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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
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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
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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'
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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>
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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
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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
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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
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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- <
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ment yesterday tnai uie r-miauu uauj been
torpedoed, but had been able to I
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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
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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
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: 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. |
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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.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of Jan?
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of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1918.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 1 nth day of October, 1917, until
the 1st day of March, 1918.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
No. 666
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