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“Over the Top”
8Y An American Soldier
Who Went
AITHUR GOY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving In France
'lUopyrlght, 1917, hr Arthur Qaj Vmpert
8YNOPSI8.
CWAPTER I—Fired by the news of the
■Inking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri
can, leavea hla offlre In Jersey City and
gres to England where he enlists In the
rlttah army.
CHAPTER It—After a period of train
ing, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
"somewhere In France,” where he first
■makes the acquaintance of the evte-yrres
■ent "cooties."
CHAPTER III—Empey attends hla first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey’s command goes
Into the front-line trenches and la under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, "If you
are going to get It, you'll get It. so never
worry."
CHAPTER VI-Back In rest WTlets, Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII—Back In the front-line
trench. Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches "go- West."
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout In •'Suicide Ditch.”
CHAPTER X—Empey learns what con
stitutes a "day’s work" In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes "over the
top” for the first time In a chaTge on the
German trenches and Is wounded 'by a
bayonet thrust. ,
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV—Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under 'German
fire.
CHAPTER XV—Ob ‘'listening post”
in No Man’s Land.
CHAPTER XVI—Two artillerymen
“put one over” on Old Pepper, their
regimental commander.
CHAPTER XVII—Empey has nar
row escape while on patrol duty in No
Man s Land.
CHAPTER XVIII—Back In rest toil
lets Empey w rites and stages a ifarce
comedy.
CHAPTER XIX—‘.Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themwelves
while “on their own.'”
CHAPTER XX—Empey volunteers
for machine gun service and goes
back into the frcmt-]i»e trenches.
CAPTER XXI—-Empey again toes
“over the top” in a charge which cost
his company .-seventeen killed and
thirty-one wounded.
CHAPTER XXII—Trick with a n.a
chine gun silences one bothersome
Fritz.
CHAPTER XXIII—German attack
preceded by gas wave, is repulsed.
CHAPTER XXHV—Empey is forced
to take part rn an execution as a nsem
her of the firing -squad.
CHAPTER XXV— British prepare
for the Big Pudh—the battle of lb*
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ih the American army ixioncomrai*
sioned officers are,put through a course
of map making or inoad sketching, and
during my six years’ service in the
United State# cavalry I had-plenty of
1 practice in this wotfc, therefore map
ping these trenches yvas a ncompara
rtively easy task for me. Each man
had to submit bis may to the-company
-commander t© be pasted upon, and I
was lucky enough to have mine select
ed as being sufficiently Authentic to use
In lithe attack.
■&o photograph# or -maps are avowed
to Heave France, but Jtn ttMs case at ap
pealed to me as a vHlnftbS-e souvenir of
the great war and I managed to-smug
gle ;it through. At this tiime It -carries
no military importance a* the British
tines, 8 am happy to say, have since
been advanced beyond tia5» point, so
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MACHINE WORKS
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Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 182
Machine Wo ft of all Kinds,
Blacksmithlng, General Repair
iug. Horse Shoeing Qxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
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Coraova. Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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In harln/ It In wy possession I am not
breaking *ny regulation or cautions i
of the British army.
The whole attack was rehearsed
and rehesrsod until wt* heartily cursed
the one who had conceived the Idea.
The lte«dies were named according
to a sy<es» which made It very simple
for To»mf to find, even In the dark,
any p«i«t In the German lines.
T^nesc imitation trenches, or trench
nvrwJeK were well guarded from obser- I
vaTVwn by numerous allied, planes ;
wihldh 'constantly circled above them. ]
No German airplane could approach
'within observation distance. A re
stricted area was maintained and no
•civilian was allowed within three
miles, so we felt sure that we had a
'great surprise In store for Fritz.
When we took over the front line
we received an awful shock. The
■Germans displayed signboards over
the top of their trench showing the
names that we had called their
trenches. The signs read “Fair,”
"Fact,” “Fate,” and “Fancy,” and so
Over the TCjjp in a Charge.
on, according to the code names on
our map Then to rub it in, they
hoisted some more signs which rend,
“Come on, we are ready, stupid Eng
lish.”
It is stil! a mystery to me how they
obtained this knowledge. There had
been no raids or prisoners taken, so
it must hare been the work of spies
in our own lines.
