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The ma gun was taking an awful toll of Then again they tried to advance the machine gun mowed them < Dropping their rifles and bombs, broke and fled in a wild rush ba their trench, amid the cheers ol company. xney were iormmg for another attempt, when in the of D company came a mighty < The ammunition had arrived and It a battalion of Scotch to re-er them. They were saved. The unk machine gunner had come to the r in tiie nick of time. sj task to take the third Gk / \k Your Business Horre 1/UliClX C> of the U. S. A. rs invested in the 3rd Liberty 5 serve as a protection to Our ince. not already subscribed? [if To-day iiAnw i^iiViPAvirvf irvr> Will C1ILCI JfUUl OUUOtl i^/LXWii all details for you ENTIRELY CHARGE. hange Bank wberry, S. C. nk*of the People" % j Flash Light ey last I will 11 mi 1 ro cell flash vorth $ 1.00, I have only supply. / k & Variety Store f a Thousand Things m Wli J \ 1,K IjW' 1V1 \N t\ru .vs.. - iVIIO WENT - * MGUYMY \chine: gunner ,mgw ousce-? i ^ \ j! I fe/JSI7BY {ARTHUR tUY EHPEYl 5 t for liDean(j After the attack was over, the cap ^ a tain and three of his noncommissione< 0ur officers, wended their way back to th W{ll position where the machine gun ha< an(j done its deadly work. He wanted t send thank the gunner in the name of I i the company for his magnificent deed ten J They arrived at the gun, and an awfu i an(j sight met their eyes. Lloyd had reached the front lin rd, It trench, aft< r his company had left it. i could strange c* apany was nimbly crawlinj ?, get i up the treiich * iders. They were re I enforcements %o.ig over. They wer e wel- Scotties, and v made a magniflcen un In sight in their brightly colored kilts an< t line ba~e knees. to Jumping over the trench, Lloyd racei once across "No Man's Land," unheeding th Down rain of bullets, leaping over dark fom chine on the ground, some of which lay still lives, while others called out to him as h but speeded past. Sown. He came to the German front line They but it was deserted, except for heap ek to of dead and wounded?a grim tribut f "D" to the work of his company, good ol< again D company. Leaping trenches, aa< i rear gasping for breath, Lloyd could se :heer. right ahead of him his company in i . with I dead-ended sap of a communicatioi lforce' trench, and across the open, away ii nown j front of them, a mass of Germans pre escue! paring for a charge. Why didn't I company fire on them? T?hy were the as syi, so strangely, silent? wj?at were the; irman waiting for? Then he knew?their am I munition was ox'sausird. I But what was? that on his right? i machine gun. Why didn't it open fi! i and save them? He would make ih; j gun's crow do t heir duty. Rustiir over to the gun he saw why it hud n< opened tire. Scattered around its ha? lay six still forms. They hud hrougl thoir gun to consolidate the capture position, but a German machine in had decreed they would never ft! ! again. I j Lloyd rushed to the gun and. gras | ing the traversing handles, trained j on the Germans. Repressed the thunr I piece, but only a sharp click was tl j result. The gun was unloaded. Tlu S he realized his helplessness. He di I not know how to load the gun. O i why hadn't he attended the machin ! sun course in England? IJe'd bet j offered the chance, hut with a blush < ; shame he remembered that he had bee ! afraid. The nickname oif the machii I gunners had frighteued him. Tlu j were called the "Suicide club." No\ i because of this fear, his compar ! would be destroyed, the men of D coi: | pany would have to die, because ft I Albert Lloyd, had been afraid of ! name. In his shame he cried like i baby. Anyway he could die with the: | and, rising to his feet, he stumbU i over the body of one of the gunner i who emitted a faint moan. A glea: | of hope flashed through him. I'erhai ; this man could tell him how to lo;i , the gun. Stooping over the body 1 j gently shook it and the soldier open* r his eyes. Seeing Lloyd, he closc : them again and, in a faint roice, saic "Get away, you blighter, leave n j alone. I flon't want any coward aroun 1 me." The words out Lloyd like a knif j but he was desperate. Taking the r | volver out of the holster of the dyin t man he pressed the cold muzzle to tl: ! soldier's head and replied: ' j "Yes, it is Lloyd, the coward < r ' Company D, but so help n^e God, i you don't tell me how to load that ::u i I'll put a bullet throujrlj your brain i ' A sunny smile came over the com ; reliance 01 me u>'iug uum uuu min a faint whisper: i "Good old boy! I knew you wouldn ! disgrace our company " Lloyd interposed: "For God's sak* ! if you want to save that company yo i are so proud of, tell me how to Ioa that d d gun!" As if reciting a lesson in school, tl] J ; soldier replied in a weak, singsou i voice: "Insert tag end of belt in fee ! block, with, left hand pull belt lei I front. Pull crank handle back on rol er, let go, and repeat motion. Gun i ! now.loaded. To fire, raise automati . safety latch, and press thumbpiec : Gun is now firing. If gun stops, a see i tain position of crank handle-^" But Lloyd waited for no more. Wit I wild joy at his heart, he took a be ' - ' ' i.), I from one 01 ine aiumuuiuuii uuaw i. | ing beside the gun, and followed th ! dying man's instructions. Then h i pressed the thumbpiece and a burst < I fire rewarded his efforts. The gu | was working. Training it ob the Germr <e shou J ed for joy as their front ra^k wei | down. i Traversing the gun back and fort } along the mass of Germans, he sa1 t them break and run back to the cov< I of their trench, leaving their dead an j wounded behind. He had saved hi ' company, he, Lloyd, the coward, ha "done his bit." Releasing the thuml 1 piece, he looked at the watch on hi I wrist. He was still alive at "3:38." J.j "Ping!"?a bullet sang through tfc ! air, and Lloyd fell forward across tt | gun. A thin trickle of blood ran dow his face from a little, black round ho] in his forehead. 4 * "The sentence of the court had bee "dulv carried out." " ' 'owly raised the lim r the gun and, wij in^ . * i the white face, re< ognizeu oyd, the coward of ] company. Reverently covering the far | with his handkerchief he turned to hi t j "noncoms" and, in a voice husky wit , emotions, addressed tliem: i "Bovs. it's Llovd. the deserter. E I ~ T - j has redeemed himself, died the deat ; of a hero?died that his mates inigf j live." That afternoon a solemn processio J wended its way toward the cemerer; I In the front a stretcher was carried fc | two sergeants. Across the stretch* j the Union Jack was carefully sprea< i Behind the stretcher came a captai 1 { and forty-three men, all that were le] 8 j of D company. ^ i Arriviner at the cemetery, they ha! 0 ed in front of an open grave. All abo* them wooden crosses were broken an '* trampled into the ground. 1 A grizzled old sergeant., noting thi destruction, muttered under hi e, breath: "Curse the cowardly blight* ^ who wrecked those crosses! If I cou'. *! Only get these two hands around hi !"| neck his trip West would be short. ej The corpse on the stretcher seeme rj to move, or it might have been tt wind blowing the folds of the Unic ] Jack. dl ei CHAPTER XXV. Preparing for the Big Push. e i Rejoining Atwell after the executio i I had a hard time trying to keep m : secret from him. I think I must ha\ 3 lost at least ten pounds worrying ov< e the affair. ^ Beginning at seven in the evening ^ was our duty to patrol all communici e tion and front-line trenches, makin a note of unusual occurrences, and a Q resting anyone who should, to us, a] a pear to be acting in a suspicious mai ner. We slept during the day. Behind the lines there was great a< y tivity, supplies and ammunition pou y lug in> and long columns of troops coj stantly passing. We were preparin ior ine Dig onensr.e, iut? iuiwuuui i " ?~ . ^r?cvil .T?.r, ? "of the battle cji uie nomine or "liijl 1 A Push." !'t! The never-ending stream of men, ' >* supplies, ammunition and guns pour- j Ing into the front lines made a mighty | i \ 't spettaele. one that cannot ho do *0 scribed. It lias to 1)0 witnessed with! ' it v/iiii? i?\v?? ?vpe tn .?1it.< v:iSt- ! m*ss. , n At our part of the line the influx of 1 1 Mijiplies never ended. It looked like ; ! a huge snake slowly crawling forward, p- never a hitch or break, a wonderful j ' it tribute to the system and efficiency of i ib Great Britain's "contemptible little J } w, army" of five 'Millions of men. *n' Huge fifteen-inch guns snaked along, j Id foot by foot, by powerful steam tract- j tors. Then a long line of "four point! five" batteries, each gfln drawn hy six 1 'u horses, then a couple of "nine point two" howitzers pulled by immense ? iD caterpillar engines. i 19 When one of these caterpillars would I *y pass me with its mighty monster in | i v?i tow, a flush of pride would mount to | 1 '? my face, because I could plainly read j < u* on the name plate, "Alade in u. s. a., e? and I would remember that if I wore a < a name plate it would also read, "From ; 11 the U. S. A." Then I would stop to j m think how thin and straggly that j i d mighty stream would be if all the i < s> "Made in U. S. A." parts of it werej 5 m withdrawn. : .