The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-23
"fKAMERAD" CRIES SAVED TILL
LAST BULLET is SPED

The following is taken from the
copy of "The Stars and Stripes" the
newspaper published in France for
the benefit of the American soldiers,
which was sent to The Times last week
by our good friend, Chas. Porter
formerly of Desloge, who is seeing
service "over there:
The experiences the American sol
diers have had in their share of the
fighting between the Marine and the
Oureq have spread far and wide
through their ranks growing anger
at the Germans.
They have been seeing with their
own eyes and feeling with their own
flesh some things they had read about
and never believed. Go up through
the country north of Chateau Thierry
and you will find they have very real
quarrel with the German army. They
have learned about Kultur from them.
1t is easy to guess the emotions of
a Yankee platoon, whose members
have been cut down right and left by
some hidden machine gun nest, when
the gunners run out Of ammunition
and thereupon, in the most confiding
rad!" and want to call the fight off.
Chained to Their Guns
1t is easy to guess the emotions of
those Yankees who have seen with
their own eyes German machine gun
ners chained to their guns-to guess
the anger and contempt they have for
each soldier who has to be chained
and for the commanders that will
chain him. More than one Yankee out
fit has been witness to this thing.
But their feelings take on still an
other color when, as they are slushing
through a golden wheat field, they look
up proudly at the airplanes bearing
the French colors, only to learn few
moments later that they are masked
German planes, from which gunners
pour fire into their ranks. "
And when they found dead in the
field a Hospital Corps boy who had
been tending them indefatigably from
the first and who was shot by sniper
while he was busy at his task in
broad daylight in an open field. .
They found him with one hand
raised over his head and with his fin
gers still clutching the scissors with
which he had been cutting bandage
from a wounded comrades shirt. The
brassard showed clear on his arm, but
it did not save him.
Work of Fiendish Bullets
BY chance, the same band with its
cross of red upon field of white did
not save little group of German SOL
diers caught, padding up a path with
q litter that bore something stretched
out under the blankets. The Boobies
wore brassards on their arms and
they were carrying the litter most
tenderly, but the Yankees who stop
ped them thought to look under the
blangets. The tenderly carried bur-
den was a German machine gun, be-
ing taken to a place of safety.
1t never got there.
The feelings such episodes as these
engender are not abated any when, as
happened many times during the
fighting this week and last, Americans
at work with the litters in the field or
with the bandages in the regimental
aid stations find the wounded brought
in all mutilated as from the tearing
force of something they believe to be
an explosive bullet.
Nor are they abated by such stor-
les as those brought back fresh from
the bitterly contested streets of Ser
gy-stories of German machine guns
set up and fired from the village
church. set up and fred from under
the protection of the Red Cross build
ing established there---stories OF
American wounded bayoneted where
they lay.