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M. 11:10 A. M. 6:35 A. M. Leave Elizabeth City Arrive Suffolk No. 38 11:00 A. M. 2:20: P. M. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, only. Arrive Greenville Wilson Raleigh Charlotte 4:01 P. M. 5:35 P. M. 7:45 P. M. 3:02 A; M. 4:45 A. M. 7:05 A. M. 2:45 P. M. The Conscicntiou Objector; or, Coming Through Under Fire Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey Author of "Over the Top," "First CaU." Etc : O-OrO t Mr. Empey's Experi-' Months in theFirst Line Trenches of the British Army in France (Oop7Tlbt, 1917, by Tb MeClni Newipapar SrndimtA) "What do I think of. a blinkin con scientious objector?" answered Ikey Honney from the corner of the firebay. "Well, -what with this bloomin war on and blokes goin west by the thou sands, a pacifist or conscientious objec tor is one of two things, he's either a blinkin' coward or a bloody pro-German, But it's funny the way some o' them blighters, with their West End ideas back in Blighty, changes their minds when they gets out here in the mud, and gets their first glimpse of a wooden cross. It's either a flrin squad ' up against a wall, a bloomin V. C (Victoria Cross) or a rest in peace' vsign over their nappers for them. A strange thin? it is, but true ; those blokes never go through the trenches in an ordinary way like we do; it's a case of extremes, no in-between stuff. j "Next time you're on a burial party, take a look' at the third cross from the left in the. fourth row as you enter the cemetery. You know that path that leads through the orchard just off the entrance of that big R. E. (Royal Engineers) dugout; well, under that cross rests a bloke who back in Blighty professed to be a pacifist. He wouldn't blinkin well volunteer, not likely ; they had to draft him, an' when they did be refused to fight, so they stuck him in the N. C. G. (noncombatant corps) and handed him a pick and shovel and put him to repairin' roads and diggin' graves. Well, it didn't take long be fore he was properly fed up with his job, and he threw down the-pick and shovel and grabbed up a rifle an' bayo net. Oh, yes, he clicked it all right and went west; In fact he was buried in one o' the graves he helped to dig. I suppose some o' those college officers called it the 'iron of fate, or some oth er blinkin' high-sounding phrase, but we knows that it was only common ordinary luck, 'cause we all knows that If -you're going to get it, you'll get it, no matter if you're a gentleman's eon or a bloomin' chimney sweep. ."This bligfiter I'm telling abest was Jn my platoon when I was in C com pany, an' he used to give me the prop er pip with his arguments against fighting and theikes o' that. , The first time I met him was in at. Armand ; our 'bat' was in the rest bil lets awaitin' a new draft before going up the line again. You see we bad clicked It pretty rough at Fromelles, an' a platoon looked like a blinkin' squad when it lined up for parade. I was playing 'house' In that estaminet right across from that bashed-in church on the corner when his labor battalion came through and took over billets just opposite from the esta minet. I was sitting near a window and watched them pass. A . sorrier bunch of specimens of men I never saw; it turned my blinkin' stomach to look at them, what with their pasty faces, stooped-over shoulders and straggling gait. Bight then and there I admired the Germans for their sys tem of universal military training. If England had of had a little more of it there never would have been a war and right now we would be in Blighty with our wives and nippers, instead of sitting here in these bloody ditches waitln for a' shell to come over with our name and number on it "After the labor battalion took over billets several of them came into the estaminet and sat at a table near me. They started to discuss the war and voice their opinions affbut the top hats' at home. This bloke I'm a talkin' about was the loudest of the bunch; he seemed to have a grouch on every thing in general. I listened to him a few minutes chucking his weight about until it bloody, well got on my nerves. Chucking up my game of house and I had paid half a franc for my board, too I leaned over to him and said: " "You must be one of those bloomin conscientious objectors we reads about rp,m assets Leave Elizabeth City Arrive Norfolk NORTHBOUND No. 4 X- 6:00 A. M. 8:19 A. M. No. 2 3:00 P. M. 4:50 P. M. No. 6 Z- 3:30 P. M. 5:30 P. M. X Daily - . Y Daily except Sunday - " , ' ' Z Local between Elizabeth City and Norfolk. ' . B. UNDERWOOD, Traffic Agent, ,. E. S. DOUGLAS, Tck. Agrt. Edenton, N. C. Elizabeth City, N. "You Must Be One of Them Bloomin . Conscientious Objectors.''