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?UHOIANT MoCLINTOCK. No. 3. ^vertheTop andfiive'EmBelir By Serfesat Alexander McCllntock, D. C. at, 87th Overseas Batt., Canadian Oreo. Guards. Copyright. 1917. by the Dell Syn? dicate, Inc. H>rgeant McCUnto* k, ir/io has seen ?eri'Ire in France, naif thcomtcd for brn>cry, uaumlcl, inAilhled home and is now endeavoring to pet a commission 11 < nr army. A commimion in the Ca? nadian army atrai*a him if he returns to join hia old command. In tho first and second articles he graphically (ft* ecribrs his training, his trip to France and the itt preparations made for i bomb raid on the German trench .?. AS we climl>ed out of the shelter "f our trenches for iny tlrst?aud, I ? i liaps, my last, I thought?ad? venture in No Man's I^and the word Was passed . "< \er tho top and give 'em hell:" That Is the Hrltlsh Tommies* battle cry as they c linr^e the enemy, and It has often sounded up and down those loaf Hues iu western Frame as the 1'iit sli, Canadian and Australian sol diem go out to the tight aud the death. w ? wen MM inr.> si\ pai Ii?"< of ten men. each party having separate dutM to perform. We crmuhed for? ward, moving slowly in slmrle tile, stumbling into shell boles and over dead men?some very |sjjsj dead?and managlug to keep in toueh with each "C*er th? top and give 'em h?ll!" other latoogtj the machine gin bullet i began to * 11? *; i.. ? n a I moat imiuMlintc ly. On.,, ur \\<ie sfarfe-l We Were Hehler jeajfaj in r rattled. We had Wen drilled so h ug and so carefully that each man knew just what be \mm to do, uml be kept right ou doing It unless he got hit. To me it seemed the ground was nue lug hack under Die Tie tp-t ten >ards were tho toughest. The thing was perfectly ot gnnl/. ?1 Our llrst party of ten win eompo^td of si-nalers. They were pay? ing out wire* ami carrying telephones to Ik* u>ed darin.: the Ikftecu minutes of our stay In the (ierinan tum he* In eo nmniilejit'ug with our battalion hetubjuatt? ? n. A telephone code had ?aejg ,.i gatai Ihe eaaaei ?-f mir conimandini; oftVers as syminds. "Hex foi l l" meant "First prisoners Irehig sent back;" "Itcxford V.'' meaut "Our first w ?umlcd being fent over;" "llex f ?r l 3" meant "We have entered Oer tuun I task h."' The pods was rarsr eoaa plete. and the siu'nalcts bad been drill? ed In It for a week. In case the tele phone wiics weir ?uf. the signalers Were to send m??ssaKes back by tile ase of rifle grenade**. These are rltlc pr??j? I leg which carry little nictai fyttnden to contain written sseeaasjei and \\ liich burst bit ? tlnin * w hen the\ stnki the earth, so that they tag be ee>lly f und ut night. The OtBcef In cliar^o of the si rnalers was to remain at tli' i-oint of entrance, with his c.tes on h!s watcb. It was bis duty to sound a Warning ?Ignal five minutes before the end of our time in tho (ierinan tren? bes. The leader of every pnrty of ten a No had a whNtlc with which to re,II at the warning aaaat and thoal tin- MN? blas? wli.'u ea? h man was to d.o,? ever> thing and get back of our artil? lery fire. We were not to leave any deud or wounded In tin- Oermun In m h em a'- onnf of the Information which the Ocrmans might thus obtain. Be fore starting on the raid we had re nioved ?II markt from our pggasjra*. In cludMnf even our Identification dl'+ks. Ktrcp* f<?r the signalers, ea< h party of ten ass similarly organised. First, there were two bayonet men. ea< !i with an ele tri?- t'Hshlkht attic lied to his rifle, so ss to give light for the dl TR THERE Thrill and the Hell of i Trenches, Described y an American Boy. pant Alexander McClintock of Lex Ky , and the Canadian Army Has ig Tale That Every American Will For He Tells the Facts?Unadorn rounded, a Distinguished Conduot Man, He Was Invalided Home, Going "Out There" Again to Fight tele Spm and His Allies. An In , Interesting, Personal Narrative, the Spirit and Atmosphere of the cs. ro? tlon of a bayonet thrust and con tfolled by a button at the left hand grasp of the rltle. Resides h's rifle, all of these men carried six or right Mills No. I hand grenades, weighing from a pound and (Ivo ounces to a pound and ?freu onnces each. The Lineup. They are the same shape as a turkey egg and a little larger. Upon with? drawing the tiring pin a lever sets a four second fuse going. One of those grenades will clean out anything liv? ing In a ten foot trench section. It will also kill the man who Is throwing It If ho holds It more than four sec? onds after he has pulled the pin. The third man of each ten was on expert bomb thrower, equipped ns lightly as psjsjsJbtj to give him freedom of ac? tion. He carried a few bombs himself, j but