Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-28
.PENNSYLVANIANS WIN
GLORIES AT VERDUN


IContinucd from First Pagc.l
line over Il commendable width of
the Argonne Montfaucon salient,
northwest of Nerdun. Your CORES
pondent viewed portion of the bat
tie from the famous lie Mot Homme
dead Mans HID.
PENNSYLVANIA troops, both veterans
from Chateau Thierry and neophytes
from training with the British, took
an honorel part in the attack.
The detectives were made and
towns, prisoners and cannon were
taken. The attack opened at 11.30
o'clock Wednesday night with artil-
lery fire unSil $50 o'clock Thursday,
when the infantry advanced. French
soldiers acted with us, all under the
command of Pershing.
Pennsylvania Glory Conferred at
Narenncs
The glory for PENNSYLVANIA centers
around the capture OF Varennes, one
of the dozen or more French towns
returned to France on Thursday by
the American forces. In the same
general attack. with troops from
Kansas. Missouri and other states,
the keystone soldiers, proved heroes
north of Chateau Thierry, and the
fledging arrivals have written their
names officially on the pages of the
American Army.
Our whole attack extended from
the Meuse river to west of the Forest
of Argonne. The enemy was mysti-
fled. Tanks and airplanes, Amer
lean driven, were used. The Hin
denburg line was penetrated. The
enemy was pinched out of the forests
of Argonne and Montfaucon. The
foregoing fully explains the silence
concerning the battle plans of the
American first army.
l spent Thursday morning upon
Dead Mans Hill. near Nerdun. Our
soldiers had just passed down its
southern slopes, and from the dis
tancc, in the Bois des Forges, came
a ripple of machine guns and the
droning drum noise of the barrago
curtain ahead of the Americans
Stumbling from one enormous shell
hole into another. had reached The
edge of the famous mound, 2S5 met
ers above sea level, just as the sun
burst out of the fog that filled the
( valley.
\ Splendid Cyclorama of War
Spread cut around was a gorgeous
cyclorama, while overhead a world
of aerial combats was in progress.
Inside the craters of shell holes
were patches of grass, grown since
the Crown Prince sought to cut OF
| Nerdun in the first year of the wal
and launch his soldiers upon march
to Paris. There were flowers. too
the last offering of summer.
Projectiles were flying from con-
cealed positions away in the rear
Of ln
was frightful. BY opening ones
mouth and standing upon tiptoes. one
! kept ones hearing. They were our
great guns, including two monsters
supplied 70 the Army by the Navy
for blasting out the back enemy
areas and preventing German re-
endorsements from coming on.
Dead Mans Hill is a maze of tun-
nels and open cuts. These were be-
! ing used by our soldiers in going for
| ward.
! Men From Near Philadelphia in Fray
/ Commanding the Pennsylva mia
/ troops l found men from near Phil
| adelphia. We chatted in the din from
| the cannon.
have q recollection of meeting
! Captain Robert H. Cox, of Plainfie!d
! y. j.; Captain Leland Garretson, o.
! Morristown. n. J.; Captain p. Blail
/ Lee, of Silver Springs, Nd; Lieu,
| tenant Donald Hoffman, of Roland
Park, Baltimore, and these other:
/ from Baltimore: Captains FIR &C
| Mag, George Penniman and Con
| way Cook, and Lieutenants George
| Page, Kenneth Burns and DunstanC
Penniman. All were well and in tip.
! top spirits.
Fought Under Gaze of Secretary
Baker
A colonel came along with the in.
| formation that Secretary of Wal
! Baker was watching the same con.
test from an eminence near Fort De
| Marie. Mr.. Baker had been up al
night. 1t was under his eyes thai
another Pennsylvania division dis
| tinguished itself near Varennes.
How the "doughboys" smiled ant
! chatted when they began to bring II
! the German prisoners!
Sergeant Alfred Schwerger, of Chi
cago. told me how his captain. Harr!
A. Roe, of Chicago, with 200 men
! before the infantry went forward
| had built four bridges across Forge
| Creek under the protection of I'll,
artillery barrage without the loss o
a man.
Whole United States Represented
l met men from every part of TIL,
United States upon Dead Mans Hill
They swarm over it like bees. Ser
| geant James Walker. of Hastings
| Neb.: Private Wilfred Caldwell. D
Richmond, Va; Captain c. F. Ho
gan, of Portland, Ore; Sergean
Clarence Henning and Private Ber
nard Snyder, of Chicago-all wer
imbued with the same indomitabl
spirit of the American Army.
Imagine Americans upon Dea,
Mans Hill, there to wipe out tn
blood stain cf Verdun and doing 1t
A pale-faced lad from Pittsburgh
clipped upon the shoulder by a ma
chine gun bullet, said:
"Ain't this a great day."
Another from Scranton said:
"If ! don't stop looking at air
planes 1 will sunburn the roof of m
mouth"
Somehow, no matter how great
! fight may be on, one forgets it whel