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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1918
Page
14
Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, sails to England to join the British army after the Lusitania sinking. He trains in London and France, hears the guns, meets "cooties," and at the front endures first fire step where a comrade falls and death lurks in the trenches.
A first person trench memoir details the death of comrade Pete Walling and the burial at a front in France. The narrator recalls marching through a siege village, Pete’s sacrifice, and the somber customs of the grave and mourners amid shellfire and mud.
The article describes Fort Monroe Virginia training for coast artillery officers shifting from seacoast duties to heavy ordnance. It emphasizes gunnery, ballistics, and practical math, including ballistic coefficients, wind, drift, elevation, and the 50 percent/100 percent dispersion zones, plus camouflage and dugout construction.
A soldier recounts crossing a trench under gunfire and a wary machine gun officer. He reaches his section and sits on the muddy fire step while rain pelts his face. After a half hour he relays with another lookout and stands guard with his head over the top. Relief comes at ten with prayers for safer hours and rum rations.
In this installment Empey recounts the thrilling hand to hand fight during the initial over the top assault. The narrative ends with a tepid cliffhanger promising continuation as TO BE CONTINUED.
Reports note cottonseed shortages and rising dairy oil cake prices due to transport issues from India. Japanese capitalists buy Calamba sugar estate for $1,000,000, the island’s largest project. Britain and Germany list large manpower pools, with Germany’s 8.5 million permanent disablements. A London “King’s cat” receives 13 cents weekly. France-bound women telephone operators receive uniforms and salaries from $60 to $125 monthly with rations.
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