Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
TERR0R-s STRICKEN BOCHE
" CRIES OUT "KAMERAD"
However. Chicago Youth, Had Not For
gotten the bullets He Sent After
Amertcnna-Sh0wa No Mercy.
by WILLIAM j. BU'rLER

LONDON. October 12.S"ifn Il y,
T pTiSate ~, tenrror-strickenH boche as
r r,raraoe '@ rh,o Donovan. a twenty-one.
him, bayonet shot forward The Ger
nan nan oneratins a: machine gun. had
, DeSn fW v,d,y moving. down Dono-
surrounded the position. Donovan had
seen seen his bud. buddy" Carter NJ. Smith. re-
r rs,S wound and several others slain
ruthleSSly Ills visage grim, Donovan
charged straight ahead.
Kamerad! Kamerad!" howled the
, iern,an. put Donovan remembered the
unnecessary expenditure of good Amer
t tSnn i,v tSo and drove his bayonet
10 . a tree and killing him instantly.
stun. lie looked at the corpse dangling
there. DO yea think 1 came wav over
mere 1000 , miles. to play ping pong
cn THAT happened last August 9. near
IMPLY on the Somme front To
d faS t tii,ns h Donovan is still on the
his buddy" Carter NJ smith Of CHI hi
caSo. who was wounded in the same
action; is in the Finsbury Park Ameri-
as result Us
ISN'T, smith used to be professional
a cancer or on on the stage in Chicago. AS
pointed to the stump of his left leg
cut 20 off near the thigh. and said:
sorry. meyer rd do dance ICE. again, but I'm not
again for Uncle Sam"
40. Reyerting back to the exploit of his
D .9ThSy Donovan. he smiled:
van amt bigger than a minute-some
I'VE I'VE root nothing-and that big tremb-
ing !; boehe he pinned to the tree was
a Swapping siN-footer.
we were to take hin of great
strategic value. 1t was infested with
machine gun nests; We all knew il
OF casualties.
Colonel sanborn called us together
p pe me attack and said. Boys. do
Il was enough. we went out and cot cot
that hill. There were some casualties
nut you can take 1t from me there
strewn around than there were Chicago
boys.
"A bomb exploded and caught mo
fuseiy but wns S co ea S,sGsn al Pine the
time: Ahead Of me our boys raced on
singing and yelling.
Il don't know how long I Law there
wishing to God could pull myself
together to- and mix UP in the battle.
bb enpeE Of PRINTS nis, shelton strstcher
his buddy and lifted me into
stretcher, Shells were whistling over
ploding dangerously near u.s.
1T was a long way back to the field
hospital and | thought we'd never
@hsng neas hsy Ge set hear s SSs
and sheldon leaned oyer ny body ="
that II she'll exploded he'd get hi.
and not me. That guy was white.
TEen we came to :. trench. L, was
li;t,.i.d with Germer corpses There
was one corpse sitting upright, half the
race Flown away and IN. solitary ,yc
Stal inE. Only few feet away WAS
another German torGs. both feet
sticking straight in the air
The boche was giving us hell there
and we decided TO stop while in a
trench. Finally we got out and reached
the dressing station.
On the way we met n little nal NJ
mine. Private Horace Smotherman. Of
Chicago; who single-handed was bring
Ing In fifteen prisoners. He was max
i Ing EN- pick up and carry wounded
Whenever one OF them got stubborn
or TOO slow; he'd prod them with a bay
onet, or wallop them with the butt end
OF the gun-and you can bet they soon
got busy in rescuing the wounded,
Finally we reached the dressing
station and the lights went out for me.
! became unconscious. They told me
later blood poisoning was spreading so
rapidly they had to operate hurriediy.
AT any rate. when 1 came to I WAS
shy leg, that's ALL"