The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-05-07

close comrade of the two Phelizlot
was fighting Seeing that the battle
was going against his friends the
newcomer ran up behind Phelizot
and swinging by its leathern strap
his twc-litre metal bidion, which was
filled with wine, struck him crash
ing blow on the head and Phelizot
fell unconscious.
The following night, although for
twenty-four hours he had suffered
intense balm in his head. Phelizot
marched back to the trenches with
his company. The pain increased,
and the next day his sergeant ordered
him back to the regimental infirm-
airy. PheliZot must have suffered in
tense agony, but he made the five
kilometers back to Curry alone and
presented himself at the infrmary.
There the doctor examined him and
said he could find nothing wrong and
Phellzot walked out of the hospital
and started up the road to Chateau
Blanc Sabion and the trenches.
~ Am An American"
A little later in the day a lieu
tenant Of the legion noticed man
lying by the roadside, just outside
Curry. Thinking 1t some weary SOL
der having rest, he passed on
without saying anything. Coming
hack an hour later he saw that the
man had not moved. He called to
him and the answer was a low moan.
The lieutenant turned him over. 1t
was Phelizot, partly paralyzed and
with lockjaw setting in. He was
rushed to the nearest base hospital,
seventeen kilomters away, at Fismes.
There everything possible was done
to save him, but it was too late.
The last days of August, 1914.
when we were preparing to leave
Rouen for Toulouse. Phelizot had
each American volunteer write his
name in indellible ink on a large
American flag. This flag ever since
that time he had worn wrapped about
his waist as a kind of sash. At the
close of February day. Phelizot,
who had lain for hours unconscious,
slowly raised himself in his cot, I'M
wound the flag from his waist. cried
out, "I am an American" and fell
back dead.
No Mercy to Foreign Legion.
The battle of Givenchy, June 16
and II, 1915, in which the foreign
legion won immortal fame, took its
toll OF American lives, the list of
losses in that fight including these:
Russell Kelly, son of New York
lawyer, and former Virginia Mill
tary Institute cadet: John Earle
Fiske, of Wooster, o., enlisted in the
legion as John Smith," taking the
name of his grandfather; Kenneth
Weeks, of Cambridge, Mass, an au-
thor; and Hartman Edwin Hall, of
Chicago,
Fiske and Kelly were last seen in
an advanced captured German
trench, which was retaken by the en-
envy later in the day. Both were
wounded Fiske had bullet through
leg and Kelly was hit in a shoulder.
IL is possible that both died from bay
onet thrusts when the foe retook the
trench. as the Germans had declared
that not man OF the legion captured
would be spared.
Weeks was the bomb-thrower for
the American squad, a most danger
uuo pldIts ne "SuL lhLO htLlOi a. ~
ed with his rifle, sheath knife, re-
volver and musette full of hand gren-
AIDES. The bomb-throwers had orders
to see that no Germans remained in
their dugouts lurking behind the ad-
vancing French troops to shoot them
from the rear, many legionnalres
having been killed that way on May
8. Weeks was reported as last seen
running toward the third line of the
German trenches.
All three Americans had reputa-
ton in the legion as brave soldiers.
Weeks had been mentioned in de-
spatches for his valorous conduct in
the first battle OF Arras, May 0,
Wouldn't Duck" for Boches.
The story OF Halls death was
brought back by his sergeant, him
self badly wounded. Hall reached
the, front for the first time as ma
chine gun operator Just before the
legion went into battle. On the morr-
ing OF June 16. the legionnaires
charged the German works on Hill
10, rapidly and brilliantly carrying
three lines of trenches. After being
pushed over tn. crest of Hill 119 the
Cermens received heavy reinforce
ments, and rallying, began making
frantic counter attacks.
Under a heavy-lre of shrapnei, and
fer'r~ storm of bullets from rifles
and machine guns Ha11,s secfion