The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23

OCCdSIOH AIOIu carly LuOI ming Will IA
college of Oregon. From the State
Journal Professor Snow went to Man.
haitian, where he was instructor in
Journalism at K. s. A. c. He left for
Oregon about a year ago.
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A peace sing will be held at the Y.
w. c. A. tomorrow afternoon, at which
Miss Elonore Kurth of the fine arts
department of Washodrn college will
have charge of the music.
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Miss Ida Tinker prase ITS her pupil
in piano, Miss Eva McClaskey. assisted
by Miss Alvina Hult3. soprano, Fricay
evening, November %.
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Announcement is made Of the en-
gagement of Miss Helen NJ. Pope to
Mr.. George w. Sleighter of San Fran
cisco, Calf, the wedding to take
place December 8.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who picked ripe tomatoes from her
war garden in her back yard yesterday
afternoon.
The following letter is from Lieut..
Charles L. Walp, of the $50 field artil-
flery of the Thirty-fifth division, writ
| ten to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
D. Walp, 1908 College avenue:
| I'VE are back from another front,
and, believe me, this one is some con-
| trast to the last-at least as far as
action is concerned. We really had
no small part in a big advance which
| started September 26. Our first days
| detectives, fourteen kilos away, were
| all realized and we moved up and oc-
| cupied a position on former German
/ xr,hi oI inc ph n
| the Huns methods. You no doubt
have my letters telling of our night
1 marches. We marched from p. m.
until daybreak for sixteen out of twen-
ty days, having no idea of our objec-
| tive, and went into positions in one
| of the forests mentioned in the dis
patches of September 26 and later. We
were three days preparing for the big
drive and at IL, midnight, we heard
that our fire would start at 2:30 a. m
| When that time came all our guns
opened up at once and fired continu-
ously for three hours-our battalion
| fired on strong points and boche bat
teries At 80 our boys went over the
top and we accompanied the barrage
| until $500 a. M, at which time we
| moved out on the advance. That night
is one 1 shall never forget. The con-
tinual deafening roar of 1858 and 15's
| with the accompanying flashes made
|
uncannys kind of light. We had been
under fire of a searching nature for
three days. The boche knew some
thing was brewing but did not know
the extent of it or it's nature and they
peppered the roads with gas and high
explosives with very little effect. That
sector had always been in French
! hands and they didn't expect Ameri-
cans in any force there.
1.-The 75's were lined up in the
woods hub to hub and the 1855, how
tiers and rifles were thick with a
sprinkling of 22O here and there. More
artillery was On that sector than had
ever been on any part of the front
before. You can imagine Ono. you
can't either) the din, tho no confu-
sion. Our boys worked like veterans
and we SO completely demoraliZed the
did not fire after we opened up. How
ever, there was too much noise tc
tell.
when we moved up that morning
the road was blown up and it took US
a whole day twenty-four hours) t.
get about twelve kilos forward. We
had to make two detours where road:
had been blown up. The Huns also
| shelled the road ahead of us and blew
up several guns a few hundreds meter.
away. Our regiment was very for
, tunate and sustained a minimum o.
, | deaths ana only a lew WOunded. Blu
, on our deathly long and tiresom'
night marches in rain and mud we los
more than one-half OF our horses.
have had to walk all the way back II
/ the so-called rest camp. where we nov
, are, and have my horse led.
/ I'm the forward position in which
, we next located after the first bar
rage, we were in a much mentioned
, town in a much mentioned forest o
Ar-where we stayed for several day
before being relieved. While here VI
fired on roads, troops in valleys ant
: strong points. $ you know, there i
practically no defilade from howitze
fire. Our fire was observed in one in
stance by the comma ding genera
who said it was all that could be de
sired. The case was one where w
:. fired on a column of artillery on
| road General John J. was in on
town and gave the boys a few word
: which were greatly appreciated.
Recently I have been telephone
radio and machine gun officer Dur
: ing the engagement we had to 1ocat
8 an observation post in a tree on hill
4 four kilos up and I strung a phone lin
$ up there. Also spent some time in tn
tree, but had to come down when the.
l started to throw over a few shells
l Those shells make a peculiar noise