Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-19
PROUD Of HIN j
Senior Enters German Army 'and
Wins Iron Cross.
Refuses TO Discuss His Exploits, But
Tells Interesting Story Of How
He Forced Way Into tho
Ranks.

PROUD OF. MARI AIeWclyn, tne SeulOE
who has just returned to college after
being wounded and winning the Iron
Cross.
When Llewelyn arrived in New York
several weeks ago he refused to dis.
cuss his exploits at all, and he still 10
silent about the deed Of heroism which
ended in his lying woundea Oh the bat
tlefleld for many hours. n being
picked up little. better than dead. He
has, however, just been induced to
describe the method by which he
forced himself into the German army.
He said: T.
"It was August 9 when we drew up
on the German frontier. Instead OF
the customs officers whom m usually
finds. there we're ladies serving hot
coffee and sandwiches to the passen'
gers aboard the incoming trains. Most
Of these passengers we're refugees
from England who we're being well
coined back to the fatherland.
Il got off at every stop the train
made and tried to enlist, but they tcld
me they were full and ! would have
to &C on. finally found a place where
they would accept me and we were
sent to the drill ground. The peace
%sergeants,' who had retired from ten to
twenty years before, were in charge
of the drill.
THE class OF soldiers we met at the
start OF the war were better educated
than the ordinary regulars. Nine
weeks later we were at the front.
failed to get the full nine weeks train
Ing, however, for at the end OF slY
weeks my conmandant came to me
and informed me that because Of q
communication from the state depart'
ment of the United States ! was
bounced. l sent in a protest to tho
kaiser, but II never got there.
But ! waited. l went down to tho
station with about five hundred girla
to see my company off when it en-,
trained. I tried to get through the
gates. but I couldn't, so l went down
the track and hoped the train as II
came by. My comrades were glad ia
see me and would do anything for me.
You can have my boots said one,
Take this coat, said another. | took
them, and with that disguise I man,
aged to elude the officers.
When we got well into France,
however, l 'fessed up to the captain.
and he called me down in about the
prettiest fashion you sevcr saw. He
spent ten minutes 1T it, reminding mo
Of the responsibility l had placed upon
him. l felt smaller and smaller. |
really had not been %considerate. but q
cad. If l got hit with a bullet I woul
sue him and force him to pay me ali.
mony. 49,. /
"He really was tickled with tho
proposition Of my being there, though
He let me march in the column with
the men when we went forward. Soon
a man became footsick. I took hi,
pack. In the villages we went through
everyone thought was a prisoner.
You know the first thing a soldie.
makes a prisoner do is to carry biz
baggage, and l was doing that in q
civilians suit. The difficulty with this
prisoner was that he sang their own
songs with them. 49,
FINALLY they let me enlist. l wore
g. pair OF French work.trousers. A
sergeant was killed and I got his coat,
and it fitted me admirably. Equipment
soon became easy to obtain. but II
was not so before any were killed.
"I want to say something about
atrocities, Of which you have heard
SO much. l won't say there were none.
for there were atrocities on both sides.
You've all heard Of the cathedral g:
Reims and the way the barbariana
shot it to pieces. I was there at the
time. We were not shooting at the
cathedral and the French got into this,
They put a battery in Cathedral
square, where they thought it woul |
not be hit. A German flier spotted II
soon and the Germans bombarded thu
square and incidentally hit th]
cathedral. -, !
I'VE lay at Reims for five weeks.
Every afternoon between five and si3
the French let loose-sort OF an after
noon tea The French shells gave
warning. however, and you cor got
over lodging except when they were
coming near you. Since | was wound
ed the American shells have begun to
arrive. The old French shells didn't
worry the Germans a bit, but tho
American SHELLS gave them the sur.
prise Of their lives. The American
shells break and scatter along the
ground, going much farther. In addi.
ton, of the French shells about one In
three explodes. while with the Ame.i.
can shells there is an explosion With
about nine out of ten"
SKELETONS OF GIANTS FOUND
Petrifed Bones Of Man and Woman