Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-05
OOH! La! A TERROR
Black From Senegal Had Killed
-. Eighteen Germans.
Then, Laid Out With Nine Dreadful
Wounds, He Puffed His Cigarette, !
Happy and Content.

Chicago.-1'm not allowed to give
any information to the German sol
diers, writes William G. Shepherd from
Paris to the Chicago Evening Post,
but If you have any friends in the
German army, you'd better, tip them
off that II they see among the enemy
a medium-sized black man with a
big smile who answers to the nam
Ooh! La! they'd better shoot first OF
beat it.
My friend Ooh! La! in spite Of hi.
smile and his ivory teeth is n 0:
the most terrible men I've eve:
known. Senegal Is his home, ant
Ooh! La! is as black IS the ace Q:
clubs.
Ooh! La! came UP from Senegal
three weeks ago with thousands Of his
black brothers to help the allies
against the Germans. No one paid
Ooh! La! any particular attention fol
q long time. He fought at dozens Of
places, but his black brothers all
fought about the same, so Ooh! La!
didn't stand out anything extra. II
takes a special superlative murderous
ness to make a fighter conspicuous in
a crowd like Ooh! Las!
At last there came the battle with
the Germans on the Ourcq, neal
Meaux, where, with ten to one against
them, the men from Africa fought with
bullets, knives, bayonets and fists
singing like devils, treating German
bullets and shells as II they were only
mosquitoes.
The result was that the Germans
went away from there and that about
ten o'clock that evening the Amert
can ambulance corps in Paris got word
that there was need for them al
Meaux. The American doctors reached
the deserted town about midnight and
were led by an aged peasant stragglel
to the church.
It was an inferno Of pain. Three
hundred and fifty black men were
stretched about on the stone floors
The church was like q giant a
of bait with human beings for the
writhing worms. One doctor noticed
a thing whose torn clothes were black
and stiff with dried blood. He threw
his light on it. The thing turned the
whites Of its great eyes. showed huge
white teeth in . huger smile and
said:
will monsieur kindly give me q
cigarette?" {
It was Ooh! La! The doctors tool
him first. He had nine wounds, all
bad and painful. !
Get a s~tretcher" ordered a doctor,
Don't trouble" said Ooh! La! Car
ry me out in your arms. Time ia
precious for the other men" /,
Two ambulance men picked him up
Outside the door, Ooh! La! said: "Now
you fellows put me down and give me
q cigarette" =.
They were not going to obey until
Ooh! La! swore in Mohammedan,
showing that he meant what he said.
They they followed orders. They put
a cigarette between Ooh! Las! lips
and lighted 1t. He drew a massive
"pulr' to the very bottom Of his lungs,
closed his eyes In blissfulness and
then blew out 4 torrent Of smoke.
AL right" he said. "Now I'm
ready" Il
Three hours later Ooh! La! "a in
bed at the. American hospital, in Paris,
sound asleep. He was q favorite of
the nurses at once, until the truth
came out about him. This was that
during the battle he had killed IS Ger
mans by bullet or bayonet. Every
one of Ooh! Las! friends had kept
scores, and they all agreed that OOH!
La! with his Is Germans led them all.