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^ SYNOPSIS. ] CHAPTER I?Fired by the news of the ,sinklng of the Lusitanla by a German H|A [submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameriloan, leaves his office in Jersey City and , roes to England where he enlists in the ^^^B British army. [ CHAPTER II?After a period of training, Empey volunteers for immediate servB^BB | Ice and soon finds himself in rest billets [ 'somewhere in France," where he first fl^V ; makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres[ent "cooties." B7 i CHAPTER III?Empey attends his first BB 'church services at the front while a German Fokker circles over the congregation. V I CHAPTER IV?Ehnpey's command goes ^ .Into the front-line trenches and is under 'fire for the first time. ; CHAPTER V?Empey learns to adopt [the motto of the Brtish Tommy, "If you are going to get it, you'll get it, so never i worry." ... . _ CHXPTER Vt?Back In rest billets, EmJpey gets his first experience as a mesa | orderly. j CHAPTER VII?Empey learns how the [British soldiers are fed. . ott a "pttcr vtii?Back in the front-line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his first ivisit to a dugout in "Suicide Ditch." CHAPTER X?Empey learns what conjgtitutes a "day's work" in the front-line I trench r CHAPTER XI?Empey goes -over tne 'top" for the first time in a charge on the German trenches and is wounded by a bayonet thrust. CHAPTER XII?Empey joins the "sui, [dde club" as the bombing squad is called. i CHAPTER VIII?Back in the front line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his first visit to a dugout in "Suicide | Ditch." j CHAPTER X?Empey learns what constitutes a "day's work" in the front-line trench. CHAPTER XI?Empey goes "over the top" for the first time in a charge on the German trenches and is wounded by a bayonet thrust. CHAPTER XII?Empey joins the "suicide club" as the bombing squad OdllpH i CHAPTER XIII?Each Tommy gets an official bath. CHAPTER XIV?Empey helps dig an advanced trench ifhder German j fire. 1 CHAPTER XV?On "listening post" in No Man's Land. CHAPTER XVI?Two artillery- J men "put one over" on Old Pepper, their regimental commander. / CHAPTER XVII?Empey has narrow escape while on patrol duty in No Man's Land. CHAPTER XVIII?Back in rest billets Empey writes and stages a farce comedy. CHAPTER XIX?Soldiers have many ways to amuse themselves while "on their own." T CHAPTER XXI. About Turn. ' The next evening we were relieved t>y the ?th brigade, and once again returned to rest billets. Upon arriving at these billets we were given twentyfour hours in which to clean up. I had just finished getting the mud from my uniform when the orderly sergeant informed me that my name was in orders to leave, and that I was to report to the orderly room in the morning for orders, transportation and rations. l nearly had a fit, hustled about packing up, filling my pack with souvenirs such as shell heads, dud bombs, nose caps, shrapnel balls, and a Prussian guardsman's helmet. In fact, before I turned in that night, I had everything ready to report at the orderly room at nine the next morning. I was the envy of the whole section, swanking around, telling of the good time 1 was going to have, the places I would visit, and the real, old English beer I intended to guzzle. Sort of rubbed it into them, because they all clo it, and now that it was my turn, I took pains to get my own back. At nine I reported to the captain, receiving my travel order and pass. He psked me how much money I wanted to draw. I glibly answered, "Three hundred francs, sir;" he just as glibly banded me one hundred. Reporting at brigade headquarters, . with my pack weighing a ton, I waited, with forty others, for the adjutant to Inspect us. After an hour's wait, he came out; must have been sore because he wasn't going with us. The quartermaster sergeant issued as two days' rations, In a little white canvas ration bag, which we tied to our belts. Then two motor lorries came along &nd we piled in, laughing, Joking, and In the best of spirits. We even loved the Germans, we were feeling so happy. Our journey to seven days' bliss in Blighty had commenced. The ride in the lorry lasted about two hours; by this time we were covered with fine, white dust from the road, but didn't mind, even if we were nearly choking. At the railroad station at F we reported to an officer, who had a white band around his arm, which read "R. T. O." (Royal Transportation Officer). To us this officer was Santa Claus. The sergeant in charge showed him , our orders; he glanced through them and said: "Make yourselves comfortable on the platform and don't leave; the train is liable to be along in five : i S ii i MM SOLDI!! 