The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-16
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Sious to Fight Again

PARIS, June Although tired,
s ws iias ~ s3as 4%sri'1 tn
hospitals in and EHnd Paris raliote
entbusinsra, sheeffhihbss and determin-
alton, Gloom is a word that cannot be
foind m their Soeabulary They think
ofify of Recovery % ihat they may re.
turn TO the fray VITA renewed vigor.
That ~ the impression one ge's from
n visit 20 the hospital wards. They all
take pardonable pride in what their
respective companies have done around
Chateau Thierry. 81
While they, are yeticent regarding
the part they, have played, they have
tales 81 nddrfnf het0ithn to tell about
their comrades !, ; Fet
walking two kilometers through a
German barrage, after receiving rife
shot wound in his shoulder, Chester f.
Hinner, Siddell, Illinois, arrived at n
post de sours where his wound was
dressed. He was then evacuated to
Paris hospital.
"it was wonderful picture" he
said, "wben he went over the top at
Cantieny. We went oyer in four waves
Just as the sun was coming up over
misty. dew-laden No Mans Land. As
we ran through the wet grass and
weeds, stumbling through shell holes,
our machine gSnners in the waves
| ahead Of us got in their work and some
what cleared the Why. Then we step
! ned in, and gave il to them hand to
| hand. Every fellow did his best AMI
we soon had the Hun on the run. Those
who stayed to fight were finished there
and, them ''tFh' B.
| Huns rine TarGets
! Wonderful work Of the United States
/ marines around the Chateau Thierry is
related by the wounded. Holden T.
Siegert, Newport, Minnesota, r. f.
Ross, st. Louis, ,and George Jackson,
Cleveland, all suffering from shell
shock, said the Germans made fine tar
| gets as they crawlc,l through the grass
! or ran to cover behind trees at the edge
| of the woods near Chateau Thierry.
They praise the fighting qualities of
the French chasseurs Alpini-or the
THbiue devils, las they are called.
Corp. M. G. Carson, Nashville, Hi.
nois, wounded in the SHOULDER by shrap-
mel, tells how the marines, after riding
in springless motor trucks for two
nights and day with practically no
sleep, were debarked at n cross roads
under shell FIRE and then rushed up to
take their places beside the French Mt
Chateau ThierFy. '.a 90 4"
Fought Like Wildcats
despite lack Of sleep the fellows
fought iike Wildcats" he said. "They
plunged in, weary, and tired, but full
Of pep and enthusiasm. And they az
counted for hundreds Of Germans N lie
dead and wounded. "
Wounded officers have nothing but
praise for their men, who, they declare,
eight like veterans.
Lieut.. Calvin D. Richards, Morgan.
field; Acknowledgements lpf the work OF
the runners fleet footed men who
carry messages from the attacking plat
oons to the company or regimental
headquarters. ,...
81 saw two runners start out with
message. when a sheH landed practically
under their feet. They were thrown
INTO the air, but by something short of
q miracle neither was hurt. They got
M, stunned and dazed for a second and
then started On their business. -
Fred 8. Mailman, Berlin, Wisconsin,
John Wilson, Gafney, South Carolina,
and Thomas Srnlise, Warren, Pennsyl-
vania, were also among the gassed at
Cantigny.
~ saw a corporal and one Of his
men, manning a machine gun. killed by
German bullets" said Scalise, but
the other two men with the gun kept
1t It until the weapon melted. They
gave the boches hell"
Up Cantigny way the Germans have
nicknamed the Americans the "black
makes" because they are continue y
"rawIing through the grass toward tn"
.nemy lines, giving the Hun no rest,
according to John SchOePks, Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin.
1.-The prisoners we took up there
wanted to know when we slept, h"
aid. "But we never sleep and they
never catch US drowsy"
Srhoepks was wounded by shraPnel