Roger Mills Sentinel (Strong City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ROGER MILLS SENTINEL
Bed-blooded men of courage are on
the firing line— and there are many
anemic weak discouraged men and
women left at home
At this time of the year most people
Buffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever They feel tired worn
out before the day Is half thru They
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a week even by persons who have a
movement dally In order to eliminate
matter which may remain and cause a
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EMPEY GOES “OVER THE J0P” FOR THE FIRST TIME AND'
HAS DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT r ‘
Synopsis — Fired by the sinking of the Lusitania with the loss of
American lives Arthur Guy Empey an American living In Jersey City
goes to England and enlists as a private In the British army After a
short experience as a recruiting officer In London he is sent to train-
ing quarters In France where he first hears the souud of big guns and
makes the acquaintance of “cooties” After a brief period of training
Empey’s company Is sent into the front-line trenches where he takes
his first turn on the fire step while the bullets whiz overhead Empey
learns as comrade falls that death lurks always in the trenches
CHAPTER X— Continued
We bad a sergeant iu our battalion
named Warren He was on duty with
bis platoon in the fire trench one after-
noon when orders came up from the
rear that he had been granted seven
days’ leave for Blighty and would be
relieved at five o’clock to proceed to
England
He was tickled to death at these
welcome tidings and regaled his more
or less envious mates beside him on
the fire step with the good times In
Btore for him He figured It out that
In two days’ time he would arrive at
Waterloo station London and then —
seven days’ bliss I
At about five minutes to five he
started to fidget with his rifle and
then suddenly springing np on the fire
step with a muttered "I’ll send over
a couple of souvenirs to Fritz so that
he'll miss me when I leave” he stuck
his rifle over the top and fired two shots
when “crack" went a bullet and he
cumDled off the step fell into the mud
at the bottom of the trench and lay
still in a huddled heap with a bullet
bole In his forehead
At about the time he expected to ar-
rive at Waterloo station he was laid
!o rest in a little cemetery behind the
lines He had gone to Blighty
In the trenches one can never tell —
It Is not safe to plan very far ahead
After “stand down" the men sit on
the fire step or repair to their respec-
tive dugouts and wait for the “rum Is-
sue" to materialize Immediately fol-
lowing the rum comes breakfast
brought up from the rear Sleeplag is
then in order unless some special work
turns up
Around 12:30 dinner shows up
When this Is eaten the men try to
tmuse themselves nntll “tea" appears
st about four o’clock then “stand to”
snd they carry on as before
While In rest billets Tommy gets up
shout six in the morning washes up
answers roll call is Inspected by bis
platoon officer and has breakfast At
3 :45 he parades (drills) with his com-
pany or goes on fatigue according to
the orders which have been read ont
by the orderly sergeant the night pre-
vious Between 11:30 and noon he is dis-
missed has his dinner and is “on his
awn" for the remainder of the day
unless he has clicked for a digging or
working party and so It goes on from
day to day always “looping the loop"
and looking forward to peace and
Blighty
Sometimes while engaged In a
"cootie" hunt yon think Strange to
say but it Is a fact while Tommy Is
searching his shirt serious thoughts
come to him Many a time when per-
forming this operation I have tried
to figure out the outcome of the war
and what will happen to me
My thoughts generally rtn In this
channel :
Will I emerge safely from the next
attack? If I do will I skin through the
following one and so on? While your
mind Is wandering Into the future It
la likely to be rudely brought to earth
by a Tommy Interrupting with “What's
good for rheumatism?!’
