CHALONS, France— When
we have taken you out before, we
have shown you trenches,” said
a French officer. “This time we
.are going to show you a field of
victory—lines of trenches which
we took from the Germans ”
Not all the spoil had yet been
removed and from one to five
miles in breadth where, on Sept.
25th and 26th, the French had
broken back the siege line of the
Germans with the concentration
of infantry and the expenditure
of a million shells.
What looked like a man of war
turret on wheels was being drawn
along the road. This cupola of
riveted armor was dented by
shell fragments. It had an open
ing for the swing of a small gun
and a door for the exit and en
trance of the crew, which could
be fastened by a bolt and a heavy
shank.
“Three men were found inside
—locked in,” said an officer. “The
turret was set in the parapet of a
trench at an important point of
the line. All the German soldiers
in the neighborhood had either
been killed or buried alive. We
had to break the lock to take the
crew out. All three were alive,
but stunned. They had gone on
firing their gun as long as thev
could.”
Freely the correspondent mov
ed between the old first line
French and German trenches,
which, for many months, had
been a zone of death for whoever
showed himself. In front of the
first line trench the Germans had
barbed wire entanglements five
or six feet broad. A rabbit could
not have gone through without
being caught. In places now
one had been chcpped into bits
by the burst of sharpnel bullets
from the “soixante quinze” guns
and then kneaded into the eartl
by high explosive shells- Thost
"tins had been firing from a range
of anywhere from 2,000 to 5.00c
yards, yet with such accuracj
that they could hit this ribbon ol
wire six feet broad. On such ac
urnev depended the success ol
the infantry in reaching the Ger
man trenches. There must be
"tins and shells enough to destroy
" ire over a front of fifteen miles
If the Germans in the trench with
their rifles and machine guns and
hand grenades could go on firing
it meant murder for the French
men exposed in the open as they
charged.
So fifteen or twenty yards be
yond where the wire was being
cut more shell fire hjid to kill the
fire from the German trenches.
Some blasts of sharpnel bullets
here, too, enough to make any
man in the German trenches
want to keep his head down if he
was not buried or eviscerated by
high explosive shells. Ij'or hun
dreds of yards in some places
there was scarcely any semblance
if the trenches after the French
guns had prepared the way for
he French infantry. It was as
f the trenches had been dynamit
( 1 systematically with charges
plotted out checker-board fashion.
At other places where the des
uction had not been so complete
r was possible to see what the
Herman trenches were like and
villi what amazing thoroughness
'ml care they had been built. To
a layman they seemed impregn
>hlc. Down these slanting shafts
under the parapets were caves
'wentv and thirty feet deep for
refuge in a bombardment. In
any cases the openings had been
closed by the descent of a ton or
i more of earth from the parapet
from the concussion of a large
calibre howitzer shell and all the
men within were buried alive.
The fate of those who were in
the trench itself was often to be
buried in fragments of flesh and
bone, blown into the soil by the
explosions- The German guns
could not fire on the French in
fantry as they reached the barbed
wire for fear of hitting the Ger
mans in the trenches and the
French fire stopped for fear or
hitting the French. Where an
inferno of explosions had raged
peace reigned over the wreckage
wrought by French gunnery, as
the French soldiers sprang over
the remnants of parapets to face
with bayonet and dagger any Ger
man that had survived and was in
possession of his senses.
“Even those who were,” said a
soldier, “often yielded. What
would you? We swarmed around
‘hem. We summoned those alive
out of their dugouts. Thus we
took our prisoners. That is, we!
took those who were alive. The
dead and wounded. Ah! mons-j
•eur, and it all happened very j
fast, monsieur- The blood was
hot. We had waited many
months. It was victory. How!
"ood the hough-hough of the
soibante quinze sounded behind |
us! How good the scream of
‘he big shells. Then there were
the mines we exploded. Have
you seen the craters? So big
vou could almost put the Arc de
Triomphe into one of them. We
charged into a wall of smoke and
dust were still ttyick when we
reached the German trenches.”
“And what did vou think of
when you charged?”
“Of nothing, monsieur, except
‘o arrive. We ran as fast as we
I Advertise in the Nugget
and get results
jrrsrs--—... 1 ■ . = ■ 1 ■ ~ ■ i...... 11 . .
icoulcl The sooner wo got >
those trenches the better—the
(less time the Germans had to re
cover from the shell fire and begin
l tiring at us."
“Did you get as many Germans
j'as they got of you?”
i "More. In the first line ot
! trenches many more.”
The question a score of times
of officers’ and men always
brought the same answer.
It was in the second and third
'ines of trenches that the French
suffered most; for their guns
could not always cut the barbed
wire or blow the trenches to
pieces so successfully farther on i
•’s the troops swept forward;
/hroucdiout the greatest day in
die history of the war on the west
rront till night found them dig
ging into the earth under covet
| ff the darkness five miles beyond
! dieir old first line trenches.
IOW NORTHERN
BIRDS TRAVEL
The black-poll warblers that
uild tlwir nests and bring up
I their young in Alaska, live the!
cst of the year in South America
',000 miles away .The nighthawkj
hat breeds on the banks of the,
Vukon, in Alaska, goes to Argen
tina, 7,000 miles distant, at the
■pproach of autumn. These are
’ong distances, you say. Yes. i
and they are covered, you must
remember, by land birds. The:
migration routes of shore birds
are even longer. Nineteen spec
ies of shore birds that nest north
of the Arctic circle winter in
v°l1th America six of them going
to Patagonia, over a route that
s more than 8,000 miles long. i
The world’s migration cham-j
oion, however, is the Arctic tern-[
[t builds its nest in the ice, not;
far south of the north pole.When 1
‘he young birds are full grown
•Ci2 whole family starts south,
nd in the course of severalli
uonths arrive at the edge of the
Antarctic continent.
