The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-04
war HEROES ASK
AID OF U. s. FOR
men over THERE
Liberty Bonds Must Back Men
in France, Say Speakers at
War Trophy Train.

/, Soldiers honored many times for
bravery in action, accompanied the
: war trophy train. which was in Rich.
mond last evening. The trophy train
carries variety Of relics brought over
! from the battlefield and Is being taken
about the country to stimulate interest
in the Fourth Liberty loan drive.
Included in the party which accom-
panied the exhibit were three French
officers and one French private. three
American soldiers from overseas who
had been wounded or gassed. or both;
seven soldiers from Camp Grant and
eleven sailors from Great Lakes train
Ing station. The most interesting of
the company was Captain Marcel Le-
vie, who is % years old. and the young
est French officer to receive the medal
OF the legion of honor. which was CIV
en- to him when he was only nineteen.
He has been cited four times for brav-
cry. has been wounded eleven times,
and was struck once on the head by a
hand grenade which undoubtedly
would have killed him outright had
1t not been for his steel helmet. As 1t
was he became unconscious, was TAX
en- prisoner by the Germans and put in
! a German hospital where the German
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remove his left eye. and instead Of
I, putting cocaine in his eye, the surgeon
: made q mistake" and used sulphuric
I acid instead. Sometime after this,
! Captain Levie was exchanged, and
since then one twenty-ffth OF his nor
NAL sight In his right eye has come
back. His commission as captain came
! two weeks ago.
Soldiers Demand Victory
T.! ITO Judge the deeds OF France, one
| must know France" said the captain.
In his speech as he rapidly sketched
! the story of the war which he had
experienced from the first, telling
many vivid stories Of German barbar-
ism which he had seen. His greatest
emphasis in the talk lay In the glowing
tribute he paid to the American sol
diers.
1T was not with guns and ammuni-
ton that your soldiers at Chateau
Thierry stopped the Germans in max
Ing their second advance upon Paris"
he said. 1T was with their bodies"
To-day Chateau Thierry is a GEN.
etery, where one-half of that one div
fsion. which held back eight German
divisions. lies buried. And now there
is only one thing which the American
soldiers need to go on and win the
war. There are the men, there is the
spirit; all they ask is guns and am
munition. Will you give it to them
with your money in Liberty Bonds?
II you help your boys. your boys will
help you.
tinued, you are beginning to see the
W. Nd Don D,r1e -,
peace; Turkey Is talking it: Austria
has offered 1t. Why?
1T Is because the Germans now
know that only a diplomatic peace
can help them. II they are asking
peace 1t is because that is the only
thing that can save them. But IL you
ask any French soldier, or any British
or Italian soldier what peace they
want, they will tell you the only peace
with which they can be satisfied is
peace with victory. We are in it, and
we will win It."
Before Captain Levie was in the
army, he was landscape gardner and
an author.
Other speakers were Private Trinky.
OF Lake Geneva. who Is one of four
brothers fighting in France, he, him.
self being invaded back to America.
because Of accidental injury; Sergeant
Martin, O'Donnell. OF Massachusetts.
who has been shot in the leg and
gassed two times: Private James
Flemming Of New York. who even now
is suffering from being gassed; Lieu
tenant Henry Albert Chauvin, a most
attractive French officer, and Corporal
Jacques Gournay, whose regiment had
been sighted four times for bravery,
besides Dixon c. Williams and Prof.
w. B. Guthrie Of Wisconsin university.
Private Edward Graeffel also Of the