Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-21
CORPORAL COINS, OF RAINBOW
DIVISION. RETURNS FROM
BATTLE FRONT.
TELLS OF WORK OF
IoWA's CRACK REGIMENT
Hardest Fighting at Sersy and Chateau
Thierry-Goins Sent to Camp Dodge
to Instruct Recruits in Modern War
fare-Says Most Of Boys viii Come
saek-No Peace Without Victory,

Delphos, Sept, 21.-"Every Iowa boy
who has fallen in France in the battle
for democracy fell facing Germany. 1t
was thus with the wounded, too"
| That's the message Corporal Lloyd
Coins. Company b. tSSth infantry.
brought 10 Iowa. Coins is back home
/ for a short rest here and will then hike
to Camp Dodge where he takes up his
post as instructor in modern warfare.
Our stretCher bearers told me that
they have Yet TO lind one of our boys
! facing toward their own lines" con-
tinued Coins. They're in the fight
and they know it--and you can bet the
| FritZies know it. too
| Coins, a modest youth of 10, came
thru his seven months of service with
out a scratch. This he attributes TO his
luck. brought on by his identification
ag-l00175-which totaled makes Il
just escaping the dreaded IS hoodoo.
Oppose German Peace.
| Hell. no.: that was the answer 10
q question whether he or other men,
bers of Iowa's fighting soldiers would
be satisfied with such a peace as has
been offered recently by Germany thru
her pawn. Austria. IF you could see
the boys going after the Heinies, you
wouldn't ask that question. While l
haven't given it careful study. l sup
pose the latest offer was like the others,
the bunk
Certainly I've got a message for the
mothers of Iowa and for that matter
for the mothers of every one of the
Yanks over there" he continued with
smile. Here it is:
They're fighting and fighting hard.
every mothers son of 'em. Don't be
worried about them-they don't worry
over themselves and don't want anyone
worrying over 'em. They're doing their
best
| LAS to the gas, don't worry about it,
either. We've had some, to be sure,
but we all got over it. Now that the
boys know how to put the masks on
properly and in the quickest time pos
sible, there is little or no danger. And
you can bet we are not careless about
strapping the headgear on when the
gong sounds the alarm"
At Chateau Thierry.
The 16Sth got it's hardest work at
Chateau Thierry and Sergy, according
to Coins. Sergy. he admitted, was real
ly the hardest task. this being due to
the fact that the Hun gunners had the
Americans address and were running
home the big shells.
But OF course everybody knows now
what eventually happened there. We
let EN- have it and finally pushed 'em
back and out Heinie gave Us a fairly
good tussel t.,ere-but you can't keep
the Americans down or back. We get
their number oftener than they get
ours and that's the reason the Yanks
Strengthened out the St. Mihiel salient.
They figured our attack about four
days after it really happened. OF
course I can't say anything about the
fighting there. for was on the water
| when it started and ended, but news
| paper accounts show the Germans had
the first guess and, as usual, guessed
| wrong
Regiment Cited.
II could tell lot about the bravery
Of the Iowa boys. but don't want
anyone thinking I'm Dragging. OF
course, the regiment has been cited
and decorated for bravery twice and
that ought to speak for itself. The
newspaper correspondents have de-
tailed what the Hawkeye boys of the
Rainbow division have done, so why
ask me again?
Before we quit, I want everyone in
Iowa to know that Chaplain Winfred
Robbs is some guy and beloved by all.
He's the gamest sky pilot in the divi-
sion and the best liked, guess.
when the shells are coming fast
est and the machine guns pop. you'll
find the chaplain with one u TIC
stretcher bearers tagging wounded
men and offering words of encourage
ment. He tags the dead also. and
when the action is completed, there he
is with complete list OF casualties OF
the regiment or whatever part OF the
organization has been in action the
boys like him for this and they know
he can't take a shot back at some Hun
who takes slug at him.
Colonel Bennett of Des MONIES ana
| his staff are also well liked. In fact
the boys are for every officer in the
game"
Coins isn't keen on telling what part
he PLAYED in the various engagements
and in his own words is mum when II
comes to talking about myself.
I After telling about a submarine at
tack on the ship that brought nm
hack. Coins again SAID:
"I'eu the mothers, wives, fathers anu
other relatives of boys over there not
TO worry. Most Of EN- will come paeh
and those who don't will have died
death of elory-a real DEATH.
| .xoerr pEcoRD ENROLMENT.