Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 19 | [Illegible] Captures of Americans Related

twenty-seven hours. We took 25.000 prisoners pris-oners and many big mins, "After the battle We moved again, always al-ways by motor truck, ii nd now We tire engaged in another dIr drive. Yesterday wo advanced seven miles on n twenty-mile twenty-mile front, capturing many thousands of prisoners. 1 was up and saw the opening open-ing of this drive from a very prominent point overlooking the whole front, and It was a wonderful sight. The big guns sent many a kiss to the Dear Heinles. They certainly dislike our awful artillery fire, and I don't know that I blame them. From the looks of things, I can't see how the war can continue much longer, but I'm willing to stay until the last." IffCfiPTlSOF 1II15 RELATED Salt Laker With Signal Corps Graphically Describes De-scribes Great Drives. t Robert C Elder, formerly employed by Be Oregon Short Line in Salt Lake, who s pmv it member of the signal corps with -rj Re expeditionary forces in France, has 2 fatten Edward Randolph of 142 Second gast street ;i graphic account' of the relent re-lent American drives, which he had an )pportiinity of witnessing at close range, leveral limes corn in er tinder Mre while "Shooting trouble" and repairing tlie Aires on the lines of communication. "I was in France but twenty-six days," ivrites Private Fiser, "when 1 was taken to the seat of action of the first big drive, irhich began July 17. Thousands of prisoners pris-oners were captured and much booty. We fought in conjunction with the French and did fine. Saw many German dead lying around, the advance being too rapid 'o permit the burying of those killed, rttfie French gave them an awful trouncing jKo'.ir left. ("When this task was completed we moved to another sector, which contained a famous hill fortified by the Germans until it was supposed to be impregnable. The French had lost 40,000 men in taking it a few years ago, and later lost it. No doubt you read of this victory, as it occurred oc-curred but three weeks ago. I was at division headquarters, in the heart of the fight, at the opening of the battle. 1 was awakened by the roar and crash of our big guns, and the sky was one sheet of flame from them. The boches were spellbound, I guess, fdr not over a dozen shells came back from them. Our bombardment bom-bardment lasted ten hours, and the objective ob-jective of the battle was attained in just