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Show bridges. There was a terrific report , followed by an Inferno. Both bridges crumbled In the middle. Both wore crowded beyond their limits. Bits of Germans came raining down for almost al-most three minutes, according to the spectator, while from the rivers the wild cries of the injured and drowning drown-ing made a picture Sturtz will always carry with him. For a few minutes the river was literally choked with bodies. The Germans were at last moving on Paris, but in a way they had hardly reckoned. Between puffs of a cigarette, trie lirsf he'd had in a day. Frank Hn-an of Galveston. Tex., confirmed Sturtz's story of the wholesale drowning ot. i the enemy. The Texan was working a. Stokes gun a hundred feet from the southern bank' of the river when the lirsl waves of field-green began to cross. "You can't say enough for those artillery guys," lie said, as be tried to twist into as comfortable a position posi-tion as a wounded thig.'i permits. "Ten minutes after the orders bad been telephoned to (he butteries (hoy had a perfect range on that river. While we were pouring bullets into the Heinies the guns got Heir numbers num-bers with both small and largo shells. At the spot wbeie we were stationed I reckon there must have been about 3.000 of the Frifzies "nt nenwi ttio river Tliov didn't all 0000 OLD "PEP" IIEVER LEAVES YOUR UNCLE SAMUEL'S FIGHTER In the Battle Line or Lying Wounded in a Hospital His Chief Characteristic Charac-teristic Is His Indomitable Spirit If There Is Yet an American Who Does Not Hate the Hun He Should Hear the Tales of the Heroes of Chateau-Thierry. go back. In fact, I don't think there wore hardly any of that bunch that'll go back to Germany. We captured over l.oOO ourselves and killed easily oOO. The rest wore trying to boat It back to the other side when our shells hit their bridges." Some Sharpshooter. A Pittsburgher. N. G. Pameno, who was injured in the arm by a piece of shrapnel, says there's one American sharpshooter that made n record anyone any-one might bo proud of during the first of (he mixup. While (he German engineers were trying to throw their first pontoon bridges over he picked off twenty-eight of them with his rifle. I couldn't get his name, but be already wears a sharpshooter's medal, lie deserves another. Lots of soldiers believe In "hunches." Jame L. Pnul of No. 730 Spruce street, Philadelphia, does, and it's a fortunate thing for blra that he played his. With n comrade Paul was In a dugout during a barrage. Shells were landing all around. Finally one blew In the entrance, so Paul decided their dugout was becoming a little too warm. He waited for n short lull in the terrific firing and then darted for another shelter. lie had not gotten fifteen feet nway from the dugout when a big one scored n direct hit on It. Ilis companion was killed, but Paul escaped with a wound from a splinter that will keep him out of action ac-tion for several weeks. Paris. The Indomitable and unconquerable uncon-querable spirit of the soldiers from the United States Is one of the outstanding out-standing characteristics that excite the admiration of all who come in contact con-tact with them. They make the American Amer-ican proud of his nationality and arouse the envy of those who, by circumstances cir-cumstances over which they have no control, are denied the privilege to be one of them. If there Is yet an American who does not hate the Hun. he or she should have seen the first trainload of American wounded that arrived here from Chateau-Thierry. As these heroes modestly related their experiences, experi-ences, one had a mingled feeling of worship for them and Intense hatred for the blood-maddened beasts who are responsible for the awful agony which the world Is now suffering. In a compartment with a number of French wounded was a nineteen-year-old boy from Chicago. He was all alone and surrounded by men who could net speak his language. lie was In the most terrific pain, but managed to keep dowii the slightest groan. Nothing could have drawn n whisper from hint In-fore his French comrades In arms. A Led Cross doctor asked him If there was anything be wanted. "Just a drink of water, please." was the low answer. got It. The doctor asked If there was anything else ho wanted. The bev wanted to be turned on bis side. Willi a machine-gun bullet through Ids tog and a wound that had scorched its way across his hips, to say nothing noth-ing Df an injured arm, he was perfectly perfect-ly Incapable of helping himself. The doctor turned him on his side atUi then discovered the lad had had nothing to eat for .12 hours. Unfor-tunntoly Unfor-tunntoly he was only tine of many In the same fix. The Red Cross did Its best and soon bad what emergency food It had In the hands of those who were still able to use them. The more seriously Injured, of course, were the first to be removed by the long line of waiting ambulances. Indomitable Spirit. Pefore the train pulled in the ambulances ambu-lances were drawn up and waiting. So