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i o,ae*nt Al?x?nd?r P Caldiw Gnu. Guwd? .CMP, ">y the ??ll Hyudlcate, I?a - frrytant MoVltntock, who has seen f/n4ce in frtnct, was devorotod for irtwv, wounded, invalided home and ? tow endeavoring to v?t a commit ## (n our army. A commie&ion In ;ji Canadian army await$ him if he join his old command. Jn III fir it and second articlee he- ymph iplly describes his training his trip lo France and the elaborate prepara tion made for u bomb raid on the Q<mon trenches. AS >ve dim bod out of the shelter of our trenches for my flrajt ? and, perhaps. my last, I thought ? ad mature In No Man's Lund the word mi passed : -Over the top and give 'em hell !" ThHt is the British Tominles's battle tty as they charge the enemy, and it often sounded up and down those joug lines In eastern France as the jrltish, Canadian and Australian sol diers go out to the tight and the death. We were divided Into six parties of tfo men, each party having separate lutlpfl to perform. We crouched for ward, moving slowly In single file, fumbling Into shell holes and over tod men? somo very long dead ? and aanaglng to keep In touch with each other though the muchlne gun bullet* began tQ drop men almost immediate ly. Once we were started we were wither fearful nor rattled. We had been drilled so long and so carefully that each man knew Just what he was (o do, and he kept right on doing it inless ho got hit. To me it seemed the ground was moving back under me. The first ten yards were the toughest. The thing was perfectly or ganized. Our first party of ten was imposed of signalers. They were pay ing out wires and carrying telephones to be used during the fifteen minutes of our stay In the German trenches in communicating with otir battalion headquarters. A telephone code had been arranged, using the names of our ?omiuandlng officers ns symbols. "Rex ford 1" meant "First prisoners being peat back "Rexford 2" meant "Our first wounded being sent over;" "Rex ford 3" meant "We have entered Qer nan trench." The code was very com plete, and the signalers had been drill ed In It for n week. In case the tele phone wire* were cut, the signalers w?re to send messages back by the use of rifle grenndes. These nre rifle "Over the top and give 'em hell 1" projectiles which carry little metal cylinders to contain written messages and which burst Into flame when tfyey strike the earth, so that they can be easily found at night. The officer In charge of the signalers was to remain at the point of entrance, with his eyes on his watch. It was his duty,to sound a warning signal five minutes before the end of our time In the German trenches. j The leader of every party of ten also had n whistle with which to repeat the warning blast and then the final blast, when each man was to drop everything and get back of our artil lery fire. We were not to leave any dead or wounded in the German trench on account of the information which the Germans might thus obtain. Be fore starting on the raid we had r^ moved all marks from onr persons, In cluding even our identification disks. Except for the signalers, each party of ten wns similarly organised. First, there were two bayonet men, each with an electric flashlight attached to his rifle, ro as to give light for the di rection of a bayonet thrust and. con* trolled by n button at the left hand ?ra*P of the rifle. BestdeThlSTtfle, all of these men carried six or eight Mills No. 5 hand grenades, weighing from a P?tind and five ounces to a pound and seven ounces each. . ? .? v , The Lineup. They are the same Shape as a tnrkey ^ and a little larger. Upon With drawtftg the firing pin a lever sets a four second fuse going. One of these grenades will clean out anything llv ,nR In a ten foot trench section. It *111 also kill the man who Is throwing 't If he holds it more than four sec onds after he has ptmed the pin;-: The third man of each ten was an ^expert oorob thrower, equipped as tightly as Possible to give him freedom of ac He carried a feW bombs himself, ?but the main supply was 'carried by fourth man, who was not to throw tnJ unless the third man became a <**i?ity, In Which mm No. 4 was to his place. The third man also carried a knob kerrle, a betty bludgeon to be used in whacking an enemy over MfcMUl. Ours were made by farth ing hernia fcteei nuts on a stout stick <tf wood, ? Tory txMtpemHke eontrt van re. The fourth uiau, or bomb car* rfef, beel^ee baring a supply ot i Mllll jQrenadev. haft smoke bombs, to bo #<*) lb dhiofcing the Q?ra?uun out of dugouts and luter, if necessary, lu covering our retreat, and mIno fuiutta bombs. The latter are