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gas were the lacrimatory shells, which temporarily blinded a man. You. could tell them by the way they landed, with a soft plop, but the Germans soon got wise to this and would send them over "concealed" in a barrage of other shells. Yet amid all the brutishness, the indignity and filth of trench warfare, some traces of an old- style personal regard for the enemy lingered in dot that sound archaic in the atomic age. There was the fa- mous Christmas truce of 1914, and one Canadian military his- tory, The Story of the First Army, recounts a lesser-known episode that took place just be- fore the cease-fire on. Armistice | Day, Nov. 11, 1918. | The telegraph had clacked out from corps headquarters that hostilities would ceas» ai 11 hours. At two minutes to the hour, some unbelieving Cana- dian troops at Mons heard a German machine-gunner fire off a complete belt without a pause, Then he si weapon, took a sweeping bow, walked slowly to the rear t hes. The war was over. HEAT WITH OIL DIXON'S OIL 18 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturdey, August 1, 1964 'NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT' WW I Vet Describes Trench Life's Rigor By CAROL KENNEDY LONDON (CP) -- Twenty years after the First World War, a veteran of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was tak- ing a trip on the Maid of the Closed Monday | August 3rd Civic Holiday RE-OPEN | TUESDAY EATON'S. sale came on in hordes, with the of- ficers behind. Our men 'just pu rifles at them, drop- ping them when they got hot and grabbing replacements Only 150 survived." "The Canadians showed in- men were instructed to urinate. "We were told th e ammonia countered the gas fumes." Later came the "smoke-hel- met" -- a greasy, suffocating bag. of grey felt with eye pieces, Mist at Niagara Falls. Suddenly he felt a strange de- pression. Later, racking his memory, he realized why. The smell of the oilskins worn. by the passengers against the spray of the falls was almost identical to that of chlorate of credible bravery, but they were not like the Australians, who were brave to the point of fool- hardiness, sometimes. failing to hold a position in their anxiety to push on." SURPRISED BY GAS In spite of information from| the New devesopments came almost every week after that until the gas mask in its modern form was evolved. The first sight of the gassed men of St. Julien was trauma- tic. One Canadian soldier re- called seeing the French Zou- aves lying face qown and gasp- | 313 ALBERT ST. Allergies ?. Backaches ? ? Ask About fat off Price. Call RAMA DISTRIBUTORS 725-8762 Or Do You Just Wont To Sleep PERMA. Retail 24-HOUR SERVICE 723-4663 SERVING OSHAWA OVER 50 YEARS HOMEFURNISHINGS 9:30 A.M. 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Lunch was invariably stew, brought up in great containers. Work on the trench went on through afternoon and night, with sup- per at six and "stand-to" again at dusk. Each man qid two-hour spells of sentry duty, work and sleep. At night. sentries were doubled and a two-man patrol might) venture out into No Man's Land. FLARES LIT NIGHT Through the night, intermit- tent phosphorus Ifares went up from the German lines. "They made a ghostly light in that} murdered landscape," recalled veteran Eves. "You could al-| ways tell when something made Fritz mervous, he'd send up a furry of flares, On the other| hand, when everything was dark you wondered what he was up to." The muddy waste of France) and Flanders were laced bd al rickety network of trenches in} which men lived like moles for four years. Behind the front lines lay the support trenches; behind thei | more reserves and the sup-| ply lines, all linked by the} vital, narrow communication) trenches, A man would spend a} week in the front line, a week) in support, a week in reserve. | Off duty, the men lived in their dugouts, When dry, these coulg be cosy. Many were equipped with crude furniture, electric light and oilstoves, and) embellished with persona) touches like portable phono- graphs and pages from La Vie Parisienne pinned to the walls. ENEMY ALWAYS NEAR But periods of quiet were de- ceptive. The front line required constant ' vigilance. Often the enemy was a mere 30 or 40 Eee yards away across the shell- HS 5 torn, wire-tangled waste they called No Man's Land. In a bombardment at this range, with crude grenades made from| jam cans filled with ammonal) and rusty metal being lobbed into your trench, as well as) whistling rifle fire and the crump of "whizz - bangs" and "Jack Johnson" shells, it was) astonishing that anyone. sur-! vived. In the Sanctuary Wood bom- bardment of June, 1916, the air was so thick with flying missiles that a Canadian observer heard two shells collide head on with a "shreik like a woman in agony." The Canadian troops were famed for their tenacity in hold- ing a trench. At the battle of; Hooge in June 1916, recalled| > veteran Eric Michelmore 0! Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, "the Germans soled bowls, 9" chop plate, 12" platter, 16" covered sugar cream gravy boat and stand 12. dinner plates 12 tea plates : bread and butters soups fruit nappies cups and 12 saucers with 6 extra cups EATON'S MALL LEVEL, DEPT. 252. 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