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/ he Starry Banner
IN France
NARROW road in France.

A NARROW road in France One
- comes 10 sudden turn A clear
ing and then, futtering against
the setting sun. the starry banner
Isaac F. Marcosson. the writer, who
long ago lost track of the number of times
he has commuted back and forth across
the Atlantic since this war began. told
how he reacted to such a scene in a talk
here during the week. He said:
q mad beer with the Italian armies. l had
been through Spain. and came to a little
town late one afternoon in the North Of
France, and realized that l had left the do
main OF peace behind me and was back
again IN the domain of death and the domain
Of lighting men. ! got off this train and
saw stalwsrt and brawnv but smooth faced
men IN khaki on the station platform rolling
cigarettes. I heard such noises as Can that
noise and Let's beat It back and found
nat after travelling under many flags ard
tArough many countries, at last had come
INTO the domain Of American people
L GoC n CO. and started up the -oad.
and saw Ford and United States auto,
mopile army trucks, and the American trooog
marching, and just as the was about to
set carae 10 the turn in the roaG and I saw
II tie clearing, against that setting sun. the
American flag
have never seen anything in this war
and never expect 10 see anything again tha,
1ar. ed ne and stirred me as much as TIT
s.Ght OF those Stars and Stripes whipped out
~ tne winds o. france. raised over that soil
Tor the great redemption.
.f5l.- oa tl..t afternoon and ! got TO a
small town and stopped at big white
anlldliry with the american flag on one side
and lhe French flag or the other, and almost
before / knew it upstairs and was
s7aHlng the hand of a big man who had two
stars and silver eagle his shoulder. lie
had wonderful eyes. and YOU know that h..
was gentleman and soldier. and that man
was General Pershne As ! stood there.
when the tine came for me to 20 i. was
night. ard We stood az the window
saw the camp fire of the American
unit and / heard American voices singin1.
ard then there came back over the night air
the mournful and vet beautiful sound which
IS taps. Then this big man who stood there.
who was the god of hundred and ten mill
ION hopes and the repository OF a hundred
ana ten million fears, was silent, and was
silent. We were both thinking the same
thing, because of the sound OF those march
ing men, the rattle OF those shoes and the
rumbe o. those guns, the call of that Amor
lean bugle across the night air.
1T meant one thing America WAS ,sn and
doing at last, that old era of aloofness an5
indinerence was ended, and knew the awah-
ening had come to Old Glory
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Il was just approaching the station in the
rear, Of two stretcher- bearing teams who
were proceeding, bent over to escape. if
possible. the flying pieces Of she'll when =
shell pumped down On top of the station.
exploded and wiped it out piece OF rock
hit me IN the head. When [ woke up some
stretcher-bearers had NE, hauling me over
the shell-holes
I've sure got to hand +, to those men
With the Red Cross on their arms They all
worked like dogs in that he'll out there They
seemed to have but idea to do their
duty and apparently cared nothing for their
own lives while doing it. They we're game
r.ght 10 the core
Other troops. in the dugotts when the
firing started, naturally registered their
Rrst impressions Of the attack through the
uproar that penetrated the ground above
thcm. y New Jersey artilerynan said:
Il vas asleep in tho dugout when tho fun
oegan. We ran out to the gun. The shells
we're raining down all around Then came
ihe order for d barsage and VIC L.. them
have il. One shell hit near the pit and
ioosenod the logs overhead. After that every
tine We fired the concuSsion brought down
onc or TWO logs. Mud. stones and pieces o.
she'll came IN al the front. Five spokes were
knocked from ono wheel of the carriage and
the @un muzzlc was nicked Two or three
men were slightly hit ard laid away at the
end OF the pit, while The rest OF US kept OF
firing.
