Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-12-14

Of the twenty-five were dead or down
The emplacement was held by eleven
Germans. Two only were left stand
Ing when we got In.
When we saw the gun had been ST.
fenced and the crew disabled Godsall
and worked round to the right about
ten yards from the shell hole where
we had sheltered ourselves while
throwing bombs into the emplacement
and scaled the German parapet. We
rushed the gun position. The officer
who had been In charge was standing
with hissback to us. firing with his re-
volver down the trench at our men
who were coming over at another
point reached him before Godsall
and bayoneted }him. The other Ger
man who had survived our bombing
threw up his hands and mouthed the
Teutonic slogan of surrender-"M Mercy,
kameradw My bayonet had broken
off In the encounter with the German
officer, so picked up German rife
with bayonet fixed. and Godsall and
I worked on down the trench.
The German who had surrendered
stood with his hands held high above
his head, waiting for US to tell him
what to do. He never took his eyes
off of us even to look at his officer, ly-
ing ut his feet. AS we moved down
the trench he followed us, still hold
ing his hands up and repeating, Mercy,
kamerad !" AT the next trench angle
we took five more prisoners, and as
Godsall had been slightly wounded in
the arm turned the captives over to
him and ordered him to take them to
the rear. Just then the men of our
second wave came over the parapet
like lot of hurdlers. In FIVE minutes
we had taken the rest of the Germans
in the trench section prisoners, had re-
versed the fire steps and had turned
their own machine gun against those
of their retreating companies that we
could catch sight of.
AS we could do nothing more here,
I gave orders to advance and re-en-
force the front line. Our way led
across field furrowed with shell holes
and spotted with bursting shells. Not
a man hesitated. We were winning.
That was all we knew or cared to
know. We wanted to make it a GER
tainty for our fellows who had gone
ahead. AS we were proceeding toward
the German reserve trench l saw four
of our men. apparently unwounded, ly-
ing in shell hole. stopped to ask
them what they were doing there. As
spoke l held my German rifle and
bayonet at the position of guard" the
tip Of the bayonet advanced, about
shoulder high. didn't get their an
swer, for before they could reply I
felt sensation as IL some one had
thrown lump of hard clay and struck
me on the hip, and forthwith tum-
bled In on top of the four, almost
plunging my bayonet into one of them,
q private named Williams.
Mcclintock Badly Wounded.
SWELL now you know what's the
matter with u.s." said Williams. 1--WE
didn't fall in, but we crawled in
They had all been slightly wounded
I had twenty-five pieces of shrapnel
and some shell fragments imbedded in
my left leg between the hip and the
knee. followed the usual custom of
the soldier who has "got it." The first
thing did was to light flag" (ciga-
rette), and the next thing was to in
vestigate and determine If l was in
danger of bleeding to death. There
wasn't much doubt about that. Ar
terial blood was squirting from two of
the wounds, which were revealed
when the other men in the hole helped
me to cut off my brooches. With their
aid managed to stop the hemorrhage
by improvising tourniquets with rags
and bayonets. One I placed as high
up as possible on the thigh and the
other Just below the knee. Then we