Then yon have something else to
think of Will you come out of this
war cripiAed and tied Into knots with
rheumatism caused by the wet and
mud of trenches and dugouts? You
give It up as a bad job and generally
saunter over to the nearest estamlnet
to drown your moody forebodings in a
glass of sickening French beer or to
1 try your luck at the always present
1 game of “house” You can hear the
I sing-song voice of a Tommy droning
oat the numbers as be extracts the
I little squares of cardboard from the
bag between bis feet
CHAPTER XI
Over the Top
On my second trip to the trenches
aur officer was making his rounds of
Inspection and we received the cheer-
ful news that at four in the morning
we were to go over the top and take
the German front-line trench My heart
turned to lead Then the officer car-
ried on with his instructions To the
best of my memory I recall them as
follows : “At eleven a wiring party will
go ont In front and cut lanes through
our barbed wire for the passage of
troops In the morning At two o'clock
our artillery will open np with an In-
tense bombardment which will last un-
til four Upcn the lifting of the bar--ngc-
the first of the three waves will
o r” Then he left Some of the
'"'m'Ih first getting permission from
‘not went iulo the machine
Arthur Gey Empey
Machine Gunner Serving in France
Copyright 1917) by Arthur Ouy Empey
gunners' dugout and wrote letters
home saying that In the morning they
were going over the top and also that
if the letters reached their destination
it would mean that the writer bad been
killed
These letters were turned over to
the captain with Instructions to mall
same In the event of the writer’s being
killed Some of the men made out
their wills In their pay books under
the caption “Will and Last Testa-
ment" Then the nerve-racking wait com
menced Every now and then I would
glance at the dial of my wrist watch
and was surprised to see how yfast the
minutes passed by About flvewc’jutes
to two I got nervous waiting for our
guns to open up I could not take my
eyes from my watch I crouched
against the parapet and strained my
muscles in a deathlike grip upon my
rifle As the hands on my watch
showed two o'clock a blinding red flare
lighted up the sky In our rear then
thunder Intermixed with a sharp whis-
tling sound in the air over our heads
The shells from our guns were speed-
ing on their way toward the German
lines With one accord the men
sprang up on the flrfc step and looked
over the top In the direction of the
German trenches A line of bursting
shells lighted up No Man’s Land The
din was terrific and the ground trem-
bled Then high above our beads we
could bear a sighing moan t Our big
boys behiDd the line had opened np
and 92’s and 15-lnch shells commenced
dropping into the German lines The
flash of the guns behind the lines the
scream of the shells through the air
and the flare of them bursting was a
spectacle that put Pain’s greatest ms-
play into tfle shade The constant
pup pup of German machine guns and
an occasional rattle of rifle firing gave
me the Impression of a huge andlence
applauding the work of the batteries
Our 18-pounders were destroying the
German barbed wire while the heavier
stuff was demolishing their trenches
and bashing in dugouts or funk holes
Then Fritz got busy '
Their shells went screaming over-
head aimed In the direction of the
flares from onr batteries Trench mor-
tars started dropping “Minnies" in
onr front line We clicked several cas-
ualties Then they suddenly ceased
Our artillery had taped or silenced
them
During the bombardment you could
almost read a newspaper In our trench
Sometimes In the flare of a shell-burst
a man's body would be silhouetted
against the parados of the trench and
it appeared like a huge monster You
could hardly hear yourself think When
an order was to be passed down the
trench you had to yell it using your
hands as a funnel into the ear of the
man sitting next to you on the fire step
In about twenty minutes a generous
rum Issue was doled out After drink-
ing the rum which tasted like varnish
and sent a shudder through your
frame you wondered why they made
you wait until the lifting of the bar-
rage before going over At ten min-
utes to four word was passed down
“Ten minutes to gol” Ten minutes
to live I We were shivering all over
My legs felt as If they were asleep
Then word was passed down: “First
wave get on and near the scaling lad-
ders" Before a charge Tommy is the po-
litest of men There Is never any push-
ing or crowding to be first up these
ladders We crouched around the base
of the ladders waiting for the word
to go over I was sick and faint and
was puffing away at an unllgbted fag
Tbea came the word “Three minutes
to go upon the lifting of the barrage
and on the blast of the whistles ‘Over
the top with the best o’ luck and give
them hell"' The famous phrase of
the western front The Jonah phrase
of the western front To Tommy It
means If you are lucky enough to come
back you will be minus an arm or a
leg
I glanced again at my wrist watch
We all wore them aud you could hardly
call us “sissies” for doing so It was a
minute to four I could see the hand
move to the twelve then a dead al-
ienee It hurt Everyone looked up
to see what had happened but not for
long Sharp whistle blasts rang ont
ahAg the trench and with a cheer the
men scrambled up the ladders The
bullets were cracking overhead and
occasionally a machine gun would rip
nnd tear the top ot the sandbag para-'
pet now I got up that ladder I will
never know The first ten feet out In
front was agony Then we passed
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through lanes In our barbed wire I
knew I was running but could feel no
motion below the waist Patches on
the ground seemed to float to the rear
as If I were on a treadmill and seen
ery was rushing past me The Ger-
mans had put a barrage of shrapnel
