The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-02-20
Yankees Who Battle for Allies
Have Made Selves Respected on
Stricken Fields Of
Europe
FRATERNIZE WITH FOES
BETWEEN SKIRMISHES
Men Hail From Every Part Of
United States and From
Every Walk of Life
By Ed. u. KEEN.

(Etaf Correspondent United Press.)
LONDON, Feb 20.--Always ready
for feast or frolic and the great
est fighting unit In the French army.
is the description applied to the
French-American foreign legion, by
one Of its members. Phil RAIDER. Chi.
cag0 journalist, artist and soldier.
Back on q furlough from the trenches
where sometimes. waist deep In wa
ter. the troops hide from the terrific
rain Of artillery fire, the, Chicagoan
today painted an intimate word pic
ture Of the type Of men who have
adopted the tri-color as their fiag IN
the present titanic war.
There are Americans In the ser
vice from every part of the United
States, and from every walk Of life"
said RAIDER today. II think the most
interesting OF the whole lot met was
Eugene Jacob, whose wife IL running
his butcher shop In Pawtucket. r. L.,
while he fights for France. Both he
and his wife were born In Belgium
When the Germans raided that coun-
try his wife wouldn't let him go to
the war. even when she learned that
the little village that was her birth
SplAce had been burned. But the next
day, when word came that his own
tanner home had also been destroyed.
I6ooh told .hiS vile that he could
stand y no l0ngss.7s He took boat.
cams over and enlisted.
Jacob II the most fervent German
hater that know Of Even during
the Christmas truce ne refused to lay
his feelings aside. and just before We
left our trenches to meet the Ger
mans and exchange cigars and greet
ings, he fixed his bayonet and de.
clared that II we brought q single
German into the trench he would
kill him. And all day Christmas he
sulked. Then. later, one day Ger
man, who was drunk, wandered into
our trenches and insulted us. We all
respected his bravery and admired
him. But not Jacob. He and the
German had q hell OF fist fight In
the trench, but afterward they shook
hands and became friends. Jacob told
the chap II he had whined he would
have killed him, but that he had
found he was Q man even though q
German.
bartlett Donnell, Of Brooklyn, was
killed by Q shell while was near
him. He told me he came to the war
because his girl had told him to 60
out into the world and accomplish
something. don't know who the
girl was. but she I ut the coolest.
quistest and bravest man in the ie-
gion.
Another American il from st.
Louis, John Street. IN evangelist. He
grow very hopeful that reconcilia-
tiun was coming during the Christ
mas truce when we smoked. walked
arm IN arm, and played with the Ger
mans. The following day. Street got
out Of his trench In the early morn
ing and waved his hand to q German
friend In q trench 80 feet distant. a
bullet went through his head and he
dr0pped dead.
~0sorts Ullard, Galveston Negro.
was our cook, and . nne one. He
was the best singer for hundreds az
feet on both lines OF trenches, and
the Germans loved his songs. Ha
taught the INTO sing Sailing Down
Chesapeake Bay" but one day shell
blew Ullard's trench to pieces, and
ho WEI killed. NEXT day the Ger
mans yelled to % to have George
sing. When we told them that he
was dead. they yelled back that they
were sorry. as all OF the rinemen In
the trenches had agreed not to shoot
the cheerful black man who sang SO
WELL
RAIDER was mentioned In dispatches
for destroying straw stack In which
four German machine guns had been
hidden. RAIDER and two companions
! (CeasfnueA On Pare TNol