Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-11
ENEMY SENDS PRISONERS
BACK WEARING SIGN 5
Saying I've Can't Spare Food
TO Feed You"
\ MEXICAN TELLS STORY
Huns Pretend to Dcspise Soldiers OF
Portugal, According to Graduate
OF Sewancc College and Rhodes
Scholar mt Oxford University.
BY HENRY G. WALES.

! PARIS. February lo.-PortuEuese
troops. captured in IL trench raid on
the Flanders front. were sent back TO
| tho allied lines by the Germans with
placards on their backs saying: we
! can't spare the food TO feed you" and
/ Go back 20 Your trenches. We don't
! fear YOU" according 10 l'rsnk H. Caller.
| who has just arrived here from the
British front.
Caller. who is a son OF the Bishop
Of Tennessee and comes from Nashville.
~ euoaltern in the British army,
being attached to Z battery OF "heavies'
! In the Royal Garrison Artillery He
has come to Paris 10 sign up In the
United states Army.
The battery was with WAS posted
very near passchendaclc." said Sub
lieutenant Caller. Il received word On
the day before Christmas that my APP
pltcation for perm is3ion 70 RIO 10 Paris
and join UP with the 'Yauks' had been
granted and was mighty c:ad Bu,
while was packing W for my de-
parturc old Fritzy started lombard
mcnt that indicated an attack was com
Ing. sure. ! received orders 30 proceed
20 an advanced post and do artillery
Observing
- duckcd UP forward 20 an old. halt-
demolished German pill box tina, our
boys were using for an observation
post Il was out in Il li.,le salient.
The English troops were holding the
line then. the Canadians havinis been
sent south after stov.n!ns raaschen-
daele in November.
"Eri;Zy turned OF an awtui heavy
bonn ba r,ln.cut. and then switched 20
rolling ba"raee. and We knew the in
fantry attsck was coming. With my
runner fell haci: TO another observa-
ton post Oh a i!ttln hill. Sure enough.
the Huns attacked in force. using three
divisions on twc-klcmctar front;
They sv'ar!ncd forward and reached
The first line OF c-aters that the Eng
fish had seen holding. -hey stopped
there Tor few minutes 10 form up.
Then they dcboucheG for the second
STEP. and fell back 10 another obser-
walton post;
Meanwhile more and more az our
guns were registering. great. biz long
range babies. and English reserves
we're also coming un the CON ulunica
zion trenches for the countc-attacis.
Fritz went forward again. iich,inG
his way into our second lire OF de-
Tense In some places. Flu; our guns
slammed down s. barraGe over the Ger
man lines that prevented re-cntorce-
nonts from debouch.ns.
Then ihc English troops won't for
ward with yell. and there was som.
pretty tough hanG-to-hand fighting.
they fought with bayoncts. knives.
hiuCstons and hand grenade and rs
the time the excitement died away
there weren't any Huns left except Il
H;tic handful OF prisoners. 1t was
All such hot work that [ never got
away until the day aftcr Christmas"
The Portuguese contingent ot ;roons
has been holding ou:o; .rojn, in
the ncighborhood or the Ypras sector
and Suhlieutcnant Caller visited the
troops there on several occasions.
PORTUGUESE GOOD SOLDIERS
HUT INENPERIENCED
Ihc Portuguese arc Sood soldiers
and ssht we'll bat they haven't had
the experience and can, class with
IN" German veterans said Caller
The Huns put over q big raid on tho
Portuguese one night. and unde~ cover
Of q terrific honiha rdment and 4 har-
rage ,hcir shoe. troops captured forty
or ftty Portuguese and took them
back TO the German lines
"Su' the next nigh; the Por,uguesa
entposts were aStcn.shed 10 see some
or their own men creeping and Godg-
inS across no mans land The.
thouHht it was some trap but their
comrades called out not to shoot
Few minutes later the prisoners jumped
over tie pGropet into their own
trenches again. Each man had a si:-n
OF some sort pinned on his coat by the
Germans. Most OF those placards were
10 the effect that Fri;zy wouldn't
fother with Portuguese prisoners be-
cause he couldn't spare the food for
;hen. Others said that F'ritzy wasn't
afraid OF ths Portuguese. and 20 prove
1t Il" was sending chem baci<.''
Sub!icutenant Caller IL 81 graduate
o! SevGnoe College and Columbia
University and was Rhodes scholar
~ Oxford when the war broke out
lie came 70 France Immediately and
joined The Old original American am
bu!ance cops
AfI+:ward he Joined she American
mission in Belgium and was on Mr.
l!ooveI's STAFF. When the United states
declared war on Germany, Caller went
30 EnGiand and Joined the Royal Car
rison Artillery.