The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-08
Chief of Staff Lists Units of
the Thirty -Second Divis-
ion Now Fighting at
Meuniere Wood.
WIN A GLORIOUS VICTORY
Hundred and Seventh Supply Train and
Hundred and Seventh Ammunition
Train Listed Among Units in Bat
Both Contain Kenosha Men.

The great offensive over in France
has a new and greater interest today
for Kenosha people, as the announce
ment of the chief of Saturday revealed
for the first time the fact that the
Thirty second Division, the men who
trained with the Wisconsin and Illinois
National Guard troops at Camp Mac
Arthur at Waco, Texas, has been moved
over into the line of the great struggle
on the line between Rheims and Sois-
sons. The Thirty-second is declared to
have borne the brunt of the fighting
at Meuniere wood on Thursday and
Friday and to have given a glorious
account of themselves.
Kenosha units which are listed with
the men in the line at that great bat
tie include the One Hundred and
Seventh Ammunition train in command
of Captain Edward Dayton; the One
Hundred and Seventh Supply Train in
command of Captain Asbury H. Vale,
and the One Hundred and Seventh
Military Police which contains a num-
Der of Kenosha men. The largest single
group of Kenosha men are with Cap
tain Wales company. This company
has seventy Kenosha men who were
former members of Company NJ of the
old Fourth Wisconsin. Captain Day
tor has about dozen former members
of Company NJ with him.
No report has been received to indi-
cate that Captain Coney and his Bat
terry E boys have been taken from the
instruction camp where they were sent
some time ago, but the list of men in
action given out shows that part of
the One Hundred and Twentieth Ar
tillery has been in action in the big
offensive. A number of Kenosha boys
are connected with the Headquarters
unit of the 120th and it is possible
that these men are in action where the
big guns are roaring.
No report of casualties have been
received from the battle about Mueni-
ere woods and it is not expected that
these reports will be received until
ten days later.
A letter was received from Captain
Dayton this morning. 1t bore the date
of July 18th and at that time his com
mand had not been sent to join the
Americans fighting with the French
along the battle line.
Letters received from other members
of old Company M indicated that they
were being moved up closer to the big
front every day and it is supposed
that these men were called into ae
ton with other portions of the Thirty
second Division.
It is estimated that there is in the
neighborhood of a hundred and fifty
of tie Kenosha men in the very thick
of the great battle on the Western
front at this time.
In his letter today Captain Dayton
sent along interesting news Of the boys
at the front. He declared that his
baseball team had won the only two
games that it had played and was on its
way for the championship of the
division.
Captain Dayton also enclosed copy
of an address to the American soldiers
by the people of AJsace which was
delivered to every soldier on the
Fourth of July.
Letters received this morning from
Kenosha members - Headquarters "
with the 120th Artillery, announce that
Battery E, made up entirely of Keno
sha men, has been recalled to the line
from Institutional camps. 1t is de-
clared in these letters that the Battery
E boys will be with the other units of
the 120th on the line "by the time
this reaches you" This would indicate
that Battery E is now with the troops
bearing the brunt of the great strug-
gle about scissors.