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Show Tnere Is hIho very noble song: the Marine Corp hymn. It Is taught, along with close order drill and things like that, to recruits at Tarri Inland and on the West coast It begins: be-gins: "From the hail of aloutexuuia To the li ores of Tripoli, We have fought our country"! battle On the land and on the sea. . . ." and It closes, gloriously: "If the army and the navy Ever look on heaven's scenes, They will find the street are guarded By I'nlted States marines. . . This platoon, however, led by brazen-throated gunnery sergeant. If roaring out: "Bung Away, I.ulu. . . UheU&r at Close Ranee w Described In a Rernarkabltiw-a Series Dy an Of freer of ihe SjSL Marines . tSv-"" Capi. JoKnW (ichMrlacUonWuj BalUefielcj " J"" th'ell? -Coin' out an' then he wants to restl" "Yeh, 'fall out on the right of the road,' he aays, the fool" The lieutenant knew bis men, as you know men you live In hell wltb. He got up, chuckling. "Well, If that's the way you feel about It come on, you birds 1" and he set them a killing step, at which no man complained. The dawn was coming when they rendezvoused wltb the battalion Id Bols Gros-Jean beans for breakfast, and hot coffee, tins of jam I That STORY FROM THE 8TART The author describes how the First battalion of the Fifth marines ma-rines are quartered near Marlgny during; the first part of June, 1911, when they are suddenly sent op north to relieve the First division, bearing- the brunt ot the German offensive. Part of the Fifth wrest Hill 141 from the enemy and wait there for the German counter offensive they can see forming:. A terrific Ger-, Ger-, - --atan attack soon develops, wreak-j wreak-j lng- fearful havoc among the mi-' mi-' rlnes, but not dislodging them. In the Immediate vicinity other fierce encounters are reducing the American troops and forcing the necessity of replacements. On the sixth of June the Fifth runs Into bitter fighting In the vicinity of Champtllon and drives out the Boche, but at great cost. Then came the Bola de Belleau and again the marines acquitted themselves marveloualy. CHAPTER IV Ominous Events Leading Up to the Charge at Soissont. The First battalion lay In Croutte-sur-Marne. It drank deep of the golden gold-en July weather, and swam noisily In the Marne, which swung a blue and shining loop below the town. The battalion took but little Interest in the war, which could be heard growling growl-ing and muttering Intermittently to the north and east. Indeed, the unpleasant un-pleasant . Bols-de-Belleau-Boureschcs area was only a few hours' march distant, and Chateau-Thierry was Just up the river. The fjuns were loud and continuous In that direction. But the Second American division marines and troops of the regular army bad Just finished a hitch of thirty-eight days attacking and holding hold-ing and attacking again, from Hill 142, on the left, through that ghastly wood which the French now called the "Bols de la Brigade de Marine," to Vaux, on the right; and In thin battalion, as In the other units of the division, such men aa had service were quite willing to think of something some-thing else. July 14 came. "Sort o' Frog Fourth o' July," explained a learned corporal, standing In line for morning chow. But Croutte took on this day no especial es-pecial Joy In the far-off fall of the Bastille. In the afternoon a Boche came out of a cloud and (hot down In flames the fat observation balloon that lived , Just up the river from Croutte. Certainly Cer-tainly there grew to be a feeling In the air. ... About one o'clock the morning of the 15th the Boche dropped nine-Inch shells Into the town. The battalion was turned out, and stood tinder arms In the dark while the battalion gas officer sniffed around busily to see if the shells were the gas variety. They were not, but the battalloa after the shelling stopped and the casualties were attended to, observed that In the east a light not of the dawn was potting out the stars. The ouatprn fiVv wna all aflame with mm. CHAPTER III Continued v The lieutenant went happily back to his men. The word had already gotten around, by the grapevine route, and grinning heads stuck out of every hole. "Well, sergeant, pass the word to get set goln' out tonight" to-night" "Yes, sir! Ready right now ! Is the division belu' relieved?" "No. Sixth regiment comln In" "Well, sir, I hope to God they ain't late. Did you hear, sir, anything about us goln' back to St Dents, and gettln' liberty In Tarls, an' a month's rest" That unaccountable delusion persisted persist-ed In the Marine brigade through all of June and Into July. It never happened. hap-pened. "No, I didn't bear any such thing. But It's enough to get out of here. This place Is like the wrath of God!" ' It was nearly midnight when the ma i ''eing troops came In. The Ileu-nt's Ileu-nt's opposite number reported, Ii be hadn't seen since Quantlco, I In another lifetime. "Well, here Cerel Out you go" "I say. Is you. Bob? Heard you were killed" "Oh, not at all heard the same thing about you not strange; lot of serious accidents have happened around here " "Well, good luck " "Sure bon chance, eh? so long " The platoon left the wood and angled down to the Torcy road. A string of shells howled overhead, 88s by the sound of them, and broke on the road. The lieutenant halted and watched: "Dam' unusual, shellln' here this time of