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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10
CHAPTER VI.
Fritz Doe. a Little 4strafelno.'

Fritz Does Little "strafelnp."
Ny outfit was one Of those that saw
the Germans place women and chill
dren in front Of them as. shields
against our fire. More than third Of
our men, ! should say. had been pretty
tough criminals in their own countries.
They always traded their pay against
a handful Of cards or roll of the
bones whenever they got chance.
They had been in most Of the dirty
parts Of the world. This war was not
such a much to them; just one more
job in the list. They could call God
and the saints and the human body
more things. than any boss stevedore
that ever lived.
Yet they were religious In, way.
Some Of them were always reading
religious books or saying prayers in
different ways and between them they
believed In every religion and super
st1tion under the sun, guess. Yet
they were the toughest bunch I ever
saw.
After they saw the Germans using
the Belgian women the way they did,
almost every man in my company took
some kind Of q vow or other, and
most Of them kept their vows, too,
believe. And those that were religious
GOT moro 20 after that.
Oar chaplain had always been vssy
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10
J Is oeoege Mathew Adams Service

friendly with the men, and while I
think they liked him they were so
tough they would never admit 1T, and
some Of them claimed, he was a Jonah,
or jinx, or bad luck Of some kind. But
they all told him their vows as soon
as they made them and he was sup.
posed to be a sort Of referee as to
whether they kept them or not.
During my second stunt in the front
lines things got pretty bad. The Ger.
mans were five to our one and they
kept pushing back parts Of the line
and cleaning out others. And the
weather was as bad as It could be
and the food did not always come reg.
ularly. Now, before they took their
vows. every last man in the bunch
would have been kicking and growing
all the time, but, as it was, the only
time they growled was when the Ger
mans pushed US back.
Things kept getting worse and you
could see that the men talked to the
chaplain more and quite few Of them
got real chummy with him.
One morning Fritz started in bright
and early to begin his strafe. The
lieutenant was walking up and down
the trench to see that the sentries
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10

were properly posted and were on the
job: A shell whizzed over his head
and landed just behind the paratlos
and the dirt spouted up like imagine
Yellowstone geyser looks.
Another officer came up to the lieu.
tenant-a new one who had only
Joined the company about a week be-
fore. They had walked about ten
yards when another shell whizzed over
them. They laid to and third one
came. There were three in less than
five minutes. directly over their heads.
Then shell landed on the left side
Of the trench and a poilu yelled that
four men had got 1t. They were all
wounded and three died later. The
lieutenant went over to them and Just
after he passed me lad got it square
not far from me and was knocked
over to where was lying.
The lieutenant came back and
helped me with the flrst-aid roll and
then the Germans began using shrap-
mel. The lieutenant was swearing
hard about the shrapnel and the Ger.
mans and everything else.
Farther to the right shell had 1ust
struck near the parados and made q
big crater and across from 1t, against
the parapet, was a young chap with
deep cash in his head, sitting on
the fire step and next to him fellow
nursing the place where his arm had
been blown of. Our bread ration lay
all about the trench and some of the
poilus were fishing it out of the mud
and water and wiping the biscuits of
on their sleeves or eating as fast as
they could. Only some of the biscuits
had fallen in bloody water and they
did not eat these. \
A young fellow, hardly more than a
boy, sturabled over the .parados and
fell into the trench right near the
lieutenant and the lieutenant dressed
his wounds himself. think he was
some relation of the boy.
The lieutenant asked him how he
felt, but tho boy only asked for water
and smiled. But you could see he was
in great pain. Then the boy said :
"Oh, the pain 10 awful. I am going
to die"
"You are all right, old man." the
lieutenant said. ''You will be home
soon. The. stretcher bearers are COM
Ing" So we passed the word for the
stretcher bearers.
Then he took the water bottle from
the boys side and sat him up and gave
him some water. He left the water
bottle with the chap and went to
hurry the stretcher bearers along.
When he got around the corner Of the
trench the boy was slipping back and
the water bottle had fallen down. 90
I went over to him and propped him
up again and gave him some moro
water.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10
a Regular Hail Of shrapnsl Fell.

