The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-20

wing in a fantastical spin.
"Then I went after the four remain
ing Huns. TIN leader was first. He
pulled a powerful wing over at me,
but I got the idea first. We met head
on. 1 fred the last thirty rounds
and was piled up myself with bullets
going by like hail. / looked out and
there was the leader diving on his
back, hanging out of his machine,
evidently hit. The others reported
that he hung as IL dead.
SCI turned desperately, having no
more shots left. l saw my companions
attacking the three remaining Huns,
who were making off in wide circles.
The other two Huns had disappeared,
while French bombers crossed our
lines safely.
Score, z to o.
"Three of us attacked by twelve shot
four down i'm flames. two completely
out of control and one engine out of
control.
"Odds, twelve Huns three allies.
"Score, seven Huns down; allies,
zero.
"After I had gone quite a way back
east my engine went bad and kept get
ting worse. The other two. like typi-
cal British soldiers, stayed with me
until near our lines, when the engine
died. / was getting all the archie
and machine gun fire from the newly
established enemy lines. My compan-
ions could not assist me.
"I saw ! couldn't make our lines In
the deep woods, so I dove onto the
Hun troops, coming behind their lines.
Having fixed my other gun after the
fight, I scattered them with a hail of
bullets. l then landed on a sloping de-
preston neal the wood, an eighth of a
mile beyond the enemy outposts.
"I was in a wheat field about 100
Yards from some trees, which were
swept by enemy machine guns. The
enemy outposts could see only the top
wings of my machine, but began to
shell 1t. So I tore out the round iron
compass and the maps and tried to
burn the machine, but only fired the
wheat.
1.-THE shells were coming close, so i
crawled toward the woods. As / came
TO a small water-flled ditch, I almost
I lost heart.
Helped by Enemy Fire.
"On the other side were three Huns
crawling towards me. I was I'M
armed, but remembered that the COM
pass looked like q grenade. / hauled
back as IL to throw it. Two Germans
jumped and ran, one falling, hit by
fire from his own lines, and the second
being killed. The third cried kamerad'
and threw down his rifle. / got that
rife, took his pistol, and ordered him
to crawl ahead.
"He looked startled when he heard
English, and answered in good Eng
lish. He begged me not to kill him,
as he was a married man.
st told him to shut up and crawl on.
If he did not try to u he would not
be harmed. We reached the wood,
thick with brambles and swept by ma
chine guns and shells. In the middle
of the wood was a stream five feet
wide and four feet deep. / heard a
whispered groan in French, so !
crawled along a few yards and found
a wounded colonel, who had been hit
in the leg and neck.
Cares for Wounded Man.
"The German prisoner followed me
without a word. He started to give the
man q drink from his canteen, but /
took the canteen, washed 1t, gave the
colonel a drink, washed his wounds so
7 could move him, and then picked
him up. I ordered the German to
make his way with his hands up. The
Hun drew no fire. Then / went In.
Shippers took three shots at us, but they
only splashed about. The brush was
very thick on the other bank Of the
stream and I had to drag the wounded
colonel through the Hun-shelled
thicket.
"We were suddenly fired on and
challenged In French. ! replied In
bad French, Officer militare Ameri-
caine aux blesse colonel Aviator
American and added about all the
French I knew. A whole string OF
French came in reply.
'sThe German said, They say crawl
into the open with hands up.' / did,
Then two men and a French officer
came. They bristled at the German,
but I pointed to my gun and the wound
ed colonel, who talked fast, w~hereupon
the Frenchman threw his arms about
me and talked q lot. We crawled to
the outpost. / helped the wounded
colonel to the dressing station. which
was being shelled. The Hun acted al
my assistant and interpreter. Speak
ing French. he was able to give valua'
! BILE information, and ! took him to thu
division Headquarters.