Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-18
MILITARY QUALITIES PRAISED
Corporal and Private Cited for
Plucky Fight to Death
Altho Outnumbered.
MORE CASUALTIES REPORTED
Shrapnel Wounds Many; Shell
Strikes Gun; Some of
Injured Die.

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. The
same traits that aracterized the
fighting of the Americans at the bat
tie Of Bunker Hill and on scores of
other battlefields already are begin
ming to stand out in the demeanor of
the American troops who are fighting
the Germans In a short section of the
trenches in Flanders
In typical American fashion the
boys in khaki over there never hesi-
tate to grapple with the foe, no natter
What the odds, and the harder they
are pressed the better they fight. This
was brought not in dispatches from the
American army headquarters in
France today which tell of AMERICANS,
small tho their opportunities have
been. having conducted themselves In
such manner as to be cited in the re-
port of French general for excellent
military qualities and for bravery dis
played In the recent trench raid.
Americans Turn Back Bochcs.
A note accompanying the citations
says that between eight thousand and
ten thousand shells were used in the
attack, which had been In prepara-
tion for three months, down to the
finest details. The results obtained by
the enemy were very small he being
Unable TO penetrate more than the first
lihe trenches owing to the resistance
Of American soldiers with rifle and
pistol fire and hand grenades. The
e'fe,ny had to content himself, the c!-
tation continues, with carrying off q
Few prisoners.
The general in the order mentions
he -- company, commanded by
iieAtsnatnt name dcleted by CEN
sor) as follows:
"on the night of November 22-3
this company, which was in the lines
for the first time, met an extremely
violent bombardment despite which
1t seized arms and offered such stub
Dor resistance that the enemy, tho
numerically superior, was obliged to
retire"
The general specially cited in the
order Of the day Corporal James
Gresham and Privates Merle d. Hay
and Thomas +. Enright, who died
bravely in hand-to hand fighting with
the enemy who had penetrated the
first line"
The others cited who showed ex-
cellcnt military qualities" are Second
1deutenants NJ. G. Laughlin and O.
Patterson and f.. r. Erickson, Ser
gcant John Arrowood, Corporals Da-
vid NJ. Knowles and Homer Givens
and Privates Charles Massa. William
Il. Thomas George Hurd, Boyce
Wade, Robert Winkler and John J.
Jarvis.
More Casualties.
Today's dispatches also tell that the
artillery fighting in the sector held
by American troops has become even
more lively and there have been fur
ther casualties, shrapuel wounding
some men in the trenches.
An enemy shell hit an American
gun today and caused casualties.
Some of the men wounded in the last
two days have died.
The American batteries have been
firing rapidly in return. The visibI-
ity is becoming better and it is CON
sidored certain that more damage and
casualties have been caused In the
German lines than the Germans have
inflicted on the Americans.
Patrolling continued actively last
night. The American troops wit
messed their first aerial encounter, in
which five French aViators routed
three German airmen.