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To Yukon Territory, Atlln District, I«terlo» Alaeka. >
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aud Fridays, 9- -• liP '»* f ,'T ' J I. •* '*
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White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40.
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WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
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An American Boy'a
Bapt hm of Fire
By WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
Copyright, Llltte, Brown ft Co.
Ths most graphic account of the
treat war tha: hu rat been written
comti from th > pen of a twenty-two
year-old Boston box, Who has Just re
turned from Fiance where as dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider anil motor
car driver he isrved fourteen month*
under the British flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dispatch rider* he was
one of four sur>'Ivors.
CHAPTER II.
First Time Under Fire.
THAT afternoon about 4 o'clock
shells began to drop Into the
town, and we made a quick exit.
It was my liist time under tire, and It
was far from being agreeable. 1 bad
very often wondered whether I would
be scared or not Well. 1 found out
then, and I certainly was scared. Since
theu I have often wondered about that
family and what they would think of
me for advising them that they were
In no danger.
It didn't take us long (o move, and
it Is a good thing It didn't, for as
we were leaving the town we could
see the Germans coming over the hill
about four miles away. We won
dered why we diun't go to meet them,
but apparently our time was not yet.
My duties were very light. Attached
to Captain Colvln, 1 had the care of
his horse and saddlery and had to ride
behind him wherever he went when
mounted. That is about all I had to
do. Of course when the regiment went
Into actiou my duty would be to fol
low the captain.
Eventually we arrived at a tune
pluce called Zillebeke, and it was here
that we joined up with the Seventh
infantry division. Tln-re was very lit
tle doiug. and nobody seemed to know
Just what we were going to do. Our
chaps went out on patrols every day,
and occasionally they would run into
a tier ma n patrol, and there would be
a scrap.
During our stay nt Zillebeke it was
decided that all untrained tnen were
to be returned to Kncland to finish
their training, and it looked very much
an if I was going to land back in that
rldiug school alter all. While the mat
ter was still undecided the driver of
General By lie's tar was killed, so I
went to the captain stud told him I
could drive n car. and I offered my
services. He put in a word for me,
and I was given the car. but only until
a regular driver could be secured.
It was while I was driving this car
that I saw the rity i»t' Ypres for the
first time. There had not been u shell
in the p'a'-e yet, and It certainly was
a fine old town.
One afternoon 1 was waiting in the
car for some staff otiicer in the Grand
place when I heard a lot of shooting
and shouting. I looked over in the
direction of the noise and saw that
some of cur troops were all tiring into
the air. And there. alx>ve, was the first
German taube I had ever seen. The
pilot was flying very low and within
easy ride range, so I got excited and
dragged out my rifle and began tiring
at him too. His machine. I heard aft
erward. was absolutely riddled with
bullets and he was wounded in three
places. That was my first shot at a
German. It was in Ypres, too, that 1
saw 700 of the Prussian guard brought
hi, and I must say that they were some
of the finest looking soldiers I have
ever seen. Tiiev were ail great big
fellows, and our inlautry chaps looked
mighty small bei-ide tbeui.
It was soon after this that the Ger
mans got their fnrcM together and
made their first attack )u our positions
While Shells Continued Screaming uver
Us, They Were Bursting In the Town.
outside of Ypros. I was In the town
when tbe first shells landed, and the
panic tbey created was something ter
rible to wituess.
Men, woman and children seemed to
have but ona idea, and that was to get
out as quickly as possible. Old women
would go staggering along with their
belongings tied in each end of a bed
sheet and the whole thing slung around
their neck. The streets were crowded
with them. Men were driving pigs and
chickens before them and the women
leading and carrying children. The
roads were littered witlx dead and dy
ing, wounded horses screaming their
horrible scream and kickiug. The din
was terrlble_f\lis'.ls .would burst in the
rbacfa ehcJ£W« IN flto'lfc, Cut the mo
mentary gap 'vould Immediately Oil
and the panic stricken people would
sweep over the!r own dead.
At tbe time 1 couldn't seem to real
ize what was happening. I felt numb
all over, but with an awful terror grip
ping me, and I longed to turn and fly.
I remember seeing my officer coming,
so I got out aud started the engine.