''uddeniy . piece Of steel came through
ihe gun shield which was behind and hit
M in the shoulder. About that time we were
all carried to the dressing station and here
am. cont mind this wound, bua hope
10 tho Lord il gets Well soon, 50 that cau
set back with my outfit
Then, amid the driving snow. to the
sound Of bursting hand grcnades and rife
aid machine jra. whlo the gray dawn of
o'clock was iilumned by the fare Of
ar shells. the German bombardment lift
ed. With an American barraee whstling
over their heads, the doughboys rallied
from dugouts, shattered trenches and
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and i've to follow, were to advance simul-
taneously as soon as the American
trenches had been sufficiently obliterated
by artillery fire. The two left-hand groups
OF Germans were to make a flank attack,
as was the extreme right group. while the
two remaining bodies were to attack d-
rectly
The hour chosen was early morning,
while a driving wet snow rendered No
Mans Land a veilcd, slippery morass,
where barbed-wire entanglcments and
shell holes melting into the gray back
ground of snow and landscape rendered
visibility very short. 1t was about the
hour that troops training in the various
American environments are reused from
their comfortable barracks to a day Of
playwarfare, theory and training camp
amusement. Over there it was 5:35
q. N.
First came rain Of heavy "scventy-
seven shells, gas and otherwise. which for
half hour were concentrated upon a
short section of American trenches, while
long-range artillery in the rear began to
seek out the American battery POSITIONS
Soon gas shells followed, after the fashion
Of those released a few days previous in
the first serious gas attack suffered by the
American troops.
The intensity of the bombardment may
be Judged in various ways. For one thing.
the woods back Of the salient were quickly
shot to pieces. shivered and stripped Of
small limbs much rs q flight Of gras5hop-
pers will dcvastatc a field Of corn until
only bare stumps and ragged trunks ra-
main.
Survivors Of the attack have registered
other and more intimate pictures In the
froat-lne trenches. according to an old
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comfortably near. in heaps still unexnioded.
here The men going to and from the trenches
come in Tor hot tea or coffee and refresh-
ments night and day. a significant sign
torbids more than thirty men to congregatc
at once IN this exposed spot as sometimes
these !. NJ. c. a. dugouts are blown TO atoms
by shell. The one down below in Plug
Street has been blown to bits and the man
in the one Just up the lino has been under
such fi1e for several days that he will have
10 abandon his dugout
lust in font Of us over the ridge IS the
''rSt line OF the present British front There
IS no time to build trenches now or TO dig
themselves in. They Just hold the broken
line Of unconaected she'll holes or swarm in
the great craters which are held by rapid-tire
machine guns. The men go out by night to
relieve those who have been holding the
ground during the previous day 1t is harder
tor the enemy's artillery to locate and de-
stroy men scattered in these Irregular holes
ard craters than if they were in clear line
Of trenches. The British front faces down
the slope toward the bristling German lines.
dotted with hidden snipers and studded with
sputterng machine guns. AS the evening
falls the batteries behind and all about us
open fire. Flash after flash Of squirting fame
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communication bitches to meet the Ger
man attack hand to hand
Over two hundred in number, the inva-
derG came sweeping forward under the
protection OF their own fire, apparently
intending to make big haul and quickly
retire Expecting an easy time the two
centre groups Of Germans plunged for
ward to tho American dugouts, but found
that their plan OF attacl. would not work
They were met by heavy machine-gun fire,
ard 50 tried to follow the other parties
around the flank.
Here. it appears. an American captain
rallied his men with rifles and machine
guns and went ahead through tho wire
entangiements into No Mans Land and
waited for the enemy whom he expected
to BE driven out by his comrades in the
trenches. Soon this occurred, with the re-
suit. however, th&t with Germans in be-
tween thonl. the two opposing groups oe
Americans for time were firing in TIC
direction CT each other. In this fight the
captain was killed, the first member of
Tie 1917 class Of West Point to fail in
action
The battle ragged briefly but bitterly in
front Of the wire cntanglcncnts and in
and around sAell holes. Shoulder TO
shoulder in the dim light the opponents
fought. the Americans with rifle fire gan
butts and fists, the Germans with hand
@renades, while the American barragc he
gan to sweep back and forth across No
Mans Land. soon the snow was Uttered
With bodies hard erenadcs. explosives n-
ended 10 blow up the American dugouts
and incendary bombs which the Germans
had no opportunity to use
Meantime in the dugouts and trenches
on either flank Of the German attack 4
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hanging several hundred feet high are half
. dozen huge fixed kite-balloons, with their
occupants busily observing. skctchine. map
ping or reporting the cnemys movements
zach Of these S talget for the attacking
aeropianes and the occupants must be ready
At u momcat5 notice TO leap into a para
chute when they are shot down. High above
these balloons . score Of British Danes are
dartng about dashing over tho enerv's
lines acting as the eyes o. the huge guns
hidden away behind us. We are looking at
one far uD seemingly soaring in peace Ike
. graceful bird poised in tho ar, when sud
denly we scc it surrounded by dozen little
white patches OF smoke which show that it
has come within range Of the enemv's anti
aircraft guns and the clouds Of shrapnel are
bursting about it. Most of them break wide
OF the mark and il sails on unscathed over
the enemy's lines. Just above us is hanging
German taube, obviously watching US and
the automobile which had left below in
the road, while the British huge anti-air
craft guns near by are feeling for it, shot
after shot
"We duck into our little I. NJ. c. A. dug
out, just under the crest of the ridge. 1t is
en- old, deserted German pit for deadly Gas
shells, which even now are living about l,n-
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eaps out from the great guns. Boom upon
boom, deer voiced and varied. follows from
the many calibred guns in the darkness, till
the night is Iurd and the ground beneath us
quivels with the earthquake OF lombard
mcnt
ish above we hear the piercing shrek
Of the shells speeding to their fatal mark,
and below the crash Of the exploding shells
OF the enemy. which toss the earth in dark
waves into Tho air in the black surf of war.
