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...after only a few hors of its promised ten day leave, back to the Front for an atack which the colonel knows is suicidal and which is stopped almost before it is started by a nearly complete slaughter of the few men who manage to get out of the trench. The commander orders a court martial to try one man from each company in the attacking battalion for "cowardice in the face of the enemy." The meticulous account of the methods of choosing these victims of military discipline, of the trial, and of the carrying out of the inevitable sentence...
...short on the ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
Irak. Fifteen miles northwest of Mosul, whence oil was first piped to the Mediterranean two months ago (TIME, Jan. 28), lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound"), its depths chewed by the shovels of industrious diggers. University of Pennsylvania scientists sank a trial trench in 1927, were convinced that the remains of 20 cities or settlements lay buried in layers, the most recent dating from 1500 B. C., the oldest lost in antiquity, older by far than Ur of the Chaldees (4000 B. C.). One city after another came to light. Last month diggers under Charles Bache of Philadelphia's University...
...during the War Major Patrick Jay Hurley jumped into a German trench with a raiding party, beat down the defenders in a battle of bayonets. A wounded German soldier named M. Struver seized a hand grenade, threw it at Raider Hurley, wounded...
Bagradian had laid his plans well. When the Turks discovered where the rebels were and went after them, they stumbled on carefully hidden trench systems manned by desperate sharpshooters. Three times, in increasing numbers, the Turks attacked. When they brought artillery Bagradian thought it was all over, but a night sortie captured the guns. For 40 days the Armenians held out. Both they and the Turks knew famine would get them in the end, but the Turks' military honor was at stake: they planned a final annihilating stroke, with regulars, machine guns, mountain artillery. Bagradian knew...