THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918..
SHELLPROOF MACK
A Common Soldier's
Recital of Thrilling
, Adventures in the
Terrific Struggle for
World Democracy
i By ARTHUR JAMES M'KAY.
(Copyright. IBIS, by Small. Maynard & Co..
Inc.)
Arthur James McKay, "SheUproof Mack."
enlisted In an English bantam regiment
after the sinking of the Lusltanio and upon
reaching the front was wounded (wlca and
ganoed once.
Ilia application for discharge was torn
up upon deliberation and he went back to
the front to participate In the battle of
Mwslnea ridge. When ther 1,000,000 pounds
of ammonal are discharged to blow up Hl(
BO Mack and his comrades go over the top
In the face of heavy fire and lose about
20 per cent of the men In casualties.
,A long rest was ordered for the men In
reserve billets but at the expiration of two
weeks they experienced their first air raid
bat came through It creditably. They took
over the first line from a Kcottlnh battalion
which failed to accomplish their objective
and went into action.
While trying to escape the German shrap
nel Mack hides in a German trench. Ills
indole company is almost wiped out In this
action. After two days Mack Is assigned to
a 1 detachment aligned to capture a num
ber of t.crman "pill-boxes." While accom
pllKhlng this Mack is gassed.
An air raid is staged by the permans on
Stack's first night there and 26 were killed
and 45 wounded. Fourteen of the dead
were Hermans under treatment at the hos
pital. The bombiiur of the hospital was classed
as an art of reprisal by a German officer In
retaliation for the shelling of a German Bed
' Cross train used to bring up reserve troops.
,A gas attack was made by the Huns, in
which "Shellproof Mack" was gassed. He
was sent to the base hospital, where he re
mained for a time and then got "blighty."
While convalescent he passed his time at
Chatham. The ministrations of the Red
Cross, both at the front, the base hospital
and the convalescent stations in "blighty,"
he said, made all of the suffering and
danger In the trenches worth while.
CHAPTER XVII.
(Continued.)
- jThey told a story at Chatham about
aa Irishman, who was approached by
at lady visitor with the customary
question. She gullied, "Oh, my poor
man, are you wounded?"
"No, ma'am," said Pat. "I was
" kicked be a cootie."
;That didn't faze her a bit.
iBack she came with, "Did you ever
kill a German?"
Pat shook his head.
Shure lady," he said. "I don't
khow. But I kin tell ye this. Jist be
fore I cops this crack on the nob,
, Micky Flinn say to me, says he,
'Shake yer bay'nit, Pat. Ye've a brace
- of Bodies hangin' to it.' "
She slammed the door on the out
side. "The sick soldier is up to as many
tricks, as a school boy, and he gets
a'jvay with them because you can't
punish him much. One that we used
to put over on our good sisters was
a.fair crime. We ought to have been
ashamed of it, but we were not.
.-When the nurse was taking tem
perature at tea-time somebody would
sneak his thermometer out, stick it in
the hot tea and run up a beautiful
temperature and then slip the glass
back under the tongue just before
. the sister came back.
'v Then she would fuss around the
villian for an hour or so and usually
he'd get chicken for supper.
One of our medical officers was a
tall, young Englishman with an eye
glass, one of those stage Britishers
that you don't often see in real life.
One day he stuck the thermometer
in the mouth of a young Welshman.
It happened that the soldier was
sucking on a piece of ice at the time,
but he didn't say anything and rolled
the glass around where it would get
good and cold.
When the M. O. held the thermom.
eter up to the light he let out a sur
prised gasp.
"My wordl" he said. "My word,
me good fellow 1 If this bally glawss
is right you've been dead sine the
battle of the Marne."
And yet they say that Englishmen
have no sense of - humor. To my
mind it is what carries them through.
It is what will carry them through.
The Cockney private and the aristo
cratic officer each has the good sense
to take his hardships lightly and to
joke at danger. It helps make the
Englishman hard to beat.
As a comrade in arms the English
man is good enough for me; and,
while I was as ready as the next
one to take my discharge after doing
my bit in the war, I never in my life
regretted anything more than having
to leave the British service.
A year before I had tried to get out.
This time they put me out. Lieuten
ant Coleman looked over my record
and said that he thought I had done
enough for Jhe allied cause, regard
less of physical condition. Then he
X-rayed me and said I had to go
whether I wanted to or not. They
gave me my discharge papers with
pension on October 26, 1917.
Three days later I was in civilian
clothes and a month later was in the
U. S. A. Well, I have Tooled them
on the weak lungs. For some rea
son the air of Boston has agreed with
the old bellows, and they have been
getting stronger every week.
If I get to feeling any better I am
afraid I shall get that darned fool
longing for the trenches and get into
khaki again under the Stars and
Stripes.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Shells and Slang.
One of the first things a new
comer to the British army notices Is
the slang, or "lingo," as it is called.
it really almost amounts to a new
language, especially to a Yank. A
good part of it is in common use
among the English lower classes, but
it is ureek to an American.
In writing this book I have tried
as much as possible to avoid the use
of trench vernacular that would not
be Understood by the reader, and for
that reason I set down here some
of the commoner expressions and
their meanings.
Tommy is particularly apt in his
names of the different kinds of shells.
A whiz-bang, for example, is just
what its name implies. It goes off
with that kind of a noise. The whiz
bang conies over without any noise
whatever; but just before it hits it
goes "whizzzz" and then, of course,
"bang." A "pip-squeak" makes that
kind of noise coming over, with the
s.wie general kind of a bang at the
end. "Crumps" are almost any kind
of high explosive shell, and nearly all
of them say "crump" when they land.
jContinued Tomorrow.)
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Grandparents are now seeing their children give it to their
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la spite of enormous
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Draperies and Cretonnes
Brief Notes of Exceptional Offerings
WE HAVE discovered some short lengths of excellent
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in order to clear them away quickly, have put such
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Short Lengths of Filet Nets, worth up CO,,
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27x72 inches, at .... ........ .$2.00
27x54 inches, at .$1.75
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