Gun after gun now joins the great knorus.
swelling and falling in hjdeous symphony
OF discordant sounds. The whole horizon is
Int up and ahamc. The sky quivers and ro-
fleets the fash Of the great guns, as with
the constant vibration of heat lightning.
Flares and Nerey lights OF greenish yellow
and white turn the night into ghastly dav
and ike the lurid flames OF an inferno light
up the battlefield, while the rifles crackle in
the glare. Here parachute light, like a
great star, hangs suspended almost motion
less above US, lighting up the whole battle
field, and now burning farmhouse or ex-
plodlng ammunition dump liumnates the
sky as from some vast subterranean furnace
flung open upon the heavens. All the lone.
sullen night the earth is rocked by slow in
termltten5 rumblins, till with the silent
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One of the Monster Guns in Use on The
Western Front

TT IS eleven months since April 6, 1917.
and with every passing hour America
i to-day is seeing her part in the war
develop rapidly from theory into fact. A
trench raid here. a bit of artillery work
there. then a German gas attack repulsed
counter raid by reckless doughboys, days
Of tense watching from slush-filled
trenches. followed by nights of battle with
raiders creeping in across No Mans Land
all of these clements of modern warfare
have confronted American troops in
France within the last ten davs.
To complete the realization that Amer
Ca is at last on the battle line to stav is
the news that IN one engagement alone a
score Of Americans gave up their lives.
and that for valor in the same struggle q
sore of others have just been decorated
~ Premier Clemenceau. Apparently
Americans at home have but one more
war thrill to await, and that is the news
that American troops have at last gone
over the top in large e-scale drive.
The outstanding event of the last ten
days with the American contingent was. of
course, the affair in which the doughboys
repused a strong German raid on March
/ in the salient north of Toul Other
events of note were not lacking, it is true
in the same period. Four sentries. it was
learned, have been condemned to be shot
for sleeping at their posts. The War De-
partment has been asked 30 review the
sentence of death. General March. Amer
san chief of staff, arrives in America
and deplores the unnecessary muzzlng eff
tsts Of the censorship in France Ameri-
can gunners have again been active, par
acularly at a point where huge naval guns,
fred from railway emplacementS, assist
cd the French in a local operation with
notable success. The Americans suffered
their first gas attack of any consequence
ten days ago, but determined trench raid
rya force of more than two hundred Ger
mans on March l really set the pace for
/ American participation, a fact which is
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UH7ITH OUR SOLDIERS IN
w FRANCE" book by Sher-

NA llh OOk SOLDlhRo IN
" FRANCE" book by Sher-
wood Eddy, just published
ay Inc Associated Press, contains a good
fs Of solid and Illuminating comment
snn activities ''over there" The author
mites Of his trip to the fighting front in
Nanders
& IN the midst of our vori, at base camp
aefe came sudden call to go up the Iine'
. 'he great battle front Leaving the rail-
va rss' We TOOK motor and pressed on over
ae solidly paved roads OF France. which are
NV "s puising arteries OF traffic, crowded with
vans OF motor transports pouring in their
s'esay stream Of supplies for the men and
a1aitions for the guns Now we turn out
.,' ~. the r1moling .ank-like caterpillars, which
s'"iy creep forward, drawing the big guns
- Ihe front: then We pass i light field
ss.@ry Next comes battalion Of Tommies
swinging down the road, loaded like Christ
saS lees with their cumbrous kits, sweat
as, a.s, singing, whis-ling as they march by
'l.a ~. oogged cheer toward the trenches
We nave crossed the Sommc with its
