The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-08
Kenosha's First Returning
Fighter Brings Story of
Glorious Service of the
Americans.
MANS WORK IN AMAN's WAY
Lieut.. Gilbert Lance Wearing the Hon.
ors and Scars Of Battle Comes Home
Today Bringing First Real Heart
Story of the Battle Front.

Don t you worry about the Ameri-
cans on the front lines. They are do
ing mans part in mans way.
Some seem to wonder how the Ameri-
cans can keep up to the pace set by
the French and the English but the
real wonder is now the French and
English weary with four years of war
can keep up with the fresh fighting
Americans.
Lieutenant Gilbert Lance, bronzed
as a berry, and decorated with the
honors of world war, sat on a com
Portable big roomy sofa up at the
Lance home on Prairie avenue this
morning and recalled other days over
on the front line Of the battle for
world freedom. He is the first of the
Kenosha fighters to come back home
after subjecting himself to the. biting
attacks Of Fritz in No Man Is Land Z
and in the front line trenches. Back
unscathed with only the suspicion of
gurgle in his throat as result of tast-
ing German gas he is bringing
wonderful story of the bravery Of the
men that America has sent over to
take the place Of the French and the
other allied troops in fighting the bat
| tie for world freedom.
No attempt was made to interview
Lieutenant Lance this morning. He
had just come in from New York and
he was having that delightful reunion
with close personal friends that he
had dreamed Of weeks and months ago
when he was trudging along through
"No Man s Land under the hail of
| fire from the boche guns, and it would
have been violating a sacred hour to
| have intruded for an interview. The
coming home of the first of the Keno
sha boys who had felt the real sting of
war was real event. The great lawn
at the Lance home showed signs Of the
festal occasion. Old Glory waved just
little more proudly out on the lawn
than it ever had before and flying right
in the line with it just as they fly
over there near the trenches were the
flags of France, Great Britain, Bel
GUM and Italy.
! 1t must have looked homelike in a
lot of ways to the returning soldier
who had won honorable mention and
| honorable decorations fighting under
those same flags down Cantigney way
| Lieutenant Lance is in splendid
health. Possibly war had made just a
few burrows on his face, possibly he
looked little older but he appeared
to drop back into the old setting of
the Prairie avenue home with little
change as result Of thrilling exper-
fences as a warrior.
81 have been ordered to Camp
Meade he said as he broke away
from the home circle for just a minute,
II can not say what my work will be
there. I am going to be here at hon
until next Monday and then back int
the service ready to follow the or
ders which will come when I get to
Camp Meade
II wish | could talk to all the
friends here at home and tell them
what wonderful war this is, he con-
tinued, but really you people over
here know more about what is going on
in the war than we do over there. War
to us means just hard serious work.
1t means fighting on the lines and
working with the pick and shovel back
Of the lines. Every man in the front
line has twelve men standing behind
him doing man 3 work every one of
them and doing work that is inst as
necessary to win as the work of the
man who faces Fritz at the front. I
haven It seen many Kenosha boys since
IL went over. One day I ran on to
Billy Ball. He was sleeping in the
tent when found him but he did
not object to my waking him up and
we had a real Kenosha reunion
T Lieutenant Lance spoke of the fact
that the boys over here were all anx-
ious to get over there and he gave it
as his personal idea that most of the
boys over there were willing and ready
to come back over here. The boys
in our army realize that they have
work to do. They may not like it but
they do it and do it well. The Ameri-
cans are doing man S part in man 3
way where ever they have been called
into service. Some people say it is a
wonder that our boys do as web as
the French and the English. I think
it is a wonder that those veteran
fighters wearied by four years of war
can keep pace with the pep of the
Americans. The Americans are intro
ducing new ideas into the war. y
"The Americans are curious all the
time, they want to see what is going
on and the first three men we lost in
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