The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-09-05

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toned with the SD Infantry at Camp
Meade. Md
W f. Bailey has three sons and four
nephews in service. One of the neph-
ews, Paul A. Bailey of Camden. Mo,
participated in the American drive at
Chateau Ihierry that turned the tide
Of battle against the huns.
The local man is presenting to
friends with pride letter written by
the soldier nephew Just after the fierce
fighting.
Believe me, writes Paul Bailey,
Il consider myself lucky to get out
alive and uninjured. My only wound
was slight,bruise on the right shoul-
der from piece of flying shrapnel. 1t
amounted to nothing and did not pre-
vent me from staying IN the ranks.
1T might interest you to know Of
some of the fighting taking place ON
the Marne During the first of last
month | was stationed IN small
French village far back tof the lines
after two months in the front trenches.
But our rest was brief. +, Suddenly we
were ordered to pack up and be ready
to leave Immediately. Within few
hours : the. trucks began to arrive
Z hundreds of them) We had heard of
the great German drive for Paris and
knew from the first where we were
going. On the way to the front we
We're cheered by the. people who sur
rounded us at every stop and wished
that.we might stop the hun, Nearing
the front We met hundreds of refugees,
retreating fast before the Germans,
After we had taken up our positions
the French retired behind US, and the
enemy suddenly found new fire to face.
They came on with a rush, but were
repulsed with heavy loss. They reat.
tackled four times before convinced
| they had struck line they could not
break. was not in the front line. in
I this fighting. but back few hundred
/ yards getting the enemies shell fire.
The next day we received the good
news that the drive everywhere had
been halted.
Late one evening, Just year from
the time left home to help Uncle
Sam, we received orders that we were
1 to make an attack. A short time later
We formed and moved forward. The
enemy met us with a terrific machine
gun fire They had machine gun nests
along the line and some in the tops Of
( trees. Bullets were coming thick and
| fast and shells were bursting about us
as we charged Huns are hard fighters
at a distance, but III close quarters,
when they have to face the cold steel
A r,f bA hoVotot thaNy Iagp tbair
Some fled and others threw up their
hands and cried, 'kamerad We had
them on the run and followed them un-
4 til we captured a certain town, which
was our objective. The enemy shelled
the town throughout the night, and
the following night with the aid Of a
barrage made an effort to recapture it,
But our fire was so deadly that Fritz
saw the uselessness of his effort within
an hour | had several close shaVes.
but was not hit. Two close comrades
fell at my side, one killed and the
other wounded. The huns paid dearly,
for after the firing we could hear the
cries of the wounded in the woods 200
yards away.
The town was filled with smoke
from lnS tHectS OF lne ENEMY par
rage our enemy was still hurting over
a few shells that came screaming over
our heads and burst with an earspit-
ing crash out in no mans land about
$50 yards away. Believe me, it was
one night shall never forget.
Hubert L. Hasbrouck. Jr., writes his
parents that he has finished his radio
course at Harvard and has been as
signed to the u s. S. Westland of the
armed guard service, and is expected
to go on a cruise soon. The Westland
is merchant marine type and bullded
by the Willamette Iron Works, of Port
land.
In letter to his sister Mrs. f. G.
Hutchinson, Bishop Paddock, who re-
Gently was sent to the Italian front as
chaplain for American ambulance
drivers. declares that the morale of
the American troops is even better
than he expected to see.
Bishop Paddock says that he was i'm.
pressed by the cheerful spirit of the
men en- route across the Atlantic