Show AMERICANS TEll LL WHY THEY FIGHT Westerner in the British Army Hates Huns Maine Huns Maine Boy Enlists as Duty VARIED TYPES WITH SPIRIT One American merican Officer Addicted to Drink Resigns Enlists as Private and Wins Honors Braves Honors Braves Fire to Cut German Wires By F. F A. A E United Press Correspondent With the British Army in the Field I I asked a hard bitten Westerner what had h Induced him to join the British ranks I always hated greasers Mexicans and Huns he be replied I cant can't kill gren greasers ers ers' or Id I'd be hanged banged But I jumped jumpe at nt the chance of ot killing Huns and Im I'm right on the job I asked a second a spoken quiet Maine boy who has won the military medal for or gallantry on the fiel field I thought from the first that this was a fight In which all nil ought to take part he said and ond so I came The Tl second Is the prevailing type of the Americans who have bave come here bere to France Franca They have thought out the matter have e come to a decision un and have Joined up for neither fun frolic nor adventure Often Orten enough they coldly hate bate and despise the German and when the they let themselves go their nce about the Hun leaves their lr 0 I less ss tongued nimble nei neighbors neighbors' admiringly f envious Gee Gec if I could only talk like that said one Alberta boy after an Texan ex-Texan cowboy had haa spoken en his mind for five minutes on the Hun lIun Hunas as us ashe he really Is He never used the same a adjective twice and each a adjective jec- jec tive the was like an nn added drop rop or of vitriol Varied Types in Ranks They are of ot varied types There Is for fot Instance Lieutenant Larrabee Ln ro bee a West Pointer who ho broke his ls course cours to Join ns as a private He carne earned the D. D C. C M. M for special gallantry In n rescuing wounded nn and had his commission soon soon after on n noted sniper In one Infantry battalion was In the old days das a very cry well known Western cowpuncher cow- cow puncher W. W B H. H Harton now a n Canadian Cana dian dlan rifleman was when a member r of ot the National Guard of ot New York a n champion pistol shot and one one-of the competitors for the the Elcho shield He Hewus was wounded at Zillebeke ke Williams of Indiana was n captain In his state militia He e Joined the French foreign legion and won the militaire Then he lie was transferred to the Canadians Canadians Cana Cana- was woun wounded ed and amI decorated with the British military medal The story of or Rogers the American boy who acting us a runner WitS was woun wounded ed an anwon and won tl the e military medal on the Somme an and then was claimed back by the American authorities Is is well known known lie He dl didn't nt want want- to leqve and ami officers rN arid and men In old ohI regiment have noth nothIng nothing ing lag but goo good to say of ot him bun Here Is a record of ot a n different kind Mud told greatly as It Is to the tho cre credit lt of the man man I do not do-not not feel Ceel that I 1 ou ought ht to o give his name A brilliant young officer officer of of- fleer In the United States army resigned resigned re re- re signed signe and anti was given ghen a commission with with the the Canadians lans He occasionally drank too much and ana as a result was advised to resign He did lUd so but Immediately immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately re enlisted as a private I II It If r I cant can't keep sob sober r as an nn o officer icer Ill I'll have to when In the ranks he sal said He was sent to to th the front where where he lie soon mn made e a Ii fresh record this time for for- gallantry He was attached to the ma ma- gun chine-gun corps nn and won promotion to serg sergeant ant and the military medal I After one heavy fight In which h he lie stood out as a n born leader he was I offered another commission which he lie accepted His old ola weakness had been conquered When theres there's a bit bit of ot tar tar- daring Jar dar ing he Is the man for Jt It Everyone admires admires ad ad- I mires and likes him I Id rather had haa a aman aman aman man who who'd tripped up an and recovered than one who hadn't enough blood In his veins to feel the force of ot temptation tion sa said d one experienced general to me Ive rYe no use for the second se-cond kind Braves Fire Cut German Wires Sergeant Martin Is another American Artier Ameri can who won a D. D C. C M. M At the tile tight light for Observatory ridge there thele was n a gl great eat deal of ot wire Ire obstructing our n ad ad- vance The whole front was swept by shell shelf fire machine guns and snipers It seemed certain death to go out Martin crept from our trenches henches In broad dayI daylight stealthily approached approach the German wire cut quite a quantity and returned Incidentally he was wounded He showed a very fine example example ex ex- ample as us a soldier say his superiors Private G G. Sale another young oung American won uon a military medal In the same advance Although woun wounded ed he Insisted on going back Into the firing line as soon soon as fiS his woun wounds s were dressed carrying a load of grenades with him He lie lIe was th then n woun wounded e a n second second time J. J L L. Macfarlane of Sun San Francisco Francesco was machine gun officer of ot fleer ticer for n a battalion of plo pioneers Ue lie had earned his promotion from the ranks He died dle at nt Maple copse |