Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-07-24
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The following extracts are taken
from letter published in the Green
vile News OF July IS. The writer,
a former Presbyterian pastor in the
city OF Greenville, is chaplain of
the 11Sth infantry, in which organi-
cation there are number OF Wal
halla and Oconee boys:
| No Casualties in 11Sth.
I'VE have had no casualties yet.
An outfit which is next to us seems
to have quite a streak Of hard luck.
Day before yesterday while tho men
were on tho drill ground they discov-
cred shell which had fallen with
out exploding. They picked 1t up
and passed 1t around. while they
were examining it, the order came to
fall in and the man who had the
she'll at the time, instead Of placing
1t gently on the ground, tossed it
over to the place where they had
found 1t. The firing mechanism was
set off and there were forty-two cas-
ualties. Yesterday part of the outfit
was on the march and had stopped
in a wood to rest. The orderlies had
taken the officers horses down the
road short distance. curious
looking motor truck came along,
stampeded the horses, which ran pell
nell through the bunch Of men who
were lying stretched out on the
ground. One man had his skull frac-
tured and there were other minor in
Juries.
An Interesting Service.
II had most interesting day last
Sunday. I preached to over a thou
sand men and officers in the public
square Of most picturesque viii
lage; then l mounted my charger
and rode to the ruins of very old
monastery or fort some miles dist
ant. had for pulpit the remains
Of all old tower and the men were
seated about here and there on the
ruins. On a bluff about 100 feet
on the alert and on the road about
half mile away we could see an
endless stream of men and lorries
moving to the front There were
about the same number of men in
the second congregation, and next
Sunday am to travel somewhat far
ther to meet the third section OF my
congregation.
The Hellish Huns.
Twice recently have been in
sections where the Germans have
bombed hospitals and have talked
with those who were present. There
can be no possible doubt that the
Huns knew the exact nature of the
BUILDINGS they were bombing and
the hellish ingenuity which they dis
play to make their work complete Is
enough to arouse the lighting spirit
of any decent person. 1t is impossi-
Bile for me to conceive OF their OBJ
ject in such raids. 1t seems that
they would have learned by now that
such actions rather stiffen the will
Of their opponents to crush them
than cause a weak kening through ter
rorization.
| IL hope that the reports which
come to us Of the large number of
American troops on the way are
true. The spirit among the Ameri-
cans everywhere is to fight the thing
out at once. Our allies on the other
hand, seem to be resigned to an in
definite struggle, and they have some
difficulty in getting our viewpoint. |
really think that one of the strong
est factors in putting pep and push
into the American army Is the fact
that so many of them married just a
short time before they left the States,
thus giving them the strongest incen-
tive to conclude matters that they
may have q speedy return home"