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“Over the Top”
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Sensing In France
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(Copyright, 1917, Dr ArtbnrOuy Bmpej)
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 office 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 acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent “cooties.”
CHAPTER III—Empey attends his,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 Is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtish Tommy, "If you
are going to get It, you'll get It, so never
worry.”
CHAPTER VI—Back in rest billets. 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 charge on the
German trenches and is wounded by a
bayonet thrust.
CHAPTER XIII.
_ Hm
My First Official Bath.
Right behind our rest billet was a
large creek about ten feet deep and
twenty feet across, nnd It was a habit
of the company to avail themselves of
an opportunity to take a swim and at
the same time thoroughly wash them
selves nnd their underwear when on
their own. We were having a spell of
hot weather, and these baths to us
were a luxury. The Tommies would
splash around in the water and then
come out and sit In the sun and have
what they termed a “shirt hunt.” At
first we tried to drown the “cooties,”
but they also seemed to enjoy the bath.
One Sunday morning the whole sec
tion was in the creek and we were hav
ing a gay time, when the sergeant ma
jor appeared on the scene. He came
to the edge of the creek nnd ordered:
“Come out of it. Get your equipment
on, ‘drill order,’ and fall in for bath
parade. Look lively, my hearties, You
have only got fifteen minutes.” A howl
of Indignation from the creek greeted
this order, but out we came. Disci
pline is discipline. We lined up In
front of our billet with rifles nnd bay
onets (why you need rifles and bayo
nets to take a bath gets me)', a full
quota of ammunition, and our tin hats.
Each man had a piece of soap nnd a
towel. After an eight-kilo march along
a dusty road, with an occasional shell
whistling overhead, we arrived at a
little squat frame building upon the
bank of a creek. Nailed over the door
of this building was a large sign which
read “Divisional Raths." In a wooden
shed in the rear we could hear a
wheezy old engine pumping water.
We lined up in front of the baths,
soaked with perspiration, and piled
our rifles into stacks. A sergeant of
the It. A. M. C. with a yellow hand
around his left arm on which was
“S. P.” (sanitary police) in black let
ters, took charge, ordering us to take
off our equipment, unroll our puttees
nnd unlace boots. Then, starting from
the right of the line, he divided us
into squads of fifteen. I happened to
he in the first squad.
We entered a small room, where we
were given five-minutes to undress,
then filed into the bathroom. In here
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A Bathroom at the Front.
there were fifteen tubs (barrels sawed
In two) half full of water. Each tub
contained u piece of laundry soap. The
sergeant Informed us that we had just
twelve minutes In which to .take our
baths. Soaping ourselves all over, we
took turns in rubbing each other’s
bncks, then by means of a garden hose,
washed the soap off. The water was
ice cold, but felt fine.
pfett.' Srif'n'*rt benTang arid The wa
ter was nirr,0f] 0|>f gorae 0j ^e slower
ones were covered with soap, hut this
made no ifferenee to the sergeant,
who < t'.iS'.,] „g jnt(( another room,
where «e "nea up in front of n little
window. resembllng the box office In a
theater, and received clean underwear
and to"1 s. From here we went into
the room "here we had firs/ undressed.
Ten raltiu eg were allowed In which to
get into onr “clabber.”
jlv pn'f of drawers came up to my
chin »n' th« shirt barely reached my
diaphragm, but they were clean—no
strangers on them, so I was satisfied.
At th( expiration of the time allot
ted we were turned out and finished
our dressing on tj,e grass
\\ pen a,I of the company had bathed
It was a ease of march back to billets.
That march was the most uncongenial
one imagined, just cUssing and blind
ing all t e way. We were covered with
white dust and felt greasy from swTeat.
The woolen underwear issued was
Itching like the mischief.
After eating our dinner of stew,
which tind been kept for us—It was
now four o’clock—we went Into the
creek and had nnother hath.
If 1 Holy joe” pouij] have heard our
remarks about the divisional baths
| and army red tape he would have
fainted at our wickedness. But Tom
my Is only human after all.
I Just mentioned "Holy Joe” or the
chaplain In an Irreverent sort of way,
but no offense was meant, ns there
were some very brave men among
them.
There are so many instances of he
roic deeds performed under fire in res
cuing the wounded that It would take
several books to chronicle them, but I
have to mention one instance per
formed by a chaplain, Captain Hall by
name, in the brigade on our left, be
cause it particularly appealed to me.
A chaplain is nH a fighting man; he
Is recognized ns a noncombatant and
carries no arms. In a charge or trench
raid the soldier gets a feeling of con
fidence from contact with his rifle, re
volver. or bomb he is carrying. He has
something to protect himself with,
[ something with which he can inflict
harm on the enemy—In other words,
he is able to get his own back.