Y\ hat the track is over the 11
200 miles of land, ice and water
etween the two homes of this
remarkable bird no one knows.
A few Arctic terns have been
-een along the United States
coast below Long Island, but the
mighty flocks of thousands upon
thousands, which range from pole
to pole, have never been noted
by an ornithologist competent to
-ndicate their preferred route and
their time schedule.
They reach the far North about
June 15, leave about August 25,
'■nd travel 22,000 miles a year.
Not less than 150 miles in a
straight line must be their daily
flight, and that distance is no
do^bt multiplied several times
by their zigzag turnings in pur
uit of food- So the journeying
habits of the birds are full of sur
mises and .contradictions, and
Tie mystery of their migration is
still engaging the attention of a
great many naturalists.
A few migrate only in daylight,
but most birds feed and rest dur
ng the day and travel at night.
The day migrants include hawks,
| swallows, nighthawks and chim
j ney swifts. 1 he nighthawks and
; chimney swifts catch their food
j while on the wing. Their pro
j rfess north or south is slow.
When they come to a lake or a
Targe pond they fly around it in
stead of over it.—J. B. Morrow in
; Cincinnati United Enquirer.
FUR PRICES.
Quotations on Alaska furs are
as follows, for December accord
' ing to the All Alaska Review.
Mink—$4.50 for No. 1 dark to
• ^3-5° large browrn
Beaver—N.»i large $12; to
No. 3 small $4.50.
Black Beaor—$20 No. 1 large;
j '6.50 No. 2.
Grizzly—$20 No 1. large; $7.50
No. 2.
Brown Bears—$15 to $4.50.
Fisher—$25 No- 1 large; $8 No.
t small.
Foxes—Black or Silver—$1500
for No. 1 large; $rooo medium,
P500 small.
Cross Fox—$75 No. 1 large ;
>15, No. x small.
White or Arctic Fox—$25 for
No. I large; $10 for small.
Blue Fox—$50 No. 1 large, $20
No. 1 small.
Wolves—$5 No. 1 large; $2
No. 1 small.
Lynx—$12, No. 1 large; $5 No.
1 small.
Marten—$15 No. 1 large; $6
No. 1 small.
Wolverine—$8 to $3.50.
Weasel—$1 to 30c.
Prices are steady and expected
to be slightly higher in January.
Continued from Page 3.
Lot. Blk. Amt.
Bovey * Davison, 2 to 7 In
clusive . 134 8.28
Fell ft Hatupjn . 8 134 2.13
Bcvey & Davslon, 9 to 13 In
clusive . 134 8.70
Fell Ac Hatupln, 1 to 4 In
clusive . 135 8.S1
Bovey, J. E., 1 to 12 In
clusive . 136 22.00
Fell ft Hatupln. 1 to 12 In
clusive ..... .. .. 137 22.65
r>11 & Hatupln, 1 to 13 in
clusive . 138 42.15
v'ell ft Hatupln, 1 to 16 In
clusive . 139 28.0'!
Tell ft Hatupln, 1 to 12 In
clusive . 140 22.65
Tell ft Hatupln, 1 to 12 tn
clus've . 141 22.65
endrlch, Jos., 1 to 15 ln
e'tis'vp . 142 4.8” 1
Fell ft Hatupln, 1 to 11 In
clusive . 143 24!0i
ncv'snn. T,. A. 12 143 2.15]
Fell ft Hctunln . 13 143 2.13 j
Fell ft Hatupln. lots 1 to
6 Inrlns'vp . 144 14so!
Hatupln. John .... 7 and .8 144 6.731
Fell ft Hatupln, lots 9 to
12 Inclusive. 144 8.S.S’
I ell. Parch. In's 1. 2 3 and 4 1«5 .8 ss |
Fell ft Hatupln ....5 and 5 1-2 145 1.01
Fell. Parch . 6 145 Z.tO
Fe’l ft Hatupln. lots 1 to 8
Inclusive . ,14C 18.16
Mnnsnn, Oscar, cabin on
Arthur plneer . 1.00
Rnunaard Jne. house, Ar
thur placer ele.lm . 2.P0
Frlc, Andrew, 2 cabins Ar
thur placer claim . l.no
Lot. BIK. Amt
Laruent, Fred, house Ar
thur claim . 2.00
Oar'son, H. 15.. 2 buildings
Arthur cla!m . 2.50
.Seisin, Paul, cabin, Arthur
claim . .80
Schrader, Win,, cabin Ar
thur claim . .75
Berg. Fred, cabin . 1.00
Brown, Chas., cabins Ar
thur claim .. ... ISO
Grnllon, Gus. cabin Art hut
claim .do
Alaska Mer. Co., Improve
ments on .83 K 87 80.00
Alaska Mer. Co. Improve
ments on . 41 07 10.00
Brown, cabin on .21 87 .60
Johnson, Olaf. cabin . 3 24 2.00
Rice, Robert, cabin on n.
1-2 . # 66 1.00
9trom, John, cabin on s. 1-2 6 66 1.60
Smith, John. cat. cabin.... 6 14 4.00
Onff-ey. J. C. buildings on 35 19 6.00
Greenberg, building on .... 36 19 40.00
Reed. Chas. cabin on .... 6 SO l.oo
Thels, Stephen, cabin s. 1-2
w. 1-2 . 6 64 2.00
McT.eo, caRln . 7 64 2.00
Watson, Chas, cabin. 7 63 1.00
Unknown N. 10 ft. cf E. 24 ft. 60 30 .20
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