very dangerouf to handle. They contain u mixture of petrol ,.and phosphorous and weigh three pounds each. On exploding they release a liquid Are which will burn through ateel. ,Tho fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth in line were called utility men. They were to take the placet* of any of the first four who might become casual ties. In addition they carried two Stokes kuii bomba each/ These weigh nlua pounds apleee, have six second fuses and can be used lu wrecking dugouts. The. ninth and tenth men were sappers, carrying slabs of gun cotton and several hundred yards of Instantaneous fuse. This explosive Is used In demolishing machine gun em placements aud mine saps. VThe sap pers were to lay their charg^^whlle we wetfc at work In the trehenm' aud explode them as soon as our party was i far enough out on the return Journey ! to be safe from this danger. In addi- | tlon to these parties of ten there were three of us who carried bombs and had orders to keep near the three officers, 1 to take the place of any one of them , that might, go down and meanwhile to use our own Judgment about helping the Jolly old party along. 1 was as signed one of the three. In addition to the raiding party proper there wus a relay call ucross No Man's Land at ten paces Interval, making a chain to show us our way back, to assist the wounded and, In case of opportunity or necessity, to re enforce us. They were, ordered not to leave their positions when we began to come back until the last man of our party had been accounted for. The final section of our entourage was com posed of twelve stretcher bearers, who had been specially trained with us, so that they would be familiar with the trench section which we were to rald^ The Raid and Its' Results. There were two things which made It possible for our raiding party to get started across No Man's Land. One was the momentary quickening of the blood which follows a big and unac customed dose of rum, and the other We Were Crawling About on All Fours. wns a sort of subconscious, mechanical confidence In our undertaking, which .was a result of the scores of times we had gone through every prearranged movement In our practice duplicate German trenches behind our ilnes. Without either of those influences We simply could not have left the shelter and faced what was before us. An Intensified bombardment from our guns began Just as soon as we had climbed "over the top" and wefe lining up for the Journey across. "Lin ing up" is not Just a suitable term. We were crawling about on all fours Just far enough out In No Man's Land to be under the edge of the German shell fire and taking what shelter we could in shell holes while our leaders picked the way to start across. The extra heavy bombardment had warned the Germans that something was about to happen. They sent up star shells and "S O S" signals until there was a glare over the torn earth like that which you see at the grand finish of a Paint's fireworks display, and mean-1 while they sprayed No Man's Land with streams of machine gun fire. In the face of that we started. It would be absurd to say that we were not frightened. Thinking men could not help but be afraid. If we were pallid, which undoubtedly we were, the black upon our faces hid It, but our fear struck voices were not disguised. They trembled, and our tbeth chattered. We sneaked out single file, making jour way from shell hole to shell hole, nearly all the time on %11 fours, crawl In* quickly over the flat places between this small shelter. The Germans had not sighted us, but they were squirting machine gun bullets all over the place promiscuously, like a man watering a lawn with k garden hose, and they Were bound to get some of us. Behind me I Heard Cfles of pain and groans, btit it made little Impression on my benumbed intelligence from the mere fact that whatever had happened had happened to one of the other sections of ten" and not to my own. It seemed, some way or other, no affair to con cern me. Then a man in front of me tititifoted up suddenly and rolled Into a shell hole. That simply made me re member very clearly that I was not to stop on account of It. It was some one else's business to pick that man up. Next, according to the queer psy chology of battle, I began to lose my sensation of fear and nervousness. After I saw a second man go down I gave my attention principally to a con sideration of the irregularities of the German parapet stead of us, picking Out fee spot whet* fw *W? to eottr the trench. It wai silly to an tt? but & seemed to get some sort of satla* taction out <o? the realisation that we bud lost the p?i rcontage which w# might be expected to lone going over. Now, It Htwmed, the reat of na were safe until we could reach the next phase of our undertaking. 