the main supply was carried by tho fourth man, who was not to throw ! any unless the th'rd man became a casualty, in which case No. 4 was to take his place. The third man also carried a knob kerrie. a heavy bludgeon to be used In whacking an enemy over the head. Ours were made by fasten? ing heavy steel nuts on a stout stick of wood, a very juslnessllke contri? vance. The fourth man, or bomb enr r;'T. besides having a large supply of Mills grenades, had smoko bombs, to l>e uscc\ in smoking tho Germans out of dugotltl and later, if necessary. In covering our retreat, and also fumife bombs. The latter are very dangerous i to bundle. They contain a mixture of j petrol and phosphorous aid weigh three pounds each. On exploding they release a liquid Are which will burn through steel. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth In line were called utility men. They j were to take the places of any of the i first four who might becomo casual-1 ties. In addition they carried two Stokes gun bombs each. These weigh nine ]>oimds apiece, have six second fuses snd csn be used in 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 plueoincnts and mine saps. The sap ptn were to lay their charges while wo wen? at work in the trenches and explode them ns soon as our party was far enough out on the return Journey to be safe from this danger. In addi? tion to these parties of ton there were three of us who carried bombs and had Ofden to keep near the three officers, to take the place of any one of them that might go down and meanwhile to net our own judgment about helping the Jolly old party along. I was as signed one of the three. In addition to the raiding party proper there Wal I relay cull aCTOOl JCo Mum s Land at ten paces Interval, making ? chain to show us our way back, to nssl<t 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 beta 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 treu? h so? tlon which we were to raid. The Raid and Its Result. There were two things which made it possible for our raiding party to gel st?rt?sl across No Man's Land. One | was tho momentary quickening of the blood whirl follows u big and unac? customed doM Of rum. and the OthOf Ws Were Crawling About on All Fourt. irai ? sort of ?nbconseioni, mechanical COOfldetl I In our undertaking, which Uns a result of the scores of times we had gone through every prearranged tnoNcmcnt in our practice duplicate German trenches behind our lines. Without either of those Infhteii es wo ?Imply could not have left the shelter and fa- ed u hat w as I efofO III An intensified bombardment from Ott guns began Just as s. on jis we hud i limbed "OVCf the lOpH Rltd Weft lining "i? fOf the Joltruoj iCIOaaV "Uli ing ui/' is not jhiat ?'. sulii bio term. We were crawling tit tout oil all fouri Just far enough out in No Man s Land to be under the edge <?r tho Qerman shell lire 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 happou. They sent tip 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 rain's fireworks display, and mean? while they sprayed No Man's Laud with streams of machine gun lire. 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 teeth chattered. We sneaked out single file, making our way from shell hole to shell hole, nearly all toe time on all fours, crawl? ing quickly over the tint 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 ii garden hose, and they were bound to get some of us. Behlud me I beard cries of pain and groans, but 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 doubled 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 It Seemed That the Whole Earth Be? hind Me Rosa In the Air. one else's business to pick that man up. Next, according to the queer psy? chology of battle, 1 began to lose my sensation of fear and nervousness. After I saw a second man go down 1 gave my attention principally to a con? sideration of the irregularities of the German parapet ahead of us, picking out the spot where we were to enter the trench. It seems silly to say It, but I seemed to get some sort of satis? faction out of the realisation that we had lost the percentage which we might be expected to lose going over. Now, it seemed, the rest of us were safe until we should reach the next phase of our undertaking. I heard di? rections given, and I gave some my? self. My voice was firm. It surprised ate, and I fell almost calm. Our ar? tillery had so torn up the German barb Wire that it gave us no trouble at all. We walked through it with only a few scratches. When WO reached tho low. sandbag parapet of the enemy trench we tossed in a few bombs and follow? ed then right over as soon as they had