Show CLOSE FIGHTING WAS JUST YANKS TASTE showed their individual superiority in hand to hand battling TELL TEIL OF VICTORIES give graphic descriptions 0 of personal persona I 1 encounters with enemy battal ion of marines brings down german airplane phils when to te change cli tinge dinio clime from warfare to the more or less warfare or of fit alio ameri enns call got their long opportunity anity to display their physical prowess and their individual superiority in ill hand to hand 1191 ling and they liked it this close lighting as eyll oncel hy by the si tilles and laughs of tile boys lit in tile i army hospitals hosp etnis when they hoy recount of bayonet charging linkul gr rimling nt at close aind till even the good old american of 0 f using the fists andrew damns of flurke N X Y airis a bit of front from a wound in ahls hip 1111 caused by shrapnel hut but lia he forgot ills sufferings whon lie he old fold of doing away with three exponents of with ills bayonet nu aint rall wits was injured while fighting in the he sector north of verdun where the americans straddling the lie river inet resistance of the most stubborn kind hind WP wo crept out gut one night on n scouting proposition preposition unit inet up tip with quite a gang of huns dumas sald we resist tile temptation to anve live 11 KO 90 at 1 I them nt at close quarters I 1 katow of three 0 them that went down still my bayonet I 1 injured dottl two days inter calls it hot stuff anni lw says anya close cloge up tip fighting Is liot lot l stuff Is 14 sergeant stein of st clair street tit and its stellis steins second time in tile the ling hof pral since tile lie middle of august hii first wound was front a oer explosive but ills his second to the 60 lue gun hiti bullets letl in each lea ett ho hi lio lie was wag jut just in reach of the ini chine run gun nest nert when lie he fell bilut hu his comrades curried carried on aau got abe run gun just to show you the lie difference between americans and Ger germana Ge nunn mank ive sow bevil one Allie rican hold off on live five and ali alth lilt it rifle and I 1 hall it nitin lit in my iny pla tomi who after being wounded blin self brought brou glit in thirteen prisoners single handed 11 burt Bur burtia 11 daley of st Clairs clairsville ville oj who woo wounded hy by a in balliet in III tile the hip in lighting fighting mound around also told of close fighting ile iio said his platoon nuino prisoners the preferring 0 jo o surrender rather than try to sta stand ind up lip to the americans in hand blind to hand combat surrounded Surround eit iy ay by germans beca because tise tile tho Atner american ican in the chum luid ind ien been too rapid it regiment to which Wil willinia linin clobert smoker OW uny may street philadelphia was tit nt tn clied fought its ita way tile cordon and took prisoners smoker injured later inter by in III the lie right leg ie told how low ills regiment shortly returned to tho the Lit liptack tack n nd three miles for their bravery smoker arild the entire regi ident was awarded tho the french fourn ourn gere an ali Inter interesting eAting story of bow low nil en tiro tire brit tallon of marines a machine mn cliine gun company lind ind a liand hand in bringing town a german Is told by N W afflerbaugh of wood hirer It Ivr no neb our battalion enst in reserve in it small forest afflerbaugh who wn later inter woun dedIn buth both by shrapnel all of a sudden we saw an american plane ranking making for home the pinne to be crippled immediately mediately back of tile the american was it gernian german plane trying its best to finish the american iloth both machines were flying low every very fellow there was just aching to get a crack tit nt the linn plan plain and wo waited until lie american hall had passed on oil and tho the german was just above us its we nil all turned loose with our rifles and tile the machine gun company let fly with its rat a tat tat tito tho biloche immediately turned and tried to make for home but he fie was forced to io land about two city blocks front from us its when wo we readied reached tile tho spot where lie ho come camo down wo we found that his plane hall been riddled with bullets and that lie had hay any number of bullet wounds in ills lugn arma und and body Ilo however wever I 1 guess lie will get over it for lie he was immediately hustled off on to a hospital ON THE recaptured BELGIAN FRONT V Z 0 O J I 1 4 V NI t m sa 4 A q IF ie af Q A V 4 x ka 41 via k k d 4 1 l V 4 JA qc SA ra I 1 A wa leont one of lip ille chineis s of it new swier from the aling runs huns fly by tile th liel giong who tire nrc gallantly anil and oten dily their land MUTILATED BELGIAN ORPHAN T mm lancols ran cold cols it a ten year old belgian refugee who Is now in the united states Sti tc the war ll byok out he be was but six of ago age and wo attending a school tit in one ol of the altic ll 11 llo towns that vall later overrun by the alio german hordes while coming onil ng from school one day alny ills hlf parents told him that the germans had invaded ills town A little later inter ile ho wall lilt hit by a fragment of on nil aerial bomb front from a german plane letting it un lin ha run ran to ills his bonfe lioni c and there saw ills dmn iam lly fly killed before ills his eyes ayes whenever nn an american transport arrived tit nt tile port of brest lie and ills comp companions tia would rush to the wharf where they would surely get something to cat from some of the sal sailors lors this continued for about two tivo years then the men on oil the transport that had given jilin food so many times decided to lo make an am american of him so they adopted francois Fran cols after making a collection for him lilt I 1 they decided to send to in the united states |