Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-21


10 his mother. Mrs. Ernesta Jasper.
We have we'll earned that cord.
1T vas dusk in the evening and
about time for our platoon to 'staud
F:C. We were located at an old mlll
just a few hundred yards from the
German gun mplacements. They
lad put heavy barrage over us, al d
used the same amount of artillery
on quarter kilometer that they
usually used on two-kilometer
front. so eager we're they to drive
US out of our position. They concen-
trated on that particular point and
continued the fiercest kind of bar
rage tor fifty minutes.
Our lieutenant was eager to
ascertain whether or not the Boche
was following up his barrage with an
Infantry attack and called for avolun-
f! teer to go out to our observation post
and lea rn whether the sentries were
safe and whether the Huns were
advancing. Ninety per cent. of the
prI>ates were willing to go-they're
! the kind of fellows that won our
/ division it's honors. But it is the duty
of a sergeant to ascertain the safety
OF his Gentries. and l was already
on my way before any other selec-
ttion could be made.
Reaches Scntries I'm Bold Dash
THE fire wa something terrific.
and while l was a bit flushed with
/ excitement over the bursting of
shells and whir of machine gun fire,
| | managed to reach the sentries and
| found them all dug in and covered
un, awGiting the advance of the
Huns.
! "Du" counter barrage had been
laid down, and / managed to get all
my outposts back. to our lines. |
thought nothing of the occurrence,
for it was in line with my duties.
But that night. when our captain
came along our lines to make in
quiries as to the safety and welfare
of the boys, the lieutenant told him
OF my dash to the outposts in the
! harrage."
Lieutenant Colonel w. w. Fetzer,
of Milton. met his death while in ac-
ton with the One Hundred and
Tenth Infantry. News of his trans
| fer from the One Hundred and Ninth
reached his home shortly before
word came that he had been killed
in action. He was superintendent of
| schools at Milton when he went to
Camp Hare eek. and was reelected
| while he was in camp. He was d
graduate of Bucknell University and
was roImt din superintendent of
schools of Northumberland county.
/ Private Walter n. Weldner, of
: Pottstowu, was wounded by shrapnel
while IL hiinr in the ranks of the
headqua rtnrs company, One Hundred
and Elevenlr Infantry. When Lieu
tenant Pofienberger, of Pittsburgh,
offered to assist the young man,
| Weldner TaNuo him away.
It's too late" he said. I'm too
! far gone. Look after the other
men"
Weldner died within a few min
! utes.
! Stories of 110th's GalIantry
Stories of gallantry in the One
/ ], uhdrCd ana Tenth Infantry, for
Ierly the Tenth, of Western Penn
sylvania including some Harrisburg
| ers, and the Third, of Philadelphia,
continue to stand out in accounts of
| the pursuit of the Germans from the
! Marns to the Nesle.
IF you felt as jubilant over our
recent success as | do. you would
jLmp up and down and chase over
town as if you were wild" wrote Pri-
vate Harrison Null, of headquarters
company of the One Hundred and
| Tenth. to his home at Greensburg.
/.
| Notice how the One Hundred and
Tenth knocked them in the head? ?
Leave it to the good old Yanks!"
Huns Thought T.. S. Men Britons
The Germans thought they were
attacking the British" wrote Private
Frank Zacovic, of Company d,
UniontoWn, in describing the German
rout at the Ourcq.
When we went over the top with
a yell, they threw down their guns
and cried like babies. running back
into their own fire or jumping into
| the river. They acted as though
crazy, getting down on their knees
and begging that their lives be
spared. Many of the prisoners we
captured declared that on account of
the helmets and color of our suits,
they believed they were opposed by
the British when they first attacked"
Another Keystone division regi-
ment, the One Hundred and Twelfth,
is bearing a share of casualties.
This regiment is made up of the
Sixteenth, of Oil City, and part of
the Eighth, Pennsylvania.
Corporal Lawrence Burlew. for
merlN with Company NJ, of the
Eighth, writes to his parents at Lew
istown Junction. that his unit had
eight days of fighting He is in a hos
pitdl recovering from wounds.
Glory For Noncombatants. Too
Ambulance drivers and motor dis
patch riders among the Pennsylvania
boys are sharing with their COM
rades-in-arms the glory of victory.
Word has been received at his
home at South Allentown of the
wounding of Claude II. Westwood
"a f1n
Bloom, a motor dispatch rider with
the headquarters company of the
One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry,
wounded July 3. has been told by
surgeons in a base hospital in Paris
that he will never be able to take
up active military duty again. ac-
cording to q letter to his home at
Lewistown.
This is my only regret" he writes,
''as it gives me no chance to get
back at the Hun. | was Returning
from delivering important dispatches
on the front lines when they got me-"
During the fighting on the Marne,
Charles Hamilton, of New Castle, a
motor dispatch bearer, was attacked
three times by Hun aviators.
Conditions over the territory
through which the Americans ad-
vanced were frightful," he writes.
I'm many places the Huns did not
have time to bury their dead. Much
of their ammunition was abandoned.
We started to collect souvenirs. but
I got such a load of junk that we
abandoned the effort
In the last letter that John
Slovic, of Hazleton, member of Com
pany ID. Ninth Infantry. wrote home
before he was reDorted by tho War