. In the - papers,, ohe o' those blighters who don't believe In fightin' but. is willing to sit back in Blighty and let us blokes out here do your bloody fightin' for you, while you gets a blink in' good screw (salary) sitting on a high stool in some office.' "He turned to me and answered: unarmed he had sprang at the German wouicutt oe any warr r , 1 couldn't see it his way at all, and went right back at him with : Yes, and if It wasn't for us volunteering, the bloody German flag would now be fly ing over Buckingham palace and King George would be in the Tower of Lon don. - ;":r.. "He thought a minute or two and answered : t 'Well, what of it ; one flag's as good as another, and as for the bloomin king what did he ever do for you but make you . pay taxes so he could bloomin well sit around doing nothin? '.This, was too much for me, that blinkin' jellyfish a slinging mud at our king, so I lost my temper, and taking my glass of vin rouge in my hand I leaned over close to him and said: When you mentions the king's name ic is customary to drink his health. Perhaps he never did anything spe cial for me, but I have never done anything special for him, and even at that Tve done a damned sight more than you have for him, so take this wine and drink 'his health, or ril dent that napper of yours so you won't be able to wear that tl hat of yours, "He got kind of pale and answered Drink to the king's health; not llke- ,ly. It's through 'him and his bloody Top Hats In parliament that . I'm out here. Why in the. blinking hell don't he do his own fighting and let us poor blokes alone?' "I saw red and was just goin' to hit him, when a big Irishman out of the Royal Irish Rifles next to me grabs the glass of wine from my hand, and looking the blighter in the face yells at him: "Well, if the king ain't done noth ing for you English, he's done less tor us Irish, but I volunteered to come out here for him, and here I am, and glad of it too, and hopes some day to get into Berlin with the king's forces. You won't drink his health; well you can bathe his health.' With that he threw the wine Into the blight ers face and smashed him in the nose wi'th Ids fist. The fellow went over like a log with the Irishman still agoin' for him. If we hadn't of pulled 'him off I think he would have killed that conscientious objector. The military police came in to see what all the row was about. I had clicked three days C. B. (confined to barracks) and didnt want to get arrested, so in the confusion I made, tracks for my billet. -J.D3 next time I met the biose was rhen we buried old Smith but of the Tenth platoon in the cemetery at La tassee. - He was one of the grave dig. rers. All -during the burial' service :e stood, looking, at -the Union Jack rtth a queer look on' his -face. When' Id Smith was lowered into the ground aid the dirt was thrown on' him the xmscientious objector W&tkins was lis name came over to me and said: " 1 hear he (pointing at old Smith's irave) is forty-eight years old and has eft a wife and three nippers back in Jllghty. He was too old for the draft, rasn't he? Then he must have vol-inteered. "I answered: 'Of course he volun- eered, and there he lies, deader than ; but.m wager a quid his. wife. ind kids will be proud of him and hat's more than your kids will be ibout you." "He sneaked off without answering. fhree days later I nearly dropped dead rhen our lance corporal came Into our rillet with a bloody nose and a beau ifully trimmed lamp. When I asked lim how he got knocked about he :old me that a fellow out of the non tombatant corps named Watkins had nussed him up just because he had ialled him a white-livered coward. "Watkifls ducked twenty-one days lumber one on the wheel, and when Us sentence was finished they trans ferred him to a fighting unit, and )ang! into our platoon he comes. "Many a talk I had with him about Jiat pacifist stuff he hadn't changed i bit In his ideas but he kept bis jcouth shut about the king and the Top Hats at home. "Then we went Into the trenches ind I knew his finish was near. A Jrlng -squad or "rest in peace' was to e his lot; they all get one or the ther sooner or later. "After two days in, Fritz got rough md opened up with a pretty stiff bom jardment. "Watkins was In the fourth -squad in a dugout in the support trench R-hen a 'Minnie registered a direct hit m the roof and caved her in. Every ne but Watkins was killed. How he jscaped was a marvel, the rest of the squad being smashed up something aw ful. We collected the pieces and bur- ed them the next day. Watkins help- ?d dig the graves. "Fort two days Watkins scarcely spoke a word, just went round with i faraway look on his face. . "On the third night after the burial. rolunteers were called for a bombing raid, and . I could scarcely believe my sars when I heard that Watkins had volunteered. It was the truth all right he went along. . "We crawled out in No Man's land ander cover of our "barrage and wait sd. Watkins was - next to me. Sud-3enly- a star shell went up and we Touched down In Its light. I was lay ing so that I " could see Watkins Mime me he had no rifle or bayonet. ' whispered over to him : 'Where's four rifle?' He answered : 1 threw it away.' Before I had time to reply. the signal to rush the German trench iras given and I lost sight of him. "It was rough going in the German trench, and we had quite a little of aand-tb-hand fighting. Star shells were going up all around us. One of our blokes in front of me was just go ing around the corner of a traverse (rhen a big German got- him through the throat with his bayonet and he went down. - Something sprang past me like a wildcat and closed with the, Fritz. They both , went down to gether. Just then another German rame at me from the entrance of a lugout and I was busy. I managed to pet him. Then our lieutenant and two men came round and gave the order to get back ' to our trenches. ..The lieutenant stumbled over the three bodies in front of us. One of them rroaned. It was Watkins all right. c. It's the likes o' you who volunteered for this war what keeps it goin. If you had all refused to co at first, thera md with his bare hands had choked lim to death, but he had a nasty jag red bayonet wound in his rlsht side. THE WORTH OF A NAME TO YOU v .. . . -.A,, - . .... - - ...... v;. v. 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