Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

after the Germans, the lieutenant re-
lates, they met the 109th coming back
with prisoners.
AS the Pennsylvania boys were
going by a tree with the captured
Germans, Boche slid down out of
the tree and Joined the squad. He
had been hiding two days"
Lieutenant Nelson pays tribute to
the skill of the artillerymen of the
Iron division, which had gone into
action shortly before he left the
front,
Witnessed U. s. Bnrrage
II saw the first American barrage
to advantage at Fismette" he says,
''and / never want one turned loose
where L am. The town was one mass
of smoke, dust and wreckage as the
shell crept up from the waters edge.
The last I saw of the Boche he was
going good, better than anything
ever saw"
Lieutenant George Reinhart, of the
1O9th Field Artillery, from the anthra-
cite field, has returned to Wilkes
Barre with stories of how these boys
went to the front.
From another officer of the 109th
Field Artillery a letter describes vi
wildly the work of the regiment on
the firing line. He interrupts his
description TO write.
Il had to stop for a few minutes
to fire on the Huns, so right now
am writing this letter in spells. while
l am waiting for the observation of
my shots out at the observation post
l think 1 got him on that last one"
In a later paragraph the lieuten-
ant continues:
Just ceased firing and we hit what
We were after"
Private Plum l.. Ewing, of Com
pany +. 112th Infantry, saved the life
of German soldier who begged for
mercy and tells about it in letter
to his home at Franklin.
I'VE have just finished drive of
nine miles, during which we did not
lose a man. But the Huns lost a lot
of men. The dirty towards will dig
a hole, put a machine gun in it and
wait for us to come up on them. When
we are about thirty yards away, they
will start to shoot us up, and when
we get closer they will throw up
their hands yell Mercy, Kamerad"
But all the boys don't have mercy
on them.
Il saw one German with a hole shot
in his neck and decided to kill him.
But he could speak a little English,
and he told me he was only II years
old. please don't kill me- he cried.
for I am too young to die So 1
let him go.
The other day we went into an
old barn and looked out on a field
and saw Hun in a shell hole. 1
took a shot at him and at the same
time he took shot at me. We both
missed. I was a little quicker and
got the next shot in before he got
his gun loaded and hit him in the
neck, but didn't kill him; just a flesh
wound.
Then another German with him
jumped from the shell hole and start
ed to hit the high places. But he
didn't go far before he hit the dust
for home run, shot through the
stomach. Poor fellow. he never knew
what hit him."
The Germans are shelling us heav-
lily, but down here in my dug out
seem to be SAFE" writes Thomas
Sharkey. sos South Twentieth street.
Philadelphia, previously reported
missing, but now back with his COM
pany. He is 10 years old and is as
signed to Company NJ, 10th Infantry,
Captain L. ]. Stackpole, Ja.), which
suffered severe casualties in battle
July 80. Sharkey was reported miss
ing after the action.
Daniel Morrow, 500 South Han
cock street, Philadelphia. another
member of Company NJ, who had been
listed as missing since July 80, is
now in a hospital recovering from
wounds, according to a letter re-
ceived by his father He described
his wound as lucky shot" He is
10 years old and enlisted a year ago.