Show U 00 0 0 L 9 it PE 4 r ll 11 FN E W E R LEAVES H U 0 U nu L E 2 U E L S fichter U in the battle line or lying wounded in a hospital his chief characteristic te Is his indomitable spirit if there Is yet an american who does not hate hale the hun he should hear the tales of the heroes of chateau thierry paris the indomitable and unconquerable qu erable splint of the sold soldiers lers from the united states is one of the outstanding characteristics that excite the lie admiration of nil all who come in ili contact oil with them they make inake the american proud of ills his nationality and arouse the envy of those who by circumstances cum cuni stances over which they have no control are denied the pilvi lege to be one of them if there is yet an Amell american rean who does not hate the hun lie or she should have seen the first trainload of american wounded that arrived liere here from chateau thierry As these heroes modestly i elated their experiences one had a mingled feeling of worship for them and intense hatred for the blood maddened beasts acho 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 lie he wits was nil all alone and surrounded by men who could not speak ills his Inn language guage he was ans in ili the most tei rifle pain hut but managed to keep down the slightest groan nothing could have drawn a whisper from niini before his french coni co tades in arms A red rea cross doctor asked him if there ans any anything thine lie wanted just a drink of water please was the low answer af got sl it the doctor ai a ackad I ba if there was anything else he wanted the boy bay wanted to be turned on ills his side a machine gun bullet through ills his leg ipg and a wound that had scorched its way across lit his hips hip to say nothing f an injured arm lie was perfectly incapable of helping himself the me doctor turned hm him on his side and then discovered the lad had had bad nothing to cat for 32 hours unfortunately tuna tely he was only one of many in ili tho same fix the red cross cros lid did its best and soon had what emergency food it had in ili the hands of those who alio wore were still able to use them the more seriously injured of co course were file first to be a removed remodel by the long iong line line of baiting ambulances indomitably spirit before the train pulled in the ambulances were drawn up ind and waiting so lu 1 a I small crowd As the farsi first ambut ince quit the station the crowd stated sta bcd to cheer there was 1 a I dough hu bu on the front sent seal with till the driver hogt arm ann in ili a sling the other stu shining fling I 1 a into ills his mouth ile he wavell waved tin til li in acknowledgment while 1 I i contented look came over ills druien and ili tired face the crowd inert increased ased is as the alie lanes lan es formed almost a continuous train words of sympathy were on all sides not unmingled with tears fears as the lower flower of young america that hav hac marched arched in forth so valiantly a few short months before was painstakingly transferred to base hospitals hospital at the end of the procession cattle came a c that the croud grasped the mett meaning ning of in a moment they were ambulances but their destination was the cemetery and not the hospital hospit ni the women wept openly and crossed themselves while the hat of every man mail in the crowd came off in a respectful ful salute to the dead the sight bight was one to wring the heart but the indomitable spirit of 0 america bobbed up whenever a man ible able to talk above a gasp ni was as found tany many of the wounds were from shrapnel where they were not really serious the possessor poss essora 4 told the tale of 0 what nhat they lind had been through it was five in ili the morning of crt july 15 before tho the platoon to which louls louis chioke ccoke of Ru la belonged belon gec saw tha th germans approaching our officer just yelled lets get gei ean in boyst and we started after them said cook the He lilles were wen coining up on the south bank of the 1 marne and there were only eight of us to about sixteen of thom them but we sure cleaned out that eliat first batch batch my plen pleasure ure ended right though for a piece of shrapnel banged me I 1 in n the left nun aim and it was back to the th woods for ino rut but believe me 1110 my company did its share in driving the into the river know when to quit it if anyone wants to know 1111 aw why the Allier americans leans were at first driven hack back front from the river hank bank they me ale hereby referred to lonnie shelton of durline burline xv ky sheltons Shel tons unit alone took over prisoners ners when the americans cans returned to the counterattack counter attack and hut but for the fact that a 1 number of them thein were knocked out as shelton w was 1 I they would have still been going they knocked us back nt at alist by the most terrific barrage I 1 ever saw turned loose but we stay hack back long declared declare lie he we got the order to counterattack counter attack and the way ve nie waded amaded back into mr boche was something to write home abndt ive never seen such a hunch bunch as we had they advanced yoking like hell and shot down every heinle flint know enough to got get out of the way those guys could never beat america lit in