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“Over the Top”
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving in France
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(Copyright, 1817, hr Arthur Guy Bmpey)
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri
can, leaves his orfflce In Jersey City and
goes to England where he enlists In the
British 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 acrjualntance of the ever-pres
ent "cooties.”
CHAPTER ISI—Empey attends his first
church servdoes at the front while a Ger
man Pokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey’s command goes
Into the front-line trenches and is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, “If you
are going to ®at It, you’ll get It, so never
worry.”
CHAPTER VT—Back In rest billets, Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns bow the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII—Back in the fronrt-ll-ne
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 ecm
wtttutes a “day’s work" In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes “over the
top” for the'first time In a charge on the
■German trenehes and Is waanded 'by a
(bayonet thrust. ,
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV—Em per helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fine.
CHAPTER XV'—On ‘‘listening poet”
in Alan’s .Land.
CHAPTER XVI—Two artillerymen
‘?put -one over” on Old Ptyiper, their
regimental ■ commander.
CHAPTER XVII—Empey has mar
row escape t^bUe on patrol duty in Xo
Alan’s Land.
CHAPTER’XVIII—Back in rest ■'bil
lets lEmpej* .writes and stages a (farce
comedy.
'CHAPTER XIX—Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themselves
while ‘‘on their own.”
CHAPTER 'XX—Empey volunteers
for machine gun service :and .goes
back into the front-line trenches.
CARTER XXI—Empey again goes
“over the top” in a charge uihich coat
his company seventeen killed and
thirty-one wounded.
umere was bne gun in particular
'Which used do get our gouts, fctthnd the
■exact range of our “elephant” dugout
■entrance, an*! every,morning, about the
time rations were being brought up, its
•bullets would knoekmp the dust on the
road; more than <sae Tommy went
West (Or to Blighty by running into
them.
This gun got our nerves on edge,
and Frits: seemed to know it, because
he never gave ms an hour’s re«t. -Our
reputation as machine gunners whs at
stake; we tried various ruses to locate
and put dhis gun out of action, but
each one proved to be a failure, is ml
Frit* heeiane ;ft worse 'nuisance ‘than
ever. He was getting fro her and snore
careless every day, took all kind* of
liberties with us—thought lie was ii»
vincib&e.
The® onemif our *w\v gi t a brilliant
idea and we were all enthusiastic St
put It to the (test.
Here settsihW; scheme:
When firing my gtun. il was to play
■toy tune, and Fritz, uno dou6.it, would
ifedl for It, -try to imitate ue as an
atided Insstlt. This gunner .and two
otters would try. hy the sound, to lo
cate Fritz sad l»te gun. After having
got the location, they would juount
two machine gun# to twees, in a little
clump of wood# to tJje left of iQur.ceme
tery, and while Frit* was to :the Middle
<of his fesson, would open up and fx-ust
to luck. By our calculations, it would
■take at least a week to fwtii off ,t£ie
«tunt.
If Fritz refused to swallow our halt.
If would he impossible to locate hi#
special gun, and that’s the one we were
after, because they all sound alike, a
slow pup-pup-pup.
Our prestige was hanging by a
thread. In the battalion we had to en
dure all kinds of Insults and fresh re
marks a# to our ability in silencing
Fritz. Even to the battalion that Ger
man gun was a sore spot.
Next day, Fritz opened up as usual.
I let him fire away for a While and
then butted in with my “pup-pup-pup
pup-pup-pup.** I kept this up quite a
while, used two belts of ammunition.
Fritz had stopped firing to listen. Then
he started In; sure enough, he had
fallen for our game, his gun was trying
to Imitate mine, but, at first he made a
horrible mess of that tune. Again I
butted in with a few bars and stopped.
Then he tried to copy what I had
played. He was a good sport all right,
because his bullets were going away
over our heads, must have been firing
into the nir. I commenced to feel
friendly toward*him.
This duet went on for five days.
Fritz was a good pupil and learned
rapidly, in fact, got better than his
teacher. I commenced to feel jealous.
When he had completely mastered the
tune, he started sweeping the road
again and we cllckpd It worse than |
ever. But he signed his death warrant |
by doing so, because my friendship j
turned to hate. Every time he fired he
played that tune and we danced.
lhe “Oys »■?. tne - utunnon gave u«
♦he “Ha ! Ha !” They weren’t In on
our little frameup.
The originator of the rase and the
other two gunners had Fritz’s location
taped to the minute; they mounted !
their two guns, and also gave me the
range. The next nfternoon was set for
the grand finale.
