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LIVELY BATTLE ON THE SOMME idly Desde By a Kigson Offic | Who Took Par. | SIN THE WHOLE BATTLE | FROM HIS OBSERVATION POST! AND TELLS ALL ABOUT IT. | | Se ------ | The Most Thrilling Day He Had tor a Long Time--British in Complete | | Control of Situation From First to | Last. | The following vivid description of a | battle on the Somme is by a Kingston | officer, who was an eye-witness on October 22nd: Yesterday I had the finest and most exhilarating sight I've had since I came to ¥rance. I saw from my observation post the whole of the battle of the Somme in miniature, the preparatory bombardment, the shrap- nel barrage, the infantry advance, the consolidation--brilllantly "and suc- cessfully carried out with small losses to ourselves and comparatively heavy to the enemy, in killed, wounded and prisoners, Take it all round, it was the most thrilling day I've had since I saw the gallant Sikhs and Gurkhas of the La- hore division make their gallant but hopeless charge before St. Jean in April of last year. We have learned a lot since then. Yesterday we were in complete control of the situation from start to finish. My point of observation was splen- did--in a second line trench on ris- ing ground; in fact, it was such a good observation post that the Boche seemed at times to devote too much attention to it and once we moved along the trench a few vards to quiet- er quarters Attack at Noon. The attack was"at six minutes past twelve o'clock noon, and we were ¢hecking our lines and ranges for our barrage practically up to that time. The barrage began fifty yards short of the enemy front line, and pro- gressed from there by a series of lifts which are carefully timed. Former- ly the lifts were regulated by reports sent back from the infantry on the progress made, but it was found that communication was too precarious, and now the infantry have to follow the time laid down, and see that whatever happens, they keep up to the barrage. Prompt on the minute named the barrage opened-up--chiefly of course 18-pounders, which fire almost all the shrapnel used by British artillery. They sound like a gigantic 'machine gun at work, so rapid is the fire of the concentrated batteries. If you recon that on a front of 1,000 yards, probably 20 18-pound batteries are playing, and that they commence at 16 rounds per battery per minute, you can gauge the rapidity of fire. Within thirty seconds of the time the barrage commeneed our infantry were "over the top" and moving across No Man's Land, which varied in width between two hundred and four hundred yards. And how did they move? Not as yoy may have im- agined (certainly I used to) in rushes punctuated by rests lying on the ground---not a bit of it. They stroll- ed----no hurry, no attempt to seek the cover of shell holes, no stooping or bending, no firing, They just walked across No Man's Land--not as if on parade, for there was no attempt to maintain any church parade forma- tion such as the correspondents love to report, but with all the steadiness and precision of a parade. {of shrapnel which beats down iexperienced | front. "the sky-line in a mist at dawn. _THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1916, of a successful attack. The infantry ought-to follow close behind the hail the fire of rifle and machine gun, for the moment at least. But more, they ought to follow so close that the "shorts" from their own guns will actually fall among them. "Shorts" jare bound to occur even with perfect | guns and perfect gun-laying, because ammunition is not perfect, and the error of a gun is a well-known factor that has to be accepted. The more infantrymen recognize this and prefer to risk a few casual- ties from their own guns, knowing that the closer they are to the bar- rage, the less the chance of being "hung up" by machine gun fire. When the barrage is well timed and has been preceded by an effective infantry by keeping well under the shrapnel may get off very lightly, as our'people did yesterday. In fact, a successful attack now only costs com- paratively little in casualties on this All that is true, and yet when the infantry climb the parapet they don't know what the next few min-| utes may bring forth. The machine guns may be silenced, but again they may not. The enemy barrage may be established so quickly in response to the S.0.8. signal that our people may be caught by it in the open. They may reach the enemy trench only to find that there is wire, which the 18- pounders in their preliminary wire- cutting have failed to destroy. Those are the chances, and as I watched our men moving across "No Man's Land" in the face of every chance, moving slowly but methodically, rifles for the most part slung, smok- ing some of them I've no doubt. I felt as if "The Charge of the Light Brigade" had ceased to be wonder- ful. No, I don't mean that --only that our men are more wonderful. I think galloping into the jaws of death, in what Julian