The sun., 1918-10-02
DEVIL HOUNDS TELL
THEIR GREAT GRIEF
A8 Marines and Infantrymen,
Some Minus Eye, Arm or
Leg, Want More Fight.
NOW HATE ALL GERMANS
Young Patriots, Here to Aid
Liberty Drive, to Parade
City in Buses To-day.

'Boys." began johnny Jones Of the
fourth Liberty Loan forces yesterday AT.
ternoon in n lobby Of tho Bankers Ciut
as he gathered about him forty-eish'
lads who recently had been severely
wounded on the battle fields OF France
they had just finished luncheon as guests
OF the banker clubmen-"boys THIS
Equitable Building we're In now is one
OF the highest in town and we'd like &c
take you to the roof TO see the sights u
you think you can stand the exposure
THE breeze on the roof to-day lie very
chill and biting" concluded Johnny
Jones, his manner, and voice that OF a
gentle, motherly nurse, as his glance
swept over the group OF forty-sfx ma
rines and two infantrymen. some OF
them armless, others on crutches. many
with their arms still In sings "lts
sunny enough UP there, boys. but do you
think you can stand the breczc?
There was second Of silent. enibar.
RAISING au!etude. Then up spoke a red
headed young Teufelhund whose ser
vice ribons showed that he had served
at Vera Cruz and in the Philippines be-
fore leaving his left leg In the shadows
OF Beileau Wood--the Wood OF the Ma
fines as a grateful France now knows It
"Oh, hell's bells" the marine cried
doggedly, at the same time trying tc
hold his features as straight as big
white scar running from cheekbone &c
red hair would permit I'll take
chance and step right out In this awful
storm young fellow. provided you never
tell my folks at home that ] done it.
8 Anxious to View the Biz City.
+. Neither red head nor any Of the other,
persed even lone enough to ask Johnny
Jones to get them pink silk purasols &c
protect tAeI compilations With crutchet
clacking so loud that one could almost
hear the noise amid their handy Of
words and youthful laughter they rushet
the elevators happily and were shot e
the roof for their frs, all embracing
view of the greatest Of cities stretchint
away IN the simmer OF autumn sun.
Hight
Naturally. as one sat and chatted viii
these lads with sleeveless Jackets 'ol
trouser legs pinned back II was imposs
bic to refrain from asking them ahou
The wal In general and particular,
about their personal views In the light o.
what had happened to them Knowing
that they were to lose an arm or leg o.
eye. would they do II all over again
Did they want to be back In France
Had they any regrets7
\. They did have regrets In fact on,
might say that the entire group Of forty
eight youngsters all nureed one com
posite sorrow That great grief wa
voiced by Pirate Eugene c Metzger
who halls from Everett. Wash. but Eel
among Manhattanites when he lost hi
right leg while crossing a wheat field be
yond Chateau Thierry with his brothe
privates Of our own old Sixty-nintl
fl65th) on June IS last
sure ] got regrets cried Privat,
Metzger I'm in a replacement that
assigned 20 the old New York Sixty
ninth about 1880 O'Clock in the after
noon Right away we 20 into actor,
I'd trained here and I'd made the ocea,
trip and trained some more In France
and al last J get into the fighting Ant
at 6:3u they blow my leg of Now
ask you fair-wouldn't you call II
hell OF note to be allowed only 81,
hours In the big shown" =
There was expressed just one-forty
eighth OF the only grief that weighed a
all In the forty-eight brave hearts o
Sass eye was sure he could see as wei
ae any active soldier. The boy with a
arm gone or hopelessly crippled insiste
stoutly he still could march along will
the best Of 'em Any lad who had los
q leg was sure his strong right trigge
finger could pot q Heinie with all II
old time abandon.
Learn to Hate Gray Clad Thugs.
All OF them. one grasped. were c
the fibre one finds at It's best among tn
First to Fight" Deviihounds; ready I
scrap at the dror Of the national ha
Few Of them had rushed to enlist be
cause OF any deep seated hate Of tn
German people, but as their Homeri
stories were drawn from them bi, b
biz II became evident TIA, c-i, of theI
had scarcely Set foot on France whe
they learned to despise not only Prus
sianism and the German Empire bu
the whole German army and the Ter
tonic peoples backing the gray ella
thugs
II was the sight OF the desolation 1
the villages the ruthless destruction 70
destruction's sake, the nameless chi
dren among the refugees. the emaciate
old French peasants fleeing from tn
terror that had steeled their hearts. the
said against everything Germanic.
One learned that even carefree youn
marines and infantrymen, rushing tc
ward the fight In front were not ashame
TO wipe the tears from their eyes a
they looked at the ruins of buildings
and humanity-of a one time lovel
France.
mo, wasn't sore ut them. at tho Gel
man people themselves" said Corpors
Frank NJ. Jacobs, who now Is only
year out of his teens, but as long ag
as the late spring of 1917 enlisted in I'll
Fifth Regiment of Marines and left n
home at 2S6 Keap street. Brooklyn. I
sail awaY pD fha first fra0gOOrr yhiC
left here Con June IA, 1910 with Amer
can troops bound for France Corpori
Jacobs, who lost leg when she'll .cN
ploded beside HIM at scissors on Jul
10. was the centre of a little group {
his wounded buddies as he spoke yestel
dag. and from the way they nodded the
approval OF all he said, his ideas abo,
the Germans wero also theirs.
"But II was when we got closer an
Closer TO the front that an of us got
hate everything German. Seeing u
refuses on the road did tall the thi
old people. huddled up In rickety car
pulled by oxen. trying 10 hurry alor
but not knowing where they were s.
ing, while We were going past them
the front Just the sight OF them mac
a lot OF our fellows cry ] know
cried. and I saw lots Of our fellow
around me wipinR their eyes.
An opinion was asked from the woun,
cd lads regarding the personal braveI
and fighting qualities OF the Germa
soldier Private Hill Mccullough. W.
halle from Glencale. L, l., and In h
nineteenth year enlisted In and foug
with the Fifty-arst Company Of 4
Fifth Marine Regiment until serious
wounded In the leg at Belleau Wood {
June s. pronounced the verdict az
A.