| Show GESEn GENEROSITY SITY TO FOE OE COSTS I II I LIFE IFE OF U. U S. S FIGHTER German Begs for Mercy r rc ntH and Then Shoots Benefactor Through flack Back Generosity toward the enemy cost the life Ufe of James Paul of ot St. St Louis Mo 1 a member er of the famous foreign legion Paul waS was known as Fighting Fighting Fight Fighting ing Jimmy and he never failed tailed to live Uve up to his name To Tobe be bo called one ono of ot the Ule bravest In to tho the legion lon is a great honor and that was an honor held by 4 Fighting Jimmy I Twenty-four Twenty hours before one ono of th the tho general attacks by the French In their present offensive In Champagne Paul was sent out with a body of picked men to worry the Germans' Germans first line with bombs Paul was the first man over the tho parapet and got safely through along with a number of ot other Americans After trying In vain to keep off oft the attacks with machine guns the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans scuttled Into their dugouts Paul who was as In advance threw a a. a dozen grenades Into a dugout and I called upon the to come out Only one German appeared He threw throw up his Ills arms shouting Comrade Comrade Comrade Com rade assuring Paul that tho the rest of the men inside were dead Without taking the trouble to search the man j for tor hidden bidden weapons Paul turned to to another r dugout The instant his back was was turned the German drewan drew drewan an automatic pistol and fired Paul fell tell ha backwards Just as his fellow teUo legion members followed The Tho German fell tell with bayonet wounds In his his body Two of or Pauls Paul's best friends Arthur Berry of or Boston and Christopher Charles of Brooklyn knelt beside him Paul lay upon his back and there was a smile upon his face You Yon aro not badly hurt are you Jimmy asked his friends There was no reply and the they turned turned turn turn- ed cd the body body- over The bullet had penetrated the heart and death must I have been instantaneous After that any German showing fi fight ht was ruthlessly bayoneted Those who surrendered were spared spared spar spar- ed although their trip from the front to tho the rear was far tar from pleasant After the position had been been- thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- cleared o out t the legion members mem memo members bers retired bearing with them Pauls Paul's body Every Everi man who could attended the simple funeral Even wounded men hobbled o out t to to the tho Improvised Improvised Im tin- cemetery Paul had been decorated decorated tor for bravery at the battle batUe of on tho the Somme In July 1916 At that time single handed he held beta helda a sector o of a trench after his seven 4 companions had been killed ono once referred referred- to St. St Louis as sa a German city Thais not true exclaimed Paul It Is nl no more a German city than Paris True there ther are Germans ns there ther but you find Germans everywhere You will find that St. St Louis will send over some over mighty good soldiers |
