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WIL1 I AM J ROBINSON
SYNOPSIS
William J. Robinson, a young American
on a business trip In London, catches the
war fever and enllsls In a British cavalry
regiment ami lauds at Cstend In October,
1914.
Made driver of an armored car and takes
part In battles about Ypres. Transferred
to the army service corps, has further
fighting experiences as a motorcycle rider
with machine gun attached and as a dis
patch rider.
Describes Christmas of 1914 In trenches
south of Ypres. Fearful losses. Kills a
sniper and tells of Belgian spies.
A brush with German cavalrymen. Tells
of motor work and work of chaplains, doo
tors and nurses.
Witnesses Royal l!ors« artillery In ac
tion. Has a narrow escape and takes ref
uge In a cellar. Is sent to Paris.
Describes bomb throwing and aeroplane
attacks and the bomburdment of a village.
Kills a trench digger.
The mining and capture of II111 60. Se
cures leave and describes war Incidents In
Glasgow. Returns to Ypres In midst of
bombardment
Motors with an officer through Ypres to
Potlzze amid bursting sheila and bombs
dropped from aeroplanes. A terrible ride.
As 1 said, hi- i lri'iT." t at'4." and sc
fur us 1 know Ik- is nut back yet. He
muy have been shot down. be may
Usve Iiui! tin accident and been forced
to land behind the < Senium lines, or
any one of a hundred things may have
happened. All we know is that he
failed to return.
The anti-aircraft gun was practically
unknown before the beginning of this
war. and there is uti enornious chance
for improvement in this branch of
aerial warfare, it is very interesting
to watch an antl-ain raft 1:1111 in action,
for one can see the i:un liivd and then
see the shell burst a few seconds later.
So far as I know there is no accurate
way of finding the range of an aero
plane In motion. The popular way of
shooting at a hying machine seems to
be that of tiring shells in a large circle,
using tiie ma-lnnc as (lie center, and
then closing in until the aeroplane is
dead in line. There is the uncertainty,
however, of knowing v. hc:t to time the
shell to burst, and. so far as I can see.
it seems to be pretty much a matter
of luck. 1 heard an average quoted 011
the number of bits to the numlier of
shells tired, and the ligurcs were one
hit out of every "..OU> shells. 1 cannot
vouch for the accuracy of this state
ment. but 1 d • know tliat the number
01 bits is surprisingly small.
The falling of the shrapnel from
these shells which burst in the air is
rather dangerous, as I can show by
narrating an incident whicu happened
to us. We were out lu a car near a
village called I'.ratidhook. and we no
ticed as we came along that a German
aeroplane was coming directly toward
us and that i; appeared to be follow
ing the roa.l. *Uur anti-aircraft guns
were playing on it. and the shells seem
ed to be bursting mighty close to it.
Before it attained a poiut above us
it turned at right angles and made off
toward the (lerniun lines. We contin
ued on our way. and a little farther on
we came to where ail empty auto was
standing in the m.'udle of the road.
We stopped and looked around for
signs of the occupants, but could find
uone. When we had been there about
five miuutcs an officer and the driver
of the car showed up and said they
had been forced to take refuge in a
dugout ou Recount of the falling: shrap
I nel.
Holes where pieces of shrapnel had
entered the ground were to lie seen all
around, and we tried to dig some of the
pieces up. AW dug down ten inches and
hud not reached them, so we gave it
up as a bad Job and went on to camp.
This will show that these pieces of
shrapnel are not to be sneered at us
being harmless.
Another favorite stunt with aero
planes is the dropping of huudreds of
steel darts on bodies of moving troops
or even on towns or the men in the
trenches. These darts are four or five
inches in length and have a sort of
four pointed tail. They are extremely
sharp and are heavier at the point
than they are at the tail. This causes
them to fall point down.
It has been proved that one of these
darts dropped from a great height
would, if it struck a man on horseback
square on the top of the head, pass
through the length of a man's body,
through the saddle, through the horse's
body and disappear into the ground. I
have seen darts that have been drop
ped, but I have never been where they
were falling, and I had no desire to be
either.
There was a German jyho pulled the
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An American Boy'a
Baptism of Fire
By WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
Copyright, Utile, Brown k Co.
The most graphic account of the
great war that haa ret boon written
comes from the pen of a 'twenty-two
year-old Boston boy. who has Just re
turned from France, where as dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider and motor
car driver he served fourteen month*
under the British flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dispatch riders he waa
one of four survivors.
greatest little same of Tiluff'on us. TVf
were at a village called Rhenlnghelst
when this fellow caiue over, aud ev
erybody remarked at bow low be was
flying. Our anti-aircraft guns were let
ting him bove It from all directions,
and suddenly bis engine stopped and
the machine began to fall. The guns
let up. thinking that he was winged.
He foil to within two or three hundred
feet of the earth, when suddenly the
machine righted Itself, and be skimmed
over us toward the German lines. He
had the audacity to wave his hand at
us us he went by.
