Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
KEYSTONE LADS "ATE
'EM UP"- "---LIEUT. LONG
Iron Men From Pennsylvania
Chased Huns Like Rabbits,
Says Returned Harrisburg
Officer; Expects Four Regi-
ments to Be Decorated

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Officer; Expects Four Regi-
ments to Be Decorated
The entire audience. at the Or
pheum Theater during the intermis
sion of ;he war picture being show
there rose tn it's feet and gave Lieu
tentant James T. Long, formerly u
Company IL, Eighth Infantry, Ant
lately with Company NJ, One Hun
dred Twelfth Infantry. a great oNa-
ton last night as he walked on m;
stage following the announcemeh
that only ten days before he Was "
trench participating in the fight
ing at Chateau Thierry. lie was II
the thick of the fight from Chateai
Thicrry TO the Vesle river and de
clared tina; the regiment of PENN
sylvanians showed magnificent Hour'
age and that the Harrisburgers wen'
through 20 the finish. He has beer
detailed home for instruction dutie:
at Camp Dix
Lieutenant James T. Long. formerly
of Company d, Eighth Infantry. and
lately of Company NJ. One Hundred
and Twelfth Infantry, arrived home
on Monday from France on instruc-
tion duty. He was in the thick OF
the fights from Chateau Thierry to
the Nesle river and says that the
regiment displayed magnificent cour-
age and that the Harrisburgers want
to go through to the finish. He will
go to Camp Dix. as an instructor.
Lieutenant Long was gassed in the
middle of July near the Marine.
Lieutenant Joshua w. Swartz, Jr.,
of this city. came home with him. He
was in the same regiment and will
also so to Camp Dix.
The four National Guard divisions
that are in this sector with the AL
lied drive took $4,000 prisoners and
between 600 and 700 guns. millions
of rounds of ammunition.
I'VE have the Germans on the run
and are going to keep them going"
said he.
Tells Thrilling Story
How the Americans in the Cha
teau Thierry sector used up thirty
German divisions and made possible
the great allied offensive which is
toe day knocking at the doors of the
Hindcnburg line il it is not alrea iy
across the thrC shold. is told by LieI-
tenant Long. 1t is a thrilling tale.
The Keystone Division is made up
of the One Hundred Ninth, the One
Hundred Tenth, the One Hundred
Eleventh ard the One Hundred
Twelfth Regiments, the one Hundred
Tenth being made up mostly of the
old Third and Tenth National Guard
Regiments and the One Hundced
Twelfth of the old Sixteenth and
Eighth Regiments of the Guard.
many of the boys being from Hal =
risburg and the Central PennsyIvn-
ala region.
Baptism of Fire
We got our baptism of fire on
July II and 15,' said the leu
in the region of Chateau Thierry we
were under German bombardment
for twenty hours consecutively.
Under this fire my company lost
two men Killed and about eighty
wounded. Nose of the casualties
were from shrapnel, high explosives
or gas and more than seventy five
per cent. of those sent back to the
hospital recovered. Indeed, tho
death rate is exceptionally low for
the number oil men laid out.
when the Marines had gone
through Chateau Thierry we were
ordered in to take up the drive
against the Germans and up to the
time l left We had driven them back
for thirty-tive miles, taking immense
of prisoners. about $4,000
in all for our division alone, hum
dreds of guns and millions of rounds
of ammunition of all kinds. which
we found in dugouts sometimes as
many as four and five stories under
ground. Our ammunition wagons
bring up our own ammunition and
take back the captured Germ an
stuff. A significant fact is that much
of this German ammunition was
marked "19lS." indicating a small
reserve supply in the enemy's hands.
when our boys went into the
open lighting beyond Chateau Thier-
ry il was Ike hunting rabbits. We
went right after them and we We're
so close at places that we could hear
their bodies fall as the men of our
division shot them down. They
fought mostly wits artillery and ma
chine guns, in an effort to save the
infantry and stores, m;t
we were so close on their heels that
many a time we captured their soup
still hot. where they had been pre-
pairing their dinners.
German Morale Broken
The men at the machine guns
kept up their fire from the nests pre-
pared from them in advance and after
they had shot as many Americans as
they could. attempted to surrender,
but in many cases the Americans had
bayoneted them before they had time
to signify their willingness to quit.
The Americans were taking no
chances.
We found them in depressions and
in trees and not few Huns were
brought down like squirrels from the
topmost branches. One German Of
ficer of artillery L found near his
gun. He was dead and his body was
still warm. A half-finished letter to
his friends back home told the tale.