Evening journal., 1916-01-15
SHEPHERD DESCRIBES THRILLING
SCENES AS ALLIES RETREAT
FOLLOWING FOURTH INsTALLMENT OF VIM G. sHEP-
HERDS UNcENSoRED STORY OF THE ALLIES
By WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD.
United Pres. staG Correspondent.

Excuse me- hc SAID m broken f4ng-
{ li-h. but il is -o long since I've seen
man in clothes like yours that / couldn't
/ help staring
The big British gun was booming at
/ two-minute intervals. French guns, set
ON nearby hillsides, were sending occa-
/ sional shots and once while We talked,
bulgarian she'll broke on the road
/ quarter of a mile below us. and we saw
soldiers running from the cloud oi earth
/ II was a battlefield in every sense of the
word. a battlefield in which twenty four
hours WAS 10 be the scene Of an Ally re-
treat. incidentally. ! wonder what be-
came of the little Frenohman.
"tivilian clothes seem extraordinary"
/ he said slave some chocolatcF'
Tie pulled an envelope from his pocket
with a postage stamp aud an address
ON it
"rhi. is something / got in the mail
from Parts today"
took small piece Of his precious
chocolate.
Have you heard that we're going
to move from here?" he asked. The
rumor is going around our camp. They
say we are going TO fall back TO the
Greek border. Haven't you heard any
thing about IL back IN Salonika?7
hadn't. His question was the first
sign OF the coming retreat. On this
spot the very next day. dead British
and French soldiers were to lie
among the holly shrubs and Bulgars
were to charge with bayonets. shout
ing their battle cry Of "Ne Prot, Ne
Nosh!"
Its been cold here" explained the
soldier. but I've been healthier than
I've ever been before in my life
Why, when the war began / couldn't
stand hardship. If wasn't in bed by
10 o'clock every night ! suffered all
day for H. 7 had indigestion terribly.
Now I haven't slept I'm a bed for five
. months and eat anything and enjoy
II. War beats pills, / tell you
"All this artillery firing makes me
laugh today. That big English gun
isn't hitting anything and there are
three Bulgarian batteries over there
that haven't hit anywhere near any
body They ought TO send word to
each other about how far they're
missing If they don't help each other
| out they'll waste an awful lot OF am
munition."
lie had to be going at last Would
/ walk along the road with him?
n Right around the turn here some
d of the Bulgarian shells are well aim
+ ed. " he said They're paying good
% deal of attention to this turn this
r. afternoon
"a II was like getting ready to iumI
into a cold bath 10 start of with him
ss knew that after ] got my feet 4
] ma an
s. but the hard part Of Il VAS not e
H. make an excuse and return 20 tn
.e ravine.
My right foot started. however, an,
Is then my left and fifty feet furthe
!. on. we passed the turn and faced {
, mile S reich of road cut along th'
At face of the hill Below us, was th'
70 valley of Costorino: across II fou
ID miles away. were the hills where th'
= Bulgarians were A few soldiers
"A were on the road walking singly.
Along here you may get a shell
any time" said ;he Frenchman. ."
have 70 walk along here dozen times
day to set to my dugout from The
kitchen back there I'm the davine
d, Want to see my dugout?'
| did. and a quarter mile walk aloni
! the road brought us to O. little ra
vine on the side of which was a sol
dier's home, partly a hole and partly
- tent.
- Two other soldiers in the dugou
' were packing up their belongings
!, "Just TO be ready, if we co." the,
n explained
s. On fire outside the dugout was
A. tin pail. with steaming contents Il
S. wasn't coffee. Il wasn't rum. IL wa
d. half and half. must have two drink
20 Of It. II had an awful buzz in il.
n. 1--WE get two dippersfull of win
and half a dipper full Of whiskes
Df every day" explained soldier AN
Of we need It i'm the cold. too"
- ] figured it out as amounting TO
Nuart OF wine ahd three l5-cent drink
Of whiskey.
"Are you tourist?' asked one o
the Frenchmen.
"Aion Dieu. you silly," eXclaime'
Z his friend. what would a tourist b
b doing here? He's a newspaper man.
/ explained that six OF us had bee
brought out to the battlefield and
that had lost the main party, but tina
A. we were TO gather again at the wait
IS ing automobiles at . O'clock
T. "Well. its time TO go then,' salt
ie my friend. looking at his wrist watch
" Good luck to you" they all said a.
M I went away. | wished them good luck
" TOO. for they needed u more than
did. What happened to these Frencl
N Zouaves twenty-four hours later whel
!. the Bulgarian rush began don
20 know Was all the new health OF tn
Dt little French soldier-the new healu
Is Of which he was so proud-ended b.
Bulgarian bullet or a Bulgarian
bayonet thrust?
On the hillside. as I returned. per
baps hundred yarGg from tn
French battery which topped the hill
n another Bulgarian she'll burst.
r. "They never shoot a she'll az sin
T" gle man. its too expensive" m
French friend had told me. and Il wa
Id comforting thought to the Bul
~ garians across the valley the Ettl
Of dots of human beings that passe
lg singlv along this road weren't wort
se potting at with shells that cost abou
Of S25 each. II was good to feel like
dot: 10 know that though a New Yor
ID insurance company thinks YOUR III
le worth some thousands Of dollars. Oh
Of Bulgars counted II at less than S25.
d. Back n The automobiles the part
D. was gatherin for the departure fror
DR. The battle ground Every one Of n
had heard from some soldier that IN
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