opes and happiness of thousands of homes.

After passing through the gas chambers, we visited the bombing section
of the training school. Here each man has to throw one or more live
bombs and receive his final coaching. The bomb is about the size of a
lemon, and is made to break into small fragments. It contains enough
of the high explosive to kill a whole group of men. The boy advances
and grasps the bomb; he draws out the pin and holds down the lever.
Once this is released, it explodes in just five seconds. The man
heaves his bomb over a parapet at a dummy dressed in German uniform.
The whistle blows and we all duck. There is a terrific explosion like
a small cannon and you hear the pieces whizzing through the air. Every
man is holding in his hand and wielding a terrible power. Wrongly
used, it is death to himself and his comrades. The other day a boy's
hand was moist with perspiration and the bomb slipped, killing the
group. Another prematurely exploded as it was being thrown, carrying
away the man's own hand and killing the instructor. So it is a
dangerous business. During the morning there were only four "duds," or
bombs that would not go off.

After the bombing section, we pass with the men to the trenches.
Bayonets are drawn and rifles loaded. After firing several rounds,
comes the command, "Advance." At a bound they are "over the top" and
off, heads down; they run very slowly and keep together. A breathless
man who outruns his comrades is useless and is soon killed by the
enemy. The drill sergeant shouts to the men "Keep together, keep
together, men, one man can't take a trench," and my friend the "padre"
notes his words to tell to his congregation when he goes home, where
the minister can't do all the work. When they are near the enemy's
trench, the final word "Charge" is shouted, the whole line leaps
forward with a wild yell, and the bayonets are driven into the stuffed
sacks which are suspended as dummies to serve in the place of men.

For miles across the great plain the "Bull Ring" is alive with men.
Here in one section they are doing physical drill and learning to go
over all kinds of obstacles--trenches, fences, barbed wire, shell
holes, and ditches. There they are practicing musketry and advancing
under cover. In one place the artillery is in full swing, and in
another you hear the sputter of the machine guns. In one section they
are taught to dig trenches and in another to take the