Onr three guns, with different eleva
tions. had their Are so arranged, that,
opening up together, their bullets
would suddenly drop on Fritz like a
hailstorm.
About three the next day, Fritz start
ed "pup-pupping" that tune. I blew a
sharp blast on a whistle, it was the sig
nal agreed upon; we turned loose and >
Fritz’s gun suddenly stopped in the■
middle of a bar. We had cooked his
goose, and our rase had worked. After
firing two belts each, to make sure of
our job. we hurriedly dismounted our j
guns and took cover in the dugout. We '
knew what to expect soon. We didn’t j
have to wait long, three salvos of
“whizz-bangs" came over from Fritz's '
artillery, a further confirmation that j
we had sent that musical machine-gun- |
ncr on his Westward-bound journey.
That gun never bothered us again.
We were the heroes of the battalion,
■our captain congratulated ns, said it
was a neat piece of work, and, conse
quently, we were all puffed up over the
stunt.
There are several ways Tommy uses
to disguise the location of his machine
gun and get his range. Some of the
most commonly used stunts are as fol
lows:
At night, when he mounts his gun
over the top of bis trench and wants
to get the range of Fritz’s trench he
adopts the method of what he terms
“getting the spafks.” This (consists of
firing bursts from his gun until the
bullets hit the derm an barbed wire.
He can tell when they are cutting the
wire, because a bullet whim It hits n
wire throws out .a blue electric spark.
Machine-gun fire is very damaging to
wire and causes many a wiring party
to go out at night when it Js quiet to
repair the damage.
To disguise the flare of 'his gun at
night when firing. Tommy uses what is
i called a flare protector. This is a stove
pipe arrangement which fits over the
barrel casing of the gun and screens
| the sparks from the right and left, but
| not from the front. So Tommy, always
resourceful, adopts this scheme: About
j three feet or lessdn front of the gun he
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drives two stakes into the ground,
ttbou? fr e feet apart. Across these
Rtnkes h* stretches a curtain made out
af empty sandbags Pipped open. He
• soaks this curtain in .water anil fires
• through it. Tlie water prevents it
•atching lire and effectively screens
,‘che flare of the firing .gun from the
.merny.
Sound is » valuable asset in locating
a madilne gun, iiut Tommy surmounts
this obstacle by placing it*o machine
guns about «me hundred to one hun
dred and fifty.' yards apatfl. The gisn
on the right 4o cover with <ite fire the
seator of the Heft gun and the gun on
the left to never that of the right
gun. This mahes their fire cross; they
are (fired simultaneously.
flj this method it sounds like one
gun ffiring and gi ves the Germans the
impression that the gun i« firing jtroni
a point midway between the guns
which are actually firing, and they ac
i cording]y shell that particular -spot.
The machine gunners chuckle and -say.
'“‘Flrltz is a brainy boy, not ’alf .he
fciB’t."
But the men in our lines at tfce spot
being shelled curse Fritz for hi« igno
ra»oe and pass a fevw pert newnirks
down the line in reference to the ma
chine gunners being “windy” and
afraid to taftre their medicine.
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CHAPTER XXUI.
Gas Attacks and Spies.
Three days after we had silenced
Fritz, the Gemsttns sent over gas. It
did not catch us unawares, because the
wind had been made to order, that is,
it was blowing from the German
trenches toward ours at the rate of
about five miles per hour.
Warnings hud been passed down the
trench to keep a sharp lookout for gas.
We had a new man at the periscope,
on this afternoon In question; I was
sitting on the fire step, cleaning my
rifle, when he called out to me:
“There’s a sort of greenish, yellow
cloud rolling along the ground out in
front, it’s coming—"
But I waited for no more, grabbing
my bayonet, which was detached from
the ritie, I gave the alarm by banging
an empty shell case, which was hang
ing near the periscope. At the same
Instant, gongs started ringing down the
trench, the signal for Tommy to don
his respirator, or smoke helmet, as we
call It.
Gas travels quickly, S9 you must not
lose any time; you generally have
about eighteen or twenty seconds In
which to adjust your gas helmet.
A gas helmet Is made of cloth, treat
ed with chemicals. There are two win
dows, or glass eyes, in it, through which
you can see. Inside there Is a rubber
covered tube, which goes la the mouth.
