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Show FIGHTING COLONEL WHO DEFIED HUNS BACK IN AMERICA ' 1 ypically American Officer Describes Experience in Being Cut Off by Germans and Winning-Way Winning-Way From Argonne Forest. By Universal Service. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. AVhittlesey, whose message, ''You go lo hell," to the be-leaguring be-leaguring Germans who sought the surrender sur-render of the "last battalion" on October Oc-tober 7, rang around the world, again tcl foot on American soil today. Probably nearly everybody who had been thrilled over tho voicing of that defi from a battalion surrounded and ap-j pareritly certsiji to be cut to pieces, a 9, indeed, many of it were, expected to firid its commander wearing a face of Ton Uindcnburg pugnacity, and, maYhap, knives and bayonets bristling ai over him. undergrowth, wilh about 600 or 700 men of the First and Second battalions, oOSth infantry- an outfit of New Yorkers and westerners. We had cn bans ted our rations ra-tions and before tho fresli supply had been' served to more than half of our men we sot the order to advance. Each man carried 220 rounds of rifle ammunition. ammuni-tion. "The following clay wo ran into stiff resistance at a hill, where the Germans were intrenched and had mounted many machine guns. Our course lay through a deep ravine, with bills 200 feet high rising ris-ing from its bottom. A company attacked at-tacked the hill and lost all its officers and most of its men. The next morning we went forward, reaching our objective, a road running along the hillside, at ti p. m. There we bivouacked, throwing out outposts. Germans Hidden in Hills Above. "The spot we occupied was perhaps 300 yards long and was thickly wooded. You could see no one ten yards ;i v 'a y. To the north the hill rose sharply above fis. The Germans were hidden there. Below us was a swamp and marsh, to which, fortunately, wo could make our way at night for drinking water, cowling cowl-ing through the machine gun fire which the boohe sprayed about the pool. "Lieutenant Leake came back from an attack on the hill led by Lieutenant W.11-helm W.11-helm with .ninety men. Lieutenant Leake had with him eighteen nu-n. He reported that Lieutenant Wilhclm had been surrounded, sur-rounded, with the rest, while crossing the ravine, but that they had cut their way to regimental headquarters. Many of his comma nd were lost, however. "That mornjng. October 3, runners whom I had sent to our outposts returned re-turned to tell me the outposts had been cut off or captured. We knew then that we wore surrounded, and that il was tjien simply a matter of .nicking there until reinforcements came up-" "Simply a matter of sticking there" was the modest phrase employed by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel Whittlesey to describe one of the most heroic decisions of the war. Enemy Attacked Every Afternoon. "The Germans attacked every afternoon," after-noon," he continued. "They would come down the hillside through the brush, yelling like ten thousand thou-sand devils. H was useless to look for a target through t ha t brush, They heaved (Continued on Page Three.) Instead, those who were fortunate enough to first greet the returned hero saw a strapping young officer, typically American, over six feet tall, gazing out through a pair of steady eyes, in which was a glint of unmistakable kindliness. He Is 35 .years old, a graduate of "Williams "Wil-liams college, and was a lawyer before he went to Plattsburg to train for Uncle Sam's army. "We were twice cut off in the Argonne forest," said he today. "The first time was September 26. The second time we were penned in from October 2 till the night of the 7th. "We advanced into the heart of the forest, an almost impenetrable jungle of |