! = Y .
and You would be surprised to see how
quickly our. corps established com
0unication from a newly won trench
% headquarters, for instance. They
were asking for our casualties before
We had flushed having them. almost.
Artillery fire was directed by men
whose duty It was to dope out the
nange from the information sent them
- the observers in the air. Two men
were stationed at the switchboard.
one man to receive the message and
0he other to operate the board. As
soon as the range was plotted out It
vas telephonsd to the gunners and
hey did the ra1t.
The naval guns 1t Dixmude were
noupted q lat cars and these were
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10
CHAPTER v-contlnued.

never saw battery better con-
eealed than this one. Up on the ground
You couldn't see the muzzle twenty
yards away-and that was all there
was to see at any distance. There
was q ruined garden just outside the
gun quarters, and while the gunners
were there picking apples there would
be q hiss and an explosion, and over
would 60 some Of the trees, or maybe
man or two. but never shell struck
nearer the guns than that. The poilus
used to thank Fritz for helping them
sick the apples, because the explosions
would bring them down In great style.
Shells from our heavy artillery passed
sust over the garden. too, making an
awful racket. But they were not in It
with the s75's."
They gave me a little practice with
2 10" under the direction Of expert
Wrench gunners before I went to my
14-inch naval gun, and, believe me, it
was a fine little piece. Just picture
to yourself little beauty that can
send q 88-pound shell every two sec
onds for five miles and more, IL you
want 1t to. and land on Fritz vest
button every time. There is nothing
I like better than gun, anyway. and
I have never since been entirely salts
lied with anything less than .'75."
Asyou probably know, the opposing
artillery in this war is SO widely sepa-
rated that the gunners never see their
targets unless these happen to be
buildings, and even then 1t is rare. So,
since an artillery officer never sees the
enemy artillery or infantry. he must
depend on others to give him the range
and direction.
For this purpose there are balloons
and afrplanes attached to each artil-
aery unit. The airplanes are equipped
With wireless, but also signal by
smoke and direction Of flight, while
the balloons use telephones. The OBJ
servers have maps and powerful
glasses and cameras. Their maps are
marked of In zones to correspond with
the maps used by the artillery officers.
The observations are signaled to a
receiving station on the ground and
are then telephoned to the batteries.
All our troops were equipped with
telephone signal corps detachments
and this was very important arm
Ut the service. The enemy position is
shelled before an attack. either en-
barrage OF otherwise, and communion
ton between the waves Of attack and
the artillery is absolutely necessary.
8ombardments are directed toward
certain parts Of the enemy position
almost as accurately as you would use
searchlight. The field telephones are
very light and are portable to the last
degree. They can be rugged up or
Knocked down in a very short time.
The wire is wound on drums or reelij
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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10
DICTIONARIES vow VENGEANCE WHEN GERMANS HIDE
BEHIND BELGIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Depew, author story
states during which
petty omcer nrstcass
ms honorable discharge from the and
assigned to the dreadnaught wins
nonors Later he transferred
sne 'front.' He gets first experience
Dxmude. -
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10

