Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-08
Yankees EAGER
To CLIMB TREES
TO GET BOOBIES
Ordered Not 10 Risk Their
NetkS That Way in BeIIeu
WOodi MARY a German
Surrendered, " Says Soldier
(By Lincoln IiyroD

NOV - II the Dyes ntd IHll clllil)-
ing irons, l guess thc"d have clumb
right IN in them trees and wrestled
the boches in the branches Thus
Jimmy Burns. whose Irish brOgue Is
complicated with Connecticut tWang
from his native Bridgeport, observed
in describing one phase of the battle
Of Belleu wood. one of thcMeuse
heights northeast of lordun.
Jimmy was TELLING rs of the tr0u-
bles he and some of his follows had in
assaultine the machine guns which
the enemy had nerchCl in frees
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tonrb ioh tr,,i,nal to r,o,, .o,',o ~ n,,r
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t,,oos o,,o,, r,,i.,, '.'u lIi,,,Yi,,r .a,,,
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tbe,. ,,as, al fa, ,.l.j,,, a,a,,, -
If Bmt thn linr,,,,.nt loiI +n, ~,
fhair neol,s o,os ,,a,.th con,otl,i,,, a.
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ordered which u,as a. squat 1o,,.,, ~
sbel1 holes wbon tbo sbolIe ,yas ,.otl,t,,,
foo faet ana ,,,ba,, ,I,a,, ,,'a,r,,+ ,,,o
Law on tbn odca of +bo boias "a
sninad at Iorrt, I'm o,,or a,,r ha ,,'U
nntiI tbey, Voc al dooI Or y,ouaI fr'.7
II took a Iono i'm Int We ,,ot ',.,1,
all in tho o,,d AID ,,,,,,. o,,o os .ol,
surrendered ei,ba,.,
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cold bord fonts r, a,.1o, ~ WAN
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bie cond,,ct ga t,,+ ~ tLo,,,I'lI.'
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pintnTo .lp,I,' -" ,i',' ''''i t''l"i'
ting o,t oasf,,or, r,(, C ,','.i" w.
forest lie y5idth ot thn ,,,ilnn, r ,,,,.
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t,ards ~ .r, :" 49,, 10 " .. oOU
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ridao, f,o,,, pa'i',.t,I. ~ ',i % r Tue
\Ta7so .pi'' i1,,,irN i,,l7 ~, ~ Dull
artillery copc ,,rt, , tho eatgS.
ba,,n ,,o,. 1870 q, 'o4's lue ueiIllails
The A,oorioons IIo,e 'oSr1 i' as4Inse
IL risne IIiII 900 ~, l'l.ie 30 vi VI
scanned viz, '1V, ~, SUES anu crest
anfiIodir,, tba vol o'''''o 7"'''
0rr 7,oI,os 80 ,.,,,,,+ z.o...,
through the WOOD a1rooef ',' Val Ia eon
Tho h,d ,,,"st 81 - ~ L "1N gso'
fonr ,iro',t o. ~ manu- W,ith
nowerfnI No, i.'ll i1 %lt
kali, ~ 40 ,,,,to,,, 49, .ilglh
ou, hove, drn, 60, - ~ ou''uaS
beforo niobtf,Ii ~ io' , T,'lu a-'iil' an"
tirn wood Voc cloa,.o1 % 't 10y ,,le o''-
T7i,,,t ~. "1' N'os'' :, VI ,iic Loe'
tore mroat 90 tt,iI I'Iu oi,,i,l
cd trnCe a,,I ~ ,Iao,1,. I'3'. ~, 49,
,,ugooJ ro 'I'i,' s niI 'e 10y mo inc
Ie.'i,,o,, 'I.i r,,' us O1 il'S a
"a d,,,',, ,, iom W ~ - ~ crush
ootb u""'' T}o' e uuI ,'il"HlaSlllen' J. w.
IiC,Lta,, c, i ,.t "'' ioS@9 ny
.tI,,-o 1,o', ''. ~, 'L lIei iSs.
s,,ti Se n"" thelh uroppli'g on me mt
a3 ',rou1a Cnate9n Iherry
~ IorIii OF ~. MlnleL PRIVATE
! I slL heuu o. ChAfleStoWn' Mass
mo- ilIeu me nut II was llke
snoWer Oh cQhIelti compared with
WA lIey thre" Ut US th'S tlme.
ms cn,'hl' samuel Befforl of Bos-
loti, auued;
we hau 10 ne so nat IN the shell
hoieS we couidht use even our in
uehchlhE Tools. There weren't five
minutes III tWenty-four hours when n
shell dldnt burst within fifty yards Of
WIlefe we were hugging tic mud"
Machlno gun fuslllades from ma
chlhe guns IN trees and from Hill
$50 were literally intersperscG with
an interminahle cannonade. The air
sang with lead and mems minds were
stunned by the furious racket Of OK
ploslVes Food and drink were nom
But Americans Pushed On.
The Americans held on undo hese
conditions and slowly moved forward,
through tangled bushes to their OBJ
Iecuves. From out of this mass Of
heroism it seems almost invidious toj
extract instances of indiviGual gall
lantry. will mention only two
achievements.
One is from the tale of 4 man who
belongs to the pages of Fenuimorc
Cooper, a tall, spare man, with Il thin
Tipped smile and grave, thoughtful
eyes. His name is James r. Calty and
ms nome IS Rockville Center l.. IL
BEFORE ms countrys noes made
him soldier he had taste for col
lege, as he puts it, and more han al
taste for sea and forest. Deer track |
ing was his Vocations traHN0g Ger
mans has become his avot2'on.
In the st. Mihiel salient n slipped
off alone into the enemy llacS and
returned with one officer and thirty
nine men as his prisoners. How he
rounded them up he has never told.I
Belleau wood, pitch black ut night
and dim and smoke-filled by day, he
stalked the foe without rest, slipping
through the underbrush,
spotting machine guns ana snipers,
and informing the divisional intelli-
gence officers where our mon and the
Germans were.
1t was he who, when other means
Of communication failed, brought
back word that the whole wood was
ours, and spotted the enemy llno for
our gunners incidentally. he brought
in nine prisoners in one ounch. II
didn't want to take them, he OK