Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-08
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Lot, Says General Continued
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Not a Streak of Yellow in
Lot, Says a General
American Boys Now At The Front
Have But One Idea, And That
Is To Beat The
Germans.

American Army in France.-Ameri-
can ordnance experts have figured that
the Germans in raids on American
trenches thus far have expended more
than 100000 worth of ammunition
alone.
The development of the men of the
first American contingent in France
in the science of war was described
as truly remarkable by the general
commanding the division, who has
been in the service for years.
Il have been in the army since l
was a boy" he said. During that
time have observed many American
and many foreign soldiers, but never
in my life have seen anything equal
ing the men now here. When my
division landed we had shockheaded
boys-I call them shockheaded be-
cause they were just that-by the
hundreds. They were clerks, me-
chanics, day laborers, farmer boys, old
and young from every walk of life.
Some spoke English and some did not.
There were Poles, Bohemians, Rus
slams, Jews, gentiles. But in this
short time they have all become first
class soldiers, energetic to the ex-
IRENE and have fallen into the ways
of army life as ! never thought pos
sible.
"They are game to the core and
their one idea is to beat the Germans
and give them good beating.
There isn't streak of yellow in the
whole lot and their morale, even in
the trenches. is fine.
Here is an example One night re-
Gently an officer called for volunteers
tc. go patrolling in No Mans Land.
He asked for 20 men. The whole
con- r)any volunteered on the spot.
Twenty were picked and lampblac.k
waAprdvided for them to put OF their
bay netA so that the light would not
shine on them. During the backing
one priva5A who had been in the
army fer fyce months stopped a mo-
ment turned to a comrade and said:
Gee, if l can run this into one of
those Boches l bet he'll get blood
poisoning, and hope he does.' The
boy knew the place he was to patrol
was extremely dangerous and that he
might be casualty within 80 minutes.
"At another time had just passed
a line of soldiers walking along a road
in the rain when l came across one
who was hatless, mudcovered and
limping. l stopped my automobile
and asked him what was the matter.
The soldier stood on one foot, the
other being injured. He saluted and
said his horse had started to run into
a stone wall, SO he threw him down
but fell under him. That's the spirit
we are getting. The man was badly
hurt, but even that did not make him
forget his training of a few weeks.
II was returning at that time from
the hospital where saw few wound
ed men. Some of the mems proudest
and most valuable possessions on
earth are bullets and pieces of shrap-
mel which thoughtful surgeons saved
for them on extracting. Every man
wanted to exhibit the cause of his
wound. Their thoughts were all about
recovering, rejoining their regiments
and getting a chance to pay back the
enemy in his own coin"