Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-09-19
GOT THIRTY HUNS
BEFORE HE DIED
scoTTY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER IN
PERsHING'S FORCES, is
MouRNED BY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC DEATH RELATED
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Washington.-Private Albert r.
Scott, the youngest soldier in General
Pershing's army in France-he was
but fifteen years of age and a Brook
line, Mass, high school boy when he
enlist eds dead, shot through the
head by a German sniper after he had
laid thirty foes to rest, and the army
mourns its boy hero.
A soldier writer for The Stars and
Stripes, the a. E. F. paper, tells this
story:
In the regiment they are talking
these days OF all the good pals they
lost in the fierce, unfortgettable chase
they gave the Germans in the great
retreat from the Marine. But most of
ala little oftener and bit more
fondly-they talk of Scotty.
He was a good kid, they say. and
he died on his gun.
His great chance came when on
that historic July IS his regiment got
the order for which, through many a
month of dreams. it had longed-the
order to advance. 1t went IS kilOme-
tiers without stopping, chasing the BOche
up hill and down dale, fighting its way
through patch after patch of inviting
woods that would prove treacherous
with hidden machine guns.
In the first days of that battle, the
movement was so swift that more than
once a small German rear guard and an
advance Yank platoon would meet in
the forest and fight out then and there
a complete and separate battle all their
own. So it was with the Indians, as
Scotty'S regiment was nicknamed, one
afternoon, as they We're making their
way past the bitterly won town of
Epieds.
AT the cross road they saw troops
approaching them in column of squads
The officer in charge caught them in
the focus of his field glasses. They
" ere Boches, coming on. The Yanks
waited. itching to open fire, but hiding
their time Suddenly the Boches de-
serted the road and came on them
through the forest.
The lieutenant placed his men along
roadside ditch. He placed Scotty
and his sho-sho beside tree and
squareiy opposite a narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that path. and
the Boches were bound either to come
along it or to cross it,
See that path, Scotty?' said the
lieutenant. That's your target. Not
one of them must cross it,
Yes. sir said Scotty, and dropped
beside his gun.
'Then from the high branches of
many tree and from many a shelter
the German fire opened, and the Yank
fire answered.
"A gray figure darted suddenly into
the leafy path. He fell
another appeared. He fell.
There was perhaps ten minutes of
that. and what was left of the German
party was withdrawing when a handful
or soldiers scampered along the road.
They were Germans, but they shouted
as they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer
leans
For moment. just for the space
that a breath is held. Scotty thrust his
head up to see- From his perch in
some tree sniper shot him in the
forehead Another bullet found his
heart. He fell forward, dead, on his
gun.
They had killed him, but the num-
Der of their dead that are counted as
his was thirty
Roller skates as a part of the speed
up program in force at the Rock Island
arsenal. Illinois, have been adopted by
women messenger employees.
Women employed in the time divis-
ion at the arsenal are voluntarily work
ing the first Saturdays and SUNDAYS of
each month closing the pay roll sheets
so that all arsenal workers may be
paid promptly.
According to the arsenal Record.
published by the employees. Rev. NJ. E.
krotzer. pastor of the Presbyterian
churches Mt LeClaire and Princeton
Iowa, is putting in his five weeks va
cation as an arsenal worker The same
paper reports the fiftieth anniversary
as an arsenal worker at Rock Island of
Emil Beck seventy years old, Inspector
in the tin shop, who went there when
the arsenal consisted of a small proup
OF wooden buildings. relics of Civil war
days, and employed from 200 to 400
men only through the summer months
Cuba has closing law which shuts
all stores, warehouses shops. etc. in
the larger cities at 6 p. M week DAVIS
and all day Sundays Retail food
stores keep open until S o. M. week
days and 10 p. M. Sundays. Barber
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