9 experience In front line trench at
a: :::::::::: -:
drawn back and forth ON the track BY
little Belgian engines.
After had been at NV pun for sew.
eral DAYS I was ordered hack "a NV
regiment, which was again In the
front-line trenches. Ny course was
past both the British and French lines
but quite distance behind the front
lines. !.
Everywhere there were ambulances
and wagons going backward and for.
ward. I met. one French amhnlance
that was 4 long wagon fnll a. noilns
from field hospital near the f,r,np
line and was driven nv = man whose
left arm waa bandaped Ia the shonl-
der. Two poilus Who sat In fhe rear
on guard had each heen wonndad IN
the iee and ona had had q hir str,n ~ ~
his scalp torn Of. There waa not a
sound man IN the hnnch Won con
imagine what their cargo vaa lilo -
the convoy was as nsed nm an those
49, ~ soA, ny. w ~ 90 useu W as tlese
.-~ ap.. .",,.,a ~ Wlo evulu were sung
IL the French for -von.. itev n.ad M
more men than thew conlG noxs,hlv
snas. - 4a,.s sa. t as y, sou.u poss,oly
tha.. ~ .aAe =. S11e s ~ ne "ounueu' uut
s1wavs $50 - -1A eoo1s
Tnst ...., ,...,, AZ. !.
~ ~ 60 a.ss. pasSeI ' .n.s alnpulance
- az az .aaa - Desan suen.ns = ses.lon
oh,a .oa1 49, ~ ue - me - De comlolt-
a 49,, ~ 800. !. &c. - - enen sIa.et
80. shs., .aIu g, ~ ~ sne egal' ~ .ue
naer 10 lost ~ So 1 49, 800 49,
hole-T 1,;i not 1oo,r sro,,pd - . 90. , e.
closa T. was-and ranoan,har nav,
how tho old m,nstrei 4oSa haS ha a
on hoard shin came, - mo min; ind a. .I. tho
time-somethine ahont = fellow, fool s
inp m small 10 c,,mhod into a hnIa
and nn,Ied - : ftar him AMI n.ds1 w,shaS
I mieht do the same flattaned nv.
self al close against the wall ~ the
crater as conid and then T noticed
that somebody had made a duennt IN
the other Wall Of tha crater and 7
started for it. - :
The shells were exploding 40 fast
by that time that You could NOT listen
for each explosion separately. and 1ust
as Jumped into the dueout q regular
hail Of shrapnel fell>on the spot I had
just passed. It was pretty dark in
the dugout and the first move I made
! bumped into somebody else and he
let out a yell that you could have
heard q mile. It was Tommy who
had been wounded in the hand and
between curses he told me had sat
right on his wound when moved. I
asked him why he did not yell sooner.
but he only swore more. He surely
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10

Dspew goes sovsr the top
and "gets" his first German IN 4
bayonet tight. Read HE story
Of this exploit IN tas mkt 10.
stalIn,snt
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-10

eso BE- coxTnsum,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-13

eOble Ike thoy were before tine wpf
began. ono would think him part.
usr 10 our own i1FUuoua. ia that Ur
be- trying to undermine Iagnu
morale ana prsyru, mom from
n.gicyug tUlt complete victory. f..
dcw0Dnry without Hnlrh m, rrUI.
|nr Dr tha par win have boom BOO
THn Il lr Ia radically Ir.r.rt
from any American paolfft. u lhuf
his Dhlcf anxiety E t9 avoid tho Zoo
ppid growth NJ tho democratic ,d,t
|1updowue ls. ON numognt ru..
huI umu|, Ito lsIrvJf u u, ...
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Kate Chase
August IA, isio

August IL, lHAo
Two g,p.rntion. ago Kate ChaH"
-, -. a, moe, beautfaI
,..,. ,,.,,,.t.rg
woman d"
the most euNi"d ono, ioo' INF a''
hli wealth. great. beauty, a devoted
t..i,,,t tnrs. rp,rrI,y children.
~
ara apparently great "''i'''''N
dav she is almost unknown.
IIar mother had died Young. md
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I,l.,.,r,a- Iu. ,5 yplrb bcr f,ttoys no..
'.''l 'A'l'',t .,.....,r,- 80, ~ or'o r.r.a-
1919. So ,,.,. ,yr.,sI,rrr ,,,,.r.
.,',.' ta.,.s,' ana ,rc h,lIs ~ ,f,.
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npionALrrY Am uxMonNuTY

