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Show PERSHING TELLS OF VALOROUS DEEDS CITB8 INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF YANKEE HEROISM ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Report of Leader of American Forces in France Shows How the Flag Is Being Advanced in the Thrilling Struggles. Washington. At the moment when the nation has resolutely set itself to the task of hacking up General Pershing's Per-shing's fighting men witli six billion more dollars, the commander of America's Amer-ica's expeditionary forces proudly lifts the curtain of military censorship for a moment to reveal to folks at home a vivid picture of actual war sacrifice sac-rifice and heroism, which ought to make the dollars over here fly like the bullets over there. The facts by which General Pershing Per-shing enables the public to visualize real battle scenes enacted upon real battlefields by real American lads- are contained in a report to his government govern-ment of awards to officers and men of the marine corps of the distinguished dis-tinguished service cross. They portray a picture of thrilling nian-to-nian fighting in actual death-grip death-grip struggles, showing how the Stars and Strines is heini' carried font hv foot, yard hy yard, and mile by mile nearer to Berlin. While the instances of individual bravery and heroism cited by the general gen-eral in this patricular communique involve in-volve only a dozen or more members of a single fighting organization the marine corps they typify the spirit with which the whole American army js imbued. In the battle for the possession of Villers-Cotlerets forest, just north of Soissons, on July 18, a Wisconsin lad, Private Albert A. Taubart, went out in advance of the line of his company, and, plunging straight into the fire of an enemy machine gun. whose crew was desperately shooting directly at him, first overaweu and then overpowered overpow-ered the astounded Germans, finishing the exploit hy capturing the gun and its crew. How another lone marine captured two machine guns and four prisoners in the same engagement is recited in the account of the award of the cross to Sergeant C'ukela. This youth from the state of Washington advanced alone -against a nest of machine guns which was harassing his men and threatened to hold up the whole com- puny. He worked his way to the rear of the Germans, picking up enemy hand grenades on the way and finished the job in a few moments. An inspiring and graphic account of how a small detachment of marines brazed their way through the enemy ranks and opened up a line for the advance ad-vance of their comrades relates to the exploits of Private Barczykowsky of ev York. Private Barrows of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Private Hurley of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Second Lieutenant Joseph B. Carhart of New York City. |
