Evening star., 1918-07-28
Scouting Across the
Rver A Machine
Gun in a Bedroom,
Among Po,oder PuHs
and Rouge Pots.
Story of Americans
First Taste of Oten
Warfare.
Warfare.

volunteers. They swan the Marne
ana began beating their way through
Suddenly hand, waved in warming
from the officer. halted the seven
others breathless. They heard voices
-Four of the patrol went to the right,
four to the left, with the understand
ing that they were to cross the road.
twelve feet in front of them, get be-
hind the German post from where the
tants alive.
One patrol reached its objective.
1ne other. commanded by Lieut..
Zwfcky. was getting along well when
twig snapped underfoot.
The Germans in the post heard 1t.
Two rifles appeared.
Ergiebt euch," one of the Germans
shouted.
Lieut.. zwtcky. who spoke German.
Immediately shouted the same cali
for surrender.
'Ergiebt euch." he cried.
The Germans. confused by the voice,
hesitateA
Lieut.. Zwicky and his men sprang
out. and with automatic and rifle de-
manded the surrender. The Germans
recognized the Americans. But they
would not give in and opened fire.
fortunately their first shots were
wild. and they never fired seconds.
When our men reached them they
were both dead, each shot through
the heart
This adventure. with the crackle of
revolver and rifle. was at least two
kilometers within German territory,
and our men knew they were sur
rounded at all times. But they took
time to cut OF the epaulets of the
(yarp1 Srh hoi fol
number was embroidered in red. took
all their papers away. and beat it
back to the Marne.
There was all sorts of desultory
firing and quite an alarm in the
German position. but the patrol got
home safely. They had not taken
live prisoners to be questioned. but
tioq they wanted. Johann Trotz
and Heinrich Naumann of the 9th
Company. I'd Battalion. 444th Regi-
ment, 231st Division of the kaiser's
armies, are both dead. and they have
done service to America.
few days earlier we had taken
prisoner from this division at another
point. This second Identification
taught our intelligence department
many things. one of which was that
the division was moving, side slip
ping" from x to to reinforce a
certain other division. probably to
assist IN an attack. Our intelligence
department, of course, does not reply
on one or two identfflcations, but
every bit of information added In
creases sour knowledge of the Ger
man movements and positions in geo
metric ratio, and the patrol made by
Lieut.. Zwicky and his men in open
warfare time when movement and
position change daily and the old
ways of gaining intelligence are dis
carded. was Of the utmost value for
US.
On our Marne front the shelline
never ceases. We never hear the sky
farks sing as we do in Lorraine, and
on the Toul front. and we never see
the -magpies quarrel in no mans land.
No mans land itself shifts by day and
by night. and 1t Is a land rich In veg.
citation and villages, beautiful to the
eye though filled with gas and. the
flying fragments of steel. The -pop.
pies cover the roadsides, and our men
wear the gay blossoms on the helmets
and in their tunics. They are not sorry
that their service In the trenches iS
z over. that they are in movement. and
they have already shown. in such in.
cidentB as here narrated, and in. .thous
sands OF others which may never have
chrOnicler. but which are just al
dne and heroic. that movement meano
but -one direction for them-forward.
Copyright 1918. By Edward Marshall.) =
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