Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-12
BY CORP. r. d. GOODWIN.

Welcome news OF the 10th Division
reached America through an inter-
esting article by Raymond s. Tomp-
kins, stan correspondent of the Ball
timore Sun in France.
Tompkins tells of meeting up with
that division at the front the day be-
fore the boche began to run away
from the battlefield of Verdun. The
Meade boys had relieved the 29th
Division in the hilly, wooded and ma
chine gun infested sector east of the
Mouse, just north of Verdun. Both
divisions being Marylanders, the
newspaper man found himself amid
an avalanche of news.
After nearly month of steady
fighting the goth retired far back of
the lines for q we'll earned rest. This
sector is considered one of the worst
Of the war, where the Germans were
fighting harder to hold than any
where else.
Blue and Gray Division soldiers,
from their foxholes on lie Difference.
had looked longingly across Hill 37S
and get it. Tired they were, almost
to the point Of collapse. and the
descent of the cliff and the storming
of the opposite hill would have been
a bloody job. but they wanted to do
it. The orders never came and they
turned over the mountains and
weeks of deadly fighting to the 10Th
Division with Hill 378 still in the
hands of the enemy.
In a terrific offensive that began
November 2 the 313th and the 316th
Infantry regiments stormed and cap
tured Hill 37S. A battalion of the
313th, the Baltimore regiment. was
leading in an attack on the left of the
line November in order to push in
another salient. This battalion was
commanded by Capt. G.. Collision
Burgwin and met with great success.
Another very interesting bit of the
Tompkins' story was the telling of
his meeting with ken" Clark, Y. M.
C. A. man and former Fosdick man at
Camp Meade. He stated that "Ken"
was still manufacturing music on the
same old melodeon he used at Meade.
The part that the Maryland boys
played in the Verdun sector is told
probably most impressively in the
CLOSE Oh 4OIupkluS QlSJhtCH.
Thus. before the men whose sternly
plain barracks at Camp Meade you at
home used to contemplate on pleas
ant Sundays with mild, smiling in
terest, mixed. perhaps. with o faint
pity that the poor boys had it SO
hard" did the German army fee from
the battle fields around Verdun. For
four long years the Hun had strug-
gled there to get his clutches on the
citadel Now he struck with all the
might he could muster, and now he
lurked in his holes in the green hills
to the north and gathered courage
and strength to strike again. Men
died by the hundreds. of thousands;
the crosses on their graves are spread
in the valleys and on the slopes like
ripening corn rows. And from Mont
fauoon the imperial crown prince
watched the battles and nursed evil
hopes.
Now the evil hopes are gone. The
German army fed. The 18th Division
Maryland born and bred-was in at
the death.
Private BENJAMIN Pearsall, officially
reported as missing since early in
September, has rejoined his company,
according to a telegram received by
his mother, Mrs Julia Pearsail. 3S7
West Broad street, Quakertown, Pa
He was trained at Camp Meade and
went to France as member or the
313th Infantry.
Wilson G. Corr, Allentown, received
a letter from his brother. Private
John Corr, Company D. 314th Infan-
try, stating that he is in hospital in
France recovering from an attack OF
influenza. He reports that he was in
a. number of battles, and had the sat-
isfaction of capturing several Ger
man prisoners, all without physical
scratch
Private Louis J. Gruber, twsnty-
three years old. 2431 Clifford street.
was wounded in action shortly before
the aFmistice was signed. He was
drafted in May and indicted into L
Company. 314th Infantry. Camp Meade.
The day the aFmiStice was signed he
wrote 10 his mother: Il guess the
fiat@headed Dutchmen win not say IN