The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-14
Lieutenant McNeese,
Back From the Trenches,
Describes Big Drive
Oklahoma City officer Says
Germans Ran Like Jack
rabbits, Huns Were Glad
When Captured by Ya0kS,

Lieut. &. n McNeese Of the Sih-
leenth United States infantry. First d.
vision, has returned from active service
on the fighting front and is IN Okla
homa City on his way to Camp Dixon
Georgia, where he will be engaged in
telling new soldiers how the thing is
done over there Lieutenant McNeesc
brought back some bits OF news OF
Oklahoma City men he saw before
leaving France and gave a very inter
cstlnf description Of a soldiers lie III
the fighting zone
Hoffman Is Recovering.
Before leaving Paris. Lieutenant Nc
Nce,e saw General Roy Hoffman who
Is recovering from an operation for
appendicitis General Hoffman he
SAYS will be in condition 10 report for
duty IN a few days.
". g. Nathan VINO was IN the same
regiment with Lieutenant McNeese
and who was in the hospital ior three
months recovering from being severely
gassed returned on the same convoy
with the lieutenant and Is now in Kan
sas City
Huns Run Like Jack Rabbits
The most exciting time | had ove'
( there was in the big push beginning
ON July IL, which started the Germans
back and forced them 10 run like jack
rabbits" he said II was mostly oper
fighting. and was a bit OF a Surprls,
10 the Germans. Our First division
which was just about first in every
thing started out over broad whea
fields in the face OF German machn,
guns
There were few casualties and ",
crossed roads valleys, rayines anC
made five attacks on the Germans II
the first four days. On the fifth da,
we held the line until relief oame-an,
then the fun started II was all oper
country and we got those Huns on III,
run They were out OF rifle range anC
they sure kept going-ran just llk'
scared Jack rabbits and all We had I,
do was to let 'em run chase EN- in :
hole and capture 'em."
Foe Glad to Be Captured.
Il wasn't so very hard to capture
them, he said, and although some o
Germanys best soldiers were mad
prisoners, to a man they were glad o
Il.
IN spite OF the fact that German
officers told them OF the torture IN
American soldiers would subject ,her
! TO and that they would be shot dowr
they refused to believe II and were gla
! to be cap,ured-glad that for them III
war had ended"
o Drive Like Football Game.
= Asked how a man feels when he go,
. "over the top" Lieutenant MoNee'
, said that that question was asked HI
more than any other The ieelln
can't really he described. he said. b,
the nearest thing to il is the feelin
experienced by a football man whe
:, he is going into a game against a sii
team. He feels shaky and excited unit
The game begins and then he loses a
that feeling OF nervousness, his min
becomes clear, his nerves steady an
all he thinks about is the JOY in goin
> ahead 10 win.
People Here Don't Understand.
The people in the United State
have mistaken idea of the lie le
over there, he says Thousands {
{ people there have never heard no.
tile gun fired and have never seen
German airplane. Even the life in n
5 trenches IS different from what poop
here think
1t isn't an every day hand-,o-han
j fight There are days and days whe
the only thing to do is to be ready
Z and to eat and smoke and sleep an
y read-when there is anything to read.
ST. Mihiel Sector Quiet.
70 Near St. Mihel there has been hard
gun fired since 1914, he says. II
Z country there is used mostly as re
q, line Tor both armies and there Is