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OVER THK TOP. (Continued from page 3, column 3.X [neons assortment of material used in [the manufacture of the "jam tins." Tommy would stoop down, get an empty "jam tin," take a handful of clayey mud from the parapet, and line the inside of the tin with this substance. Then he would reach over, pick up his detonator and explosive, and insert them In the tin, fuse pro- j trading. On the fire step would be a pile of fragments of shell, shrapnel bells, bits of iron, nails, etc.?anything j jthat was hard enough to send over to i [Fritz; he would scoop up a handful of | jthis junk and put it in the bomb. Per- | jhaps one of the platoon would ask him j jjvhat he did this for, and he would jexplain that when the bomb exploded [these bits would fly about and kill or rtconnd anv ftprman hit hv same! the Questioner would immediately pull a ' button off his tunic and hand It to j the bomb maker with, "Well, blame ! me, send this over as a souvenir," or another Tommy would volunteer an old rusty and broken jackknife; both would be accepted and inserted. Then the professor would take another handful of mud and fill the tin, [after which he would punch a hole In (the lid of the tin and put it over the j jtop of the bomb, the fuse sticking out i ^Then perhaps he would tightly wrap ; (wire around the outside of the tin, and jthe bomb was ready to send over to (Fritz with Tommy's compliments. A piece of wood about four Inches wide had been issued. This was to be strapped on the left forearm by means of two leather straps and was like the 6ide of a match box; It was called a "striker." There was a tip like the jhead of a match on the fuse of the [bomb. To ignite tne ruse, you naa to ji-ub it on the "striker," just the same |^.s striking a match. The fuse was {timed to five seconds or longer. Some ; ipf the fuses issued in those days would [burn down in a second or two, while [others would "sizz" for a week before [exploding. Back in Blighty the munijtion workers weren't quite up to snuff, the way they are now. If the fuse took a notion to burn too quickly they generally buried the bomb maker next fday. So making bombs could not be called a "cushy" or safe job. After making several bombs the pro- | jfessor instructs the platoon in throw- | jing them. He takes a "jam tin" from jthe fire step, trembling a little, be;cause it is nervous work, especially when new at it, lights the fuse on his striker. The fuse begins to "sizz" and sputter and a spiral of smoke, like that from a smoldering fag, rises from it The platoon splits in two and ucks around the traverse nearest to tiem. They don't like the looks and [sound of the burning fuse. When that ffuse begins to smoke and "sizz" you want to say good-by to it as soon as ,possible, so Tommy with all his might [chucks it over the top and crouches iagainst the parapet, waiting for the "explosion. , Lots of times In bombing the "jam tin" would be picked up by the Germans, before it exploded, and thrown [back at Tommy with dire results. After a lot of men went West in this manner an order was issued, reading fsomething like this: "To all ranks in the British army: .After igniting the fuse and before throwing the jam-tin bomb, count Slowly one! two! three!" This in order to give the fuse time ^enough to burn down, so that the bomb ! would explode before the Germans could throw it back. ! Tommy read the order?he reads ithem all, but after he ignited the fuse tend it began to smoke?orders were forgoken, and away she went in record time and back she came to the further jdiscomfort of the thrower. : Then another order was issued to count, "one hundred! two hundred! three hundred!" But Tommy didn't care if the order read to count up to a thousand by quarters, he was going |to get rid of that "jam tin," because from experience he had learned not' jto trust it. When the powers that be realized ; ithat they could not change Tommy j ithey decided to change the type of j bomb and did so?substituting the, j"hair brush," the "cricket ball," and ilater the Mills bomb. The standard bomb used in the British army is the "Mills." It is about the shape and size of a large lemon. Although not actually a lemon, Fritz insists that it is: perhaps he Judges it fby the havoc caused by its explosion. iThe Mills bomb is made of steel, the [outside of which is corrugated into 48 ' small squares, which, upon the explo-1 ?ion of the bomb, scatter in a wide [area, wounding or killing any Fritz [who is unfortunate enough to be hit jby one of the flying fragments. I Although a very destructive and efficient bomb the "Mills" has the coriidence of the thrower, in that he knows it will not explode until released from his grip. I It is a mechanical device, with a jjever, fitted into a slot at the