y The case Of woman who talked
the Rod Cross out Of loan 10 which
fho had no shadow Of hight brings up
many interesting questions. some or
which arc aEo.old and as FAR from
settlement As ever, We have nothing
but contempt for any person who
could get 80 low as TO misuse bene-
fioiary organization for selfish ends,
especially when those ends are oh
tained by false pretenses Thai crime
In Itself demands prompt and string.
snt punishment lt 10 not alone be
cause OF tho dollars and cents that
have been unworthlly bestowed. but
Il creates a public distrust for the
very means which are calculated 90
do tho highest good IN this time of
the worlds trial That ia only the
ono and immediate feature ot the
case The problems aroused 20
much deeper than that
He II understood that The World
does not propose TO stand In judg-
mont upon tho guilt or innocence "
the accused That IL the province NJ
the courts Just for the sake ~ nr-
gumeut wc are prosuming that sho
is guilty a. charged and trying t1
figure ont what shall hc done in ag
eases Ike hers For be II understood
she is not an ordinary person Tho
ingenuity with which she moe SoriEcd
a thrilling story and threw Naio OF
semi military glory around herself
bctokena an unusual mind. baron
Munchausen did not do that we'll COR
his stories failed TO carry tho air OF
conviction that our subject sue.
ceedcd In putting over She is uo
fool. for a fool could not have Eot
away with tho scheme she put over
But tho question 81 now. what shalO
be done such a. her. FOR she SIS not an
isolated instance Of ,ypc OF human.
ity, but one OF many
Tho law does not recognize an,
middle ground between morality and
immornllty hut psychology does
There are people ot purely innocent
inteptiona as FAR ns harmiSH anyone
else are concerned, yet who have n,
mental conception Of what consu.
tutes actual right and wrong between
man and man They arc not rooll,
Immoral IN tho sense that they ar,
enemies Of good. but are Immoral
Just p1,slvclv or unconsciously un.
able TO se tha Iur .o' Jrmarknuou
between rIrht nut wrong TAX,
this nature. combined with keen
sntsuogt such as this woman srcm'
10 possess and "A Disregard of mora
obligation carries with 30 "a myulc,
greater than ou'7pntrn OWL And
when 30 comes 20 restraining such
natures We must choose between rt.
sruin0ng tholr orop1a upon society
by tender means or olsc nut them r
penal soryltu1c vhcro Uouae, with
hardened criminals VIII soon 1oyn.or
them in'o boasts o' prey that Ne wu
be doureEaus 20 cvor uu loose upon
society
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-13

SOmo 0f the newspapers are get
ting nightly exercised over thr
proposition tu extend the drurt gso
downward 90 rs years They arc
making great cry against lu,ndIul
tho precincts Of childhood In search
OF soldier material Yet they cannot
Justly call the ls-ycnr oIds children
at least most Young men of tblt
age would resent the impunuon uf
OF being classcd that way ina legal
sense they have not reached a mans
estate. hut In mind and body the mb-
jority OF them arc prepared 90 take
up a mans responsibilities There 90
more 'ventImcnt than sense in tho uu-
icctions against the age limit
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PHONES
Daily Food
AunuHT IN 1nla

~ AUGUST IA 1918
BlsssAA arc ths dean .bicb die In On.
Lord Rev ttlB
Teach ne 20 live that msy dread
The gravc A. liilis n ND bed
Teach me 10 tio thst ~ msY
rise slefionl 81 bS iudEmsut dhy
Yea 'sith the Spirit. hat they may rect
from ihsiT lshots sod their WORKS do fol
low lheM. Rev lt.lH
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her ] was u"muuE Die had seen MS
when Nr N'.". -u many times as
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allowed him aH s's that II was mis-
cradle. But now sang au1 laughed
a'1 was gay all day Ions SO one
could think Wr anything hui happy
new.
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On : ] tho Spur,
afMeN1OrnOnt

WIl mot anmcholy kindly puf
d,1r ufi Lord IHraIuvu, .n BAD.
baby cab giNo h.w au aIl.duN
sucker nnl wheel hm around tne
block
ls"Ii proper to. Buuio tu spain u.
"a neutral WHOM Hho n-Is openly h,.
trlcnird tho a'Irs bN sending Doc.
famous Influenza RIGHT over thcu
heads into th" Gcrmpu otmp'
Another long range gun to shoot
Innu.M.l ML-kR--
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wHN Says luNT NDlhcws'1 Sundays
tfr about tHe r.rht distance apart Co
mako 'pu.p.. EHd to SEQ each other
again and aUU pot too tHr to keep
'ne weeds from being too u'l around
'Ne front door of the church
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N F.e'nh 1sn-tep ever gets hIs
patent frog sI.un.or perfected he
w|. .a un" boy our unsl loudly
uIl.a.l Inventors
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Babies dom, ee. much 'u0 out Of
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-10

