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A. F. ZIPF
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612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40.
Every Tuesday and Friday
No 1, X. Bound No. 2, S. Bound
i«t naa« ' '' , ; * i 1st Class
8:30 a. m.
11:03 a. m.
11:45 a. m
12:40 p. wm.
2:20 p. m.
4:30 p. m.
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1:80 p. m.
12:50 p. xn.
10:48 a. m.
8:00 ». m. I
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W1 LI 1AM J. ROBINSON
SYNOPSIS
William J. Robinson, a young American
on a business trip In London, catches the
war fever and enlists In a British cavalry
regiment and lands at Ostend In October,
1914.
Made driver of an armored car and takes
part In battles about Ypres. Transferred
to the army service corps, hns further
fighting experiences as a motorcycle rider
with machine guu 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 chnplains, doc
tors and nurses.
Witnesses Royal Horse artillery In ac
tion. Has a n*rrow escape and takes ref
uge In a cellar. Is sent to Paris.
Describes bomb throwing and aeroplane
attacks and the bombardment of a village.
Kills a trench digger.
Tho mining and capture of Hill 60. Se
cures leave and describes war Incidents In
Glasguw. Returns to Ypres in midst of
bombardment.
• Motors with ton officer through Ypres to
Potlzze amid bursting shells and bomb*
dropped from aeroplanes. A terrible ride.
I was standing jl.si 'ou^'de tlie Cen
tml station hi Glasgow when a woman
walked up to a man who was standing
near me. and without a word she pulled
a white feather through his buttonhole.
He was a great l>iir fellow, and she had
to do some reaching to get at him. lie
smiled when he saw what she had done
and said "Thank you, madam," very
politely.
That was like waving a red flag be
fore a bull, ami she grew crimson and
started telling him what she thought
of him. He listened until she was all
through, and then he asked, "Have you
another one of those feathers, by any
chance?"
"Yes, I have, you coward." she snap
ped, and she [nit another feather on
him. As she did so he pulled a Vic
toria cross from his po,-ket and pinned
it right under the feathers.
That woman gasped and stuttered
and stammered trying to make an
apology, and she reached out to take
the feathers back, but he stopped her.
"No, madam." he said. "I'll keep these
as souvenirs, if you don't mind, but
I'd like to say a few words to you
about what you are doing.
"Because I am in civilian clothes does
not signify that 1 am a coward. For
all jou knew 1 might have been med
ically unlit for service. I might have
been a married man with ten or a doz
en small children depending on me. 1
might have been any number of things
that would have prevented me from
joining the army, but yon didn't even
wait to inquire.
"You simply thought that because 1
was not In khaki I was a coward, and
you thought to shame me into joining
the army. As a matter of fact, I have
been at my home recovering from
wounds I received when 1 won this lit
tle cross, aud I am uow on my way
back to join my regiment.
"If you will accept a suggestion from
a man who knows men, you will stop
this silly business, for you are doing
more harm than anything else, and If
I were a civilian and von had done It
to me then. I would have faced a firing
party before I would join the army. 1
trust you have learned something
Good afternoon."
I found out later that he was a ser
geant piper in one of the most famous
Scottish regiments and that he won
the cross for saving three otlicers when
wounded himself.
CHAPTER VIII.
Second Battle For Calais.
MY rest of seven days seemed very
short, and I was back on the
Job at roperinghe all too soon.
Ypres, which was sis miles away,
nad been comparatively quiet all win
ter. In fact. It had been so quiet that
our Twenty-seventh divisional head
quarters had moved in there. As the
spring drew near the Germans began
to shell around the city again, but
very few shells lauded directly in the
city proper.
There was a big gas tank on the out
skirts dowjj toward Krustadt, and
around this place the shell Are would
be rather heavy at times. The city
was much knocked about even then,
but it was nothing to what It was at
the end of the "second battle for Ca
lais."
B^f.ore the beginning of this battle
the kaiser was quoted as having said
that If he failed to break us this time
he would lay the city of Ypres to the
ground street by street. He failed to
break us, all rleiit. ap<i. hp_Jjept his
FOURtEEN
MONTHS
An American Boy'e
Baptism of Fire
By WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
Cupyrifht. Little, Brown A Co.
The most graphlo account of th«
great wax that ha* yet been written
cornea from the pen of a twenty-two
year-old Boston boy, who haa Just re
turned from France, where as dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider and motor
car driver ho served fourteen months
under the British flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dispatch rldera ha was
one of four survivors.
word, ror today tne nne old city CT
Ypres Is nothing but a shapeless heap
of broken bricks.
