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Show fix Cot BAYONETS! - rinn Rant DtKTihrd In a Ollicctollh Marine JOHN W. THOMASON, """"lis Jr. i i r- nerve-rackin- - ai'tluT describes how the Th. of the Fifth ma- Pirst battalion iv quartered near Marlnny 'st art of June-,- ' m i. In'rr.v 'U Varum unl wait there for the .viinter offensive theyc In ft rip "oiiwa d Ask for ' POST TOASTIES second-in-comman- them. Fifth the IMn bitter fighting , ..... orwl ill,, "irlv.xi"""" vicinity ..i , but Rt great cost de lielleau Then c;i 'ne the Hols nd iP11" th0 rmirine8 acquitted marvelously. 7ntmv. Ives arrive to cover the The marines are heavy short-rtlleveJ, but the respite is ve3 as 'hey are soon ortlerd t0 sector, where a tj,e 'jinissi'iis offensive Is under ereat on July 18, after a heavy .av. Senegalebarrage, the Americans, lenlon go se and French foreign forward. All enemy positions are taken, thmurh at fearful cost, battalion of the and the Fifth usarineM are withdrawn for rest u:.d replacements. .!,.the butsixthnot ofdislodging June the v. Corn non-com- fcMiiln Ate. rifle Or-.soon develops, vvreak-,ttel( . . ...i nninntr the ma- - On - g second-in-comman- to relieve the First the brunt of ?:.":. rn.;. offensive. I'art of K'f'h wrest Hill H2 from the r..'th Jh:.,"., i n... '.mult s rr a rT 'nc oini . FROM cTORY w ''h ,DC Be" 8VDdlcat W lh shells were falling, stTimhIIng; over the debris of ruir.ed. walls and houses. There was a very busy French dress- hiK station there, under the relic-- of a church. It was too dark to see, hut man caught the sound and the smell of It. They cleared the town trench systems that guarded the wnv and went on to a crossroads. French to I.lanc Mont rid,'i. Throe guides were to have met the battalion cent French divisions, one ofuwflM. chas-'urthere, for the line was Just ahead, hut a eolotdal the guides were late. There was a division, aI1(, a 1!m, division with a Verdun shathalt. The next battalion history tered themselves In fruitless 'attacks In column dosed up; a machine-guon the Kssen trench outfit, with Its solemn, blase mules. nnd the Kss,. a hook, switch lip 0f that svstem Jammed Into the rille companies. Loyond the Kssen line the I'.hmr The Forty-nintwas the leading Mnt position loomed Iniprcfrnahle. I ate on company, just behind the Battalion the 1st of Octnher, a prnv. Weak dav Headquarters group, and the the battalion got its battle orders went up to where the and iook over a manned front line from and his satellites were halted. certain weary Frenchmen. "t rossroads are always a dam' had fiatherins the platoon leaders and twiness, Coxy." the ma lor was ob s around them, the captain serving to Ids' fidhilnnf Ii,wt nil;lo' and the of the for ft herono tellin' how late our Forty-nintcompany spread a large Frog friends will he get the men map on tho ground, weighting Its innw-into that ditch off the road corners with their pistols. so yonder Ah! thoii-'h- t A high, swift whine "You give the dope, John," that crew to h ordered the captain, who was not a man of shrieking roar and a shell crashed (h.wn some fifty yards to the words, and his Junior spoke somewhat la this manner. right of the crowded road. Kvervhody "Here, you birds, look at this map. except the mules were flat on the The Frogs have driven the lioche a ground before It landed, but wicked kilometer and a half north of Sointue-I'y- . splinters of steel sung across the road, and a machine-gunner- , You see It here the town squatting by you watched them shell this morning. his cart, collapsed and rolled toward They have gotten Into the Prussian the edge of the road, swearing and trench this blue line wilh the wire clutching at his thigh. In front of it. It's Just a fire trench, CHAPTER VII linked up. r.ehlnd mostly shell-hole- s It. quite- - close, Is the F.ssen trench, which is evidently a humdinger! ConFurious Fight'ng by Ihe Essen crete nnd deep dugouts and Hook. all that sort of thing-regfort. The men moved swiftly and without "The Frogs say it 'can't be taken from the front they've tried. We're disorder, to the ditch, which was a goln' to take It. nn the other side of deep commnnlca'ion trench paralleling that Is the Kibe trench and a little to the mad. Another shell came as they the left the Kssen hook, and In the moved, falling to the left, and then center the T'.ois de Yipre same kind another, closer, tills time between the road and the tr nch. A mule or two o stuff, they say. We're to take them. You see them all on the map. . . . reared and plunged, stricken; n maNext, away up in this corner of the rine whose head bad been unduly high slumped silently down the side of the map. Is the Plane Mont place. Whoever Is left when we get that far will trench with most of Ids head gone. More shells came, landing along th take that. ton. . . . Questions? . . . between the road and the trench. road, we Yes, Tom. ought to get to use those and one or iwo of them In the trench Fawed-of- f shotguns they gave us at Itself. Cries and groans came from .St. Mlhiel though when we get past the Kssen system, we'll he in the the head of the column; stretcher bearers hurried in that direction ; the open, mostly. . . . The old I'eux-Sem- e division Is Roln' In tonight It's battalion lay close and waited. Then the shelling stopped, t'p forward the goin" to be some party! Mov out of a long breath. "Just here as soon as It's dark. That's all." major drew fire on these crossroads. I was The road here was screened on the afraid we were spotted. Now, those side toward the enemy by coarse mats A little group of Frenchof camouflage material erected on tall guides" men