Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 8 | Americans Remain at Post Although Gassed by Huns

AMERICANS REMAIN AT POST ALTHOUGH GASSED BY HUNS Now Known as the Gritty Five on Account of Their Pluck By Bert Ford I Staff Correspondent of the International News Service WITH TH TIlE A AMERICAN ARMY RIY I IN I Trance France May lay 22 22 I youngsters oun attached at attached at- at to the tho signal unit of or the tho American Ameri Amen can Infantry regiment on tho the front refused to 0 go 10 to the hospital forgas for forgas gas tr treatment and worked for or eleven days a s 's keeping up telephone comm tion The They are known to the regiment as the thc gritty ty five Whether hether the they do door door door or do not get et decorations the they won the thc admiration of all their comrades Let Private Howard Cooper an az enlisted man New ew York City tell the story I 1 used to work in the thc News Service New York office orr I know all the Jan gang The felloes s with me were Corporal Charles I 13 l. Chase Private Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur McGee both hoth of Seattle Private Floyd Flod Smith of oe Wis Is Onename Onename One Onename name lost In transmission The Germans Germans Ger Ocr mans were peppering with mustard gas as The They had broken our lines and we were repairing them We re worked for hours and the masks got ot uncomfortable After AHer a while Chase and swapped d maks One of the masl masks s got sot lost In tho the excitement excite excite- men ment t. t I THEY ALL STICK Corporal Boldt said some somebody bOd had to todo todo todo do tho the work and asked If It we would stick Every fellow chow dlo in the gang Jans said he would stick till he hell froze over Well Vell wo we stuck That's Thais all Before our outfit went into the front line we wc were billeted in a house that had hada a piano I used to pia play Private Joseph JosephBerg Berg BerS of oC Brooklyn sang san and Corporal I Loughlin of New York danced buck wing wIn There was no roof on the house but we kept the rain a away with the piano canvas can- can vas Ono One day lay a shell came and a fragment frag frag- ment snapped two of or the piano plana wires but It didn't hurt the keyboard tone much Later a shell smashed the whole thing END OF MILK TRUST When the tho family went away during the German drive tho they left the cow behind be be- hind Our captain put a mules mule's gas mask on the cow coss ever every time there Was a gas gal at at- at tack tark We milked her ever every day until a ashe ashell ashell she shell tore a hole holc in her side that side that was the end of or the milk trust we had to ex execute ex- ex ecu te bossy In our dugout we had a rat that stole stoIa about a third of our rations One day one ono of or the fellows fellos popped it with his au au- au- au You can tell the tho folks were we're got get gotting ting great treatment at tho hospital Corporal Chase said When we were finally forced to quit and go to a hospital for tor treatment McGee McGee Mc- Mc McGee Gee and I tramped together We Ve could hardly walk so o we laid down near a stone stonewall stonewall stonewall wall to escape Fritzs Fritz's shells We Ve must have fainted or something Wed We'd be bethere bethere bethere there yet ret I guess uess If two fellows from another outfit seeking cover hadn't put their hands on our faces In ill the dark