morning, about six
o'clock
came softly from the priest 's lips . O'Hagan 's regiment had retired to their trenches in good order . They were some of those trenches round about Ypres , and all the world has read how the Germans battered and delivered terrific infantry attacks on this part of our line without cessation . A certain morning , about six o'clock , the Huns decided to deliver a sharp attack , and there was `` considerable artillery activity '' on the part of the German guns . Such activity was spoken of in the trenches as `` raising the lid off Hell . '' There was a lull after about an hour 's rain of every kind of missile that man has invented to batter his brother with . Then the Huns came on in earnest .