< ,s Then would eorae hundreds of lim- j j hers and "G. S." wagons drawn by j n! i 1/1 An lw O j ?W*l~ ! SU'l'lV, ? CIIWU IIIUITTO, UUUVU l'(> U1V1 iv, J J '(* well-fed men, ever smiling, although | , >(} grimy with sweat and covered with the j ( : fine, white dust of the marvelously; ^ ie well-made French roads. j ( 'd What a discouraging report the Ger-; 1 ! man airmen must have taken hack to 1 e> their division commanders, and thisj ^ stream is slowly hut surely getting big-1 ger and bigger every day, and the pace j ^ ke is always the same. No slower, no j ! faster, but ever onward, ever forward. ^ Three weeks before the big push of J , u July 1?as the battle of the Soinme has : , been called?started, exact duplicates1 j of the German trenches were dug' 1_ about thirrv kilos behind our lines, j ri I j The layout of the trenches was taker j ^ from airplane photographs submitted, \ * by the Royal flying corps. The trench- j es were correct to the foot; tney j e? showed dugouts, saps, barbed wire de- j ^ fenses and danger spots. Battalions that were to go ove1* in : the first waves were sent back for ie three days to study thes? trenches, en- 1 gage in practice attacks and have night ^. maneuvers. Each man was required to 1 L.L make a map of the trenches and fa- ' miliarize himself with the names tnd J ls location of the parts tlis battalion was j 'c| to attack. 1 l'*: In the American army noncommis- 1 r" sioned officers are put through a course : * j of map making or road sketching, and 1 ^ during my six years' service in the 1 ^ United States cavalry* I had plenty of! s k'~ practice in this work, therefore map-1 1 lC ping these trenches was a compara-j 1 ie trvely easy task for me. Each man j A f i cnihmit h!c Rinn tn the eomnanv i ^ J liUU l\? r* 141/4*** V ***. -? ? Jt' ~ * n : commander *to be passed upon, and I j 1 ! was lucky enough to have mine select- j * t_' ed as being sufficiently authentic to use i 1 lt:j In the attack. No photographs or maps are allowed h I to leave France, but in this case it ap-1 ( w' pealed to me as a valuable souvenir of | ( >rj the great war and I managed to smug- j * ^ i gle it through. At this time it carries , I 181 no importance as the British! 1 ^ j lines, 1 am happy to say, have since j * been advanced beyond this point, so In having It In my possession I am not j breaking any regulation or cautions ie, of the British army. ie| The whole attack was rehearsed! ^ n j and rehearsed until we heartily cursed j < [e i the one who had conceived the idea. \ } I The trenches were named according j j I to a system which made it very simple | , n i for Tommy to find, even In the dark, j ( I ? In 4-V.^ r!ai<miin lillOCt 1 4 Uliy yuiLiL m uir uuiuiuu j<uvu? P These imitation trenches, or trench > models, were well guarded from obser- j 1 vation by numerous allied planes i , ^ which constantly circled above them, j e No German airplane could approach i ( Is within observation distance. A re- t 111 stricted area was maintained and no ' ^ civilian t>'?s allowed within three ^ ? j miles so we relt sure that we had a ^ ; great surprise In store for Fritz. .j t lt j When we took over the front line ^ we received an awful shock. The , ] D ' Germans displayed signboards over ! ^ the top of their trench showing the ! T names that we had called their; j / trenches. The Figns read "Fair," j , ^ "Fact," "Fate," and "Fancy," and so ! t- ' .v. it '' :*': - ' v-': ' : = . I ,e m ' torn M^Srf' a? ? /+& ""^ Hi ,n |w31w^>'*V?<w^ in it Over the Top ii x~ J on, according to the code names on h lg our map. Then to rub it in, they r r" hoisted some more signs which read, c "Come on, we are ready, stupid Eng>| lish." It is still a mystery to me how they ^ ^ obtained this knowledge. There had jj r" been no raids or prisoners taken, so ^ it must have been the work of spies ? ip T3 sj in our own lines. - ?, Three or four days brfore the big nish \v?> tried to sJi:?tt?*r i-'rit/.'s ncm-s !'<iinr at lacks, and partially suc reded as the official reports of July I <how. Although we were constantly bombarding their lines ?'.r.y and night. still i\"e lOOieu Uie Vjii.