across No Man’s Land and you could
hear the pieces slap Abe ground about
you
After I had passed 'our barbed wire
and gotten Into No Man's Land a
Tommy about fifteen feet to my right
front turned around and looking in my
direction put his hand to his mouth
nnd yelled something which I could not
make out on account of the noise from
the bursting shells Then he coughed
stumbled pitched forward and lay still
His body seemed to float to the rear
of me I could hear sharp cracks In
the air about me These were caused
by passing rifle bullets Frequently
to my right and left little spurts of
dirt would rise Into the air and a rico-
chet bullet would whine on Its way
If a Tommy should see one of these
little spurts In front of him he would
tell the nurse about It later The
crossing of No Man’s Land remains a
blank to me
Men on my right and left would
stumble and fall Some would try to
get up while others remained huddled
and motionless Then smashed-np
barbed wire came Into view and
seemed carried on a tide to the rear
Suddenly In front of me loomed a
bashed -In trench about four feet wide
Queer-looking forms like mud turtles
were scrambling up Its wall One of
these forms seemed to slip and then
rolled to the bottom cf the trench I
leaped across this txtuven'Bg rpnee
The man to my left asenwl ts piusn In
midair then pitched head down Into
the German trench I laughed out loud
In my delirium Upon alighting on the
other side of the trench I came to with
a sudden jolt Right in front of me
loomed a giant form with a rifle which
looked about ten feet long on the end
of which seemed seven bayonets These
flashed in the air In front of -me Then
through my mind flashed the admoni-
tion of our bayonet instructor back In
Blighty He had said "whenever you
get In a charge and run your bayonet
up to the hilt Into a German the Frits
will fall Perhaps your rifle will be
wrenched from your grasp Do not
waste time If the bayonet is fouled
In his equipment by putting your foot
on bis stomach and tugging at the rifle
to extricate the bayonet Simply
press the trigger nnd the bullet will
free It” In my present situation this
was the logic but for the life of me
I could not remember how he had told
me to get my bayonet Into the Ger-
man To me this was the paramount
Issue I closed ray eyes and lunged
forward My rifle was torn from my
hands I must have gotten the Ger-
man because he had disappeared
About twenty feet to ray left front
was a hnge Prussian nearly six feet I
four inches In height a fine specimen I
of physical manhood The bayonet j
from his rifle was missing but be I
clutched the barrel In both hands and
was swinging the butt around his head I
I could almost hear the swish of the !
butt passing through the air Three
little Tommies were engaged with him !
They looked like pigmies alongside of j
the Prussian The Tommy on the left j
was gradually circling to the rear of
his opponent It was a funny sight to
see them duck the swinging butt and
try to Jab him at the same time The
Tommy nearest me received the butt
of the German's rifle In a smashing
blow below the right temple It
smashed his head like an eggshell He
pitched forward on his side and a con-
vulsive shudder ran through his body
Meanwhile the other Tommy had
gained the rear of the Prussian Sud-
denly about four Inches of bayonet
protruded from the throat of the Prus-
sian soldier who staggered forward
and fell I will never forget the look
of blank astonishment that came over
his face
Then something hit me In the left
shoulder and my left side went numb
It felt as If a hot poker was being
driven through me I felt no pain —
Just a sort of nervous shock A bay-
onet had pierced me from the rear 1
fell backward on the ground but was I
not unconscious because I could see '
dim objects moving around me Then
a flash of light In front of my eyes and
unconsciousness Something had hit
me on the head I have never found
out what It was
I dreamed I was being tossed about
In an open boat on a heaving sea and
opened my eyes The moon was shin-
ing I was on a stretcher being car-
ried down one of our communication
trenches At the advanced flrst-ald
post my wounds were dressed and
then I was put Into an ambulance and
sent to one of the base hospitals The
wounds In my shoulder and head were
not serious and in six weeks I had re-
joined my company for service In tbs
front line
Empty Joins the "Sulelds
club" The thrilling details are
told in the next installment
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver
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Win the War by Preparing the Land
Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops
Work in Joint Effort the Soil of the United States and Canada
CO-OPKRATIVX FARMING IN MAN POWER NECESSART
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The Food Controlleri of the United States and Canada are asking tot
greater food production Scarcely 100000000 bushels of wheat are avail-
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efforts of the United States and Canada rests the burden of supply
Eviry Available Tillable lore Must Contribute Every Available
Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist
Western Cansyla has an enormous acreage to be seeded but man power
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Canada’s Wheat Production Last Year was 226000000 Bushels the
Demand From Canada Alone for 1918 Is 400000000 Buthalt
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the men The Government of the United Sates wants every man who can
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Owen, A. Y. Roger Mills Sentinel (Strong City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1918, newspaper, April 25, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2046681/m1/2/?q=Birth+of+a+Nation: accessed June 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.