Show r V rf TWO HOLD OFF r 1 GUN COMPANY r IJ I iY Yanks an s C Caught in Pocket Fight II t f Until Last Bullet Is I i Go Gone n e. e H I BOCHE SHELL GETS THEM V ail t J Caught Between Barrage and Huns They Fight In Manner to Make One Proud to Be of Same Race A It 6 By E. E A. A BATCHELOR I Paris Tire The The Y 1 M. M C. C A A. A man told toll S and the tho story ton with tears in his eyes es n It break in his voice He lIe said that It was wm the sn saddest dest thing that II he lie ever had encountered which meant mu h. h 11 ii lIe He had been a long time in I France Frame j nu u death and suffering offering were no stran strangers gees gers ers to him hint lint Hut when he spoke of the sergeant ergeant and the private that th they lad nad found lea dead beside their gun un he couldn't control his emotion It seems that the lie sergeant and th the private had 1101 been caught ht In a pocket The lie Germans In force were In front of them There was a barrage behind which made It impossible for them to rejoin their com company pan So th they stayed C k l. l and roughed It out nut fou fought ht In a manner manner man man- ner ncr that made one proud to be of the Ute same race Held Off Whole Company When thC they found them there was pile of or empty shells several se Inches high h around the gun un and not a single ringle round of unexpended ammunition re reo The Thc two t had held off oft a n whole company of Boche machine gunners for several eral hou hours The enem enemy had been around lound a n bend bendIn In the rondo road a n scant 50 GO yards away awny and hadn't been heen able to advance because be be- cause ause of the brisk fire of the lone American gun manned by 11 the thc sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant and the private The sergeant had hod been evidently e pointing the gun I nail amI the private had been heen feeding It ft only protection had been a little little lit lit- tle tIe ri ridge ge where here the dirt had been thrown up besl beside e the road The undergrowth just behind them had been cut to ribbons l 1 y the Boche bullets and the trees near where the f 1 enemy had been heen were scarred b by Yankee You Yan kee fire It had 1101 been the hottest kind of a n fight and the Americans had been winning against the terrible odds until until un un- til tn a I shell hen burst buist right on them and killed hilled both hoth L Whether It was WIS a n Boche Doche shell or orone fai Y 1 one k one u nf star our own nobody nob lb Over carer l' l ill know Both sides had b been en tiring firing Into r tint that part of the wood Whatever the thc t of the shell It had done lone Its work quickly I and thoroughly for the Aien nen were cre badly torn tom Death probably probably ably had come Instantaneously The They i d hind Imd gone while the jO joy of battle huttle was still upon them Death Not in Vain It was a glorious death deuth but a sad one because a few minutes after utter the shell landed the Boche had been obliged to retire Another half an un hour and the heroic pair pall would have hn been safe But the they had not died lied In vain The company compan that they had held at bay carried back to the German German Ger Ger- man lines Jines a n story of American heroIsm heroism hero hero- Ism that will wit do much to convince the Boche that the men from across the sea sen are going to decide the war A The sacrifice of these two lives Jives will save others The They called on the Y M. M if r. r C. C A A. A man manto manto manto to help bury hury these two heroes It was not his first experience as ns a member of a burial party part because he had been at the front all through the bl big push As h he aided in the burial he could not help wishing that of nIl ill the thousands engaged in that battle these two might have been heen spared |