| Show YANK DEI DETACHMENT TAKES ROCHES BOCHES IN CUNEL ATTACK Americans 40 Strong at Start Lose Three Killed Fourteen Fourteen Four Four- teen Wounded Tf Recollection of 0 Business Helps Put I Ginger in Onset A Against Huns HUlls I From Stars and Stripes American First army arm during the TIlE X I first month of o the battle of ot Argonne Ar- Ar Argonne gonne restored to Fran France e some forty tort desolate an and ja Jagged ged clusters of or crumblinG crumbling crum crum- bling stone that one once once ware contented o towns and villages of ot a fair nn and ind fertile far fer tile countryside poor countryside poor poor wretched ruins I or of which on only 1 the cellars now can shelter am an one One by oue one lii In tho tha difficult advance ance the recaptures have o been announced yet et more often otten than otherwise It Is not the villages that those hose who freed them will but rather the nameless woods and hogbacks roundabout It Is not Cunel for In Instance Instance In- In stance that tho the Thirtieth Infantry will toll of ot In years ears to come como but tho the trenches that were carried by storm to the cast east and to the west of Cunel In the early hours of October I 13 1 The trench system to the cast east held b by O Germans under the tho command o of ofa a captain and two lieutenants was captured captured cap cap- turell by lI forty men of Company Thirtieth Infantry one of ot those Iso Iso- freak feak engagements half haIr daring and half haIr luck which are the dally daily I Iwonder wonder onder of oC war Not Supposed d to Attack This little lItHe detachment headed b by two lieutenants was not suppo supposed cd eVento even evento evento to attack It was un under er orders to re report report report re- re port at S 30 a a. a m. m in to a trench some fifty fitI fit fit- I ty yards altIs to the tho south of ot the one ono the lie Germans held hold there to reinforce another another another an an- other regiment which as It happened waH sas not there here and to be bo leap ed through lI by still another regiment which as It happened never came They rhe arrived In none nono too amiable a I mood For one ono thing after a a. d day of ot bitter fighting thc they had been witness to I some very ugly ug business They The had hall seen fleen a of to the west vest o of or the town surrender Just before dawn when It came down to lJ facing bayonets Thc They had seen seon them throw down clown their arms toss 0 oft off their helmets hold holdup up up their hands seen them file tile out a huddled hu dejected line di directed ill ill- toward the rear b by an Amen Ameri I I I I I can major who stood on the parapet visible momentarily in the weird lI light ht of ot the tho angry n German flares which Il Illumined illumined il- il the battlefield The They had seen Been the last of the prisoners suddenly sudden sudden- ly h lift hi his hi hand point a luger and fire straight at tt the majors major's heart The major majo was killed Instantly Killed Instantly Ur also was the tho German who had played this Gorman German trick trick trick- killed 1 more quickly than It takes to tell it Little Trouble on Mome Marne Then too the forty men o of Company Compan had Just seen their commanding officer officer of or- the then to fatally woun wounded ed on way n their now new position Ho lie had had some little trouble on the Marne Marrie when a grotesquely remark o of h his Is led to an Investigation o of the tho baseless baseless base baso- less charge that once In a tight place he le had meant to surrender er his men Later ho was with a vengeance van ven and not only onh restored to his delighted company compan but put In command of oC It When on the morning of or October October Octo Octo- ber bar Hi 15 he foil fell he managed somehow to toI crawl to the the- trench to which his hla men were assigned One of ot them th m wanted to loosen his clothing for tor him Never er e mind me he lie said Go and get jet vm cm then their Go Co and get et em Those were last Jast orders for the other oIlier lieutenant was wa wounded too Sergt Sert Leonard Hall Ball of ot Sou South th Manchester Conn took Command yards ards ahead ho he saw the German flying back to callon call callon callon on tho lie German guns juns for a deluge of or shells hells on tho ho new American position Really neall there was nothing to do tIo but attack and as the first shells began beJan to fall about them the fort forty went over o the top lop Hall and and- ands s six lx other r headed e f for a X I 1 n UI ii u w gun un fire tire had been issuing The Tho rest started for either end and of ot tho the German trench As the they moved forward the tho sergeant laughed to himself so IO feeble did lit the tho little whinny sound which ho hu knew know would be described In the Ing press dispatches as s an Indian yell Surrender In Three Minute But nut It really rose to a fine tine rebel yell yoU yoUns as ns Company Compan approached the clinch an and soon It became a a. roar of or triumph when tho the whole of ot panicky boches booties surrendered throe three minutes later Some Rome ha had fled lod to 0 the rear some somo were killed some iome some were wounded but th the number o of prisoners taken taken taken-taken taken and lad sent back the now dismaying curtain of or their own artillery artiller fire fire fire- was two t two officers and an men Tho Yank losses were ware three killed and fourteen wounded The Yanks found found- some welcome I IThe things In that captured trench Their first greeting w was s from rom two American I prisoners lost ost scouts that had been picked up that morning and who were for them with grins as wide as aa the tho trench Itself Itsel grins ami anji outstretched outstretched outstretched out out- stretched hands and cries of or Put It there ther Sarec Sarge we we ce sure aio aro glad Iad to see sec seey y OIl ou oil The They a breakfast just ar arrived ar- ar rived ried from l the lie le German roar rear nn and not not yet Net served ser Bread there was and fresh fresh butter and Jam rations jam rations for 20 It was eaten eaten all all of or it-by it It it-b it by the tho r remnants rem reni- m- m nants of oC Company Compan The Thc They had ha earne earned It |