sueaieries q blood, on across Northern
rance and nov we have passed the Bel
- -. frontier and in the historic fields
f4ahders, where the creaking windmills
=. r, -s'ii grinding Inc peasants corn and the
- .sA'e church spires stand guard over the
~Npag villages. 4 turn Of the road brings
sose within sound os the guns, which by
e'' are neard far across France and along
coasts OF England Soon we enter vii
~ winch lie within range Of the encmy's
ssseies, with thc:r shattered window glass
- - TOOLS ruined houses, tottering churches
~ deep shell no,es in the streets. Now we
- m fee DANGER zone and have 10 put on
!. shrapnel proof steel helmets and box res
Ia''fs = be ready io- q possible attack
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confused battle ragged. In one case a Ger
man lieutenant approached the entrance
of a dugout and called out to those within.
Come out, American." An American ser
geant came out like hornet, killed the
lieutenant and two soldiers, and when his
captain was killed took command of his
men IN front of the wire and inflicted fur
ther losses on the enemy He was among
those decorated by Premier Clemenceau.
According to a Kansas man, the dead cap
tain was last seen kneeling alongside u
splitting machine gun. blazing away at the
Germans with his automatic revolver Il
saw him fall fat" added the private
The hand-to-hand contest quickly end
ed with the fight of the Germans 80 their
trenches through the American barragc
II the American trenches German and
American dead lay mingled alike. In the
wire the bodies of two German officers
were clearly visible. and many others lay
on the tramped and bloodstained snow
Two American dugouts were wrecked by
artillery fire.
How the troops felt afterward indicates
who they thought Won A young Ala
baman found he had lost his safety razor
and had 10 let the company barber shave
him. He should be a carver az cook
wagon thc victim groaned. Another's
complaint was that. after searching
the RUNS of his dugout for his sweet
hearts picture, 40 found it. in halves,
raincd beyond recognition. An Iowa
youngster went about complaining because
tAe only decent pack Of cards in his squad
WAS scattered in ffty-two different di-
rectons when a she'll burst in his dugout.
4 New Yorker, with his arm in sling,
credited his battered wrist watch with
saving his hand from being completely
severed. All the infantrymen displayed
i.cen distress over the loss of their com
rades. especially the captain, who, said
one. "yvas a fine officer, and took fine care
of his mon. Any one of the company
would have gone through hell at his or
der
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Drobably the Most Terrific
l. Explosion Ever Heard

'In the early morning a short, deathly ST
lcnce followed the weeks terrific lombard
ment. AT 80 a.. the ground opened from
beneath, as nineteen great mines were ex-
Dloded one by one and fountains of fire and
earth like huge volcanoes leaped into the air
Hi!l co. which had dealt such deadly dam
age 10 the British, was rent asunder and
collapsed It was probably the greatest ex-
posion man ever heard earth up to that
time Then the guns began anew to prepare
FOR the attack and carefully planned bar
rage dropped just in front of the English
hattaiions as they advanced. AS the men
came forward the barrage lifted step
by step and dropped just ahead of them, to
pulyerlze the enemy and protect the British
troops. BY o'clock Messines itself was
CAPTURED by the fearless Australians. There
wag most desperate struggle just here
where we were standing at Wytschaete. All
morning the battle ragged along this line, but
by midday il was in the hands Of the dash
ing Irish division. Seven thousand prisoners
we're taken while the British casualties,
ing TO the effective protection OF their ter
rifle barrage were far less than the German
and only one-ffth Of what they had calcu-
lated as necessary to take TINS strategic po-
aition.