top, [Which extends half way around the j ^circumference and is held in place at j bottom hv a fixing oln. In this pin jthere is a small metal ring, for the purpose of extracting the pin when 'ready to throw. You do not throw a bomb the way a baseball is thrown, because, when in 'a narrow trench, your hand is liable to strike against the parados, traverse or parapet, and then down goes the bomb, and, In a couple of seconds or so, up goes Tommy, i In throwing, the bomb and lever are grasped fa the right hand, the left foot is advanced, knee stiff, about one and !a half its length to the front, while ithe right leg, knee bent, is carried ^slightly to the right. The left arm is .extended at an angle of 45 degrees, pointing Ih the .direction the bomb is to / . U-BOAT SINKINGS DECREASE. : Only Six British Ships of 1,600 Tohs Sunk Past W^ek. | i London. April 3.?There was a ; sudden marked decrease in the losses to British shipping through mine , or submarine in the past week. The : admiralty reports that only sr: British merchantmen of 1,600 tons or | over and seven under that tonnage I were sunk in the week ending March 30th. Five fishing vessels also were I sent to the bottom. The admiralty statement continues: "Fifteen British merchant vessels were unsuccessfully attacked by submarines. "The large vessels sunk include one sunk during the week ending March 16 and the smaller vessels reported sunk includes one during the week ending March 23. "The arrivals during the week ending March 30 were 2,416 and the sailings 2,739." , The losses to British merchantmen i,i*r\ct*Vi enhniarinos unrl mines in the 1111 UU511 ow. W*? v? I past week are less than one-half the i losses in the previous week, when twenty-eight merchantmen were j sunk, sixteen of the vessels over 1,600 tons. The, admiralty report for the pre- 1 ceding week showed the loss of seventeen vessels, while for several weeks prior to that the weekly loss was eighteen. i "What is the hardest part of your work as a lecturer?" asked the man designated as toastmaster. "As a rule," replied Mr. Jenkins, "the hardest part of my work is waking the audience up after the man man who introduces me has concluded his remarks."?Washington Star. I be thrown. This position is similar to that of shot putting, only that the right arm is extended downward. Then you hurl the bomb from you with an overhead bowling motion, the same as in cricket, throwing it fairly high in the air, this in order to give the fuse a chance to burn down so that when the bomb lands, it immediately explodes and gives the Germans no time fnnmnni* An f Ifo f*oncrA AT* f a wa_ IV ov,aiiipti vUt vi Ato x vrx tv x\turn it. As the bomb leaves your hand, the lever, by means of a spring, is projected into the air and falls harmlessly to the ground a few feet in front of the bomber. "When the lever flies off it releases a strong spring, which forces the firing pin into a percussion cap. This ignites the fuse, which burns down and sets off the detonator, charged with fulminate of mercury, which explodes the main charge of ammonal. The average British soldier is not an expert at throwing; it is a new game to him, therefore the Canadians and Americans, who have played baseball from the kindergarten up, take naturally to bomb throwing and excel in this _ act. A six-foot English bomber will stand in awed silence when he sees a little five-foot-nothing Canadian . outdistance his throw by several yards. I have read a few war stories of bombing, where baseball pitchers curved their bombs when throwing them, but a pitcher who can do this would make "Christy" Mathewson look like a piker, and is losing valuable time playing in the European War bush league, when he would be able to set the "big league" on fire. We had a cushy time while at this school. In fact, to us it was a regular vacation, and we were very sorry when one morning the adjutant ordered us to report at headquarters for trans portation and rations to return to our units up the line. Arriving at our section, the boys once again tendered us the glad mitt, but looked askance at us out of the corners of their eyes. They could not conceive, as they expressed it, how a man could be such a blinking idiot as to join the Suicide club. I was beginning to feel sorry that I had become a member of said club, and my life to me appeared doubly precious. . Now that I was a sure-enough bomber I was praying for peace and hoping that my services as such would not be required. (To be continued next week.) DESTROYS SLEEP Many Bamberg People Testify to This. You can't sleep at night. With aches and pains of a bad back. When you have to get up from urinary troubles. If t'he kidneys are at fault Set them working right with Doan's W ii-Iti q v Piilc A. *?*v. 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