SERGEANT’S BOOK REVEALS
WOES OF TRENCH LIFE
1’. M. Xeilson, a sergeant In the
Scottish Territorials at Ypres, sends
to his family in Brooklyn, X. Y., a
graphic account of the terrifying con
ditions in the trenches. Ho writes
under date of Jan. 23, and says:
Bessie, you have no idea what this
is like! T am not allowed to sny
where I am. hut we are In the firing
line. We (our company) are very
lucky, for we got homo each night, ex
cept on occasions when we have to
work throughout the night, owing to
the dnngorousness of our position.
The infantry, though, arc iri the
trenches for days, sometimes weeks, at
n. stretch. Our company at night come
back simply snaking with mud and
water right up to their waists, so you
may have an Idea what the infantry
are like. Xevcrtheless. our ehaps are
really worse off in some respects, for
we drain the trenches for the others.
From this, Bessie, you may not get a
very coherent idea of what happens,
so T'll just write you n wee hit nut of
my diary.
Women Run with Babies
Friday: The sergeant major reports
he saw many women today carrying
babies and running for shelter—any
where—when their village was shelled
by the Germans. The women pleaded
with him and MaJ. Arthur to help them
but what could they do?
Monday: Report has just came in
and Mr. Clark. Scrgt. Raxter, and Tap
per Russell have been wounded. The
Germans made an attack during the
night and the regiment, who was
beside our men, took panic and nearl.v
all except two of their officers (led
Our twenty, however, under Mr. Clark,
who had retreated a little, came back
to a charge. The other two officers
were killed, but our good old Rowland
twenty regained the trenches after very
hot work. Some of the returned then
and jumped into the trenches and very
bruised a good few of our men.
I have seen men. Bessie, come out of
the trenches, and you really felt sorry
for them, with nothing but a pair of
puttees rolled round their feet, a tunic
on and blanket wrapped round them
instead of kilts or trousers.
Trench Insanity
Tint what do they care? Sorm of
thorn really don't know what tie \ ere
doing. That’s the worst of it It's the
being in the trenches for so long n
stretch that docs all the damage. The
men are mad. No doubt about it If
you speak to them thcv just stare at
you. They don't understand. T don't [
want to write any more about it. hut
I many will bp pormaturely gray a good
many- and some others you see who
have heen out here since the beginning
have a. sort of shook, for they eontinu
all shake. Our men fthc First Tdght
dragoonsl have n terrible time, but i
man ran stand surh a lot if be just
gets home at night, or at least gets
proper food and sleep.
Bessie, I have escaped so far The
night before last a bullet passed
through a box on which I was leaning
and numerous ones passed quite close
ly. Two men of a certain regiment
who tried to desert were tried by court
martial and sentenced to he shot, and
the sentence carried out on the 12th
Inst. If discipline were not maintained
we would lose. It’s a terrible war.
Bessie, and will last. I’m afraid and
sorry to think of it. a long, long time
Men well Fed.
Seeing there are so many thousands
j of British troops in France, the army
.service corps are to be greatly com
plimented on their supply of prov isions, j
We are well fed and nearly all ate alike,
.lust to give you an idea of how much
mud is in tiie trenches, Bessie.I'll give;
you a few instances. If, a many points. |
;i man gets wounded slightly and falls;
down lie (tits got to lie there and die in
the mud. Should tile medical men
(time in time, then, of course, should
they happen to see such wounded, they
will lie attended to, hut they can only
remove the wounded at night, on ae
count of the enemy. So that if a man
gets wounded at daylight In the morn
ing he hits got to stav where he is
until night.
Some of our dear old Scottish regi
ments have heen destroyed. The
Black Watch and Camerons have a bout
ninety-four and 1 US respectively left
out of about 1.000 each. They have
nr»*n out since the beginning, ami it
was jit Ypres that they suffered so |
badly. A good 1 lany Englishmen arc
in them now A fine regiment is the (
London Scottish.