a I 1 thou thousand sana years and tell lent cm I 1 said qaid so kentucky had another ninn man in that same scrip that know when to quit even after a piece of shrapnel hrap nel lind cut a nasty misty gash in ili liis right lc leg I 1 lies les le s arthur raker baker of doorway Kaintuck cc and lie he lind had just go gone I e into line with ills his company when t alio 1 t a ball opened the ba barrage i arage got him but put him out A little later when the lie Cern germans ians came over to see about it baker wa was till still on the jot job working his gun for nil all lie was worth when lie file americans had to go back ile 4 11 baker a 1 er was x 11 so exhausted lie couill retire ills comrades picked him up and carried him they last long alvini tried out nut on one of liis fiorite r stunts of dion can up some of lit ills old lers lit in french and american uniforms fo forms riv ne according cording to anton Zollio wM of SS is south turner avenue chicago we saw ten tell brn on the edge of a I 1 little wood u I 1 little distance di aay el eight ait of them thein vre re in french uni foun and in to in american we yelled to thein to come over and join u us they advanced a few paces pace and then opi opened tl lire fire on us smiled rather antly ns lie he patted a right arm iliac bears bear a spill nn bullet they last long we made one ibish for them not one of em cm got anway they were Cert germans nan all richt there was another group coming coining got 1 a I private and then the officer in charge stilled sailed into me I 1 tried to shoot him with iab my rifle hut but it anns ns broken I 1 got him till all right though the chicagoan Chic ngoan seemed inclined to prid the conversation there clowd you get him I 1 asked after it 11 little pause just turned the butt end of my gun around and clubbed him over the head with it replied in the most matter of fact tone toile when the Ameri americans enns came back at them it take long to clean cl e an very every a german out of their territory declared elmer eliner of wellsburg Wells burg pa before lie got a mauser hall ball in ills his right shoulder had the extreme good fortune to see two pontoon bridges bridge the enemy had thrown across the river destroyed by the accurate fire of the american artillery content to be going they were filled with germans too some of them wore were coming but there war were others who seemed very content to be going two shells from amer american six lit squarely over the bridges there was a terrific report followed by nn fin inferno both bridges crumbled in the middle both were crowded beyond their limits bits of germans came raining down for nl most bosl three minutes according to the spectator while from the rivers the wild cries of the injured and drowning made n picture will always curry carry with him for a few minutes the river was literally choked with bodies the germans were at last ina ing on parts paris but in a way they had hardly reckoned ned Ilet between puffs of a cN clarette arette the first lied hed lind had in ili a day any frank bilogan of galveston tex conf confirmed irined story of the wholesale drowning a 0 the enemy the texan na was a stol gun gain a hundred feet from the southern theril bank of if the iier when tell the lart clr 1 waves anve of field green began to cro cross q you cant say pay enough for alio aboc e artillery guys lie ii as lie he tried to twist into ns comfortable a I 1 position 1 as I a woul wounded lapa thigh flush permits permit ten tell minutes after the orders order had been cen telephoned to the hatterle batteries q they ind a I 1 perfect range on oil that river while we were pouring bullets bullet into the file Il chiles the guns gain got their numbers with both small and large shells at the spot abere we were stationed I 1 reckon there anu must 4 have been about of the FrItzI cF got ot nero across the river they all ga go bark rk in ili fact I 1 dont think there wore were hardly any of that bunch go back to germany we captured over 1500 ourselves tind and killed easly easily the alie rest were trying to boat beat it back to the other side when our shells lait lit their bridges some sharpshooter A N G Ra who wa was injured in the lie arm by a piece of shrapnel says theres one american sharpshooter that flint made a record anyone might be proud of during the first of the while the german engineers were trying to throw their first pontoon bridges over lie he picked olt twenty eight of them with ills his rifle I 1 get ills name but lie he already wears a sharpshooters harp shooters medal ile he deserves another lo 10 lots ts of soldiers believe in hun hunches clies james L paul of no 7 0 o spruce philadelphia does docs and its a fortunate thing for him that lie he played ills with it a comrade paul was in a dugout luring during a barrage shells were landing all around finally finale one blew in the entrance so paul decided their dugout was becoming a little too warm lie ile waited for a short mil hill in the terrific firing and then darted for another shelter ile he had not gotten fifteen feet away from tw the flugaur dubont when a big one scored a direct lilt hit on it his companion was killett kille ct but paul escaped with a 1 wound from a that will keep him out of action for several weeks |