exploded. There wasn't a German in sight. They were all in their dugouts. But we knew pretty well where every dUgOQt was located, aud we rushed for the entrances With our bombs. Every? thing seemed to be going just as we hud 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, kamerad!" I passed them back, to bo 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 Unding our way in them. I was Just thinking that really tho 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 ulr. Tor a mo? ment I was stunned and half blinded by dirt blown Into my face. When I was able to see 1 discovered that all which lay behind mo was a mass of upturned earth and rock, with here and there n man shaking himself or scrambling out of it or lying still. Just two minutes after we went Into their trench the Germans hud explod? ed a mtno under their parapet. I have always believed that in some way or mother they had learned what, spot we were to raid and had prepared for us. Whether that's true or not, one Illing Ii 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. Orcfit Confusion. There was much confusion among those of us who remained on our feet. Some one gave nn order lo retire, and some one countermanded it. More Nermniis came on! of their dugouts, but Instead of surrendering as per our orlglunl schedule I hoy Ihrew bombs among ua. it lie amo ?pfutreiit thai 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 tho 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 j by a bomb in the next section, and I I picked him up and carried bim out over the wrecked parapet. I took shel? ter with him in the ?rst shell hole, but i I found that he was dead and left him ? there. A few yards farther back to? ward our Una I found Lance Corporal Olass In a shell hole with part of his hip shot away. He said he thought he j could get back if I helped him, and I ! started with him. Private Hunter, I who had been in a neighboring shell ! hole, came to our assistance, and be i tween us Hunter and I got Glass to i our front trench. We found them lining up the surviv? ors of our party for 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 I^nnd and try to find some of our men. Corporal Chnrleson, Privat? Saunders and 1 went out. We brought in^two wounded, and we saw a number of dead, but on account of their black, ened faces were unable to recognize them. The scouts later brought in sev? eral bodies. Of the sixty odd men who bad start? ed hi our party forty-three were found to be casualties?killed, wounded or missing. The missing list was the longest. The names of those men were ! marked "m. b. k." (missing; believed j killed) on our rolls. I have learned I since that some few of them have been i reported through Switzerland as pris j oners of war in Germany, but most of tbeui are now officially listed as dead. All of the survivors of the raiding party were sent twenty miles to the rear at 7 o'clock, and the noncommis? sioned officers were ordered to make reports in writing concerning the en? tire raid. I never slept more than an hour at a time for several days and nights. I would doze off from sheer I exhaustion aud then suddenly mid my. j self sitting straight up, scared half to j death all over again. There may be soldiers who won't get scared when they know they are in danger or even when people are be? ing killed right around them, but I'm not one of them. And I've never met any of them yet. 1 know a boy who won the military cross in the battle of the Somme, and 1 saw him on his knees before his platoon commander, shamelessly crying be was a coward and begging to be left behind, Just when the order to advance was given. In this war in every offensive, big or small, the man who bas been train? ed to throw a bomb thirty yards is busier and more Important than the fellow with the modern rifle, which will shoot a mile and a half and make a bole through a house. In a good many surprising ways this war has carried us back to first principles. I remember a crusader's mace which I ouce saw in the British museum that! would make a bang up knob kerrle, much better than the kind with which they arm our Xo. 4 men in a raiding section. It had a round iron head, with spikes all over lt. I 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 mess tins, the fuses were 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 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 the improved factory made bombs, because the meu know Just how they are 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 raid? 