Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-14
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are taking It to him. Only few kilo
ing in the line and those boys are anx
ious to make records as good as the
marines have made. All express chagrir
at the good luck" Of the marines In
being put in spot where they could
get at the enemy.
Our gunners have now learned to use
their canncn and can shoot them like
| demons. They have orders to spare nc
ammunition, and they are not sparins
II. The Americans have made a name
In all France for work with the French
| 75's A German officer. who was cap
turned wounded yesterday in a raid
said
Perhaps l am going to die. but be-
three-inch machine gun you fellows
have
This analogy is perhaps exaggerated,
but IL shows what the Germans have
found out about how the Americans can
shoot this French thrse-inch piece,
And while the artillery Is doing its
bit. the doughboys are cleaning their
rifles and conducting frequent raids. I
saw these men weeks ago. and when /
saw them again today they had many
stories to tell me.
A remarkable story was told by a
colonel. Two of his men the other day,
while exploring over in the German pc
sitions, cane on a big dugout with two
entrances. One American with bayonet
on his rifle took a position at one en-
trance, while into the other his COM
rade threw hand erenades. As the Ger
mans came out of the other entrance
the first American got them. The sys-
tenn was working hne, when the hand
grenades gave out The American
grabbed a fame protector from a pass
ing Frenchman and sent a hot message
10 the remaining Germans. who came
out quickly. These two accounted for
forty-seven Germans. so the story goes.
Another story had to do with young
corporal who alone came on a boche
dugout. Calling to the inmates to come
out he threw in two hand grenades.
Eight Germans, with hands up above
their heads, walked out A few moments
later the corporal said TO his captain: ?,
Il beg to report, sir, with eight
prisoners.
Then this lad told his commander it
was a big dugout and he believed more
Germans were there, and he asked for
more men to help him get them. He got
and started over again,
when a German so millimeter shell blew
him into pieces.
The Germans held positions on this
sector on an elastic line that has no
trench defense but dugouts
every $50 yards. .
A sergeant at listening post the
other day could hear no Germans NOV
ing. Taking two doughboys with him, he
went forward and found twenty Ger
mans with rifles stacked outside, asleep /
in a dugout with their guard also asleep.
Dispatching the guard with bayonet,
they called on the twenty to surrender.
When several Germans started toward
the sergeant he threw in two hand
Grenades. He and his men brought back
Ave Of the boches as prisoners. The rest
were killed. On the way back a Ger
man machine gunner had his gun train
ed on the sergeant's party, when an
American sniper got the boche through
the head ..s
These are samples of how the Amer
leans keep the Germans busy in their
sector.
"BIscksnake Division
captured German officer told an
American general that the Germans
nave named one American division the
.Blacksnake Division" He alleged he
meant that the Americans went crawl
Uk HUouI NO Mdn A<duu all anu
were a pest to the Germans
l have been talking with many dough-
boys, who despite some losses are in the
highest spirits. dozen Of them ex-
pressed this thought:
THE marines did wonderfully and
you correspondents are right TO boost
them to the folks back home But please
don't forget us when our turn comes"
Can the enemy get through you II he
comes this way" l asked.
He can-like hell was the fervent
reply.
That is the spirit Of the American
who has fought the German. He believes
ne il a better fighting man than the
German soldier, and he is. An instance
IF German acts that do much to damage
he Americans innate spirit of fair |
play occurred today while was at a |
here. A French airplane
vas approaching. flying low. Nothing
was thought of It, until a moment later
! fle of American soldiers on their
= ay to relief at the front was raked byi
fire from the airplanes A |
minute later four bombs were dropped. |
Il was. of course. boche flying in a
plane or boche plane dis
Euised as French, Because OF the sur
Prise Of the attack. the German fier
rot away before the French aviator
,ould catch him.
Americans Get 1000 Germans
The American forces on the Marne |
ront have been Strengthening out their !
Inc following the capture Of the Bois de
3eiieau. They brought In additional
prisoners yesterday, making the total
number Of Germans captured by Amsri-
ans In this section during the last week
approximately 1000 II is impossible 10
picture the enthusiasm of the French
people in the village through which
prisoners OF the Americans were taken.
Word was passed from mouth to mouth
hat the passing Germans had been cap
tured by our soldiers. and on all sides
,ne heard cheers for les bons Amari-
cans"
The great ma jority of prisoners taken
,y our men are very young. most of
hem being about nineteen. j never saw
happier lot OF them than the 500 boches
in the Bois de Belleau. They
said their officers had told them to fight
to the death, because President Wilson
had ordered the Americans to take no
prisoners and to shoot all Germans The
doughhoys, instead of shooting the
boche. gave him cigarettes and fed him
we'll
There Ia marked difference in the
attitude of German privates and Ger
man oficers. The privates are glad to