wtik. a small crowd. As the first am-bulince am-bulince quit the station the crowd sta'tod to cheer. There was a doughboy dough-boy on the front seat with Ihe driver, oi.i arm in a sling. Hie other stulllng a eindwloh Into his mouth. lie waved the sandwich In acknowledgment, wh'le a contented look came over his draivn and tired face. The crowd Increased lis the ambulances ambu-lances formed almost a continuous 'rain. Words of sympathy were bean) on all sides not nnnilngleil with tears as the flrwer of Young America that lino marched forth so valiantly a few short months before was painstakingly painstaking-ly transferred to base hospitals. At, the end of the procession came n cortege that the crowd grasped the me.inlng of In a moment. They were ambulances, but their destination was the cemetery and not Hie hospital. The women wept openly and crossed thoMisclvos, while (he hat of every man In (lie crowd came oft In a respect re-spect fill salille lo (ho dead. The slghl was one to wring Ihe hei'.'l, but the Indomitable spirit of America bobbed up whenever a man able to talk above a gasp was found. Many of the wounds were from shrapnel. shrap-nel. Where they were not really serious tin' possessor told Ihe tale of what, Ihey bad been through. H was live o'clock In Ihe morning of July 15 before (be platoon lo which Louis Cooke of Itiiyvllle, La., belonged saw 11m Germans approaching. "Our olllcer Just yelled, 'Lot's gel 'em, hoys!' and we stalled after Mil-ill," said Cook. "The Mobiles were coming up on the south bank of the Manic and there were only eight of us to about sixteen of them, but we sure cleaned out that first hatch. My pleasure ended right there, though, for a piece of shrapnel banged mo In the left arm and It was back to the woods for me. Put, believe me, my company did its share In driving the Iiuns Into the river." Didn't Know When to Quit. If anyone wants to know why the Americans were at first driven back from the river bank, they nre hereby referred to Loan I e Shelton of P.ur-dlne, P.ur-dlne, Ky. Sholton's unit alone took over 500 prisoners when the Americans Ameri-cans returned to the counter-attack, and but for the fact that a number of them were knocked out. as Shelton was. they would have still been going. "They knocked us back nt first by the most terrific barrage I ever saw-turned saw-turned loose, but we didn't stay back long." declared lev "We got the order to counter-al.Ac.x. and the way we waded back Into Mr. Hoeho was something some-thing to write home nbmtt. I've never seen such a bunch ns we had. They advanced yelling like bell, hayonetted and shot down every Heinle that didn't know enough to get out of the way. Those guys could never bent America In a thousand years, and tell 'em I said so." Kentucky had another man In that same scrap that didn't know when to (iilt, even after a piece of shrapnel had cut a nasty gash In his right log. He's Arthur P.aker of Moorway. "Kalntuekee." and lie had Just gone into line with bis company when the ball opened. The barrage got him, but didn't put him out. A little later, when t'-o Germans came over to see about It, linker was still on the Job, workbiL' his gun for all he was worth. When the Americans had to go back P.aker was so exhausted he couldn't retire. Mis comrades picked him up and carried him. They Didn't Last Long. "Heinle" tried out one of his favorite favor-ite stunts of dressing up some of his soldiers In French and American uniforms, uni-forms, according to Anton Zolnowslcl of L'SIS South Turner avenue, Chicago. "We saw ten men on the edge of n little wood a little distance away, eight of ll'i em w re in French uniform uni-form and two In American. We yelled to them to come over and Join us. They advanced a few paces and then op'-ned lire on us," Zoliiowskl smiled rather unpleasantly unpleas-antly as be patted a rlgbl arm that hears a nuichlne-'.Min bullet. "They didn't last long, Wo made one dash for them. Not oiv of 'cm got, away. They wore Germans all right. There was another group coming com-ing up. I got a private and then the ofllcer In charge sailed Into me. I tried to shoot him with my ride, but It was broken. I got him all right, though." The Ohloagoan seemed inclined to end the conversation there. "Ilow'd you get blin?" I asked, after a little pause. ".lust turned the bull end of my gun around and clubbed blin over the head with II." replied Zolnowskl In the most ma 1 1 er-nf fuel lone. When the Americans came back al them II didn't take long to clean every German out of their territory, declared de-clared Ulnier Start-, of Wcllsburg, Pa. llefore be got a Mauser hull In his right shoulder Slurtz had Ihe extreme ex-treme good fortune to see two pontoon pon-toon bridges the enemy had thrown across the river destroyed by Ihe ac-ciirale ac-ciirale lire of Ihe American artillery. Content to Be Going. They 'were tilled with Germans, too. Sonic of them wore coining, but there were others who seemed very content lo bo going. Two shells from American Ameri-can six Inciters lit sitiarely over the |