You breathe through your nose; the
gas, passing through the cloth helmet,
Is neutralized by the action of the
chemicals. The foul air Is exhaled
thrnmrh thp tnha In Hu.mniK
tube being so fconSlThctod" that it pre- |
vents the inhaling of the outside air or 1
gas. One helmet Is good for five hours
of the strongest gas. Each Tommy
cnrries two of them slung around his
shoulder in a waterproof canvas bag.
He must wear this bag at all times,
even while sleeping. To change a de
fective helmet, you take out the new
one, hold your breath, pull the old one
off. placing the new one over your
head, tucking in the loose ends under
the eollnr of your tunic.
For a minute, pandemonium reigned
In our trench—Tommies adjusting
their helmets, bombers running here
and there, and men turning out of the
dugouts with fixed bayonets, to man
the fire step.
Re-enforcements were pouring out of
the communication trenches.
Our gun’s crew were busy mounting
the machine gun on the parnpet and
bringing up extra ammunition from
the dugout.
German gas Is heavier thnn air and
soon tills the trenches and dugouts,
where It has been known to lurk for
two or three days, until the air Is puri
fied by means of large chemical spray
ers.
We had to work quickly, as Fritz
generally follows the gas with an In
fantry attack.
A company man on our right was
too slow In getting on his helmet; he
sank to the ground, clutching at his
throat, and after a few spasmodic
twistings went West (died). It was
horrible to see him die, but we were
powerless to help him. In the corner
of a traverse, a little, muddy cur dog,
one of the company’s pets, was lying
dead, with his paws over his nose.
It’s the animals that suffer the most
—the horses, mules, cattle, dogs, cats
and rats—they having no helmets to
save them. Tommy does not sympa
thize with rats In u gas attack.
/ -At times gas has been known to
travel, with dire results, fifteen miles
behind the lines.
A gas, or smoke helmet, as it is
called, at the best is a vile-smelling
thing, and it is not long before one gets
a violent headache from wearing It.
Our eighteen-pounders were burst
ing in No Muri’s Land, in an effort, by
the artillery, to disperse the gas
clouds.
The'fire step was lined with crouch
ing men, bayonets fixed, and bombs
near at hand to repel the expected at
tack.
Our artillery had put a barrage of
ourtnln fire on the German lines, to try
and break up their attack and keep
; hack re-enforcements.
1 trained my machine gun oa their
| trench and its bullets were raking the
! irut>et.
Then *»ver they came, bayonets glis
I teulng. In their respirators, which
! have a large snout In front, they look*
j ed like some horrible nightmare.
All along our trench, rifles and ma
chine g»ns spoke, our shrapnel was
bursting over their heads. They went
down in heaps, but new ones took the
| places of the fallen. Nothing could
stop that mad rush. The Germans
reached our barbed wire, which had
! previously been demolished by their
shells, then it was bomb against bomb,
und the devil for all.
Suddenly my head seemed to burst
from a loud "crack” in my ear. Then
my head began to swim, throat got
dry, and a hea<vy pressure on the lungs
warned me that my helmet was leak
ing. Turning iby gun over to No. .2, I
changed helmet*.
The trench started to wind like a*
snake, and sandbags appeared to be
; floating in the air. The noise was hor
rible; I sank onto the fire step, needles
seemed to be pricking my flesh, then
blackness.
I was awakened by one of my mates
•removing my smoke helmet. How de
licious that cool, fresh air felt in my
Hings.
A strong wind had arisen and dis
pensed the gas.
Whey told me that I had been “out"
for (three hours; they thought I was
dead.
The attack had been repulsed after'
a hard fight. Twice the Germans had
gained a foothold in our trench, but
bad been driven out by counter-at
tacks. The trench was filled with their
dead and ours. Through a periscope
I counted eighteen deud Germans in
our wire; they were a ghastly sight in
their horrible-looking respirators.
I examined mj; first smoke helmet.
A bullet had gone through It on the
left side, just grazing my ear. The
gas had penetrated through the hole
made in the cloth.
Out of our crew of six we lost two
killed and two wounded.
That night we buried all of the dead,
excepting those In No Man's Land. In
death there is not much distinction;
friend and foe are treated alike.
After the wind had dispersed the j
gas ttie R. A. M. C. got busy with their ‘
chemical sprayers, spraying out the j
dugouts and low parts of the trenches
to dissipate any fumes of the German j
gas which may have been lurking in
same.
Two days after the gas attack, I was j
sent to division headquarters, in an
swer to an order requesting that cap- j
tains of units should detail a man |
whom they thought capable of passing j
an examination for the divisional in- j
tel licence dennrtment.
V* (To be Continued)
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