It was one of the nerviest things 1
ever saw. lie saved himself by the
chance of ruuning through our Are. for
when he was so low be was out of
range of the anti-aircraft guns.
Air raids do not always prove as
dangerous as tbey sound. About three
or four days before I left the front we
had a tlock of twenty-three German
aeroplanes over our camp, and tbey
dropped bombs for nearly fifteen min
utes. Everybody got under cover, and
tile total loss of life caused by the raid
was one mule. If this were always
the case the Zeppelins and Avatlks
would have to go out of business.
There was very little of 1lterest after
Loos. Every day it was the same old
routine—up to the tiring line in the
morning and back dowu again at
night. Once in awhile we would let
ourselves In for a young bombardment
or would have rather a hot session In
the treuclies when we would happen to
get there at the right time, but as far
as auy important happenings there was
none.
I will never forget the last day I
spent at the front. It seemed to mo
that the Germans must have put up a
job on me, and just at the moment I
was sure that 1 was coming out of It
all right and that the war was over
for me they were trying to get me.
I was ordered to report with my car
to one of our new officers. I did so,
and we left for the firing line. When
we reached the divisional signal office
we left the ear and mounted our horses
to finish the journey. We got to a
place called Krustadt and stayed there
about half an hour. I bitched my
horse to the gate of an old deserted
house; and went over to one of our
ammunition columns to see if I could
get some hot tea. When I came back
about fifteen minutes later I found my
poor horse down with his front leg
gone. A shell had exploded in the yard
of this house and had blown his leg
clear off. There was nothing for me
to do but to shoot him and put the poor
beast out of his misery.
I hunted around among the different
units In the vicinity until I found an
other horse, and then I went up and
reported to my officer. We visited
some of our batteries and came back
to Krustadt. The officer told me that
he would not need me during the after
noon, but to meet him at 5 o'clock that
evening. We hitched our horses to a
tree, and the officer went off. Very
Hiiiiii after he had troje sgpip more offi
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cers came along and hitcbe<? ttieir
horses to the same tree. Altogether
there were six tied to the one tree.
1 went over to the Royal Engineers'
place and proceeded to uiuke myself at
home. X was feeling happy, for I knew
that this was my last day at the front,
and I was hoping to be home for
Christmas. Of course I told everybody
I met all about my good luck, and we
were having a regular little fnrowell
dinner, only we had tea Instead of
champagne. After it was all over some
of the boys went away, and I proceed
ed to make myself comfortable 011 a
couch the fellows had built up In the
corner.
I had been there about fifteen min
utes when for some reason or other I
got up and went over and sat down by
the brazier. I hadn't been off that
couch three minutes when a shrapnel
shell burst directly over the hut, and I
should say fully twenty pieces came
through tWe roof. They went through
the floor as if It bad been so much pa
per, and about Iialf a dozen pieces pen
•trated the couch 1 had been lying on
not five minutes before. There were
three of us In the hut at the time, and
not one of us was so much as scratched.
The shells were coming over pretty
thick then, so we went for the dugouts
on the dead run. As I passed the tree
where our horses were tethered a high
explosive shell burst in the middle of
them and buttered them ail over the
landscape.
Believe me, 1 didn't pause one sec
ond. I Just kept on going. I entered a
dugout that bad about a foot and a
half of water In it, but I lay right
down In It and was only too glad to
stay there. The Germans were keep
ing up a sweeping fire, trying to locate
our batteries, and they continued un
til nearly. 7 o'clock that evening.
When 3 o'clock came and I was sup
posed to meet my officers 1 stayed
right where I. was, for I knew that 1.
would not be e."!c T-iT *o go oOV ali^*
wait by that tree when the shells were
falling the way they "were then. At
7 o'clock the Ore had pretty nearly
ceased, so I ambled out to the tree to
see wh<( had become of the officer. He
was sitting on the ground with his
back against the tree. 1 told him what
had happened, and he asked me It I
knew -where we could find some more
horses.
I said I did and that It was right on
our way back, so we walked about a
half mile until we came to the trans
port camp, and there we got two other
horses and proceeded to the place
where we had left the car.
Here the officer decided we would
have some tea, so I went Into a tent
where there were some fellows I knew
and begged some grub. I had Just
commenced to eat when a shell scream
ed over and went Into the ground about
twenty or thirty feet from the corner
of the tent. It didn't explode, so we
were all right, but I decided that right
here was where I quit, and I went out
and sat in the car until the officer was
ready.
But my troubles were not over yet
On the way back to camp one of the
back wheels came off the car and near
ly dumped us into the ditch. The offi
cer got a lift down in another car, and
I set to work to try to put back the
wheel. It was dark, and the road was
muddy and soft, and everything seem
ed to go wrong. The train left at 1
o'clock in the morning, and I was
nearly beside myself for fear I would
miss it.
When I finally did get in it was after
11, and I had to do some tall hustling
to get my things packed, get my grant
and tickets and change my clothes for
dry ones and walk half a mile to the
station to catch the train. I did It,
though, and at 4 o'clock in the after
noon I was in London.
THE END.
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