The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-20
NeU York Man Sends News
 Of Alabama Men in I67th
Lieutenant Irish Killed at St. Mihiel- Gives De- tails of Captain Gardner Greene's Death-Pell
 City Man Died Like True Hero With
 Machine Gun Bullet Through Forehead

The plea of Mrs. M. S. Irish, 7s Mar Win avenue, Auburn, N. Y., for news of her son which appeayed in Wednesdays Age-Herald. was answered in a sad way yesterday.
 Borden Burr of Birmingham had just had letter from B. c. Dunlop of Spring Valley. N. Y. in which he told of the death of Mrs. 1rish's son, Lieut. Eugene J. Irish. of Company F. l67th infantry. The letter from Mir Dunlop contains so much news about other Alabamians that it is here given in full:
 Dear MT. Burr-I was very glad to hear from you and learn that you were back home in Alabama. enjoying life as everyone must here in the [. S. A. l know you will pardon me for not an swering your first letter. but I have been so busy since I returned as to seem ingly neglect some very obvious duties.
 arrived home from France dur ing the early part of November, hav- ing left the regiment on October 10 two kilometres south of Montfaucon in the Argonne forest, northwest of verdun. came down to Bar Le Due on the Y. M z. A. bus and from there to Paris by rail and then home via Brest | had very pleasant trip, with only one sub marine scare at ll:30 D. m. one night when one of our 5-inch bow guns fired on something we thought was a sub- marine l stood my watch in the upper crows nest, about 100 feet from the wa ter, and really thought I was some thing of sailor when 1 landed at New port News. l was more than. happy when l arrive home and found my fam fly ali We'll
 T have read with great interest the newspaper articles you sent me. They are invaluable to me, as I had the mis- fortune to lose my diary early in Sep tember. which I had faithfully kept up to that time; so you see your articles will make permanent record for the part of the campaign they cover.
 INTO FOUL SECTOR
 After you left us down at the three little villages of Breuvannes, Damblain and Colombey, we stayed there until Au- gust 29, and then gradually worked our way up by night marches to the Toul sector which you know had been one of the first sectors occupied by the Amer ican troops. There eVerything was in readiness for the battle of St. Mihiel and at o'clock on the morning of Sep tember IF, after a four hours lombard ment, our boys went over the top, start~ ing from just above Seicheprey, a lit- tie village almost due east from Mont Sec The bombardment was not as heavy as the one you went through in the Champagne on July b, and I was quite disappointed in the volume of it. How ever, it was almost, a pure American bombardment and answered the purpose perfectly. Meeting with very little re- sistance. the old 167th moving through the villages and over the hills, covered 10 kilometres, reached their objective just beyond the village of Pannes, where they dug in for the night. Bright and early in the morning they started out and by noon time. having covered five kilometres, reached the army objectives beyond the village of St. Benoit.- Thus they com pleted in 30 hours what the French com mander allowed six days for. The first division was on our left then the Forty second, with the Eighty ninth to our right, and the Second on the extreme right near. Thiaucourt. The. Third diyi- sion was in reserve. The regimenta, losses were rather light, compared to the battles in which you participated and amounted to approximately per cent or in round numbers about 1So killed and wounded
 CAPT. GREENES DEATH
 Poor Capt. Gardner Greepe was in- stantly killed by machine gun bullet in the forehead during the first day of the attack, not more than 200 yards from the starting point. He died soldier 8 death at the head of his company and