There were two horses standing Just
behind the car, and as the officer went
to step In a ploce of shell cut one of
these horses In two.
As soon as we were clear of the
town we were all right, for, while the
shells continued screaming over us,
they were still bursting in the town.
This was the beginning of the first
battle of Tprei, in which the little
Seventh division did the seemingly Im
possible. Day and night the Germans
poured shells into us, and still we held
on. Then their artillery fire would
slacken, and thi-y would hurl their su
perior numbers against our "contempt
ible little army' In a vain endeavor to
crush us by she>;r weight, as It were.
The enemy se smed to rise out of the
ground aud sweep toward us like a
great tkla! wave, out our macmne
guns poured si eel into them at the
rote of <>00 shott per minute, and they'd
go down like grass before the scythe.
If they did reach our lines at all they
never went back to tell about It
It is my honest opinion that a man
In action goes temporarily insane, for
were it not so how could any man con
tinue to work a sun that was sending
hundreds of his fellow creatures into a
heap of groaning, squirming death?
That is exactly what was happening.
The Germans were climbing over heaps
of their own dead only to meet the
same fate themselves. The deeds of
valor which have escaped notice around
the Ypres salient would till at least one
large book.
With the end of the first battle of
Ypres our division retired to a village
called St. Jean Capelle. While the Bel
gian civilians had been so nice to us on
the way down from Ostend I am sorry
to say that we found them exactly the
opposite here. We'had not been in the
town three hours before we bad three
Belgian peasants arrested and convict
ed of espionage.
There was a windmill on a hill Just
back of the village, and some one no
ticed that as soon as we entered the
village this windmill started to go, al
though there wasn't a breath of air
stirring. Investigation showed that
two Belgians were signaling to the
Germans In this way.
The other case was even worse. One
of our police stopped an old Belgian
with a bag under his arm and asked
Mm what was in it. He replied that it
contained nothing but a few vegetables.
Something aroused our chap's suspi
cion, and on examination he found that
it contained two pigeons with messages
giving our exact strength attached to
them. These men were taken to the
rear and shut. Things like this make
it very unpleasant f«.,. II concerned.
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* rr was auouf ttiTS Tilne "liiat- a new
driver wag found for tlie general's car,
so that left me without any definite
work to do. At that time, too, we had
the first armored cars in action on our
part of the line. They wore beautiful
machines, sixty horsepower, mounted
with machine guns or three pounders.
While I was waiting to lind out what
was to become of me I inilde one trip
In the armored car—that Is to say, I
went Into action with It once. Of
course the gun was worked by expert
gunners and I was simply acting as a
»pare driver In case anything serious
| happened. The body of the car was
covered with bullet proof steel, and It
was bullet proof too.
We didn't get up as far as some of
the cars had been, but we got quite far
enough to suit me. What with the
racket our gun was making and the
noise of the bullets bouncing off our
armor plate, It was no place for a
nervous man. The hard part for me
was the Inactivity, simply sitting there
and waiting in case I should be
wanted.
We didn't stay there so very long,
and I wag not sorry for It, either.
That was my only trip In an armored
car, and I'm not particular about hav
ing any more, thank you.
I was advised that the only way I
could escape being sent back to Eng
land was to be transferred to the
army service corps. This corps, the
royal engineers and the royal army
i medical corps, arc the three largest
corps in the British army. When you
Join the A. S. C. you are never sure
Just what you will be let In for, be
cause as a rule an A. S. C. man lg eli
gible for general enlistment, and that
means that he may lie used fur nn.\
branch of the service when he Is
j neartad.i
(Continued Tomorrow) |
Condemned to Slavery.
Two hundred years ago. when men
and women were condemned to death
for trivial offenses, it was the custom
in Scotland to commute the death sen
tence into perpetual servitude to spec
ified masters. In other words, the con
demned person became a slave. It was
further ordained that he should wear
a metal collar round his neck record
ing his sentence and punishment. The
Society of Scottish Antiquaries owns
one of these collars, fished out of the
Forth above Alloa. It is brass, with
this Inscription: "Alexander Stewart,
found guilty of death for theft at
Perth, 5th December, 1701, and gifted
by the Justiciars as a perpetual serv
ant to Sir John A res ken of Alva."
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