Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-06-21 | Page 12 | Foreign Legion Great Fighters

FOREIGN LEGION GREAT FIGHTERS London. June 20 Correspondence of The Associated Press The French j Foreign Legion. In which a number of Americans are serving, has been do-1 ing brilliant work in the fighting north of Arrass The casualties in the Legion have been very heavy, and a letter received here from a wounded member states that In his company of 250 men only Go are left The letter says "Tho Legion had the honor of be-inc be-inc chosen to be the first out of the trenches and to take the German lines with the bayonet. This was at a point between Souchez and Car-ency. Car-ency. Previous to the attack, there was a terrible bombardment of the German posltiou. "French guns of all calibres were firing together for two hours without interruption It was like an earthquake earth-quake Suddenly, punctually at ten o'clock in the morning, tho firing ceased, and the Tharpre' was sounded "We were out of the trenches like ligtning It was wonderful We were like :i storm In ten minutes we had won tho first line of German trenches trench-es Hut there was no stopping us. We kepi It up hammer and tongs for an hour and a half, taking three lines of the enemy's trenches and driving the enemy in front of us. "By this time all the officers of our company were either killed or wounded, so a sergeant took command com-mand and we entrenched oursee9 Be best we could, but finally had to retire about a hundred yards. "Here I got two wounds. Four in even- five of our men were either killed or wounded in the fierce charge."