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merely wag adv a dav I a w work rk to the men of the twenty va van con couver 1 battalion the victory I 1 cross which Is securely pinned to blanno a con la Is emblematic of one of the thrilling personal of iolue the en annal tire use bar lf if not at la u fat fact of nil it time a stories wt of gallantry and ad olf will be told while the world endures badur but it will for a new race to roll U up a single magda record meard to oe 1 shadow that he t of if hinna who dropped 1 in a trench all alone and single handed fought the cre cream of tile the ian guards t the a men who neuer neer were ore de feat feared d ull till then and who olin went down one mu alter another before jul media iuna sized young lumberman from the to tor sat flats A of british columbia one moment lianne a life wast t om woith th a penny A fro few minutes later he had saved a bat tallon and a little while later he was I 1 transformed if mild A on the field from a sor ser gant major joe to a lieutenant the government go eminent has had hanna alt it for far lila his portrait to for the national gal of IV I V over the top twenty two time it all I 1 happened adl cil at tile the battle of vimy ride TO athla I 1 particular incident took tonic place it at hill 70 he hanna had been in many of the u worst battles of the u war or before bedfor A the valiant canadians settled dou down to their part of this slaughter of vinly vimy ridge hanna had bat been over a the top to tomtit atIt tim times tied had been at grips with the get germans A on unab ellsa occasions and although tough stumbling amid death and buni buntting ting shells for flays at it a time led had eap c d irdi injury 0 dm O vimy troy w was As a bloody odyest ody spot ept the 7 adlam were nure then as they only were ore at the somme ypres cypres lens lain and P Pas achen darle daele near hilt hill 70 was use a stub ol of a trench which the e canadians laul null kind col come to bi rau reallie was the worst rt spot they hall had to files face it we was only a link and hardly on could id he be seen ful but t it as gnon to bd weilt all be a nasta at point and d 0 tire I 1 twenty A nah i battalion was told to f take ith it for y t two te batt ilo he hours wilting willing for far da daro a A I 1 the battalion I 1 emu crawled ad out on an its billy I 1 lu ano to Ms land u ailing to told rush oer and our aur PIN the hung whose trench each u was WO IM in rd awny v unknown I 1 t to the col oana d deans the huns were out biorn their dugout to telltale initiate tile same movement t against us the caladi canadians a at the same moment two toi big bi g one it aiom the german Ger ninni and one are from it the canadians canadian guns goes the ha tu two tire lines of armal hut men III abose A and ad plunged toward each other the clash I 1 was brief tile the ground quickly u haq kirev strewn with deac and ad the get gergins intellect backed up to the stub of a trench which one to the soldiers like the root at of an selling tooth vire en ell stated staged hie file pursuit of 0 the hie canadians who ullo h however I 1 a r hewed it their uny through he blows blow up midra machine ga gun st six I idia hundred dia and ad fifty men went vent tov over or I 1 the he top with ban hanna I 1 crimps perhaps went two thirds of this number went on to word tile the t trench ench but this remnant was decimated by a machine iran BUD which the huns had bad set act up on an I 1 the it p parapet per the crew of this pin gun played j it 0 on ih the jr mull ilk like ahas a hose and I 1 all the h of f eicem were vere killed or injured annna P plugged on an in the face ot of the dreadful tire fire he had a hill ellla bomb tied sell till this ile he buried at the machine I 1 gun and ad smaIl smashed led it killing or injuring the men who were feeding 1 in tile the bullets it had bad done III deadly work hanna was standing alone all AH about him were cre hing his comrades other either dead or badly wounded part of the bit falln had bad spread an and lie he assumed would auld come at around ad lack hack of at the itrich and enter it from th the other end ho be join jumped p ed into the trench and in a see sec ond d saw a row of at stalwart D alwart prussians 1 coming I he single filo file tift this one w ni feces rely because of the mir narrow roon ness of the etca excavation ti to toward rd him they r rushed hed ill him aa the firt first one he us was about ae fl aach bards rd A nw u av v he pulled the trigger on th the only cartridge lie he hod had in his diflo tb the eat u was as well aimed and no I 1 of the I 1 itta fifth prussian lel glands was out out of the war our coreter the second one charf he fed a over his 1 fallen con comrade trade but met tile the bayonet ot held in the viselike vl grip of tile the young youn lum in binnin hoin vancouver A third prussian plu llan also of the th fitl aft fifth dropped do down 1 in the trend trench tia A if he hid collapsed but aa 1 this was ties no time for taking chances hanna now re really lidis ing that he was waa alone in a nest near of the enem used it bla a bayonet baronet with will effective flat tive fourth results A fourth PI P I appeared almost from now cullor her I 1 he had bad the at stock eh of his ra rifle fl 1 in built both hard hands on a 1 level a with his eh shoulder and we was proper ing ile to dailve the other end home in the form farm of the C canadian tile athna but hanna was too quick for far him bilm there u was a nio I 1 zantair glin blinding ding of teeth a clash and ad tile fourth prussian an in ell ed his length on the lilithe li eai tithe then loor floor blows up two dugouts dats n alucia amna till then alls tills of what hat happened during till the next few minutes 1 I then discovered that I 1 was use alone 1 that to in it the trench and I 1 was As wondering daig dc Ig u where here tile the other me men were I 1 moed f lounck along and at the th entrance anes to a dug out act w which h ell was wag of course dark I 1 lali lienard r d un the buzzing of voices 1 1 I of ourse r a knew th that sit I 1 u was as tn in a dangerous position I 1 had bad no bombs I 1 had used toy iny list on one on the gun I 1 hokd a around und and tile discovered a german bomb about that if time I 1 heard the pro prussians a coming out of tile the entrance to the dug 0 out it and ad I 1 waited till they were vere about be a on top p of me when he I 1 let the he imado bomb if fly it tei to I 1 it t 0 went it off ff rig right lit I 1 in their faces arce 1 it on was alpi quiet then nd im I 1 moved on afew n few feet further and ad saw another a her dugout ent enhance tane it was the other end of at A V Y there I 1 heard rd more are voices voice it dlan did I 1 look very ap a prom P illig ful for me a I 1 hunted barred around ad quickly qu cohly aud and found faced two too more I 1 german boblis I 1 throw tile the ill two into tile the dugout hold built ing them just long nouh so th they oy A ex 1 a second affer they I 1 left eft my ad licud I 1 chere was no more 1 in till this dugout hannas story stops here when he |