*rniini> scu'iiii iimo, This was accomplished by throwing in intense barrage into his lines? hen using smoke shells we would put i curtain of white smoke across Xo Man's Land, completely obstructing iris view of our trenches, and ivould raise our curtain of lire is if in an actual attack. All jown our trenches the men would <hout and cheer, and Fritz would turn loose with machine-gun, rifle, and shrapnel fire, thinking we were com ii.tr ovefc After three or four of these dummy attacks his nerves must have beeD :io:tr the breaking point. On June 24, 1916, at 9:40 in the uorning our guns opened up, and hell i-vas Jet loose. The din was terrific, a constant boom-boom-boom in your ear. At night the sky was a red glare. Our bombardment had lasted about ;wo hours when Fritz started replyng. Although we were sending over fen shells to his*one, our casualties kvere heavy. There was a constant stream of stretchers coming out of nie ommunication trenches and burial ;>artiwere a common sight. In the dugouts the noise of the guns llmost hurt. You had the same sensation as when riding on the subway you liter the tube under the river going to Brooklyn?a sort of pressure on the ;>ar drums, and the ground constantly trembling. The roads behind the trenches were irery dangerous because Boche sliraplel was constantly bursting over them. IV p nvoided these dangerous spots by :-ru*sing through o^er . The destruction in the German lines ?v:is awful and I really felt sorry for lu-ui because I realized how they must clicking it. From our front-line trench, every low and again, we could hear sharp thistle blasts in the German trenches, rhese blasts were the signals for A- 4.\ stretcher bearers, ana meant me ivounding or killing of some German in he service qf his fatherland. Atwell and I had a tough time of it, patrolling the different trenches at aight, but after awhile got used to it. My old outfit, the machine gun company, was stationed in huge elephant lugouts about four hundred yards belind the front-line trench?they were n reserve. Occasionally I would stop n their dugout and have a confab with ny former mates. Although we tried :o be jolly, still, there was a lurking Veling of impending disaster. Each nan was wondering, if, after the slogan, "Over the top with the best of uck," had been sounded, would he still )e alive or would he be lying "somevhere in France." In an old dilapidated lousej the walls of which were scarred ,vith machine-gu? bullets, No. 3 secion of the machine gun company had ts quarters. The company's cooks prewired the meals In this billet. On the irtn evening OI tne DomDarument a German eight-inch shell registered a lirect hit on the billet and wiped out :en men who were asleep in the sup)osedly bomb-proof cellar. They were mried the next day and I attended the 'unerai. CHAPTER XXVI. v All Quiet (?) on the Western Front ! At brigade headquarters I happened ~ o /inmrarcoflnn hohl'DDn fllir U UV rilirttl CI tVUT\;ioavivu WU V 3. O. C. (general officer commanding) ind the divisional commander. From this conversation I learned that we tvere to bombard the German lines for siKht (lays, arid on the first of July the 'big push" was to commence. In a few days orders were issued tc that effect, and it was common prop-: ?rty all along the line. On the afternoon of the eighth day of ^ur "strafeing," Atwell and I were siting in the front-line trench smoking fags and making out our reports of the >ifhn trnnpVipq JI'CVIOUS Ul(jIU J5 LUU1 VI iUV ?vuv?ww| vhich we had to turn in to headquarers the following day, when an order vas passed down the trench that Old 3epper requested twenty volunteers to ?o over on a trench raid that night to ry and get a few German prisoners for. nformation purposes. I immediately rolunteered for this job, and shook mW: &? .*::v0 -jfr&y >!' ' jv,:^xW. S^P ilSgipilpij SM ite^SsSl I i a Charae. ands with Atwell, and went to the : ear to give ray narae to the officers in ! 1? >?oIMiner ntirtv iiax ge UJ. me i uiuiu(, iju* v , I was accepted, worse luck. At 9:45 that night we reported to the rigade headquarters dugout to receive ostructlons from Old Pepper. After reaching this dugout we lined i? o oomi^ir^io him and he ip *1-1 a v.v j ddressod us .is follows: * ' "A'l T w.Mir y?? r,, (]?> is T > .TO over in lh<* (if! I :< uijlit. - tr;>riso rs<><mmv a r?n:;.U' ??f {iris ;u<-rs. :in?] lvturn irn!;i? <li:?r?-!y. our -?i"?tll I?.w. ,!...! ,r I 1111" i na> iM'HUMi uru iivu .