Evening star., 1918-10-27

cavalfy-.some 4.ooe--come up and
"At $3.50 the next morning Site
,c wcke me ne up .s ..S said We were were to asdsT as
way and we picked our way under
cover Of EAs-infested valley to
town where we got our hnAl instruc-
tions and left our packs. wished
eosed s9oe luck uC IN ana supnfen pafEssa road
two sides Of . valley that WAS perpen-
dicular to the enemy's front: Hughes
right, Holcomb left. Sibley support.
We now began to get a few wounded; /;
one man with ashen face came eharg-
ing to the rear with shell shock. He
shook all over. foamed at the mouth.
could not speak. 1 put him under
tent and he acted As il he had At.
II heard Lieut. Overton call to one
Of his friends to send . certain pin to
his mother IL he should get hit.
':At $40 we jumped of with a line
OF tanks In the lead. For two kfles
the four lines Of marines were as
straight as. a die, and their advance
over the open plain in the bright sun
get. The f1fe got hotter and hotter.
men fell. bullets sung. shells vtizzed
banged and the dust Of battle got
thick. Overton was hit by 4 big piece
Of shell and fell. AfterwArd | heard
I,
was without pain. He was buried that
night and the pin found.
Sees Wars Horrors.
"A man near me was cut in two.
Others when hit would stand. it
seemed. an hour, then fall in a heap.
yelled TO Wilmer that each gun in
the barrage worked from right to left.
then a rabbit ran ahead and watched
hi mo II
Good rabbit took my mind of the
carnage. Looked for Hughes way over
to the right: told Wilmer that I had
hundred dollars and be sure to get
1t. You think Of all kinds of things.
About sixty Germans jumped up
out of a trench and tried to surrender,
but their machine guns opened up,
we hred back, they ran and our left
company after them. That made a
gap that had to be filled, SO Sibley ad-
vanced one Of his to do the job. then
a shell lit in machine gun crew of
ours and cleaned It out completely
"At 1880 we dug in-the attack just
died out. found hole or old trench
and when / was fiat on my back I
got some protection. Holcomb was next
tried to get reports. Two companeis
we never could get in touch with.
Lloyd came in and reported he was
holding some trenches near q mill
with six men,. Gates, with his trou-
sers blown off, said he had sixteen
ofhcer on the right reported he had
and could see some forty men, all
told. That. with the headquarters,
was all we could find out about the
battalion of nearly 500. OF the
twenty company officers who went in,
slightly wounded.
Three Blown to Bits.
From then on to about pm. life
was chance and mighty uncomfert-
able. 1t was hot as a furnace, no wa
ter. and they had Our. range to q ".r ("
Three men lying in shallow trench
near me were blown to bits.
II went to the left of the line and
hole. went back to Gates hole and
three shells landed near them. we
thought they were killed, but they
were not hit. You could hear men
calling for help in the wheat thelds.
weaker ana die out The German
planes were thick in the air; they
were in groups Of from three to
twenty. They would look us over
and then we. would get, a pounding.
fell about thousand feet. like an
arrow, and hit in the field back Of
US. The tank exploded and nothing
we had . machine gun oficer with
reported that St1nner was killed He
commanded the Machine Gun Com
pany with us. He WAS hit early in
the fight by a bullet, I hear. 1 can
get no details. At the start he re-
marked: This looks easy-they do
not seem to have much art Hughes
headquarters were all shot up. Turner
lost leg.
well, we just lay there all through
the hot afternoon.
"It was great-a shell would land
hole.
Replaced by Algerians.
"As twilight came we sent out water
parties for the relief Of the wounded.
neved. At 8 O'clock we got a message
consratulatmg us and saying the Al
Eerians would take over at midnisht
We then began to collect our wounded.
Some had been evacuated during the
day, but at that we soon had about
who had Been blinded wanted me to
hold his hand. Another, wounded in
the back, wanted his head patted, and
so 1t went; one man got up on his
hands and knees. asked him what he
wanted. He said, Look at the fun
buried, and all the rest could fffd.
IAN the time bullets sung and we
prayed that shellfng would not start
while We had our wounded on top.
The Algerians came up at midnight
and we pushed out. They went over
made the relief under German fares
and the light from burning town.