10 WENT * * TtUMJYMY ? OJNrtEUBMNGlN fRAWCE? ?1917 BY ARTHUR CUY?flPgY| , j minutes?or nve nours." It came In five hours, a string of * eleven match boxes on big, high wheels, drawn by a dinky little engine with the "con." These match boxes were cattle cars, on the sides of which was painted the old familiar sign, "Hommes 40, Chevaux 8." The R. T. O. stuck us all into one 1 car. We didn't care; it was as good as a Pullman to us. Two days we spent on that train, ' bumping, stopping, jerking ahead, and : sometimes sliding back. At three sta- ! tions we stopped long enough to make j some tea, but were unable to wash, so when we arrived at B , where we i were to embark for Blighty, we were as black as Turcos and, with our un- ! shaven faces, we looked like a lot of tramps. Though tired out, we were happy. i We had packed up, preparatory to detraining, when a R. T. O. held up his hand for us to stop where we were and came over. This is what he said: Dead Bodies tverywnere. "Boys, Fm sorry, but orders have just been received cancelling all leave. If you had been three hours earlier you would have gotten away. Just stay in that train, as it is going back. Rations will be issued to you for your return journey to your respective stations. Beastly rotten, I know." Then he left. A dead silence resulted. Then men , started to curse, threw their rifles on ; the floor of the car; others said noth- j ing, seemed to be stupefied, while some had the tears running down their cheeks. It was a bitter disappointment ! to all. How we blinded at the engineer of ; that train; it was all his fault (so we i reasoned); why hadn't he speeded up a little or been on time, then we would ; have gotten off before the order arrived? Now it was no Blighty for us. That return journey was misery to us; I just can't describe it. When we got back to rest billets, we found that our brigade was in tne trenches (another agreeable surprise) and that an attack was contemplated. Seventeen of the forty-one will never get another chance to go on leave; ' they were killed in the attack. Just ! think if thac train had been on time, those seventeen would still be alive. I hate to tell you how I was kidded by the boys when I got back, but it was good and plenty. Our machine gun company took over their part of the line at seven o'clock, | the night after I returned from my aear leave. i At 3:30 the following morning three waves went over and captured the first i and second German trenches. The machine gunners went over with the , fourth wave to consolidate the captured line or "dig in," as Tommy calls it i Crossing No Man's Land without clicking any casualties, we came to j the German trench and mounted our guns on the parados of same. I never saw such a mess in my life | ?bunches of twisted barbed wire lying about, shell holes everywhere, trench j all bashed in, parapets gone, and dead \ bodies, why, that ditch was full of j them, theirs and ours. It was a regular morgue. Some were mangled horribly from our shell fire, while others were wholly or partly buried in the, mud, the result of shell explosions cav- j ing in the walls of the trench. One j dead German was lying on his back, with a rifle sticking straight up in the air, the bayonet of which was buried ! to the hilt in his chest. Across his feet i lay a dead English soldier with a bul-! let hole in his forehead. This Tommy j must have been killed just as he ran his bayonet through the German. Rifles and equipment were scattered ; about, and occasionally a steel helmet! could be seen sticking out of the mud. j At one point, just in the entrance to a communication trench, was a stretch- j er. On this stretcher a German was! lying with a white bandage around nis | ! knee, near to him lay one of the j i stretcher-bearers, the red cross on his j arm covered with mud and his helmet j filled with blood and brains. Close by,! sitting up against the wall of the j trench, with head resting on his chest, j was the other stretcher-bearer. He ' seemed to be alive, the posture was so i natural and easy; but when I got 1 closer I could see a large, jagged hole | In his temple. The three must have i been killed by the same shell-burst. The dugouts were all smashed in and i knocked about, big square-cot timbers 1 splintered Into bits, walls caved In and ! entrances choked. Tommy, after taking a trench, learns to his sorrow that the hardest part of the work is to hold It. In our case this proved to be so. The German artillery and machine | guns had us taped (ranged) for fair; j It was worth your life to expose yourI self an instant. Don't think for a minute that the Germans were {he only sufferers; we were clicking casualties so fast that you needed an adding machine to keep track of them. Did you ever see one of the steam shovels at work on the Panama canal? Well, it would look like a hen scratching alongside of a Tommy "digging in" while under fire. You couldn't see daylight through the clouds of dirt from his shovel. After ldsing three out of six men of our crew we managed to set up our machine gun. One of the legs of the tripod was resting on the chest of a half-buried body. When the gun was firing, it gave the impression that the body was breathing. This was caused by the excessite vibration. Three or four feet down the trench, about three feet from the ground, a foot was