes im fly the killing of two too officers cars in a motorcar r by a gollum gel man I 1 illich shell on the rond road go ga ing into I 1 cipres ipres pre th TUB driver escaped a fled but was sent at neace se lanil by the shock his nerve wag waa gone gona and ho be had bad to be discharged this aa was during th the frol second auld battle of f cypres ypres bw when Is the ed city WAS waa being destroyed byod by Y shell fire and the housea were burning |