New-York tribune., 1918-10-02
Wounded Soldiers Home
To Go Over Top for Loan
Fifty Americans Among First to Fight SmiIngy Wea
Scars of Battle Invest Cheerfuly Liberty Bonds and
Nodestly Tell Tales of How They Chased the Huns

hsavy barr.ge Of German shells when
IL happened" he said. "My company
was advancing in the wheat fields when
h1gh explosive shell broke right be-
SIDE me. A pehble hit me in the hoad
and put my hand there. It. was then
noticed that my leg was gone. T
o'un't lose consciousness then ov after.
NHrd"
'a;ohs WAS III the opinion that the
average German is a coward "They'iI
shoot at yoa fast enough" he said,
hut ! never yet saw one who would
stand up to the bayonet."
Private Walter Pierce, 9Th Marinea.
OF Newton Wis. Was wounded in BAL
lesu Wood and WAS taken prisoner bv
the enemy after lying two days and
nights IN 4 shell hole without food or
water.
"ln the advance several Of US rot
ahead OF our friends and got into q
rifle duet with ihe Germans at close
range, be said. "a bullet hit me in
she left arm and fell into shell hole.
ihis was late on Sunday night. When
SAT up 10 look around ] found nvself
alone.
y stayed there all Monday, and that
night ] tried to get back to our lines.
Kun patrol fired ST me, and dropped
back in my hole. was going to try
again the next night. but rs got
started l looked up and saw shadows
standing over me. They were Germans.
One Of them spoke English and said he
/ was from New York. buS wouldn't tell
nc his name
huns Under Firo Hum
They gave me some bread and coffee
IN the German trenches and l was Try
, ing 20 make myself comfortable, when
an American attack started. Shells
| broke all around us, and ] was glad TO
sec 10. OF Germans go down under
our fire After while the Huns left
the trench and ran, forgetting all about
me- Our men came up behind their
harrage, and yelled a. them NOS to
shoot me-"
Carl <. Johnson, also Of The 5th
Marines, was in tho attacking force
that rescned Pierce. He vas wounded
IN the charge, and since that time nc
and Pierrfs have heen insensrabla com
panions-
Captured Prisoners Though Wounded
Private Z. A. zones Sta Marines Of
Birmingham, Ala, captured q number
Of prisoners after being wounded in
Bal]eau Wood. 'fIhey eot rne through
the aryn and the hip" he said. "snd
on my Wy back So the dressing station
! sa@ couple Of faf heads crawling
ont OF dugouS~ ! made them come
I along. and az We walked back moro
came to join U.s. There rnust hava been
dozen OF more Ger1nans in my party
when got back to report
"Ons of NY prisoners spoke English
He was boy oi seventeen, and he told
me he'd been q year snd hall IN the
German army Our regiment captured
ious hsrtdrsssS prixencrs in that action"
Wounded In His TlYn1 Battle
FrlvAta Eugene G.. 12et@ser, 15atn In
fantry, Everett Wash. had his leg
, taken off by All explosive shell while
! lying Ia a wheat field before Chateau
/ Thierry. u Eas senr with replace.
rlent un1t 10 join tina Jo5th." he said.
Wv weYe resting for ri omept ia th4
wheaf~ and J had jvHt lit up y cigarette
when thal snell canas along, ] had
nsEver been IN action befsse, aYea by
actual ccuns EAR ia the waa only eiE
hours. leave IL ~ you y six hours
Is enough time To- . xoan TO sets a way
like this ia.
"C>ne oi my friends dgesee,i my
wuund, hut after that was l@s, there
jn the hcld for tbirty-e; s.4t hours. The
ire. was 80 hea*y the ambulances
couldn't ~ up J didn't mind that so
snrch. bus ] hate TO be out SO nuon.~
Metzge: wsa attending 81. Johns
Military Academy at the time OF hs
enlistment. Hc said as yet he had
formed no plans for the future.
"lW set along somehow, though he
SAID. Eve all feel that way" He
glanced into the corridor OF Liberty
Loan headquarters, watc hing q score or
more young women who had abandoned
their typewritera to exchange smiles
Sox the Way "reminiscences of the re-
turned soldiers. "Anyhow," he added,
che folks seem glad to sec US home"