arrived panting at the head of poles. Through this screen the (ler-ma-n the column and the men were quickly flares, ceaselessly ascending, on the move again. "If P.rother P.ocbe shone with cold, greenish whiteness, had kept filngln' them seabags nround so that men saw their comrades' faces somebody. Where do here, he'd and their drawn under pale weirdly we go from here?" helmets. The files talked as they Said the major, coming to the head went with a French of the Forty-nint"I've seen the time I'd have called "Francis, we're tnkln' the regiguide those things pretty but now reckon mental front division's putting four bell's lit with the same kind of battalions in the line. The flxth will glims !" . . . "Pemeinber the flare be on our left ; Infantry brigade on that went up In our faces the night the right. Let nie know how your we made the relief In ISellew woods? sector looks my P. O. will be I'd Seemed to me like everybojy In the better send a runner with you. Here's world was lookin at me." "Pols de your guide." pelleau! mighty few In the battalion The company moved off. and the now that remember them days, other companies, going Into position sonny. . . ." In the battered Prussian trench, fac The road passed Into desolation and Ing the formidable Fssi-- work. The i wound north, kilometer after klhv French they found there were the camouflage hanging on In the very teeth of the meter. Presently ended and the battalion felt exceed- - enemy. Their position had been hastily constructed a few days before by the bard pressed p.ocbe and was a mere selection from the nbiindant shell craters, connected by shallow digging. The marines stumbled and slipped through its windings. It was cluttered up with dead men. for It had been strongly held nlol dearly tool; over the won. The Forty-nintit some leu pi a from allotted pi part fiii'tss of rotiebmen, eight or ten men to a platoon, in command of a first lieutenant. It was what was left of X-:i full battalion. (Tn Pi: CUNTIM KD.) com jlitkcs that stay crisp in milk or cream five-Inc- U ti S,s' s ular CHAPTER VI I Continued is the Champagne," to one who stood beside The sergeant spat. "It looks him. like Ifll, siri" he stild. hi ni'Miiu i j;e lino, ii.ou Si where a French stuff ollirer stood In the edge of !lh a knot of nflk-erout feiitures of tl.e pines. pointing this extended liold, made nieiuonthle So this, Slover, laid the second of his hob coins ill s hitter fighting. we have fought hard "Since L'l sere," he was saying. "Oh. the French KtMmow this Champagne well, nnd the H iitr DIXIT MieO..-H".. i.o.jii n'ed to the southwest "Is the where our Foreign Ba'.te de Soualn, met In the first year that Lesion Guard division that the Prussians by 1 til 'Cockchafers'. They took the are Butte, hut most of the Legion now. And yonder" the ttDR there Frenchman extended his arm with a of the sture that had something iuie In It "stands the mountain of nvolmc If vrm loot: tint ntr la rtnnr. I a little f you can perhaps see the uj n timers of Itheims Itself." A ions grayish hl!l lay I l against the IP If .it ihe bnrlviiti nnd good glass showed, very far nnd iirit, the spires of the great ca- !e!r:il. with a cloud of shell-firiwir.s v r them. All thN terrain, as far as Ulielms. i ii ii,iti:i!e, hv Plane Motit rid go r.ir to the north. As Ions as the hold- - Plane I.e can Mont. aw h.s lull- Into Itheims; he ctin '.t;:.;rare tin- wlmle Chiiniliacne soc- or, i f ir tin' Martie. Indeed, they y tint the kaisi'r watched from tr.r lit the iiatlle that he !., re in .tt:lv. And the !!.. he to on there. So far. we Md to ilMn.ljjo them. I ofT and snilied cravely a the of oih.-cr"you will uw Imr.i fishtlns In the nt t.u ,i f.htlom.n:" T1'1' v,. ::! in ciim iatiil Hid the J li 'Vain, t1 ;ift"r:i.mii. ucre liild-ll'-i' ! r of corruuvilcd n. k', :. ordf-rlmi i ii'tTi : I h u'U.ti'i The cnp;nlu and the other ery i ti. ' '.? v.o'e l.oth ahotit Ihe e 1, ' 'I'li.v tiltod under lite ' hi .t ' rt of hiv etaillni; process 't ti, '' ' Mi;ipjcat d for either ni-n- r el-i- -- a- - hri-k- - s ! ln-f- t ; ri-i- . I s ' t company Coltitlialld-outfit the captain and hi understudy nrmid and wait for in" n casualty. In the Junior who p'ts d the captain N Jtl-- t In the I'.ii ty lil'tlli. ';it .i vmis at Its hap-- ' f 'In- - ' : ntr j i '" ' . I i, " . .' ' ' I s i f, e :if!V.-?)t- r ;,.u- (,1, - , (if ;ictt '' i the captain, ' " n'.keil ktice all I put '" "";t hi tin' wi t, " aht U, ltd hull f.eht. " bT III or the le;. I that will I.' cp in" M'ltal until ptti. I ' ther. Now W hit l i '1 u' In me. J.ihn. If l.i ' , 1 ! 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We often speak of China as having the oldest civilization In the world, but we seldom appreciate the full slgtuiicance oi me staiemeni. i once mei a Chinese by the name of Kung. who was the seventy sivth lineal descend-tint of the elder brother of Confucius, mid Confucius lived in the years Irom oiiO to 4T'.I P.. That is about as old a family as one could find anywhere, and it Is n family whose pedigree is absolutely unimpeachable. The name Confucius is n Laiiiiied form of the words Kung fu na-- . mean-- ' Ing Master Kung. In the family temple on tin- Shantung estate of the n be seen the tablets Kung family of ail the ancestors of the family from r..M P.. C. down to the present time. might say further thai Confucius considered, when be lived, that be be longed ! li reasonably obi fatnllv ; be traced his ancestry back moic-vbetween 7o0 nn t.rnwi years. Nation al l.'eiigrapliic Maira'iiie. loasties, in tne red ana d vellnw. j wax-wranne- . 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