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 under them. In several cases men looking for souvenirs suddenly became mere memories themselves. In several rails when bombing was new the Canadians worked a trick on tho Germans with extensively fatal ef? fect. They tossed bombs Into the German trenches with six Inch fuses attached. To the German! they looked Just ilke the other bombs we had been using, and, in fact, the.v were?all but the fuses. Instead of having failed to continue burning, as the Germans thought, those fuses 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 bunkle said: "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 this remarkable personal narrative will appear soon. It is entitled: No. 4.?Shifted to the Somme. ?ergennl McCllntoek takes part In the greatest <>r all battles and t.dls of the hell ot it. "The front In Belgium was really a rest sector In comparison with it," Iis says, The sxtenalvs preparations of the aili.-H for open warfare afterward abandoned l?e< nine of the f.iiluie of e\ peated del slopinenta Some Polities. looking at the situation from one standpoint, Tillman has the whiphan.1. He ran force support of himself by many who would much prefer that h? shoud not he his own successor In the United States senate. And you.' Uncle Benjamin is not the kind of man to overlook any I,eta when comes to playing the game of poli? tics. The fact can neither be denied nor ignored that if he enters the pii mary there are mnay thousands of voters who will cast their ballots for him in preference to any other candi? date. Those of whom he is the first j choice are not a majority of the voters jof South Carolina, but the probabil t Ity is that they are a majority of those I who want Blease defeated at any I cost. At any rate, they are so large a proportion of that latter class that much respect must be paid to their wishes by those who will engineer the campaign to deefat Blease. It is improbable, for instance, that Lever could be induced to run for the senate if Tillman allowed himself to be "conscripted" to make that cam? paign. Lever has a re.'tl regard for Tillman. Moreover, he would have to draw water from the same well as Tillman, since many of his strongest supporters are ardent admirers of the .senior senator. There are others in I the same boat with Le^er. Running in a South Carolina pri ! mary is no joke. It costs considerable ! money. But, in addition, it is hard work. To go all over this State in summer, especially into the lower counties, is a real task. A man has to sacrifice his own business Interests for months in order to make a cam? paign. There are few politicians wil? ling to do what Jennings and Pollock did in 1914, make a race for certain defeat merely to help out their own j side. No one likes to be defeated, and a defeat, no matter whan the circum? stances, is a handicap of a politician's future aspirations. So, some candidates who could put up a mighty good race against Blease if Tillman were out of the running will not be candidates If Tillman as? serts that he has been "conscripted" .and shies his campaign castor into I the political ring. That's the situa? tion?and it is giving those who are most anxious for the defeat of Blease a great deal of concern. It reminds the writer of 1912. Blese had made such an unusual gov? ernor and a majority of the newspa? pers had madS such a hue and cry against his administration that there seemed a general belief among those opposed to him that any good man running against him coulci defeat him. What added strength to this feeling was the prevalent idea among those opposed to Blease that his election as governor in 1910 was a political acci? dent, due rather to a peculiar and ac? cidental concatenation of fortuitous circumstances than to his own inher? ent strength among the Democratic voters. Late in 1912 Chief Justice Ira B. Jones announced that he would op? pose Blease for re-election as govern? or. He was an early bird, but he did not get tho worm, the proverb to the contrary notwithstanding. Wheth? er or not he thought he had a sure thing of it, with an open road through the governor's mansion to a place In the United States senate, he pre? empted the field by bis early an? nouncement. There were those op? posed to Blease who thought that a man to run against him should have been picked by those upon whom would fall the burden of he fight to elect him, but it was the talk around Columbia at the time of the May con? vention of 1912 that Jones would not hear to that kind of talk but planted himself firmly upon the position that his priority of announcement entitled him to a clear field so far as candi? dates from the antt-Bleae* side was concerned. There were not a few who thought that Jones was not the man to make that