YUKONER WRITES FROM
TRENCHES IN FRANCE
James brooks Close, who vvuS al mu
head of me While river and esutbiisn
eu and conducted a store mere in con
nection wim me cmsunu slumpeuc
y car before last, utter huv nig gone in
over me Kiuane trull with nlty tuns
ot supplies, is at tue front m France
wtm me brlttsli army. Mr. Close was
not in buvvsoii, but made me acqumii
lahce ot many txlonuikers wliom In
Utet up the Wlme and al fjkugwuy,
W hlu-jiui se and on the trail. Ills uncle
VV. b. Close, tieud of the big unit ot
Close brothers, inlanders who handle
me Wiuie I'uss company, writing Hum
Chicago, February 13 to Commissioner
black incloses the following icller trolu
me truni from James brooks ciuse:
AT 1'Hfcl FituNT, France, January
13, lain.— Whilst returning from a
route march on Monday, the lim, anu
being smi tour mites away from bil
lets, we were met by the adjutant anu
toid ttuit vve were going into tin
trenches that night for a 34-huui
spen. baler it ueveioped mat only
platoon comutandeiu would go and the
lest of us subs whosu platoons hau
not yet arrived were to stay behind to
took after llie guards and billets.
However, 1 managed to gel attached
as supernumerary, at parade al 3:fa
p 111. in T. At. C. and 1 look care to
lake every tiling 1 thought 1 should pos
sibly want and was ready lor a longer
stay than 34 huyrs us it seemed pro
bable to me that once we got there
we should be kepi there three of four
days. YVe had had a pretty stilt lu
lling route march in the morning uuu
expevied only a short march of about
four miles to the trenches. However,
we marched oft at 4 p. ill, no rations
having been issued, and marched lor
two hours with the regulation tu min
ute hull OX course the weather gave
us a good send-off with sleet and hail,
hut, luckily, only showers. 1 had a
heavy loud and my feet soon begun to
feel tiie cobbles and my buck the load,
by 6:15 p. in. it was quite dark and
wo halted in a village which was all
battered by shell, and the men were
served out with an extra fifty rounds.
Our guns were tiring behind us now
and we could ses the shells bursting
in front of us. Then we advanced
once more, this time no talking or
smoking being permitted, and, after
numerous halts and short advances,
finally reached the place we came to
hold whilst the former tenants took a
rest. We could see only a ruin of
houses and of a church and, after
much more delay, during which rifles
kept popping around us, our platoon
was told to advance in file and we
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were ushered into a trench. The road
we quitted had about a foot of liquid
mud on top of it, so we were pleasant
ly surprised to find the trench had
about the same amount and not more.
We were told Hie enemy was fifty
yards in front of us and not to fire
without a target. The treneh was
about seven feet deep, witti a foot
parapet on either side with the usual
traverse and dugouts, and the dugouts
were ail on the wrong side as tills was
originally a German trench.
We expected each night for three
nights to have a rush made on one
portion of our line, and there fourteen
men and I were stationed day and
night. We have at least 100 men. In
dians. Englishmen and Germans, lying
rotting In front of 11s. and thc\ have
been thee since December 22. when
the trenches in front of this trench
were captured, hut had to he evacuat
ed in a hurry. It is impossible to hurt
them, as burning magnesium wire is
shot out into the space tie! ween the
trenches, lighting every little detail.
We have an officers’ mess in tlie- shat
tered village to our rear and if we got
gore sleep would lie fairly comfortable.!
By the way, instead of keeping us 24
hours they kept us until the night of
(tie 14th, 72 hours. T am glad 1 laid a
heavy pack as already am out of
chocolate. Get about four hours' sleep
in 24.
The day we came here we had
marched, including the route march,
is miles, and had nothing to eat or
drink between 1 p. m. and 1:30 a. m,
wheti men and officers got supper.
However, after that we have laid our
meals with utmost regulariti At 'lie
time of writing 11111 under lire from a
machine gun. Casualties tonight, (lie
13th: One man shot through lighi
arm, and one man’s left ear lobe sh it
off. All yesterday1 (Thursday) and
last night it was clear, fine weather,
but today it lias sd in for a steady
drizzle, which makes things very un
! comfortable. I think I shall have to
get a proper waterproof with a lining.
A great coat gets so sodden and
lien vy.
After dawn the artillery starts in
from hoih sides and it is great while
it lasts. However, only “short” shells
come into our lines because as the
tines are only 70 yards apart they
can't either of them lie fired al without
fear of hitting the wrong one. Re
member, the lines are not straight and
right hero we are out on a promontory,
so to speak, and getting a frontal and
[two crossfires. If it wasn't for the
large number of dead around one
would cull il a harmless game, but
Uiey are a very real remmuer, espec
ially wuen our trench is uuvvu winu.
one ean sleep tairly wen w neii the
enance conics except tor Wet leel lurn
mg corn aim acinug. When. i gel iiiui
ituge walerprool snccl maiie ol souui
w ester Stull, wilu a sill in Hie middle
to use as a poncho Iti It. by i 11.1, aim
ua\u my walcrpruot and lining, I
ought to be m for any weather.
