Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — TELLS OF LIFE IN TRENCHES [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF LIFE IN TRENCHES

Large Audience Enjoyed Talk by Canadian Soldier. A large crowd was out Friday evening to hear the talk by Sergeant C. E. Bassett of the Canadian army, .who was at the battle front for ten months in 1915 and participated in the bloody Tyres battle, being invalided home in March of this year. Sergeant Bissett came under the auspices of the War Savings Stamp committee, and urged the people to lend all their available rroney to the government by the purchase of these stamps and Liberty bonds, declaring that to be the best way for the stay-at-homes to aid in winning the war. He-also emphasized the necessity of economy, especially in foodstuffs, that our fighting forces may not be hampered by aay lack of proper nourishment. Sergeant Bissett then told of the daily life in the trenches as be experienced it. He had no bloodcurdling tales to relate but. recited the common-place incidents that fill the long hours of the watchful days and still more watchful nights. Soldiers on duty in the front line trenches are not permitted to remove any part of their clothing or fighting paraphernalia, and sleeping is permitted only during the daytime. The eats in the front line trenches are not of the best, but this is made good when the men are re-

tiered and back of the lines for a rest period. The talk was thoroughly enjoyed, as it gave one an idea of trench life not heretofore known by many, and also impressed all with the enormity of the task before us, and the import part that each one has to perform.