race, but his insistence on stay? ing in regardless of who else might I run forced acceptance of situation. jHe was accepted as the candidate of the anti-Bleaseites and the effort made to elect him, with what results we all know. If Tillman insists that there are enough people asking him to run to justify belief on his part that he Is I being conscripted and announce for re-election, he may force those op? posed to Blease to do what they can to clear the track for him of all can? didates from that side of the house And yet, judging by the utterances of newspapers adhering to that faction, he is not generally regarded as really representative of it nor as the strong? est man it can back to beat Blease But, In the way pointed out above, he 'has the whipband and probably can i forCS support Of his candidacy by many who would rathe.- have another make the raco for the senate r?s its representative, It is very pretty politic? and The Piedmont, whieh is tied to neither Cue lion, is wntchlne, developments with 1 much interest, ilreenvllle Piedmont. GOV. MANNING ?PEAK?. Says No Division in South Oimrtna When it Comes to Americanism. New York, Oct. 15.?Four govern? ors were speakers tonight at the Gov? ernors' conference held in connec? tion with the Southern Commeiciai Congress. ?iov. Manning, of South Carolina, presided at the conference. Which was also addressed by Gov. Harrington, of Maryland; MillUen, of Maine, and Edge, of New Jersey, and John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union. G )v. Manning declared that the South stands squarely behind the gov? ernment in the prosecution of the mm* and is supporting the second liberty loan to the limit. In South Carolin i. he said, there is no division when it conies to real Americanism, less th in 1 per cent, of the population being foreigners. Gov. Milliken said in part. "There were those who feared the soul of America was dead, slowly atrophied through the money grab? bing years and then drowned utterly beneath a flood of foreign gold. New England's response to the world emer? gency, serves notice on mankind that the ancient spirit of America still lives, that her sons are still willing to do and dare and suffer in a righteous cause." Gov. Harrington declared: "The people of Maryland are whole? heartedly behind the president. Here? after there must be only one kind of Americans* from one end of America to the other." Modification of the former National Guard oath of service to meet war? time requirements for a new StUe militia was advocated by Governor Edge. He pointed out that if the oath were to remain the same, every man who enlists in the State militia would be pledging himself to service any? where in the United States and abroad. It would be difficult to get men for the new militia under such conditions, he said, because many branches of the military service are far more at? tractive than the State militia John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union declared when the war is concluded there will come- a realization that it has accom? plished more than all the diplomatic notes of a century to make the Mon? roe Doctrine an unquestioned princi? ple In the relationship of nations "The new Pan-Americanism which will follow the war," yr.id Mr. Bar? rett, "will be so powerful in their own inherent strength and backing that never again can a new menace from the old world assert itself." Bulletin on Bermuda Grass., At last we have a distinct recog? nition from the National Depart? ment of Agriculture that Bermuda grass is not a weed to be avoided. Farmers' Bulletin No. 814, by Prof. S. M. Tracy, a recognized authority on Southern forage plants, is an ac? curate discussion of Bermuda grass and should be in the hands of every Southern farmer. As Prof. Tracy says ir. th.3 opening sentence of the bulle? tin: "Bermuda grass is the most common and most valuable pasture plant In all the Southern States, being of the same relative importance in that region that Kentucky bluegrsss is In more northern States." It is still feared by many Southern farmers, because of the misinforma? tion which has been given out by thoes who were unfamiliar with its true value. There are thousands of acres which are being washed a'ld gullied and rendered valueless throughout the rolling sections of the South which Bermuda grass will save and at the same time furnish grazing for thousands of cattle aid sheep.?The Progressive Farmer. glasses perfectly. Let us work for you. We hare all prescriptions on die. Broken lenses replac? ed promptly. Graduate Opto mStraw and Optician in charge. ; I W. A. 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