1 heard di rections given, and I gave some my It 8eemed That the Whole Earth Be hind Me Roee In the Air. self. My voice was firm. It surprised me, and I felt almost calm. < Our ar tillery had so torn up the German barb wire that It gave us no trouble ut all. We walked through it with only a Vew scratches. When we reached the low, sandbag parapet of the enemy trench we tossed In a few bombs and follow ed them right over as soon as they had exploded. There wasn't a German In Bight. They were all In their dugouts. But we knew pretty well whore overy dugout was located, and we rushed for the entrances with our bombs. Every thing seemed to be going Just as we, had expected it to go. Two Germans ran plump Into me as I was rounding a ditch angle with a bomb In my hand. They had their hands up, and each of them yelled : "Mercy, kameragl !" I passed them back, to be sent to the rear, and the man who received them from me chuckled and told them to move lively. The German trenches were practically just as we had ex pected to find them, according to our sample. They were so nearly similar to the duplicate section In which we had practiced that we had no trouble finding our way In them. I was Just thinking that really the only tough part of the job remaining would be getting back across No Man's Land when it seemed that the whole earth behind me rose In the air. For a mo ment I was stunned and half blinded by dirt blown Into my fnee. When I was able to see I discovered^ that all which lay behind me was a mass of upturned earth and rock, with here and there a man shaking himself or scrambling out of It or lying still. Just two minutes after we went Into tholr trench the Germans had explod ed a mine under their parapet. I have always believed that In some way or another they had learned what spot we were to raid and had prepared for us. Whether that's true or not, ono thing Is certain ? that mine blew our organization, as we would say In Ken tucky, "plumb to h ? 1." And It killed or disabled more than half of our party. Qreat Confusion. There was much confusion among those of us who remained on our feet. Some one gave an order to retire, and some one countermanded It. More Germans came out of their dugouts, but instead of surrendering as per our original schedule they threw bombs among us. It became apparent that we would be killed or captured if we stuck there and that we wouldn't get any more prisoners. I looked at my wrist watch and saw that there re mained but five minutes more of the time which had been allotted for our stay In the trench, so I blew my whis tle and started back. I had seen Pri vate Green (No. 177,250) knocked down by a bomb In the next section) and I picked him up and carried him out over the wrecked parapet I took shel ter with him In the first shell hole, but I found that he was dead and left him there. A few yards farther back to ward our line I found Lance Corporal Glass In a shell hole with part of his hip shot away. He Bald he thought he could get back If I helped him, and I started with him. Private Hunter, who had been In a neighboring shell hole, came to our assistance, and be tween us Hunter and I got Glass to Our front trench. We found them lining np the surviv ors of our party tor a roll call. That showed so many missing that Major Lewis, formerly of the Montreal Star, called for volunteers to go out in No Man's Land and try to find some of our men. Corporal Charleson, Private Saunders and I went out We brought In two wounded, and <#? saw a number Of dead, but on account of their black ened faces were unable to recognise them. The scouts later brought la sev eral bodies. Of the sixty odd men who had start ed In our party forty-three were found to be casualties ? killed, wounded or missing. The missing list wss the longest. The names of those men were marked "m. b. k." (missing; believed killed) on our rolls. I have learned since that some few of tptm have been repotted through Swltserland as pris oner* of war In Germany, but most of 'them are now officially listed as dead; All of the survivors of the raiding party were sent twenty miles to tbe rear at T o'clock, and the noncommis sioned officers wet* ordered to make reports in wrtttnf concerning the en howr at i tine far ntwkI day# tod nights. I would dpce off fropi sheer ?e*liau?tlon and then suddenly find my self sitting straight up, scared half to idefttli hp over again. There nmy he soldier* who won't i*?