THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1917. 1 ---y i OR THE | (Continued from Page 15.) the Germans were : fo « seemed a tolerally larzz proportion of the output of the Krupp works on this particular spot whenever they wanted to. Our bigh command had concinded that dt was untenable. and so.we. on one side of it, and the British, on the other, had to just keep it scouted and-| protect our separate Banks, Another name they had for that position was the "bird cage" That was becanse the first fellows who moved Into it made themselves nice and comfy and | pit ap wire nettings to prevent any | one from tossing bombs in on them. | Thus, when the Germans stirred up the spot with an accurate shower of "whiz bangs" and "coal boxes," the | same being thirteen pounders and six | inch shells, that wires netting presented | a spectacle of utier inadequacy »Thich | basu't been equaled in this war, They called the position which we | were assigned fo defend "the grave.' | yard of Canada" That wus Lecanse | of the fearrnl losses of the Canadians | here in the serond battle of Ypres from April 21 to June 1, 1015, when the first gas attack in the word's lis tory was launched by the Germans, | and, although the French on the left | and the British on the right fell back, | at att ANE | Succeeded Where Operation Failed ! ** JOLIRTTE, Que * During August last'T wen! to Mont- real to consult a specialist as I Lad b suffering terribly with Stone in t Bladder, Fe had decided on an opera tion and was assisted by nnother doctor They said the calculus was larger thon 8 bean and 100 bard to crush asd they could not take it out, . 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DUSTLESS CLOTHES LINE Regular price 50c, sale price .. 40« 60 FOOT CLOTHES LINR Regular 85¢, sale price .. 25¢ UNITED GROCERY z A | During the first gas attack the ( {new and uubeard of terror in wa | found a | can't even tell of in print, because the | nice ethics about reading matter for i tween life and death to many of the | Canadians that first day of the gas wi en GnTY THYE a E AD) ANG NE | what he is to do with his bandker- the Canadian put Right here | can mention wkich will give you an idea why de- scriptions of this war don't describe it stayed where they were something choking dians, to death and over each other in a tight ag way--the Lord only who first discovered it and how he happened to do it--to stay through a gas cloud and come out alive. It isn't pretty to think of, and it's like many other things in this war which you knows simple. description would violate the the public eye which have grown up in long years of peace und traditional de- cency. But this thing which you can't describe meant just the difference be- As Dawn Broke We Made Out a Big Painted Sign Above the German Front Trench. : Official orders now tell every soldier chief or a piece of his shirt if he is caught in a gas attack without his mask. The nearest I can-come in print to telling you what the soldier is ordered to do in this emergency is fo remind youn that ammonia fumes oppose chlo- rine gas as a neutralizing agent and that certain emanations of the body throw off ammonia fuiffes. Now that I've told you how we got from the Knickerbocker bar and other places to a situation which was just 150 yards from the intrenched front of the German army in Belgium I might as well add a couple of details about things which straightway put feat of God in our hearts. At day- break one of our Fourteenth platoon men, standing on the firing step, push- €d back his trench helmet and remark- ed that he thought it was about time for coffee. He didn't get any. A Ger- man sharpshooter, firing the first time that day, got him under the rim of his helmet, and his career with the Cana- dian forces was over right there. And then, as the dawn broke, we made out a big painted sign raised above the German front trench, It read: WELCOME, EIGHTY-SEVENTH CANADIANS We were a new battalion. We had been less than seventy-two hours on the continent of Europe, and thie Ger- mans were not supposed to know any- thing that was going ou behind our lines! We learned afterward that concealed telephones in the houses of the Bel- gian burgomasters of the villages of Dinkiebusch and Renningbelst, near our position, gavé communication with the German headquarters opposite us, One of the duties of a detail of our men soon after that was to stand these two burgomasters up against a wall and shoot them. In concluding this first article I want to say frankly that any man who claims he is not afraid when for the first time he goes into that bell of fire on the western front is a liar, and I'll tell him so to his face. Later we be- came impervious, but that first day I prayed, and I would have bent down and prayed only my knees shook 80. The five remaining articles ™ this remarkable series will appear one each week. They are as follows: No. 2~The Bomb Raid. The great preparations and rehearsing for this attack. Volunteers for the job taken behind the line where the German days of preparation. Heretofore unwrits ten detall of modern trench raids. This article concludes with the men going out 10 their job, No. 3~"Over the Top and Give "Em Hell" The English Tommy's battle cry as he breaks from his trench. The bomb raid | and what happened. Of sixty that start | ed forty-six fafled to return because had 'and mined the of Sergeant . 138 Princess Street, BEN LEE & CO. 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