New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
EsNYTILL he talk when he gets herer
Wv asked Spayer.

| One laughed outright Inc thouBhC VI N'N
Itch not talking was too much for them
! 81 was talking with this man Burke" Mylott
explained, "before they carried him ashore
1 on his stretcher. He gave me an mixing OF
| what to expect, in a way. He couldn't go into
details give the right touches, you know Tor
! he's practically illiterate. But their car was
commandeered at Argenteau, and the two OF
them were nearly shot, because the engine
worked badly, and they were accused Of try
! ing to put it out of commission. Gruellch
] thought they could get through to Brussels
! but the Germans swung down and cut them
| of.
rThey struck southwest, Burke said, and
were held up again as spies, because true
lch's name happened to be a German one.
! firing squad was lined up to pump lead INTO
them, when a superior officer interfered. He
took ,Gruelieh's boots away from him Chis
own had given OUT and set the two men free
Burke couldn't remember the names of the
different towns, but he said they seemed TO
be always in the worst of the fghting-Just
tossed along like two chips on the crest OF
wave. He says there was enough gore to foat
a shin. Gruelich couldn't get deceht shoes
and his feet got sore-awful, Burke said. He
was caught taking a pair off dead German
The two of them were shut up in wine cell
lar, to be shot at daylight for looting. BSt
they dug their way out overnight, when the
guard was drunk, and got into the open coun-
try again.
"They were hiding in the woods until they
found themselves between opposing advance
! guards with machine guns. Burke SAID ne
had his hat shot off. They crawled out TO
| bunch of dead horses, with their feet sticking
up in the air, and rolled a couple Of them
over and made barricade. Burke said the
smell of those horses was something poison
Gus, but nobody got hit.
"They crawled' on to town again, where
everybody was on the run-shellfre. Burke
says it's funny the way those picrite shells
can blow a man into two-inch pieces. He says
he remembers one German she'll hitting to-
bacco shop across the road from them and
scattering about three thousand cigars along
the gutter. He said it was their first smoke
for week.
"Just as the Germans were goose-stepping
into the town a body of ambushed French
met them. 1t was handto-hand work Burke
saws most of the French bayonets broke of
after the first thrust. Then they'd have to
club with their rife butts. He remembers
one man who'd a horseshoer's hammer. He
smashed down a dozen men before uhlan
poked a magazine revolver against his ribs
| and fired. There was blood in the gutter,
Burke said running like ditch water. A Few
nights after that they saw Prussan bayonet
| two wounded Frenchmen. Burke said it made
| him rather seasick the way one of the men
| screamed.
! "Gruelich tried to get q message through to
| Whitlock, the American Minister at Brussels,
, but luck was against them. They were hiding
in haystack next to a woods that advertised
the fact there hadn't been time to bury the
dead, watching the smoke balls and the
punches of tinfoil the German airmen were
dropping to signal positions, when three
| French aviators got after the others. Two of
them, one French and one German, smashed
together They came down like dead ducks
from over a mile up. Toward night one of
the Frenchmen who was making back for his
lines got potted by the Germans, and planed
down beside their haystack. Gruelch and
t Burke could see one man stand on guard with
his automatic while the other patched up the
, torn wing. Then the two of them weren't
strong enough to start the thing on its wheels
through the hay stubble, so Gruelch and
, Burke helped.
"They were in rags by this time Burke
says, but they bribed young Red Cross
transport driver to run them down as far as
. J b,,x .L
driver was making his five hundred francs
on the side. He was in such hurry he
. didn't find out about bridge the French had
blown up, and they all went thirty feet down
into the river The driver was killed.
"That reminded Burke how he and Grue-
3 Itch had hidden from shellfre in an open
cuvert when the French started tumblirg
in cotpses to save digging. He says there
, must have been a hundred Of en-. He told
: me-
Whats the good of spelling all this ''
. testify interrupted the Senator. II thought
/ Gruelich was coming here tonight to tell US
that story"
''He is" acknowledged Mylott. "And he's
= the man to tell it-I acknowledge that.
= merely wanted TO point out TO you that this
2 man Of his is roughneck, as we'd say; a
, carcass of bone and hide, wishout imagina-
, ton, but even his dull wits responded 10
r what was around him over there He talked
, until the doctors shut him off and said was
& tiring him out"
! "Then see where this is an sll-night ses-
, sion" luxuriously prognostcated the rotund
Hewitt.
"Then why doesn't it ?" demanded the
{ still impatient Spayer.
EYLoTT rose to his feet, for the door
u WI had opened.
"It's going to begin now" he said in a
whisper, "for here comes Gruelich himself"
r There was concerted movement and mur-
! mur Of greeting as Gruelich entered the
room. The members Of the Leucadian were
a