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[bui r I 'I 1 01 : f< I IT i ; II V I HHHMHBHnBH nil. ? TELEPH0N1 Ik- ; v t MOVING BIG GUNS. British Officer Describes Work of Changing Positions of Batteries. Assault on a new point in the German lines in the west such as was. begun during the past few weeks in Flanders, is preceded by many weeks of preparatory actitivy. The moving up to their new positions of hundreds of batteries of artillery is only one phase of this preparatory ' activity, but one which requires an) infinite amount of labor and trans-j port. To move a battery of howitzers! from the old Vimy Ridge battlefield j to the new Flanders battlefields requires roughly four of five days. An J account of this process of transfer: has been written for the Associated 1 . i Press by Lieut. K. N. Colville, attach- j ( ed to "000'" Heavy Battery, Royal; Garrison Artillery. He writes: "We are not sorry to leave Petit-! court. Its last occupants had been' certain Huns and these folk are not; at the best times very desirable ten-; ants, while their time in occupation ! of Petticourt had latterly been veryfar from 'best,' not even good, in i fact. Long before they left, the i / houses hatf been suffered to fall into such a state of disrepair that they were driven to living in the cellars, ' which they had enlarged and deepened for the purpose. Here they had |r spent days at a time without emergI ing to the light of Heaven, and the I sanitary arrangements whatever they may have been, had evidently broken down badly. "000 Heavy Battery, R. G. A., in due course came to occupy the scene of the desolation which itself had helped to create. This, indeed, is the tragedy, of the heavy gunner's life. He arrives opposite some pleasant tree-swathed village, ad-; mires from his point of vantage across' the valley the white chateau, thinks; enviously of the comfortable qu|r-i ters it is affording to the other side.j In a few weeks, or a few months, it i m y is his turn to occupy that promised J land. But alas, he wishes himselfi back on Pisgah, away from the smell I and the filth and the ghastly ruin of this shell-torn place. "Such a spot was Petitcourt, and we were not sorry when we learned ?* herp was done, and' iiiai um .tw*?K ~ ? , that we were to go and repeat the! operation elsewhere. For before we; could again ply our grim task there ( must be a brief interval of movement, of the open road, of the> GGII nHBHHHHHHBI have on hand one f the State, and I a )und any kind of lakes. I handle o uantities, I am en* ou want, it will pa Whether you wan E 46 I ?ai??a j comradeship it brings to men and horses. "We had a day or two to make preparations for our journey, and the time was fully occupied. At a pinch we could move at a few hours' j | notice, but trench warfare encourages one to accumulate stores and articles of luxury, which may as well be properly disposed of if possible, for nothing of it all can be taken except the eqhipment laid down. So our surplus stores were returned to ordnance, and our odds and ends of furniture, home-made beds and tables saved from the ruins of the village. Then, the day before the" start the guns were pulled out from Petitcourt, and the whole battery, united once more, spent the night down at the wagon lines, all ready for an early start next morning. "A light rain was falling, a thing so common in the battle area that we have ceased to count it as good or evil: is part of the presistent order of nature. The vocalists of the battery caroled snatches of all manner of songs, sentimental, burlesque or bellicose. One of the last kind proudly told how: " 'We fought them on the Marne, We fought them on the Aisne; We gave them hell at New Chaplele, And here* we are again!' "At last the appointed hour arrived and the cortage, half a mile long, filed out in column of route on to the road. "All morning we wound along; our progress was slow, for there was much traffic on the roads and we had two villages to pass through. We could not take the direct north and south route to our destination for that would entail too much crossing of the main lines of transport. We must go back to one of the hubs from which these lines radiate, like spokes, and from there turn back crvnl-o that lpafls t n our tilt oj/unv assigned point on the iron-grit wheel's perimeter. "Midday brings a long halt in the neighborhood of water troughs, and a drink and a bite of food for man and beast. The rain has lifted, the sound of gun fire has died away behind us. "After dinner oneofthesubalterns, with a sergeant and an orderly goes on to see our night's billet. The essentials which the billeting officer must keep in mind are these: Horses, men and officers must be close togather. The vehicles must be parked " IF of the largest stock im selling them at buggy you may w nly the best vehicle ibled to sell them cl y you to see my sto t to buy or not, I \ 9 [ 'C l/v Death List 8. Washington, Nov. 2.?The torpedoing of the homeward bound army , transport Finland, in the war zone four days ago, resulted in the death of two members of the naval army 1 guard, two army enlisted men and four of the ship's civilian crew. A 1 third naval seaman is missing. Vice Admiral Sims's report of the | casualties to the Navy Department to- , day added no details to the announce- < ' T7\* _ 1 J U ? ment yesterday tnai uie r-miauu uauj been torpedoed, but had been able to I reach a European port under her own ] steam. jf ; 1 so as to be easily pulled out on the! morrow. Room to turn the guns there must be and the standing must | be good, or the wheels will be deep ; ; in the soft ground by morning. The | horses stand in an open field, into | which some of the limbered wagons ' are taken for the picketing posts to : be made fast to. The other vehicles j are parked in by-roads. At night j the horses are taken to water, I brought back, rubbed down, fed and ! left in charge of a picket, while thej men go to their billets and the ; welcome meal which the cooks have < been preparing. "There are other batteries moving | < on the same road, and one must go! ( ofct first in the morning. We elect j : to move first next morning, so we must be up and about early, for there ; is plenty to do before 'Boot and sadi die! * The horses must be watered, 1 groomed and fed, the men must { breakfast and their kit be stowed. The routine of this day and its sue- < cessors is like that of the first. As we move further back, which wTe do i for the first two days, the country , changes. Further back the country , wears a more prosperous air than in the war-torn parts we have come 1 ! from. Our second night, in deed, is j spent in a town where the civilian i j element outnumber^ the British sol- 1 j diery and the houses are real houses, 1 J : and not a night's lodging for so many ! 'hommes' and so many 'chevaux,' with j particular attention drawn to the ^ ! commodiousness of their 'caves.' "Occasionally we pass other units ! moving up. Once we pass another f j heavy battery returning to the line i ! after a long rest. Its paint work 1 j gleams and its metal tinkles, and . j its horses are glossy and fat. We . ! envy them a little as we look sadly 1 at our own dear, weather-beaten J 'hairies.' The incoming gunners look < scraped paint and dulled harness. | " BU \ s of Buggies ever e the right prices. 1 ish, open or top, is to be had, and leap. No matter \ ck, I will guarantee come in to see i I BAMI K>l It I TAX NOTICE. / The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1917, until the 15th day of March, 1918, inclusive. Prom the first day of January, 1918, until the 31st day of January, 1918, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1918, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1918, until the 15th day of March, 1918, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 8% mills For county purposes 7% mills Constitutional school tax....3 mills Total 19 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills rsoh Pnnd Vn r. 2 mills* Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Dlar, No. 8 9 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Govan, No. 11 8 mills Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Colston, No. 18 4" mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Dak Grove, No4 20 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 : 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate veterans and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. 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