"Wo make our way Up to tho crest OF the
Mongineg ridge where we can look back on
the conquered territory and forward to the
new lines The great guns are IN action all
about us They are again wearing down the
enemy in preparation for the next advance
For the moment We feel only the grand and
awful throb Of vast titanic forces IN ter
rible conflict Day 1nd night, in tho air, on
the earth and beneath II, fhc war fs Slowly
or swiftly being wagcd. The fire Of battle
synonfdeys or Ieaps into flames vast
plostons, but never goes out
4Above us the very air Is full OF connict.
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\ Day With One of General
~ Pershing' Battalions

Let us go through a day with The bat
TALON quartered in this village At O'Clock
IN the morning the first bugle sounds The
boys are quickly on their feet. DRESSING
Washing, getting ready for the days drill
in half an hour they are tucking away a gen
efous breakfast provided BIZ Uncle Sam of
not bacon, fried potatoes and coffee. rood
homo made bread and as much Of it as a man
can eat. They get meat twice day ard
VIC nave found soldiers in Europe who
receive ratlons that compare with the food
that our ooys receive
BY GAO a. N. the men have reached the
drill ground on the open fields above the
village and are ready to begin the eight or
nine hours Of hard work and exercise that is
before them. Half Of each day is spent with
the French troops, learning more quickly
with an object lesson before them. and the
remaining halliday is spent in t.a:rinr By
themselves. The French squad goes through
the drill or movement. then the American
battalion. after watching them, Is put through
She same practice. They arc trained in BAY
onet work and charges, IN musketry and ma
chine gun practice, in the handling Of grer-
ades and the throwing of bombs There is
evidence OF speeding I'D and an apparent
pressure to get them quickly into shape in
order 10 take their place in the trenches
before the winter sets n. A few weeks at
The front with the French troops viii soon
give them experience, and after a winter in
the trenches the men Of these first divisions
viii doubtless form the nucleus Cor LARGE
American army, and provide the dr;lln.asters
quickly to train the men for he snrng otTer-
sive
On the day we were there. after a hard
mornings drill, the colonel assembled three
oattalions and put them through the frst
Tegiinentai formation ard the first regimental
review since landing in France. The men o.
she 1st I'd and Sd battalions marched bv, and
one could quickly contrast the disciplined
movements Of the veterans or old soldiers
with the crude drill OF the new recruits.
some Of whom could not keep step or smooth
ly execute the movements.
after nine hours Of hard drill. the men
swung cheerfully down the hillside into the
village street. Now they have lined Up. and
with ravenous appetites are waiting for the
evening meai. We are almost as hungry as
they, ard are glad 10 share the meal with
them. Here the table are huge piles of
good homemade bread. It is almost the first
white bread we have seen after months of
brown war bread in England and France.
Here are heapng plates of good pork and
beans, timed salmon, plenty of fried potatoes
and piping hot coffee. This is followed by
delicious pudding, as gopd as the men would
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dawn the birds wake and the war giants
sink for 4 few hours in troubled sleep Then
the new day breaks and the warplanes climb
m the clear mo''ang air to begin the battle
nfresh"
In another chapter MI EDDY, setting
down his observations while with General
Pershng's force. asks: What is the life
that our boys are living here a the
irony::' And this is his answer TO an
ever-interest;ne ouegtion:
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have had in their homes. Well fed. we'll
clothed, we'll equipped, sleeping under Uncle
Sans warm blankets comfortable Gold
Medal cots, our boys we'll cared for
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I MAKE YOU so WHITE LIKE A DOVE,

meton, which is controlled by sea- mems committee of five men, with whom the captain confers on all mat
 ters of ship discipline. The steamer operates at present between Singa- pore and Hongkong, but 1t touched
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Manila to place two seamen in the hospital there. When the men were pronounced too i'll to work, the sea- mems committee demanded that the ship be taken out of it's course to Manila. The captain concurred. The
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skippei+ has nothing to do with the ship except direct navigation and ar range cargo. As a result the vessel has not called at Russian port in five months.
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HOW REDS RUN SHIP

TOXIC, May g. - How Bolsheyi- kism controls Russia even on the high seas is illustrated in the case of the Russian steamer Nicolai Beloz-
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Use less wheat ana meat Buy local foods. Serve just enough. Use what
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Quality talks. Smoke an Fl Roi Tan Cigar and be convinced; they are mild. If