Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-20 | Page 22 | Describes Argonne Battle Pays Tribute to Red Cross

Describes Argonne Battle i w3 3 Pays Tribute to Red Cross P' RIVATE ELVAN A. MOOF.E, wounded while fishtiug with his unit of ! Americans, tel's the story of tho Argonne battle to his r.r.rse at the!: ! Red Cross hospital at Fort Douglas. Ho does not forget to pay earnest coin-j I jpiimcnts to the work of the America:'. Red Cross on the other side. . , , f ' ' " ' ' z "j ' ' ' - 1 5' ' it. " r ' ; - ! & ' : ' - . , -i j t-x. &r " tf i f. v & 4 x I PS.isgf V""T t "sf r"y t ys w w.-Tc- t . ... - Wounded Private at Fort j Douglas Tells of Defeat of Germans. i I -w T was a hard finlit, ;nid I went 1 H down: but WP lieked t!ie boehe. I and we did a pood job, to:." said I'rivnte Klvan A. Moore of .Springlon, ldalio, ay he related to his nurse ut Kort Iouglas wilh much ardor how the Yanks vanquished the German hordes in the natural fastnesses and improved fastnesses of ihu Argonne forest. "We had fought almost hand to hand for .days, when the Germans- began to go back. Then we knew we had them. From that time on until the forest was cleared they played a losing battle and fought only rearguard actions, using great numbers of machine guns to stein the tfde of the onrushing Yanks," the soldier declared. It was with a machine-gun bullet in his right side that Private, Moore fell. The wou nil was a bad one, and he was unable lo continue with, his soldier companions. com-panions. A Red Cross a'inbulanee gathered gath-ered him up and conveyed him to a -hospital back of the fighting line. After some weeks in a hospit al in France he was ordered home, and reached Sa It Iake last Tuesday morning, with several sev-eral other injured Yankees. Me will go to his home in Idaho as soon as lie is able to travel, and his ultimate recovery assured. Private Moore says thousands of Yankee soldiers wou id have died of wounds on the battlefields of France had it not been tor the untiring efforts of the I-ted Cross as an organization.