.January la.- Having got bach safely
to billets, 1 found that waterproof
siieel there wailing tor me and one
parcel from lor mum at Mason. The
parcel containnig candies, cusearaa,
mutches, untiled milk, chocolate, uxu,
retill for torch, tobacco and > igaretles,
under ,tea and cocoa, and writing
paper. 1 wonder if this is Hie lirst
parcel they sent us; there was no
vaseline, etc.
Well, on the night of the 13th we
nad the dehmie news that the w elch
were going to relieve us on the
evening of the Hill. 1 did a good deal
of sniping uii me morning of the nth,
actually succeeded in silencing their
machine gun with my second shot at
it. 1 spotted the loop hole they were
111 ing lrotn, and the first shot of mine
went just below and the second must
have hit the gun as they haven't tiled
since. 1 also found il quite easy to
shoot through thoir loop holes lot)
yards away and must have annoyed
them a lot. 1 had to run in one of our
sentries for walking about to warm his
feet. Poor devil, any way be got only
eight days' held punishment No. 1.
whereas it is punishable by death.
The Welsh slutted relieving us about
5:15 p. tn. Ity 7: 3u p. in. we were all
out of Hie trenches. About s.Stt we
found our transports, etc., and march
ed off for home again, arriving about
It p. m. The distance turned out to
he about nine miles. Our feet wore
in awful shape when we got in. They
were sodden and wrinkled by water
and quite soft when we started, and
when we got in they were burning
and badly swollen up too big for our
boots, with blisters and cracks nil
over them, and they are sore enough
today. We shuffle about like a lot of
ducks. I think a waterproof Is in
dispensable. i’ll never forget the
march back over all those cobbled
ronds and our feet swelling and burn
ing. I’ffli. Hut very lit otherwise.
Adios.
(Signed) CHO.
Bill heads, statements, lattsr heads
and envelop*#. Hava tham prlntad at
the Nugget offic*.
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USED OIL CANS TO
MAKE PONTOON BRIDGES
LONDON.—American oil cans fig
ured prominently in tho first attempt
of the advance guard of the Turkish
army seeking to invade Egypt to cross
the Suez canal. The Turkish rafts
were floated by these cans—a fact
suggested some time ago and smiled
at by doubting Englishmen. But a
British correspondent on the canal
confirms tho story.
After telling of the repulse of the
Turks in that preliminary skirmish
during which only four of the invaders,
subsequently captured, succeeded in
crossing the water-way, ho says of the
rafts.
“The pontoon boats are made of gal
vanized steel rafts, ingeniously con
structed of American 'Tenches’ as
kerosene tins are called in Turkey,
attached to one another by hooks and
rings fitted into wooden frames A
large wooden structure, apparently a
raft, fitted on wheels and alternative
Ifc ———' ii.i.m- '■ ■ ' ■ «■ ■■■■!. Aim —
wooden rollers, which was brought
within a few miles of the canal, ap
pears to have been burned by the en
emy. Nothing has been seen of the
famous ‘India rubber bridge’ of which
the reports of the rtedouins had so
much to tell.”
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ARCTIC BIG GAME
TO HAVE REST
SEATTLE.—The his sanu» of the
Arctic circle will notice an unwonted
quietness next summer, says Captain
A. V. Jochimsen. of the steam whaler
Uelvederc.
"Thoro will be little noise from high
power sporting rifles up there this
year, and the walrus and polar hears
will have a chance to enjoy life,” said
Captain Jochimsen “This war in Eu
rope has prevented tho usual parties
of titled hunters from making a trip
to the Arctic, as they are occupied at
home. We intend making a trading
and whaling trip to Siberia the coming
summer, and, so far as I know, there
will not be a foreign sportsman In our
party or In any of the other expedi
tions going to the North this year.”
Capt Jochimsen was in command of
the auxiliary schooner Ivins and
Wlngo that rescued tho survivors of
the Karluk front Wrangell Island last
year. Tie has been spending the
winter in California, and expects to
sail some time in March for the North.
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SWORD
FOR KING
ALBERT
BOUBOQNE, France.—ft’lie sword of
honor which the people of Paris are to
present to the king of the Belgians will
he sent to the Belgian headquarters
early this month. It is the work of
the sculptor Pierre Feitu, and the hilt,
richly studded with jewels, is In the
form of a man's figure, hearing an
Inscription written by M. Jean Ftirh
optn, of the Academic Franeaise:
"Dauntless, spotless, straight,
My soul, O king, is thy soul's mate.”
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