The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-19
Sergeant Frank Singer
Fresh From the Battles on
the Marine Brings First
Word of Company M.
SOLDIERS DON'T WANT PEACE
Returning Hero of the Western front
Overlooking With Wonderful Stories
Of How Kenosha Men Fought
No Members of co. Killed.

Just over flowing with the wonder
Iful story Of the bravery of Kenosha
men fighting in the bloody contests at
Cierges and Fismes, with little of
the mud and alittle Of the blood OF
the Western front still clinging to his
military boots, Sergeant Frank Singer,
fresh from the battle fields of France
breezed into Kenosha just after nine
o clock. Bfeezed is the right
word to use in heralding the return of
the Kenosha soldier for his coming was
a great breeze of patriotic feryor from
a man who had known what it was to
be under fire and who cane back
/ through the flame with the patriotic
look in his eye shining brighter than
ever.
Mother Is waiting for me-, he sug-
gested as he swung down the street
his toppy French trench cap and his
nifty French swagger stick attracting
attention. Singer was the observed of
jail observers among the men on the
street last night. He was bombarded
lat every corner by men who wanted to
hear some one right from the blood
land warfare of the Western front, tell
about the Kenosha boys. They held
him up, just like the Germans had
tried to hold up the Americans on
the ChateauTh front ana they
wanted him to tell the whole story
Iall at once. In the crowds which stop
Iped Sergeant Singer We're brothers and
fathers of men who had fought with
them in the trenches and they sought
Ito have him tell. the whole story of
more than six months in service in a
half an hour.
/ Sergeant Singer is here for a ten
days furlough and then he goes out to
Camp Kearny at Linda Vista, CAL, to
instruct soldiers. He is the first one of
the members of Company NJ. who went
away with Captains Dayton and Vale
Ito return from the fighting front to
| Kenosha, and the happiest message that
he, brings is. that every one Of the
| Kenosha boys is doing man s part.
They are all satisfied with the part
they are playing he declared, "and
while they would rather. be home than
be on the fighting front they are there
Ito do their full part and they are go
ling to stay until it is done. I know
that I speak for every man in the
Thirty Second Division when / say
that the men in the field do not want
Iany kind Of a peace until it is a peace
with victory and 4 lasting peace We
lido not want some other army of
! Americans to be forced to do it all
lover again in the future
/ Sergeant Singer comes home without
Iany Of the disfguring marks Of bat
tie, but this is no indication that he
has not seen his full part in the great
fight to make the world a decent place
to live in, He brought to Kenosha
for the first time. the story of the part
that Kenosha men are playing in world
war. "Our first service was when we
held the line in >Alsaceo he said. lit
was a comparatively quiet sector with
"a couple Of thousand shells dropping
! during the night. It was a regular
picnic for the boys in tha line. They
were laughing and singing every night
until the Boches raided the lines and
that night a lot of our fellows swent
west = and it had a SOLDERING effect on
lus We were in Alsace holding the
line there till we were called up for
the Chateau-Thierry engagement. Pro-
baly seventy Of the Company M. boys
were in this engagement. I know
that the members of Truck Company
iB. under Captain Vale were in the very
thick of it and they went all through
until we got to Fismes and drove out
the last German fighter. Captain Vale
lis as big as a foot ball player and as
brave soldier as you eDuld find on
the whole front. I saw him a lot Of
times while we were under fire and
his company was acting as the supply
company for US. He was right along
with the boys all the time and these
boys are no more afraid Of the shells
of the Germans than they are of some
one pegging stones at them. Our first
real baptism Of fire took place at
1. Cierges. We went all through this en-
igageInent. The first day we were in it
we took sixty two prisoners. Then we
got into Cierges. We saw a great
church there bearing the colors of the
Red Cross and We started for it only
to find that the Red Cross flags con-
cealed q German machine gun nest.
Since that time we have not been TAX
ing any prisoners. There was a sin
lister smile on the face of the Sergeant
Las he made this remark, after Chat
eau-Thierry We burgied three hundred
| and sixty four of the Germans and
sze DON It know how many they bur.