* soured when they know they and In danger or oven when people ure l>/ Ing killed right arounH thein. huJ/Tm not one of them. And I've jyXfcr met any of them yet. I know a hoy who won the military cross In the battle of the So mine, and 1 saw him on hi* kne?*H before bin platoon oouimnnder, shamelessly crying he wan a coward and hedging to be left behind, Just When the order to advance was given. In this war In every offensive, big or small, the man who has been train ed to throw a bomb thirty yards Is buxlm and more lmportunt than the fellow with the modern which will shoot u mile and a half and make" a hole through a house. In a good many surprising ways this war has carried ua back to first principles. I remember a crusader's mace which 1 once saw In the British museum that 'would make a bang up knob kerrle, much better than the kind with which they arm our No. 4 men In a rnldlng section. It had a round Iron head, with spikes all over It. 1 wonder that they haven't started a factory to turn them out. Tricks of Bombing. When the Canadians first Introduced bombing the bombs were Improvised out of mens tins, the fuses wore cut according to the taste and Judgment of the Individual bomber, and Just when the bomb would explode was more or less problematical. Frequent ly the Germans have tossed our bombs j back Into our trenches before they went off. That was dangerous and ir ritating. They can't do that with a Mills grenade or any of tho improved factory made bombs, ^ecause the men know Just how they arte timed and are trained to know Just how to throw them. Then the Germans used to .work a little bomb trick of their own. .They learned that our scouts and ralil 'ers were all anxious to get a German helmet as a souvenir. They'd put hel mets on the ground In No Man's Land 'or In an advanced trench with bombs lUnder them. In several cases men [looking for souvenirs suddenly became (mere memories themselves. , j In severnl raids when bombing was new the Canadians worked n trick on the Germans with exfenslvely fatal ef .fect. They tossed bombs Into the ;German trenches with six Inch fuses attached. To the Germans they looked Just like the other bombs we had been using, and, In fact, they jvere ? all but the fuses. Instead of having failed to continue burning, as the Germans thought, those fusees had never been lighted. They were instantaneous fuses. The ignition spark will travel through an Instantaneous fuse at the rate of thirty yards a second. A German would pick up one of these bombs, select the spot where he Intended to blow up a few of us with our own ammonal and then light the fuse. After that there had to be a new man in his place. The bomb would explode Instantly the long fuse was Ignited. The next day when I got up after this disastrous raid my bunkie ftald : "Something sure raised h ? with our calculations." "As those automatic self cocking revolvers did with a Kentucky wed ding when some one made a remark reflecting on the bride," I replied. ? The fourth article of tills remarkable personal narrative will appear soon. It Is entitled: No. 4 ? Shifted to the 8omme. Sergeant McCllntoek takes part In the greatest of all battles and tells of tlie hell of It. "The front In Belgium wm really a rest sector In comparison with it," he says. The extensive preparations of the allies for open warfare afterward abandoned because of the failure of ex pected developments. The Average Man. The standard of any nation is meas ured by the average of Its citizens. The exceptional man gets the double line notices In the papers and In the biographical dictionaries, but the aver age man does the business and gets but little reward. The average man Is the bone and sinew of the state, while the exceptional man constitutes the scallops and the decorations. The average man fights the battles, the exceptional man wears the shoulder straps. The average man produces the coin, the exceptional man appropri ates it The average man furnishes the depth In the river of humanity, the exceptional man Is only the wave that surges for a moment on its surface. The solid, substantial citizen, who meets his obligations, fulfills his duty Of citizenship, Is the very foundation itone of all that Is wholesome in. our civilization. The term ??man" is hers used generically and includes woman, fof high average womanhood Is quite as important to society as that of the opposite sex. There are plenty to of fer tribute to the exceptional man, why not tribute to the average man who makes the other possible? Is It Like This? "The honorable player Is out," sold the Japanese umpire. ' ^ "But the honorable hall was too low."" ?" " ? 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