Evening star., 1918-07-08
YANKEES TAKEN BY GERMANS: j.
COMRADES TAKE THEM BACK
One of Incidents Showing Spirit With
Which American Boys Are Fight
ing on the British Front.

one star company Of Americans who
played prominent part in Thursday's
great show. From the men and ON
GERS he heard tho detailsof this drst
great fight OF the Yankees on the
British front.
Some facts have been told before.
but the story AZ related By one Of the
omcers contained many new features
concerning the activities of the
manner. without Jfrills and without
ooasting. And here IL what he said:
The' Americans went into the line
aiter hard march. The Fritxes un-
douetedly had no ihkling that the at
iis out ss.as ~ III sdssnos III nos 4 s:is i
o'clock THURSDAY morntng. 80
saspt whfls rsSy waassd.
"1iany Of .our bosS were tired when
they reached tho. positions and, de-
spite the fact that they were Just en-
barking on the biggest adventure Of
their lives-a leap into the unknown
they threw themselves on the ground
ana slept scundty. It was an enc0Ar--
aging sign to M, for II meant that
the men were nSt Jumpy. They never
did show any s!en Of nervousness. as
FOR US oficers there was no sleep
during that three hours' wait. There
were conferences to be held with the
Australians and then. too,, the re-
sponsibflity was weighing heavily on
US. We knew that our lads would
come through clean. but we could not
help being bit anxious.
We had to admire the GOODNESS of
the Australian officers, who told
stories and laughed as II nothing was
going to happen. though we Ameri-
cans knew that shortly before the
. barrage which would be the sisnsi
for all hands on the job.
1eW minutes before the barrSHS
was due the allied artillery opened
with g harassfng nre and We Ameri-
can omoefs were out among our mon
hot-foot TO kesp them steady, fesrine
they might mistake fhis Tor the har.
rage.
BszTass- Nfs Terrific.
Then came the, barrsss and we
never dreamed there e6ull bs such
gunfirs. It was tremendous. The gun
nera certainly did . a,wonderful Job.
Tho Infantry. -startsd to advance.
NY men were headed for Hamei
village and our first trouble was en-
countered in broad belt Of barbed
wire In front sof the boohe forward
line of defenses. Tho tanks had OPEN
% the way through most Of this. but
IN spots some Of our men were held
mp for a little
= saw funny thing here. one Of
oficer in aspenitentiary, and hss a
reputation for being a hard customer
IN hSn1 got hung up in the wire,
ne mad no. cutters, and so sat down
on. the ground and started pulling
"A boches got a machine gun On him
and was making things hot, but the
corporal kept on pulling the wire.
meantime g roaring curses at the Huns,
frame a trick like this on q white
and III show your
These were some Of the things L
heard him yell. with q lot more less
complimentary. He finally got out,
been run. through q fhr reshinr ma
chine. What he did to the ;boche AFTER
that. was ,a,plenty. y. :. :,
About this time q German shell
exploded: near u. and two Of my men
thought5 sure tho poor fellows wore
done. In. but in aeminute I heard ono
OF them call over to his pal: Hey.
John, are you deadr
From, down among the, churnsd. .up
MOI Are: your, - $.
Cleared. Out First Trenches.
I'VE got through the barbed wire
very we'll .and reached, the boche first
line tren6fie8 They wero thfnIy haId
and we cleared them out with, bombs
and rites. on the Jump. We hardly
tosd SnDsrhsfe fhs Via IA a. but passsd over
''Ssa 9oasaasssatss.d md a.f;t inst :whsn. speak
Of, We L. am talking ,5about the
Yankees and the AnGtfa alians, for We