Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-08-23

Yankee sergeant The sergeant Is
only 1--WE feet high and his name Is
Hedcules.
Sergeant Hercules Korgis Is a
Greek by birth He was in the Greek
war that preceded the present explo-
sion 81 Europe. and he was gay with
many medals when he went 10 Amer
lea and settled down In West Lynn,
Mass settled down, as you have al
ready guessed. in the restaurant bus
mess. or course he enlisted the first
rack out OF the box. He showed
himself one OF those small but terri
BILE fighters and his regiment treaaur-
I'd him.
I'm the first morning Of the adj
gance, Sergeant Korgis was shot thru
he neck BIZ a German machine gun
md. thus wounded he was taken pTts-
,ner. He was borne Off into an easily
defended, well-munitioned little ra-
line, where whole German company
ay unnotieed by the Yankees who
gwepa BIZ them and far beyond.
AS the day wore on. these Ger
mans saw that they were trapped, but
they also saw that they could make
their captoFs pay heavy price for
their Anal submission.
A VIVID Looking Envoy.
Sergeant Korgis, who, like most
.resfauranters. speaks smattering Of
half q dozen languages, drew on ali
the German he knew for an eloquent
harangue that carried the day. Early
the afternoon. they decided to sur
render and sent him forth 10 nego-
late their safe passage TO the rear.
- a hRst mAXV
naining him. with mud and blood all
over him. he wasN q Withholding en-
voy when he ran Into some French
soldiers, who decided he was spy
and were all for shooting him then
and there.
''He dissuaded them from this
drastic action, pursued and caught up
with some stray Americans from his
own outfit, laid the case before them,
and led by one Corporal Wiley, they
went over Tor the formal surrender.
There was one nervous. excited
exchange OF shots between one unruiv
German machine gunner and one dis
trustful Yankee before the whole $50
marched out of the ravine and were
escorted by the sergeant to regimen
tai headquarters.
There his own officers pounced
on the sergeant and had him sent
back In the ambulance to the field
hospital. His wound had been we'll
dressed by a German surgeon who la
ter became one OF his prisoners.
zone grixgled sergeant was some
what taken aback when rs foriorn
German youngsters he had captured
began 10 SWIVEL detectediy. The ser
geant appealed loudly for the help Of
someone who could talk Boche. Tell
'em no ones going to hurt them. Tell
| EN- they've never been 30 well Off In
all their lives
German Officers ~ litter Bearers
Many German first-aid stations,
stacked with fine equipment, fell into
American hands, and some Ave Ger
man doctors, attended by large
train OF German medical corps order
les, were among the eaptives OF one
regiment. They were promptly put
to work under an American medical
corps major All day they dressed
| The wounds Of the injured German
nrisoners--and when none of these
vas about. they worked expertly on
the Yankees whom German shells and
German machine guns had wounded,
Indeed. many OF the prisoners had
no sooner been taken than they were
nut to work as litter bearers. The
regimental aid stations had plenty Of
work for them to do. and afterwards
a German lieutenant felt Obliged td
protest that In the rush OF things. he
an officer, had actually been required
to carry q common litter
Zone medical department private
who had worked tireieasly with the
wounded and impressed every man
he could lay hands on into the busl.
ness OF carrying hurt Yankees and
the hurt Germans TO the doctors wal
up to his neck In this work when 8
| German major exasperated him be
| yond measure by refusing fatty u
soil his hands with such mental ser,
vice.
Il am an officer" he explained
| coldly.
"The private brandished an omin-
ons dagger he had Just acquired as I
! souvenir.
"Officer, helil" he said.
THE major carried the litter"