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Show 396 YANKEE WOUNDED LANDED Tales of Desperate Battles Bat-tles Told as Hospital Ship Mercy Arrives j With War Torn Men I By Associate lras. NEW -YOKKriVo,l-Korne on strotebt'rs or hobbling on iTUtll('M. flflG HIOIT woniulrd aol-tili.'r. aol-tili.'r. ivprrHPiiting almont as many units of the Aoirican expeditionary forces. landed on Yankee soil attain today from tha I'nited States hospital ship .Mercy. I'll vessel reached quarantine laat 1 night from Hordeaux. and docked this forenoon. Thera waa scarcely a soldier among them who did not have a cheery countenance and a In'e to tell, proudly proud-ly hut modestly, of "how. we licked the Htins." FORTUNES OF WAR. With his lipjht arm icotie and Ms right ley paralv re. I I. leu tenant A I Conover of San Krunciiaco, company la. Kifl -ninth riculiirM hiiiil: 'It 1iapiened July t t K ."Jit a. m ISuisMonx- U had pushed throuah t lie .mi mans for finjr mi leu. Shi up- II I and tnacliine im hiillrln ;ite wliat noped ni. Int 1 embraced' the life, t a aoldier and all that coips with It TitiH is just ths fortune of war." "Nothing that anbodv cii say can oney an adequate conception of the hra ei y of the mnt Ines." mi id Kleu- it-tu ni Cnlonel John A. II UKhes of the Sixili marines, who w.ih wounded ( twice In the rg . ii wers the Krem-h wmt Hieditl and the U H ' (;erm4ii priMoiieia ttitd me it waaj frely admitted by lh-n officers It was the marine that prevented tlie ! Cermans getting to I'nriK. What did j I get tny de-oratiins for'. Well, I I Kuppotse I did SiMii'-l hinif or other, hut j III Iff blamed if I ki.ow what It was."' ALMOST A SIEVE. j Another wounded soldier nltoatft the Mercy whs Serjeant Iiavid It. tree-I land. ItaktTsfield. Ial.. Second engl- J neers, who received several mat time ' aun bullets In his riifht aim. left ' knee stnd l f t foot In tha ham puttie I IhllabtT 8. I |