For weeks before the attack our air
men were bringing In reports that the
Germans were massing heavy bodies
of fresh troops just in front of our fio
sltlon. All our transport trains want
through the city, our men were billeted
there, and one of our divisional head
quarters had moved Into the city.
The Germans still continued to bom
bard our positions In this vicinity, but
they left the city itself severely alone.
All winter It had been as safe to go
through Ypres as It would be to go to
church, consequently an order to go to
Ypres did not bother anybody very
much.
I was at the divisional headquarters
In Ypres with a staff officer on the aft
ernoon the bombardment started. We
had gone to the city on horses, and we
naturally expected to come back that
way. I suppose It was about 2 o'clock
when we arrived there, and I put the
horses in the yard behind several build
ings.
As I was still on auty, i aian i anro
go very far away, for I didn't know at
what moment the officer might show
up. The first inkling I got of anything
unpleasant was when I beard the
scream of several shells coining through
the air at once.
Right then 1 acted on tli« Impulse
that seizes every one at such a time
and went through the nearest cellar
window, where I landed on a pile of
potatoes. 1 was content to stay there,
too, until an orderly found me and told
mo that my officer wanted me. The
Germans had been bombarding us
about half an hour then, and there was
no sign of any lolling up yet.
The orderly told me that the shells
were dropping in at the rate of forty
one to the minute, and I remember
wondering who on earth would be fool
enough to count the uumber of shells
falling. 1 reported to my officer and
found him as cool as a cucumber. He
asked me where the horses were, and
when 1 told him he said for me to leave
them there and to go and find a car of
some kind.
I knew it was mighty serious when
he would abandon the borses, and I
started out with the fear of God in my
heart and wondering where In the dick
ens I would find a car in that Inferno.
As a matter of fact, 1 did find one, or
at least it had been a car at some time
or other. It was an ambulance which
had had the body blown off, and some
one had built a couple of little bucket
seats out of empty bacon boxes.
Bacon boxes or not. It certainly look
ed like a million gold dollars to me at
that moment, and I wasn't so slow
about nabbing It. The engine was all
right, so I decided to take a chance on
the rest of it holding together until I
got my officer through the city anyway.
I puiled around in front of the head
quarters, and the officer Jumped in.
It seemed as though the whole city
was being torn from its very founda
tions vn terri'ile wnq the din. The
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houses were going down In every quar
ter, and on the fuce of it it looked like
pure madness to go through at all.
Wagons, horses, autos, bicycles, were
plied up everywhere. Men, women and
children, soldiers and civilians were ly
ing dead and dying in every street. I
should say that about 50 per cent of the
shells were landing In the Grand place,
and the buildings were falling all
around and practically covering up the
road.
We had a straight run of about 200
yards before we got to the worst part
of it, and I certainly saw to it that the
old bus made the must of what she
had. We were going at a pretty good
pace when we hit the main square of
the city, but it seemed to me that we
were Just crawling.
There is a sharp corner as one turns
out of the square, and I knew it would
be Impossible to twist her around it at
the pace we were going, so I tried a
stunt I had read about racing drivers
doing on the hairpin curves. I gave
her more power. Jammed qn the brake,
and we skidded around on two wheels.
We were between the devil and the
deep sea, and I felt that no chances
•r« could take were too long consider
kig the fix we were in.
The baeq* boxes held together all
rlgbt, and we got out of it without be
ing touched, but it was more by pure
luck than anything else. What got
my goat was that during the whole
thing the officer sat there with a cigar
In his mouth and a monocle in his eye
»nd didn't even look as though he was
nervous.
When we got back to our own head
quarters he said "Thank you" and re
marked to another officer that "one
d d fool" had escaped wearing a
wooden uniform that day "by the
breadth of a gnat's eyelash." I pre
sume he was referring to me, and I
urea jtlth-him heartily. .J3elU>ve me.
tfiat'rlde dTd"me'out'of a""year's growtH.
I certainly pitied our transport men
during this time as I never pitied them
before. They could not help being
nervous while waiting to go through
the city, which they had to do, as there
was no other way for them to go. The
ambulances, too, suffered heavily.
All nieht the bombardment continued
with unabated fury, yet our supplies
went through the city to the meu Just
the samc>
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