% rhe line lor two day< nil'! porsonn.M.v I boJieve that that part of the tn-nch is unoccupied, so just {Ti-t ai pie of prisoners and return as quiWiiy as possible." The sergeant on my right, in uii undertone. whispered ro me: "Say. Yank, how are we going to got a couple of prisoners if the old foot thinks 'personally that that part of tke trench is unoccupied,'?sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it mate?" I had a funny sinking sensation ia ray stomach, and ray tin hat felt as ir it weighed about a ton ::nd rr.v enthusiasm was melting away. Old Pepper must have heard the sergeant speak because he turned in his direction and in a thundering voice asked: "What did you say?" The sergeant with a scarlet loot on his face and his knees trembling, smartly saluted and answered: ! M sxi. Old Pepper said: "Well, don't say it so loudly the next time." Then OM Pepper continued: "In this section of the Gennaa trenches there are two. or three machine {runs which our artillery, in the last two or three days, lias been unable to tape. These guns command the sector where two of our communication trenches join the front line, and as the brigade is to go over the top tomorrow morning I want to capture two or three men from these guns' crews. and from them I may be able to obtain valuable information as to the exact location of the guns, and our artillery will therefore be able to demolish them before the attack, and thus prevent our losing a lot of men while usin# these communication trenches to bring up re-enforcements." These were the instructions he gave us: "Take off your identification disks, strip your uniforms of all numerals, insignia, etc., leave your papers with your captains, because I don't want the Boches to know what regiments are against them as this would be valuable information to them in our attack tomorrow and I don't want any of you to be taken alive. What I want i? two prisoners and if I get them I have a way which will make them divulge all necessary information as to elixir guns, xou nave your cnoiee oi two weapons?you may carry your 'persuaders' or your knuckle knives, and each man will arm himself with four Mills bombs, the.se to be used only in case of emergency." A persuader is Tommy's nickname for a club carried by the bombers. It is about two feet long, thin at one end and very thick at the other. The thick end is studded with sharp steel spikes, while through the center of the club there is a nine-inch lead .bar, to give it weight and balance. When you get a prisoner all you have to do is just stick ttiis ciud up in irout 01 mm, auu believe ine, the prisoner's patriotism for "Deutschland ueber Alles" fades away and be very willingly obeys the orders of his captor. If, however, the prisoner gets high-toned and refuses to follow you, simply "persuade" him by first removing ills tin hat, and thenwell, *he use of the lead weight in the persuader is demonstrated, and Tommy looks for another prisoner. mu,? L-n!fa o /I O Creor flfPflifj liif Rliuunic nuil^ AO U m the blade of -which is about eight inches long with a heavy steel guardi over the grip. This guard is studdedl with steel projections. At night in at trench, which is only about three to* four feet wide, it makes a very handy* weapon. One punch in the face gen-4 i erally shatters a man's jaw and yon can get him with the knife as he goes down. | Then we had what we called our "come-alongs." These are strands of barbed wire about three feet Iongj made into a noose at one end; at th^ other end, the barbs are cut off an<^ Tommy slips His wrist tnrougn a toop to get a good grip on the wire. If the* prisoner wants to argue the point, whyf just place the large loop around hi? neck and no matter if Tommy wished to return to his trenches at the walk, trot, or gallop, Fritz is perfectly agree' able to maintain Tommy's rate of. speed. ~Tto be coxtixued) i j ' i ?Buy a Liberty Bond? ?| TOim nir rxr pAtt/IV . I YTJJjJJ If A L 1.1 VV1 JLV-'. Rnmors Create Excitement In 'flew Orleans Market, New Orleans, April 18.?Wild rumors caused by wild trading and 1 wide fluctuations in cotton here to-1 day. Around the opening the tone! was fairly staedv and at one time j prices were 16 to 34 points over yes- ] terday's close. From this there was a break until late in the session, themarket stood 160 to 178 points, or to $9 a bale, down from the top. La/t prices showed net losses for the day " t f r\ ? - -l or i 01 IIU lO pviiita. Much early selling was due to reports that the price of cotton soods would he fixed in the near future hut in the afternoon the market was thrown into confusion hy unconfirmed rumors of the piercing of the German, lines hy the French army and the fal? * *Va?A woo O Or UUnKlTK. ocsiuea iuci C T* ao m. ? # port that n vill bad beer presented in* congress .filing .tie price of cotton! at 2fl cents a pound. At Its hfgbestj today May stood at 29.?0 cents. '