But the chaplain Is empty-handed,
and is at the mercy of the enemy if
he encounters them, so it is doubly
brave for him to go over the top, under
fire, and bring in wounded. Also a
chaplain is not required by the king’s
regulations to go over in a charge, but
this one did, made three trips under
the hottest kind of fire, each time re
turning with a wounded man on his
hack. On the third trip he received
a bullet through his left arm, but never
reported the mutter to the doctor until
late that night—just spent his time ad
ministering to the wants of the wound
ed lying on stretchers.
The chaplains of the British armj
are A.joe, manly set of men, and are
greatly respected by Tommy.
CHAPTER XIV.
Picks and Shovels.
I had not slept long before the sweet
voice of the sergeant informed that
“No. 1 section had clicked for another
blinking digging party.” I smiled t<>
myself with deep satisfaction. I hud
been promoted from a mere digger to
a member of the Suicide club, and was
exempt from all fatigues. Then came
an awful shock. The sergeant looked
over in my direction and said:
“Pon'i you bomb throwers think you
are wearing top hats out here, 'ford
in’ to orders you've been taken up on
the strength of this section, and will
have to do your bit with the pick and
shovel, same as the rest of us.”
I put up a howl on my way to get
my shovel, but the only thing that re
sult'd was a loss of good humor on
my part.
We fell in at eight o'clock, outside
of our billets, a sort of masquerade
party. 1 was disguised as a common
laborer, had a pick and shovel, and
about one hundred empty sandbags,
The rest, about two hundred In all,
w-ere equipped likewise: picks, shovels,
sandbags, rifles and ammunition.
The party moved out In column of
fours. Inking the road leading to the
trenches. Several times we had to
string out in the ditch to let long col
umns of limbers, artillery and supplies
get past.
The marching, under these condi
tions, was necessarily slow. Upon ar
rival at the entrance to the communi
cation trench, I looked at my illumi
nated wrist watch—it was eleven
o’clock.
Before entering this trench, word
was passed down the line, "no talking
or smoking, lead off in single file, cov
ering party first.”
This covering party consisted of 3C
men, armed with rifles, bayonets
bombs, aud two Lewis machine guns.
They were to protect us and guard
against a surprise attack while dig
ging in No Man's Land.
The communication trench was
about half a mile long, a zigzagging
ditch, eight feet deep and three feet
wide.
Now and again, Gerinnn shrapnel
would whistle overhead and burst in
our vicinity. We would crouch against
the earthen walls while the shell frag
ments “slapped” the ground above us,
Once Fritz turned loose with a ma
chine gun, the bullets from which
“cracked” through the air and kicked
up tin' dirt on the top, scattering sand
and pebbles, which, hitting our steel
helmets, sounded like hailstones.
Upon arrival in the fire trench an
officer of the Itoyal Engineers gave us
our instructions and acted as guide.
We were to dig an advanced trench
two hundred yards from the Germans
(the trenches at this point were six
hundred, yards aDart).
Two w'ni.Tug laftes, five "feet wide, •
had been out through our barbed wire, g
for the passage of the diggers. From Z
these lines white tape hud been laid *
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I
Trench Digging.
on the ground to the point where we
were to commence work. This in or- !
der that we would not get lost in the j
darkness. The proposed trench was |
also laid out with tape.
The covering party went out first, j
! After a short wait, two scouts came j
back with information that the work
j ing party was to follow and “carry on”
' with their work.
In extended order, two yards apart,
! we noiselessly crept across No Man's
Land. It was nervous work; every
! minute we expected a machine gun to
open fire on us. Stray bullets “cracked”
| around us, or a ricochet sang over
i head.
(To be Continued)
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NOTICE OF HEARING
j In United States Commissioner's Court
in and for Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, in Probate,
j In the matter of the estate of Bill |
Orozugula, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that F. E.
McConaghy has filed in the above
entitled court, a petition, praying that
letters of administration upon the es- j
tate of Bill Orozugula, deceased, and !
that Saturday, the 27th day of April, j
'1918, at 2 o’clock p. m., at the;
office of the United States Commis
sioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge
of Cordova Precinct, at Cordova,
i Alaska, has been set for hearing said
petition, when and where any person
interested may appear and show
cause why said petition should not be
granted.
i Dated, April 2, 1918.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
j United States Commissioner and Ex
j Officio Probate Judge in and for
Cordova Precinct, Territory of
Alaska.
Dates of publication, April 4-11-18, 1918
NOTICE OF HEARING
In United States Commissioner’s Court
in and for Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, in Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of M. K.
Pencoff, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that F. E.
McConaghy has filed in the above en
titled court, a petition, praying that
letters of administration upon the es
tate of M. K. Pencoff, deceased, and
that Saturday, the 27th day of April,
1918. at two o’clock p. m„ at the of
fice of the United States Commis
sioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge
of Cordova Precinct at Cordova, Alas
ka, has been set for hearing said peti
tion, when and where any person in
terested may appear and show cause
why said petition should not be
granted.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
United States Commissioner and Ex
Officio Probate Judge in and for
, Cordova Precinct, Territory of
sk<i
Dates of publication, April 4-11-18. 1918
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