South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-13

! them 20 dlSband and ABANDON tAell
prisoners. The rescue was heralded
all over the United States as re-
markable military achievement.
Later March and his battalion
/ fought a desperate fight with the
forces of Gen. Gregorio Del Pillar,
the best educated OF all the Filipino
generals. and though greatly out
numbered, defeated them with great
| loss, killing Gen. Pillar and effective
/ ~ disbanding all OF his command.
Maj. Gen. William L Kenly, re-
Gently appointed chief Of the air
I service, was known all over the
Philippines as the commander Of.
/ one OF the few artillery units in that
campaign. He frequently pushed
! his guns so close 70 the line that he
I had TO cut the fuses on his shrapnel
shells almost 10 nothing, which as
everybody knows. is an exceedingly
/ dangerous matter. as they are Liable
/ TO explode in the guns
/ After the Angles campaign the
/ then Lieut.. kenly was brought into
I the first reserve hospital and placed
\ in the cot next 10 mine. suffering
( from two broken ear drums. 70 give
! orders TO his men in order tu take
! advantage of a sudden condition he
I had run under the mouth OF one OF
4 his guns mounted on an armored
railroad ear just as IL was fired.
! strange as il may seem ne very
shortly recovered and now hears as
/ well as ever. I am very proud To- be
I attached 10 the personal headquar-
\ tiers of a. man like Gen. Kenly.
Bullet Didn't Stop Him.
Gen. Alfred Bjornsted. now COM
mander OF a division in France as
/ Capt. Bjornstedt of the 18th Mime
sofa volunteers, led his men I'm i
/ charge across the rice fields in the
/ battle of Manila He was knocked
down by "a bullet through his lungs.
lie struggled 10 his feet and con-
/ tinued running ahead of his men
until a second bullet knocked him
/ down again. 1t went through his
! other lung. Both bullets were As
caliber. brass-covered Remingtons
with the aid of one Of his men
| he struggled 10 his feet. resumed his
4 position at the head of his men and
/ led them, with the blood bubbling
! from his mouth. into the trenches
/ they were TO take. He is also one OF
/ the writer's of the modern drill tao
tics We are now using and Of sew
eral other well-known books on mil
! itary matters.
/ Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder,
when "A young officer i'm the Philip
/ pines. was already known as one of
/ the greatest authorities on military
] law in this or any other country. lie
was as we'll known and highly APP
! preciated in the military service
/ then as he is 10y the country a
1 large now. Every one knows how
! successfully he has handled the
very difficult proposition OF the
draft
Gorgas Had Reputation.
Mai Gen. W. c. Gorgas. SURGEON
/ general of the army, made his rep
utation long before this war TIE
Was famous among medical men The
world over and throughout the
tropics years ago. You all car
| surely remember the man who
! cleaned up cuba and Panama. and
who proved that yellow fever was
| caused by the bite OF the mosquito.
| That today Havana is one of the
/ finest winter resorts in the world is
! due more to our present surgeon
| general than TO any one man.
II could give you lot more ex-
amples that would show you how
| needless are your worries about our
army heads. / could tell YOU about
/ the ability and work that have
made several OF our younger officers
generals in France who were too
young 10 have served in the Span
! American and Philippine wars,
but who. by their pure ability, have
since the war began won their stars;
men like Gen. r. c. Davis, the new
adjutant general for Gen. Pershing;
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. son of
Gen. Arthur Macarthur, one time
commanding general of the Philip
pines; Gen. Hodges, Gen. Burt and
a host of others.
1T is up to the people at home to
provide the men, materials and
money. The army can be safely
trusted to convert them into soldiers
and munitions and the navy will get
them over there without loss"
The eight men were all very quiet
as the major departed. Maj. Rice
was N Chicago only one day on his
way from seeing the Mayo brothers
in Minnesota 10 the Waiter Reed
hospital at Washington, u. c.,
where he IS 10 be given blood trans
fusions for the very severe gassins
he received in France.
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