protruding from the earth We knew it was a German by the black leather boot. One of our crew used that foot to hang extra bandoliers of ammunition on. This man always was a handy fellow; made use of little points that the ordinary person would overlook. The Germans made three counterattacks, which we repulsed, but not without heavy loss on our side. They also suffered severely from our shell and machine-gun fire. The ground was spotted with their dead and dying. The next day things were somewhat quieter, but not quiet enough to bury the dead. We lived, ate and slept in that trench with the unburied dead for six days. It was awful to watch their faces become swollen and discolored. Towards the last the stench was fierce. What got on my nerves the most was that foot sticking out of the dirt. It seemed to me, at night, in the moonlight, to be trying to twist around. Several times this impression was so strong that I went to it and grasped it in both hands, to see if I could feel a movement I told this to the man who had used It for a hatrack just before I lay down for a little nap, as things were quiet and I needed a rest pretty badly. When I woke up the foot was gone. He had cut it off with our chain saw but of the spare parts' box, and had plastered the stump over with mud. During the next two or three days, before we were relieved, I missed that foot dreadfully; seemed as if I had suddenly lost a chum. I think the worst thing of all was to watch the rats, at night, and sometimes in the day, run over and play about among the dead. Near our gun, right across the parapet, could be seen the body of a German lieutenant, the head and arms of which were hanging into our trench. The man who had cut off the foot used to sit and carry on a one-sided conversation with this officer, used to argue and point out why Germany was in the wrong. During all of this monologue I never heard him say anything out of the way?anything that would have hurt the officer's feelings had he been alive. He was square all right; wouldn't even take advantage of a dead man in an argument. To civilians this must seem dread taU but out here one gets so used to | awful sights that It makes no Impression. In passing a butcher shop you are not shocked by seeing a dead tur- j key hanging from a hook. Well, in France, a dead body is looked upon from the same angle. But, nevertheless, when our six days | were up, we were tickled to d^ath to be relieved. Our machine gun company lost seventeen killed and thirty-one wounded in that little local affair of "straightening the line," while the other companies clicked it worse than we did. After the attack we went into reserve billets for six days, and on the i seventh once again we were in rest bil- \ lets. i i c? DC Lumiiiuea nt?.\L v\eetv.; ^ < > ^ Registration Regulations, Xo. 2 1. General Provisions. 1. Prescribed by the President. These regulations are prescribed by | the President under the authority vested in him by Public Resolution No. ?. approved , 191$,, and the act of congress approved May ! 1 $, 1917, and may be modified at any I time. ! 2. Persons required by the law to | present themselves for registration.! Public Resolution Xo. ?. approved ! . 191$, contains the follow-1 ing provision: That during the present emergency all male persons, citizens of the Unit-; ed States, and all male persons residing in the United States, who; have, since the fifth day of June, p nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the?! registration by proclamation by the j president, attained the age of twen-! ty-one years, shall be subject to reg-! istration in accordance with regula- j tions to be prescribed by the presi- | dent, and that upon proclamation by I the president, stating the time and j place of such registration, it shall j be the duty of all such persons, except such persons as are exempt from registration under the act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and any act or acts amendatory thereof, to present themselves for and submit to registration under the provisions of said act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and they shall be registered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those previously registered under the terms of said act: (Continued on page 6, column 1.) WIXTHROP COLLEGE. Scholarship and Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop college and for the admission of new students will be held at the county court house on Friday, July 5, at 9 a. m., and also on Saturday, July 0, at 9 a. in., for those who wish to make up by examinations additional units required for full admission to the Freshman class of this institution. The examination on Saturday, July 6, will be used only for making admission units. The scholarships will be awarded upon the examination held on Friday, July 5. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 5, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson for scholarship examination blanks. 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