Grenfell called the "brazen frency," is easy, compar- ed with men who stroll there non- chalantly; as one man put it in de- scribing another attack, as if they were "walking down Younge street on a quiet Sunday morning." How Germans Direct Fire. Fortunately to-day the barrage is good and the Germans, though their artillery opens quickly, seem to direct it more on our reserve and support | trenches. We in our observation posts get more than we altogether like, and once we moved fifty yards to the right to get out of the line of fire of one howitzer which seemed very persistent. But it is well over the heads of the men advancing across "No Man's Land," and théy go on steadily, a few come back hit al- ready, but very few and scarcely any- one falls. The noise is terrific and the smoke is growing dense and blow- ing in our faces, so that the men are shrouded in it. But the effect is to make them appear of almost super- human stature, as men often do on spite of the smoke, we see them reach the trench and jump in. There is practically no resistance so far as we can see. One of our men is throwing bombs into the German trench from about 20 yards out, just like a bow- ler, bowling at the nets, but the rest seem to be finding no trouble. The smoke is still thick, but through it one can see-a lot of our people streaming back. For a mo- ment I thought I must be wrong: they're beaten off after all---and then I noticed that none had rifles, and I thought. No, it must be the wound- ed; what a lot there are." And then I looked again and saw that they were all sound, and concluded that they must be coming back for supplies, and so it proved to be. A moment or two more and we see some different figures--scrambling along, crouching in the shell-holes, scuttling like rabbits, with hands held up, These are the prisoners com- ing out in groups, and singly. It is amazing to notice, the effect on the two sides, of the 'event of the mo- ment. cessful. Perhaps yesterday it was In| For the moment we are suc-| front line to the new, carrying stores of all kinds, At 2.30 or thereabouts I am order- ed to go down to the new trench from my observation post and reconnoitre a new observation .post there, from which-a view .may be attained of the | wire in front of the next line of trenches. I go down, alor vith a signaller We' go "'overl communication trenches are a magnet for all artillery 2. There is as a matter of fact very little fir- ing. German prisoners are still com- ing out, mostly wounded now. I find {one crou d in a shell hele in 'No | Man's Land," and, summoning a few remnants of my little stock of Ger- man of ten years ago, I ask him: | "Wie get's?" I don't know whether | that is the approved mode of address- pt to be | bombardment with the "heavies," the|ing a wounded German on the battle- field, but he seemed anyhow to know what I meant. "Schr Schlecht," he answered, crouching down hole. "Was laken, sir?" I said, still more doubtfully, but he understood [again and showed me a wound in his breast. I looked round in search of assistance for him, and saw not far away a great hulking unwounded Bosche being escorted back by a Tommy about half his size. Shout- ing to him,I said: "Deutscher, hier ist vein Kamera helfen sie i Again it worked. OF course you will think it was not my German but simply what he saw: that conveyed the meaning to him, and he came over to his comrade, followed by my Tommy as a tail follows a kite. One funny thing happened, which I did not see but heard about, A Tommy with a sense of humor, seeing two Bosche prisoners coming towards the rear, hid himself behind some ob- stacle, and just as they eame along leaped out pointing his bayonet at them, whereupon they put up their hands in the most approved manner, which, of course, was all he wanted. We got to the front line without any difficulty and found our people, Lancashires and Norfolks, busy dig- ging in. 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SIR SAM HUGHES MAJ. appears In the garb of civilian {As he Secret of Success. fo How foolish, you may think, just impudent bravado. But no, they were doing just the right thing. They strolled, because that was just the right pace to enable them to keep close to our barrage, the great secret A PROMINENT NURSE SPEAKS. extraordinary. Our men were stroll | ing about "No Man's Land," by this| time fairly steadily shelled by the Germans, paying no more attention to the shells than if they were pea | from: so many pea-shooters. Th Bosche, onthe other hand, was skulk-! ing along, ready to dive into cover | when he heard one coming, and od way they hurried to "get out of it," | delighted apparently to be quit of it The adoption of the daylight-sav- ing plan by setting the clock forward one hour in the United States br pub- Te concurrence from May 1st to Sept. 30th, 1917, will be considered at a national daylight-saving convention to be held in New York Jan. 3vth and 31st next. 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