El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-18
YiNKS RELATE
TALES Of WAR
One Tells of Childish Toys
Defiled and Made Lewd
by Hellish Huns.
BY Z. c. BULEY.

| soldiers are now playing on the west
ern front is the ever-increasing num-
Der Of American wounded in our hos
pitals. To them. as to Dominion
troops. England is 'BHghty." a haven
Of rest after the he'll OF the fighting
line.
The following are among the ex-I
periences related to me by various
wounded Americans just back from
the front.
why. say. I got noth'n TO tell ye
7 only saw one German and he was
dead one Judging by the looks OF
/ him and the manner in which he came
I into my view. I judged he died sud-
den. Alive one minute, and the next
not so.
I saw him when I was watching a
/ roOkus between some OF their air
/ planes and some of ours 1t was 60
/ ing along right above my head. and
there must have been dozen planes
! fighting That was easy TO look at,
you may guess.
One Hun plane got its medicine
and came reeling down the sky like
drunken man. Then I saw a smaller
/ thing falling: it was the Heinie I
spoke Of. He hit the ground just
close TO where I was standing; Few
yards to the right and he might have
wounded me in a new way
"A few days later 1 went out 10
| try and find another dead Heinie. !
wanted 10 have a hand in the tragedy
myself this time. The first thing
/ that happened was that I got
wounded in the same old way; noth'n
| fresh or original about it So here
am"
HeInIe Is Sometimes Tough.
"Heinie is a tough proposition when
/ he's got anything special TO fight for
/ We had cleared him out OF little
wood before Chateau Thierry. their
machine gunners staying TO the very
last Then. I suppose our boys were
pressing on his heels too close, for he
/ turned and came back for that wood.
Seven times he came in the course
OF two hours. We fought him IN his
own style. throwing out men win
automatics, who occupied every patch
Of good cover in three and tours Say.
I the Browning automatic rifle Is sure
a war winneri
/ The Germans would come out Of
! the woods, a thick line Of olive green
] Then the Brownings would begin 10
I stutter. Twenty shots in four sec
onds and another 20 shots in less than
/ half a minute later You could see
/ the line thinning out by atoms, that
| dropped as fast as the Brownings
/ talked, scores in every second
only once they reached the edge OF
/ our wood, and then we ran out al
them with the bayonet They fought
/ as IL they did not know We were
double their number Those we did
not kill we took alive.
Thirty Hours to Clear Woods
After they quit charging, we were
sent forward over the ground that was
/ black with their dead II was our
turn then; but their machine guns. in
nests and on tree platforms, had not
the wide radius OF our shoulder-held
1--WE got there the first time. It
took US 80 hours to clear that mite Of
wood of machine guns Then We
found why, as our prisoners told US.
they had been ordered TO hold the
place at all costs.
Just behind it was the emplace-
ment Of one of their 20 mile guns and
they must have been getting the gun
/ itself away while We were scrapping
in the hollow beyond.
Say. II I'd only known I always
wanted one OF those guns TO make
me a stick pin. When go back again
/ I'm plumb determined TO have one.
Wins Medal by Swimming.
| It's the best war I was ever In.
but never expected a man could win
a medal over there for swimming.
/ Him not being able to swim made il
all the stranger, kinda.
He is our first sniper. a corporal
We were clearing a wood where there
/ was a whole mess OF these machine
gun tree forts That's CLANCY work
Just little too much eagerness and
your remains may make the place IN
tidier than you found it.
The corporal was scanning the place
through his glasses. Then he says.
'Sho,' and hands me the glasses.
I Frr
sight and focused on the point he was
covering
Presently I saw something flash In
the sun and a second later the rifle
spoke in my ear. Then I saw some
thing falling through the branches
Of the tree. Got him. says the cor
poral, and began TO work round there
at once.
I was Just as curious as he was.
but not IN such an unseemly hurry.
The corporal had been at the dress
ing station a good two hours before
was able to satisfy our inquisitive-
ness. It was dark then but I found
the tree and Heinie. deceased, spread
out underneath It.
Medals On His Chest.
"On his chest, plumb contrary TO all
orders, he had pinned his swimming
medal and the iron cross as we'll II
could not have been vanity. he must
Wei. it was a jinx to him, and to /
the corporal as we'll But the cor
poral, who can't swim a stroke, is
well enough to wear the medal.
Il came over to fight for freedom
and democracy. didn't hate the
Germans. not till just a week or so
ago. Until that I never understood !
why English people were so rabid /
against the Huns. as they call them. I
Now I've got a change Of heart /
I've been in Chateau Thierry. There I
are two or three houses there that
ere to be kept just as they are They /
are just blind-rage conductors. A |
guy goes in hating nobody. so to /
speak, and cherishing compunction 4
about staying his fellow men. He 1
comes out damn wild.
Childish Toys Defiled-
That's what there Is tn It. Ny /
Cod, they defiled the chiloren's toys
as they would have defiled the chill
dren themselves II they could. Can
you sense it, What kind Of mind /
and heart can a man have who would /
take a little girls doll and turn it
into an object lesson and a threat In /
lewdness2
I had read hints OF such things but /
never ufonned IN understand them. \