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| parents, MIR and Mrs. Thomas X. Greene,
| of Denton. Md. telling them of his narrow
escape from death 10y being gassed, and,
incidentally, tells of some cf the under
| hand methods practiced by the Germans
! in their efforts to win the war.
| Lieutenant Grccnes letter of June j,
| follows:
| My Dearest Mother and Father:
| Well. guess YOU know by this time that
| | have been wounded and am in the hos
pital. Hope you have not been worried
as ! am feeling pretty good now.
| was gassed early on the morning OF
May 20, when the Germans launched "A
strong gas attack against our lines, the
strongest they have ever made on any
American troops | WAS up in the lines
with my platoon ut the tune ana thcy
started AT q O'Clock the evening before,
when they started terrible gas and high
explosive bombardmcnt against our ar
tillcrv and at | O'Clock the following
morning turned their gas loose on our
lines, followed later by AN attack Need
less To sav, the attack was broken up and
they lost a great number of men. They
made three attacks that night. but all
were repulscd. most of the fighting being
hand to hand | think our men could have
licked 10 times their number that night,
as thew were so mad over the gas and a.
we lost quite few. They used all kinds
of gas and II was terrible for four or five
hours
HUNS TAKE No PRISONERS.
The Huns kept up their attack the next
day and night with instructions to take
prisoners nj any cost, but they never took
one, although we took quite few That
night, when they made their attack. some
of our Strctchcr- bearers went out IN No
Man Land To bring IN some wounded
Germans. who were pretty thick IN front
of this one post and they went out under
very heavy fire, thereby rIskng their
lives. They brought in quite few While
they were bringing them IN one German
tried 10 stab one Of the strCtChcr-bearers
and, needless TO say. nc never reached the
hospital
That same night another company Of
Germans came over yelling "kamcrad
and saving they wanted 10 surrender and
| nearly succeeded IN capturing on outpost
nv their cowardlv means, but they paId
for IT, as several companies came over n
little later shouting the same thing but
the officer Of the post told them il they
wanted To surrender come over one at u
time They kept coming and yelling
'kamerad, 50 he waited until they were
very close then gave the command 10 ire
and the machine guns and automatic
rifles opened on them and nearly wiped
them out
SAVED RY HIS MF>.
Well. this Is only an instance Of the
dastarily tricks they tr1 70 pull of. May
he Won would he interested 20 know how
! got my gas ! was asleep IN my dugOut
with my orderly. as had been warned
something was coming of and wanted
hIm near me. ! was awakened 1t ! Q clock
by the guard yelling gas | got up, put on
my mask and went down where the guns
were As ! went along the line II was
surely terrible 10 sec the poor fellows who
were caught by the gas. gaSping for
breath and falling over. but luckily none
Of our men were injured. You could not
live 8 minute ii YOU did not have gas
mask on We STAYED IN masks until
O'Clock. then took them off. That is
where got nine | didn't know il until
about 10 O'Clock. when ! began 10 feel
sick / started TO walk to the frSt-aid
station 10 yet Soneth hing for my stomach
and had gone about ln0 Yards when
everything commenced To 90 around. my
knees gave away and my heart WAS thump-
ing a mile a minute.
GIVEN GOOD TREATMENT.
Some Of my men found me and took
me to the hrst-aid station, and then was
sent 10 the evacuation hospital, where
stayed for six days, with men dying all
around me and me expecting TO 60 any
minute as my heart was in a pretty bad
condition But after being bled To relieve
the pressure on my heart and living on a
bag OF oxygen for four DAYS, began TO get
much better.
Yesterday | was loaded on q wonderful
hospital train and brought back to this
hospital. which Il the most wonderful
place YOU ever heard of 1t is way UP in
The mountains and was gambling resort
like Monte Carlo before the war Our
government bought up all the hotels here
and made hospitals out of them
There are wonderful hospitals, casinos
etc. here This Is where Gaby Deys met
Hing Leopold and their little escapade
happened have heard great deal about
IT, but have not seen much except what /
have seen from my window They have
one hotel just for officers, and we were the
first ones TO occupy 1t, as they had Just
opened up. 1t IL surely wonderful and
YOU could not help getting well with 50
many goodlooking nurses around you.
DON worry about me, as | am getting
along fine and am out OF danger, and By
the time YOU get this l Will be well and
back 10 the company Must stop now
Love " all
Nour lOy-ir0 con