The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-05-03
Corey Tells Experience
in Midst of Great Battle

sparkle NJ the little fire ON the men
were heating their midday meal Tue
horses wore their oat filled noschag-.
In another direction / made out
through the glassr, q group ~ men.
They were digging ID hole 100 the
ground and digging with no more
speed than diggers usually de-. A
blcyclist WIS pedulling dow the road
which led into the Forest Of the Ar
gonne. A lone soldier was walking Oh
an otherwise deserted path.
There ARE the shell holes made this
morning. snid uu orderly.
II hud been very good practice that
morning The holes made by shrup.
mel were polku.dottrd about In u very
regular pattern perhaps fifteen yards
from rRch other They were some
thing larger than the top ~ Il wash
tub and Il foot or more deep In the
wet carthlt was difficult a. see how
amy u could have lived upon that
hilltop BY some miracle the French
Ind even dropped their shells just
over the crest Of the lill, So that the
rear m that elevation was also pittrl
But mo- unc had been hurt The or
dcrIies said something Ia each other
and poluted md hen u~poLtr,st,.I,
vanished
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,''' ''"' we watched win interest
An"Ih'' ShIhphrl cloud appeared.
lH'u another
watching the Battle.
lhry are cunning for the diggcrs 90
N'lI onr officer
II was q relief that the unknown
gunner ON IN" other side NJ that di,
'lNI mn was not cunning for uN. We
observed the village " shncks on d
projected slope, In which the men live
IhI'r German acroplunes were ctr
yllnE over at Il great distance SIN
Iarlhcr $50 Tar thht we could barely
see lhtli u~hgrhceful forms were d
tIehrh d German chptiyc balloon.
lhrl seemed black against the sky
\ column OF little black objects was
moving slowly along n ruhd. II was
horu To believe thhi they were men.
"ol one, SAID the officer, anlm0t.
euly'
through our glasses We saw the dig
gers stop work IN their hole and INT
u me OOdl ot a man. Apparently
lhr eud mad been a swift one. II was
lhld AT some little distance from the
excavation anu the men went back Ia
'h'lr work. The polished tips Of their
HhoNelS flashed In the sun with auto
hlallr regularity. They did not seen
I" work a bit faster. The French
EuIul'Is Kept on feeling for then
WIN shrhphcl, but without success
Apparently the men we're building d
gun position, and the gunucrs were
'rllng 10 hinder them.
All round the hii,s In front tn,
hra'N guns Kept humping away. They
sounded ms though many tired drum
m'IN were Whh'klhg at the heads OF
nhSs drums mat hnd gone a bit slack
wv" or lhr't times we heard tn
urulh r"ll that br-r-r.r u cannon
thnI t'lls oI Il concentrated IRE Bea
III ullhh THESE were o machine gun
we hearu-no petty little rapid ftrers
iney were the lhrge rleld pieces, ON
guessed they were at work washing
oul hh entertainment somewhere. Nov
nhn 'h'h tlle angry rattle OF mhchih
guns 'oulu he henrd. II may he tina
one sue or lhe uthtr was stOrmlng
'Ieu'h. we II not see.
,luS'er OF Drown tile roofs visl
lule through the glasses was Cernal
FROM our Instance II seemed a quiel
Peh.elul' niue ola world village II
I"uls were w gholed II there wa
walls OF what might nave been a col
vent ana All In trees. W
,hongnl OF II as a very pleasant plac
vi Whl'h To i've. we pictured the oil
,ure pa'lhg along the country road
nus ups moving III prayer his Ions
n'"'A gown, us shoNel nat. W
thoush' OF the pretty girls VINO mus
i've va sucn a 'il'aee' ana OF thel
p.o'oA'ns s'ances sue"ise NJ IN
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UIol"IuS 'iiuI seeineu 10 mem the vi
mse III, nu' no one ll'es III oerha
ro' Il monlh the frelch nav
Snelleu " v,rIs u"A ui'y a guaru .
uv.ul"n j, n1.u ~ lne pace
uvi"k Nno'A.u W n,,S uoout their eur
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