Three or four days before the big
pash we tried to shatter Fritz's nerves
by feint attacks, and partially suc
ceeded as the official reports of July
1 show.
Although are were constantly bom
barding their lines day azid night, still
we fooled the Germans several times.
This was accomplished by 'throwing
an intense barrage Into his Idles—
then using smoke shells we would put
it curtain of white smobe across No
M*4't Land, completely obstructing
his . d»-vr of our trenches, and
world raise our curtain of fire
ns If in an actual ateac‘k. All
blown out trenches the .men would
.shout ant! cheer, and Fritz would turn
loose with marhlne-^un, rifle, and
shrapnel fire, thinking we were com
ing over.
After three or four i«f these dumrn*'
: attacks his nerves must have been
iwear the breaking point
On June 24, 19H6, at »:40 in the
interning «ur guns opened up, and hell
was let loose. The din was terrific, a
iconstnnt booia-boum-boom La your.ear.
Aht night the sky was a red glare.
I Gir bombardment bad lasted about
I two '.hours when Frit* started reyily
j lug. Although we were sending «cr
| fen -shells to his one, our casualties
| were heavy. There was a constant
stream of stretchers corning out of the
communication trenches and burial
parties were a common sight.
uu cuvruuguuis me noise ui ute jgutts
I almost hufft. You had the same sensa
tion as when riding on the subway you
enter the tube under the river going
to Brooklyn—a -sort of pressure on the
ear (Irvins, mad tthe ground constantly
trembling.
The roads bethind the trenches were
very dangerous (because Boche shrap
nel was constantly bursting over them.
We avoided these .dangerous spots by
crossing through open fields.
The destruction in the German lines j
was awful and I really felt sorry for:
them because | realized how they must !
be clicking it.
From our front-line trench, every j
now and again, we could hear sharp i
whistle blasts In the German trenches, i
These blasts were the signals for
stretcher bearers, and meant the
wounding or killing of some German in
the service of his fatherland.
Atwell and I had a tough time of it,
patrolling the different trenches at
night, but after awhile got used to it.
My old outfit, the machine gun com
pany, was stationed In huge elephant
dugouts about four hundred yards be
hind the front-line trench—they were
in reserve. Occasionally I would stop
In their dugout and huve a confab with
my former mates. Although we tried
to be Jolly, still, there was a lurking
feeling of Impending disaster. Each
man was wondering, If, after the
slogan, "Over the top with the best of
luck.” had been sounded, would he still
be alive or would he be lying “some
where in France.” In an old dilapidated
house, the walls of which were scarred
with machine-gun bullets. No. 3 sec
tion of the machine gun company had
its quarters. The company’s cooks pre
pared the meals in this billet. On the
fifth evening of the bombardment a
German eight-inch shell registered a
direct hit on the billet and wiped out
ten men who were nsleep In the sup
posedly bomb-proof cellar. They were
hurled the next day and I attended me
fucer"'
CHAPTER XXVl!
AH Quiet (7) on the Weetern Front
At brigade headquarters I happened
to overhear a conversation between our
O. O. C. (general officer commanding)
end the divisional commander. From
this conversation I learned that we
were to bombard the German lines for
eight days, and on the first of July the
“big push” was to commence.
In a few days orders were Issued to
that effect, and it was common prop
erty all along the line.
On the afternoon of the eighth day of
our “strafeing,” Atwell and I were sit
ting in the front-line trench smoking
fags and mnklng out our reports of the
previous night’s tour of the trenches,
which we had to turn in to headquar
ters the following day, when an order
was passed down the trench that Old
Pepper requested twenty volunteers to
go over on a trench raid that night to
try and get a few German prisoners for
Information purposes. I immediately
volunteered for this job, and shook
hands with Atwell, and went to the
rear to give my name to the officers in
charge of the raiding party.
I was accepted, worse luck.
At 9:45 that night we reported to the
brigade headquarters dugout to receive
instructions from Old Pepper.
After reaching this dugout we lined
up In a semicircle around him, and he
addressed us as follows:
“All I want you hoys to do is to go
over to the German lines tonight, sur
prise them, secure a couple of prison
ers, and return immediately. Our ar
tillery has bombarded that section of
the line for two days and personally I
believe that that part of the German
trench Is unoccupied, so just get a cou
ple of prisoners and return as quickly
; as possible.”