Homes of People Deserted
All the villages hero. Bessie. have
not a single Inhabitant The houses j
are full of furniture, nnd some beaut!- j
ful nf that, hut the people will never ,
return. Troops .are occupying nonrlv
every house, those at least which are
inhabitable Tnhnhitnblo means with \
three wa’ls standing (sometimes the |
roof I. for you could not get one whole
house in all these villages. People w ill
iell you the Hermans can't shoot Well. ;
they have not seen them others, that
one Briton is equal to three Hermans 1
They, too. have not seen them There
is no difference. Bessie, and because of i
their having hern taught from infancy,!
militarism, the Herman Is the better of
the two. Look at the figures which
each army has in the field and the re- j
suits will speak for themselves By
Britons T mean all the allies.
The English and the Scots on the
whole are grejit. and when there is ji
bayonet charge the Hermans are sure
to run or surrender. One of the men
of a wertain royal engineers company
left to tell the tale of Ypres says he and
a few men saw’ the Prussians going
round the British wounded and ha\o-j
noting them. They could not stand
that, so a few of them charged the H» »
mans, who had three times as m;in\
men. The Hermans. ;is usual, fell hack
into their trenches, hut the Scotch ami
English hoys pursued them, and then,
of all the check in the world, the Her
mans threw’ down their arms and !
pleaded for mercy. Our fellows sirni^lv i
shot them all down Their blood wlm
up. It is terrible. You do not know if;
j
you are doing right sometimes. \ life!
here. Bessie, is regarded as nothing
So many thousands upon thousands
are being killed.
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JENNINGS AND RUSTGARD
FIGHT OVER VAGRANTS
JUNEAU.—Judge Jennings has up
hold the city ordinance which regulates
vagrants but John Rustgnrd, formerly
district attorney for this division, lias
attacked the ordinance and brought
RUSSIA IMPOSES WAR TAX.
LONDON.—-A Iteutcr dispatch from
Petrograd says a war tax has been im
posed on men immune from military
service and who are under -43 years of
age. The tax varies from about $3 on
incomes of $500 or less to $100 on in
comes of over $10,000.
WEATHER REPORT.
Nome, Alaska, May 10, 1915.
Temperature—Max. 33. Min. 19.
tiarometer 3004 Inches
Weather Cloudy.
Wind—South 5 miles per hour aver
age 6 miles per hour.
Precipitation—None
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habeas corpus proceedings on the
ground that the ordinance is discrim
inative and unfair. The ordinance was
passed by the city council to guard the
public against tile robberies and gen
eral law breaking which has broken
out in this city as a result of the un
employment of a large number of peo
ple, or. perhaps it would he bettor to
say, because of the influx of large
numbers of questionable characters
The light on the ordinance promises to
| he a hot one. Rustgard liar; given no
tice of appeal against the decision of
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE.
rublio notice is hereby given, that
under and by virtue of a Wjit of Ex
ecution issued out of the Clerk's Office
of the District Court for the District of
Alaska, Second Division, upon a certain
judgment therein rendered on the 13th
day of March, 1015, and entered in
favor of Albert Meyer and Company, a
corporation, plaintiff, and against
Sievertsen-Johnson Mining and Dredg
ing Company, a corporation, defendant,
for the sum of thirty-five hundred and
seventy-six and 90-100 ($3576.90) dol
lars, with interest on said amount from
the date of said judgment at the rate
of eight per cent (8 per cent) per an
num. together with the costs of suit
taxed at three hundred and forty-five
and 20-100 ($315.20) dollars, upon
which Execution there has been ap
plied sixty-six and 3.8-100 ($66,38) dol
lars, I will on the 12th day of May,
1915, at twelve o'clock noon of said day
at the front door of the United Slates
Court House, at Nome. Alaska, as com
manded in said Writ of Execution, of
fer for sale and sell to tile highest and
host bidder for cash all of the right,
title, and interest which the defendant
had on the 21st day of September, 1911,
or at any time since in nnd to certain
placer mining claims known as,
Numbers 4. 5, 6, 7. 8. and 9 Above
situated on Solomon River; the
Herron Association Claim, and the
Fraction, situated between Nos. 4
and 5 Above on Solomon River, in
the Cape Nome Recording Urecinot.
District of Alaska, Second Division.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, ihis 13th day
of April, 1915.
E. R. JORDAN,
l^iited States Marshal. Second Divis
ion, District of Alaska.
April 13, 20, 27, May 4. 11, J»13.
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