. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. ENES blown up by the first, or left as a death trap till theenemy is actually crossing. Actions by armored trains, some of them themost reckless adventures, are attempted daily. Eachday accumulates an unwritten record of individualdaring feats, accepted as part of the daily work. Dayby day our menpush out onthese dangerousexplorations, at-tacked by shellfire, in danger ofcross-fire, dyna-mite, and am-buscades, bring-ing a pricelesssupport to thethreatened the armoredtrain approachesthe river undershell
. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. ENES blown up by the first, or left as a death trap till theenemy is actually crossing. Actions by armored trains, some of them themost reckless adventures, are attempted daily. Eachday accumulates an unwritten record of individualdaring feats, accepted as part of the daily work. Dayby day our menpush out onthese dangerousexplorations, at-tacked by shellfire, in danger ofcross-fire, dyna-mite, and am-buscades, bring-ing a pricelesssupport to thethreatened the armoredtrain approachesthe river undershell fire the carcracks with the constant thunder of guns aboard. It is amazing tosee the angle at which the guns can be swung. And overhead the airmen are busy venturingthrough fog and puffs of exploding shells to get onesmall fact of information. We used to regard thelooping of the loop of the Germans overhead as a hare-brained piece of impudent defiance to our infantry we know it means early trouble for the infantry. Besides us, as we crawl up snuffing the lines like 229. These Always Survive. HARROWING SCENES dogs on a scent, grim train-loads of wounded waitsoundlessly in the sidings. Further up the line ambu-lances are coming slowly back. The bullets of machineguns begin to rattle on our armored coats. Shellswe learned to disregard, but the machine gun is themaster in this war. Now we near the river at a flat country territory is scarred with trenches, and it is impos-sible to say at first who is in them, so incidental andseparate are the fortunes of this riverside battle. TheGermans are on our bank enfilading the lines of theAllies trenches. We creep up and the Germans comeinto sight out of the trenches, rush to the bank, andare scattered and mashed. The Allies follow with afierce bayonet charge. The Germans do not wait. They rush to thebridges and are swept away by the deadliest destroyerof all, the machine gun. The bridge is blown up, butwho can say by whom
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