Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 27 | Americans Used Cold Steel in Slaying Huns

AMERICANS USED COLD STEEL IN SLAYING HUNS Lumber Jacks Cause Frightful Fright Fright- ful Jul Carnage With Bayonets Among Kaisers Kaiser's Troops Bj- Bj Universal Vilh the Americans on the 1 Auff Delayed o. o Six Delayed Six hours after the theP P Prussian n guards u pulled out of farm Just north of ot this mornIng morn- morn Ing Inc I visited the of the 36 6 6 hour lo between n. n battalion of Amerlean Amer Amer- American lean ican cx lumberjacks ex-lumberjacks and the tho kaisers kaiser's picked troops troops troops- The dea dead of ot course coulse were still Jed I Even ven the wounded of ot both sides were still about and tho the work of or mercy was waR Just beginning J I was surprised to find that such stich a ado do desperate struggle had cost only onh BO so few fe casualties J An n ti American officer explained to me that It had been heen n nbattle nbattle battle between small force torce but that It was waR a 1 battle to tho death leath American and German artillery al alternately alternately al- al battered tho the hamlet which was formerly tho headquarters of the G German Geiman general von on A few rew remaining houses testify that It was a week Veele ago aRo t o. o The fighting however howo took place mostly outside Cler e Only a n few Cew Americans foil fell In the course of or tho rho gallant charge har e down own the slopes lopes and through the wheat at fields Into lito the tho Ill village gc In the outskirts especially espe espe- on the north side of CI the thel l Prussian ru lan machine gunners stood tool ren ready to 10 receive the tho Americans American Their guns uns Were jammed jamme b by oui our bo boys s 's before they ther could break bleak down the attack So the lumber jacks leaped leape among the Teu Tell tons nn and frightful carnage ensued bT It H was a tight fight with cold steel ill all the TV wa way ay through I saw more bayonet wounds among tho the dead dad and wounded than ever el before Oi Germans mans an and Americans Amer Amer- leans lay Jay 1 side b by side transfixed h by broken bayonets Several Se bayonets which had been withdrawn had saw teeth filed lied In the tho bla blades blade The bayoneted Germans outnumbered the Americans ten to one owing to the fact that Germans were serving machine machine ma- ma chine guns Juns when the Yankees came upon them The stretch between and Bellevue farm tarm was dotted with dead eld Prussian guardsmen sniped I U by Americans n The German corpses presented a ghastly appearance The rhe rAC face i M ir cr were r pinched rl and drawn and anil washed ie white by th the nothing Doming D i ngI rain lain I BelleI f farm Itself was turned Into I a 1 shambles A As the German battalions were forming for counterattack there they were cau caught ht b by the American gunj gun gun- j I fire Tho rho courtyard cO of the tho farm Carm is lit with torn and twisted bodies sometimes three deep where a shell had exploded ed among amonS' a R. knot of oC fighting men ne' ne e n Mowed Donn Don Between Delle farm Carm an and Chamery only nl a few Germans caught en route Jay lay dead ead except on the Dered farm which became another burying ground for forthe the elite elito of or the kaisers kaiser's arm army Prussian sl sian r n reserve reserve hero were Caught caught aught b by the American gunfire and F r- r were movi dl wn Even th tho nearby fields were dotted with bodies where here shrapnel caught those trying to escape the tho shellfire In tho tiro outskirts of ot r I saw caw dead Prussians lying beside their machine machine ma rna chine guns one guns one even had his cartridge belt clutched between hl hh his finger finger finger- wearing the white whito brassard of or the red cl cross oss Th They had pretended to be ambulance drivers or stretcher hearers I s saw w a n. dead Japanese soldier of r the American arm army his hand clutch clutching In a bayonet stretched out toward a couple of ot Prussian machine gunners opposite to him Ills comrades told me mo they had seen the Japanese knock out a aGerman aGerman aGerman I German gun crew with a German hand grenade renade He lIe had a half haU dozen potato Ii J tle tied to his waist Hill off ott tho the high road beyond Bellevue farm tarm was practically practical taken without a strub- strub struggle gle glo although a handful of or gunners were when refusing to surrender sur- sur render to the Americans It was found that the enemy had withdrawn nearly all nil his guns but h he o was forced forcell to abandon hundreds of oC thousands of or shells and hundreds of oC machine guns and even en c live JIve horses though the animals In most cases cases were shot dead I Dense smoke rising from distant 11 vil- villages 11 I lages show strew the enemy Is burning places far tar ahead of ot us