ates that it will have total expenses
of $S,40O,000. Employers and employees
will pay the lion $ share of this amount,
but under the present law the state is
required to pay one-seventh of the a.
mount contributed by employers and
employees.
The bare cost of maintenance for the
commission is estimated at $2S6,974.16
for the next two years, of which $780,
9I4.l6 will be for salaries and 100000
for general maintenance.
In its special report the commission
states that it contemplates recommend
ing to the next legislatures that only
the bare maintenance be paid blythe
state. While the report is not that
extensive in covering the details this
means that the commission win urge
that compensation be made compulsory
and all s,ate aid removed, save the
bare cost OF maintenance. In other
words, II the Legislature decides to
! ave the law as it stands now the
G commission win cost the state 81 100000
fer the next two years. while, If the
law is amended as viii be suggested by
the commission, the cost for the state
viii be $sS6,954.l6, or the cost Of sal
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-10
New Books Received
AT Public Library

Young women who are considering
the opportunities for war service as
nurses or other war helpers will be in
terested in a number of the new books
this week on these phases.
"A war nurses diary" sketches
from a Belgian field hospital. An Eng.
lish nurse records her experiences in
thirteen months of service in Belgium
"War nursing; text book for the
auxiliary nurse" Goodnow.
"Our surgeon in arms" the personal
narrative of a member of the Canadian
medical corps, Capt. r. j. Manion.
American women and the world
war;, record of the work the women
Of America have done toward winning
the war, by Ida G. Clarke. 1t gives in
detail the work of the woman's com
mittee, and distinguished the work of
the various states.
History of the world war, V. - by
Simonds This is the first of a five.
volume set, and covers the attack on
France. The author gives fair, com.
prehensive view in a readable style,
well Illustrated with maps and pictures.
Ladies' from hell" grim and dra-
matte picture of the war by one of the
'HadieS from He'll" as the Germans
have called the killed Scotchmen,
Douglas Pinkerton.
"White morning. a novel of the
power Of the German women in war
time, by Gertrude Atherton.
Other recent books of special inter
est to women are Madamoisel Miss 4"
"Green tent in Flanders '"Women of
Belgium by Mrs. Vernon Kellogg
and Women S work in war time, /" by
Bullard.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-10
|WOrkingmen' S Commission
Promises Increased Expense
If Not Made Compulsory

If the workmen's compensation act
continues on its same basis and is not
made compulsory by act of the next
Legislature, it will cost the state
81 100000 to carry on the work of the
commission for the next biennium, ae.
eording to a special report filed with
the State Tax Commission by the In,
dustrial Accident Commission today.
All told the accident commission estim.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-10
NORTH MARION DRAFT
DISTRICT BOARD NOTES
New Registrars Must Go To
Camps With Big Calls
Coming This Month

1t is understood that between tho
10th and Both of this month there will
be called from Oregon HOO men for
service. This will take about Is from
this district. AS all of old class one
has been exhausted, these 3S will be
taken from the list of 1918 registrants.
Those who entrained here for gene
raj military service at Camp Fremont,
Cal, Tuesday, were Elmer MeTim-
Imonds, Grant Leroy Sims, A. R. Glib
bens, Joseph W. Kirk, Henry J. Leis,
Frank Rainy and Michael Shafer,
Grant Lederer, Robert Nusom and w.
E. Ahlgren were on the carpet to go,
but were continued ON account of be-.
ing busy with the harvest and on farms.
The five chosen for the Benson Poly
teehnic Institute, to be there on the
18th, are Cleve Shields, Boyd NJ. Yer
gen, L. E. Martin, D. H. Sehaap AMI
NJ. S. Ramp.
Ray Wilson, whom this board called
in June and failed to respond, was
picked up at Lewiston, Idaho, and
sent to Vancouver to answer to the
charge of delinquency.
Word has come that G. f. Engle,
Woodburn, and NJ. A. W. Westendorf,
Mt. Angel, who left here on July 25th
for Mcdowell, have been rejected, the
former for goitre. E. D. Irwin was
also rejected for flat feet, but cOntin-
ned in the service by being placed in
the tailoring department.
The ways of some camp examining
physicians are past finding out. Word
comes from Camp Lewis that big,
husky fellow was rejected on the
ground of flat feet and another,
scarcely able to stand on account of
asthma or consumption, accepted.
The prospect is that all of Glass one
will be called upon regardless of their
lucrative occupations.