Show SURRENDER Il ILL I'LL DIE FIRST DECLARES U. U 1 S. S SOLDIER H i I Sammy Lost Life in Hun HunI I I L v paid Raid on U. U S. S Trenches P Wouldn't Yie Yield d. d iI P By y C. C C. C Lyon 1 Telegram Reporter With General t i. i t Pershing's Army A i T THE AMERICAN FRONT IN FR PRANCE t Dec 29 General General i 1 soldiers now realize they are at at war waft i I 1 can already see a difference in mY men said one colonel of infantry infantry infantry try And mind you my troops are re no note among those who have met the c German Cerman erman attack Discipline is is' is better drilling and training is more intensive every man manis manis is fe showing more interest in what we tr try to teach him about his conduct under fire Before American troops were killed wo wounded and captured the war see seemed ed a far off thi g to most of In their training camp life about the thee only visible reminders they had of the te he great struggle were the French trucks t. t which went by by the tho hun hun- I every day carrying supplies to the thea front or the presence among I them of French troops sent back from the front to recuperate I It was easy for tho the average AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican soldier to look upon the entire ame game as a Jark and his daily dany Amer 1 training training train tran- ing as a preparation for something that might never happen But all this is changed now Every felI fellow w is face to face with the tho fact that he himself must soon be in the first line trenches under the hail of th German shells and he has settled do down n to the real serious serious' business of getting ready This is is especially noticeable among the young g officers never under fire You can bet your sweet life my mei men men- will bet ready for the Boches wh yi they come over their tops toward our trenches said a young captain Every time we have a rest spell during ou our drills we have an old fashioned famil discussion as to what we would do under such and such a circumstance L t was greatly amused at the way one of my sergeants would handle the situation i Lets Let's no wait for them to come over ove over after us captain he said Lets bea em to it and go over after them I was with General Pershing when he went to the hospital the other day personally and thanked wounded men for the She the part they had played They beamed with happiness' happiness and for forgot t their wounds when he said to I them The entire American arm army is of you and there isn't a man man who wha does not envy you the opportunity opportunity opportunity I which was yours ours T year old Billy hans halls from the mountains of Kentucky and learned to shoot a rifle before he learned to read or write Were you scared Billy when you yousa yousa sa saw saw-i the Boches pouring over the top of your trenches I r asked cared geared cared Say feU fellow ow there wasn't time tim enough to be scared It looked as If there were at east hundred of em m m heading straight for mc me They had hadj hac been pouring artillery shells into us for a long time and then all 0 ol ola a s sudden we e saw saw them on top of us Every guy uy in our trench began pump- pump ing into them as fast as he could load and fire and those who couldn't load were clubbing clubbing- the sons of guns oer o'er over ove the head with their rifles BUY declares he was fighting close to one ne boy who was killed Four four our or five of the Boches were u oP him and he had a chance to tosu su surrender render Surrender I heard him yell Not Nor on your life lite Ill I'll ll die first And he did t. t I |