nlgbt must know It's a relief" It was the conviction of all that the Boche knew everything, down to the movements of the lowest corporal. cor-poral. "I think we'll cut a corner, and take a chance of gettln' through the line over yonder " He led away from the road, through the trampled wheat to bis right, away from the shelling. This was really No Man's land, for the line curved from the wood, and thrust out again along the line of another crest, also wooded. Such Intervals were watched by day and patrolled by night, and ration ra-tion parties, carrying details, and other wretches who bad to traverse them always sweated mightily and -mCttelpated exciting Incidents. It was full of smells and mysterious horrors In the starlight, that wheat. Once the platoon came upon a pig, feeding unspeakably. . . . The woods ahead grew plain ; the men walked gingerly, straining their eyes at the flushes, and a growing thunder shook the still air. The files remarked that they were glad not to be where all that stuff was llghtln', and after breakfast projected pro-jected the usual swimming parties. Aquatic sports were then vetoed by regretful platoon commanders, since It appeared that Battalion II. Q. had directed the companies to hold themselves them-selves In readiness for Instant movement move-ment to an unspecified place. Thereupon There-upon the guns eastward took on a more than professional Interest. The civilians looked and listened also. Their faces were anxious. They had heard that noise before. The hot July hours passed; the battalion continued to be held In readiness, and got practically prac-tically no sleep In consequence. There was further shelling, and the guns were undoubtedly louder and nearer. Breakfast on the 10th was scant, and the cooks held out little encouragement encour-agement for lunch. Lunch was aa hour early, and consisted of beans. The shadows were lengthening when the bugles blew "assembly" and the companies fell In, taking the broad white road that led down the river. At the next town towns were thick along the Marne from Chateau-Thierry Chateau-Thierry to Meaux they passed through the other battalions of the Fifth marines, Jeerlngly at ease beside be-side the road. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Prussians From Von Boehn's Division In the Bols da Belleau. afternoon they had off their clothes for the first time In three weeks or so, and swan In the Marne at a place called Croutte. And at formation they heard this order published: VI Armee Etat-Major C9302 Au G2a le 80 Juln, 1918. In view of the brilliant conduct of the Fourth - brigade of the Second United States division, which In a spirited fight took Bouresches and the important strong point of Bols de Belleau, Bel-leau, stubbornly defended by a large enemy force, the general commanding the Vlth army orders .that, henceforth, hence-forth, In all ofllclal papers, the Bols de Belleau shall be named "Bols do la Brigade de Marine." , The General of Division Degoutte Commanding Vlth Army. (Signed) DEGOUTTE. "Teh," said the battalion. "Now, about this liberty In Paris " But they didn't go to Paris. They took a road that led through Soissons, and St. Mihtel, and Blanc Mont, and the Argonne-Meuse, to Nieuwled, on the far side of the Rhine. e e e e e e We can now consider some marines singing one of the marine songs: "Bang Away, I.ulu". shadows. . . . "Eighth machine-gun machine-gun In there take It easy, you risky business, this wish to God I'd"; The platoon stopped, frozen, as they heard the charging handle of a Hotchklss snick back. A small, sharp voice barked : "Halt who' there?" "Platoon of the Forty-ninth Forty-ninth can we get through here?'' "My God, I dam' near gave you a clip I What the hell, comln' np here don't you know you ain't supposed to come bustln', around a machine-gun position posi-tion you" "All right all right I shellln' the road down there" and the platoon scuttled past the Hotchklss Hotch-klss gun, while Its crew reviled them. Machine-gunners are a touchy lot, prone to shoot first and Inquire afterward; the platoon gave thanks for a man who didn't scare. They turned left now and finally ' reached La Vole du Chatelle, where Regimental was, and there the old Boche always shelled. It was a little farm, pretty well knocked to pieces now, but Regimental was reported to ' prefer It to a change; they bad the Boche's system down so that they could count on lilm. His shelling always al-ways tell Into method when he had long enough, and the superior man could, by watching hlra a few days, avoid unpleasantness. I.a Vole du -X3mtelle, as the world knew, received Ills attention from 11:45 to 12:10 every night. Then he laid off until 3, when his day-shift came on. You could set your watcb by It. The platoon pla-toon went cheerfully past. A full kilometer farther they hiked, at a furious pace. Then the lieutenant lieuten-ant considered that they might catch a rest ; they had come a long way and were In a safe spot Ten minutes' rest out of every hour was the rule when possible. He passed the word : 'Tall out to the right of the road." and sat down himself, a little way off, feeling for his chewing tobacco. Tou didn't smoke on the front at night lights were not safe. And chewln' was next best Then he observed that i the platoon was not fulling out. They stood In groups on the road, and an angry mutter reached him. "What 'i |