The sergeant on my right, in an un
dertone, whispered to me:
“Say, Yank, how are we going to get
a couple of prisoners if the old fool
thinks ‘personally that that part of the
french Is unoccupied,’—sounds kind of
fishy, doesn't It mate?”
:I had a funny sinking sensation in
my stomach, and my tin hat felt as if
it weighed about a ton and my enthusi
asm was melting away. Old Pepper
must have heard the sergeant speak
because he turned In his direction and
in.a thundering voice asked:
"What" did you say?”
The sergeant with a scarlet look on
i tai-s face and his knees trembling,
smartly suluted and answered:
“Nothing, sir.”
Old Pepper said:
“‘Well, don't say It so loudly the next I
-tiwe.”
Than Old Pepper continued:
“in this section of the German
’trenches there are two or three ma
chine guns which our artillery, in the
last two or three days, has been un- j
»l Kli.ift.il til Mil TlliUtik rmnci » r. .1 lb ..
sector where two of our communica
tion trenches join the front line, and
as the brigade is to go over the top to- |
morrow morning I want to capture two
or three men from these guns’ crews,
and from them I may be able to obtain ;
valuable information its to the exact j
location of the guns, and our artillery '
will therefore be able to demolish them
before the attack, and thus prevent |
our losing a lot of men while using j
these communication trenches to bring J
up re-enforcements.”
These were the instructions he gave !
us:
“Take off your identification disks, j
strip your uniforms of all numerals,
jnslgnla, etc., leave your papers with
your captains, because I don’t want the I
Bodies to know what regiments are ,
against them as this would lie valuable
information to them in our attack to
morrow and I don't want any of you i
to be taken alive. What I want is two
prisoners and if I get them I have a
way which will make them divulge
ail necessary information as to their J i
guns. You have your choice of two [
weapons—you may carry your ‘per- j.
suaders’ or your knuckle knives, and
each man will arm himself with four
Mills bombs, thesd to be used only in j
case of emergency.”
A persuader Is Tommy’s nickname j *
for a club carried by the bombers. It t
is about two feet long, thin at one end .
and very thick at the other. The thick J
end Is studded with sharp steel spikes. ^
while through the center of the club
there is a nine-inch lead bar, to give
it weight and balance. When you get j
a prisoner nil you have to do is just
stick this'club up in front of him, and
believe me. the prisoner’s patriotism
for “Deutschland ueber Alles” fades
away and he very willingly obeys the
orders of his captor. If, however, the _
prisoner gets high-toned and refuses to
follow you, simply "persuade” him by I
first removing his tin hat, and 'hen—
well. *he use of the lead weight in the
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nersnader la demonstrated, and Tom
my looks for another prls’oner.
The knuckle knife Is a dagger affair,
the blade of which Is about eight
Inches long with a heavy steel guard
over the grip. This gunrd is studded
with steel projections. At night in a
trench, which is only about three to
four feet wide, It makes a very hnndy
weapon. One punch In the face gen
erally shatters a man’s Jaw and you
can get him with the knife as he goes
down.
Then we had what we called our
“come-alongs.” These are strands of
barbed wire about three feet long,
made into a noose at one end; at the
other end, the barbs are cut off and
Tommy slips his wrist through a loop
to get a good grip on the wire. If tha
prisoner wants to argue the point, why
Just place the large loop around hia
neck and no matter If Tommy wishes
to return to his trenches at the walk,
trot, or gallop, Fritz is perfectly agree
nble to maintain Tommy’s rate of
speed.
(To be Continued)
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NOTICE OF ELECTION
To the Electors of the Town of Cor
dova, Division No. 3, Territory of
Alaska:
Notice is hereby given that pursu
ant to Chapter 48, Session Laws of
Alaska, 1917, approved May 3, 1917, a
primary election will be held on
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918,
between the hours of 8 o’clock a. m.
and 7 o’clock p. m. of said day. The
common council of Cordova having
heretofore, by ordinance, duly desig
nated the polling place in said town,
the electors are hereby notified:
That all duly qualified voters resid
ing within the town of Cordova will
vote at the city hall, the same being
the duly designated polling place in
and for the town of Cordova.
Dated this 25th day of March, 1918.
(Signed)
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF CORDOVA.
By EDWARD F. MEDLEY, Clerk.
April 17-23
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