Show YANK GUNNERY Ar AZES Captured BOCHE Captured Hun Says Says' He Ne Never et Saw Such a Perfect Barra Barrage je IRISHMEN SAVED THE TH DAY DAY DAV Famous New York Infantry Regiment Did Great Work at Champagne Took Terrible Toll of De Death th From Enemy r f New Over York York Over the rail of the hospital transport Sierra as It it came in one day recently leaned Roy Davis of Chicago He was vas a soldier of the theOne theOne theOne One Hundred and ninth Forty a artillery artillery artil artil- tU- tU lery formerly the First Illinois in command of H H. H HJ J. J Reilly He yelled down to those on the police boat Tell the people of New York the theold theold theold old Sixty-ninth Sixty a famous Irish infantry Infantry infantry try regiment in the New York National Nation National Nation al al Guard now the One Hundred and Sixty fifth a part of the Rainbow J division dl di vision saved the day ay at the Cham Cham- The people of France are wildly enthusiastic over the One Hundred Hundred Hundred Hun Hun- dred and Sixty Sixty fifth fifth and believe me me they have reason to be We followed the Sixty-ninth Sixty up tip at attLe atthe atthe the tLe battle of Champagne laying down their barrage for them It got hot as is ashell ashell hell heU behind those boys and then hotter hotter hotter hot hot- hotI I ter and it was just as bad In front fronti The Polus started to go back and yelled to the One Hundred and Sixty- Sixty fifth to turn and follow fonow them To hell hen with that yelled ba back k the Sixty ninth Were going right righton on And believe me they went righton right righton on and saved the day Exacted Terrible Cost The liThe gi green gray uniforms strewed the ground in front of the Irish One walked on a carpet of dead bodies after the attack was hurled back The Sixty Sixty ninth ninth was cut cutup cutup up but they exa exacted ted terrible cost from the Boche It was of the One Hundred and F For For- r- r ninth ty-ninth field artillery that a captured German s said ld Let me see those men who are behind behind be be- hind those guns I nev never never r saw such a perfect barrage in all aU my life One of the most popular officers on the transport t. t was wal the Rev Ray F F. F Jenney the fighting chaplain of f Decater Decatur Decatur De De- cater HI m. who had four wound stripes on his sleeve When all an the officers o of a company in his regiment had b been e 1 shot down in ins In th the big drive at St. St MIhiel MIhiel Mihiel MI- MI hiel h he led the men on and brought back a trophy in the shape of a silver- silver mounted Luger pistol that he took from a German commander when his company smashed up a machine gun Bear Distinguishes Himself Among those wearing the Croix deGuerre de deGuerre deGuerre Guerre was vas J. J Sanford Bear of Illinois n of the Thirty-ninth Thirty infantry He is two twenty years years' old On July 27 21 he distinguished himself In a novel manner It was before re Chateau Chateau- Chateau Thier hier- hier ry and a group of officers In hi French uniforms on the opposite bank of the Vesle Vese were believed to be Germans In disguise It was to find out if the officers who pretended to be French were really so that Bear volunteered to swim the Vesle and make close observation observation ob ob- ser on the other shore snore Whether they were friends or foes Bear was exposed to the machine-gun machine fire of the enemy w while lle swimming but buthe buthe buthe he carried through his mission successfully sue sue- found that the French uniforms uni uni- forms were but bilt disguises and ad so per per- permitted permitted witted the fire from the American side to be be becent cent centered red upon the enemy For this he won the cross |