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u. S. Aeroplanes
Spotted, u. S. Guns
Blazed Way and In
fantry Took Town
Without Allied Aid
By George II. Seldes

Dy George II. OcIdeS
w nth THE A RIG A N
" ARMY ON THE MARINE,
Auoy -Va,1y iS uuiet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

or more than 100000 pounds of
high explosives incased ip steel and
lead were handled by our artillery
men, From the observation posts
into which we had huddled, and
over which both shrapnel and high
explosive shells were bxeaking, we
could see our shells falling into the
houses, roofs blow up, walls crum-
BILE, and dust and smoke rise and
fall, thick and lingering waves Of
it, hour after hour.
In addition to the infantry, ma
chine gun units and engineers lined
up in their shallow trenches and in
the deep ravine which ran circuit
ously into Vaux, west from the
Vaux-Monneaux road, and Just
south of the Paris road, at 80
o'clock on July /
The artillery fire became intense,
roaring and laundering along with
occasional louder rumbles and still
more occasionally a terrific crash
when direct hit crumpled up a
series Of houses. Our trench NOR
tars helped rend the town, and at
6 O'Clock, preceded by an excellent
rolling barrage, our men went over.
most Of them smoking cigarettes.
Lieutenant Hamon Gray, Of La
porte, Ind. scout officer, and Lieu
tenant Hanford MacNider, of Mason
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

wheatf;eld blightcd by our guns
when they had begun to register on
the German positions.
Monneaux itself is partly wrecked.
The church is huge sieve and the
wind whistles through the broken
rafters. The saints on the walls are
spattered with bullets, and the
bleeding heart of the Christ is now
torn open by a piece of German
she'll. for here is where the German
barrage had fallen but had not
stopped cur attack.
Out Of Monneaux The ravine leads
five hundred yards with no evidence
OF battle but an occasional shell
hole. But further on we found torn
field-gray coats, pierced helmets. the
KIND that come over the ears, and
the leather equipment which the
Germans carry. And then we en-
tered Vaux.
I've seen many crushed villages
before. At Ypres last year all the
Old magnificence had fallen, and on
the Somme we had searched in vain
for traces of Fricourt and Pozieres.
for there war had flowed and cbbed
for months and the weight Of Ger
man steel and the weight of British
steel had smudged the villages. But
Vaux is only one quick destructive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Meeting German
Counter Attack

The prisoners We're from the -
Regiment, - Battalion. They said
the second battalion was thirteen
kilometres in the rear and would
probably attack. The American
major prepared for it. At about
2:3O, after an increase of artillery.
the Germans launched a wave of
men. The disposition Of our r:.
chine guns entiladed the enemy. and
not one man was left alive and un
wounded. Among the others there
was more eagerness to surrender
than to fight. and before the night
was over the prisoners had in
creased to 375, and the booty in
cluded a motorcycle machine gun.
SIX mlnnenwerfers, two granaten-
werfers and great quantity of
rifles and equipment.
We approached Vaux from the
MonneauX road, following in The
steps of the Fighting Ninth, which
had won the village. But long he.
fore we got to NIorneauy we came
into the crater field, the shell torn
roads, the tangled trees and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

gesture. 1T is days work OF the
18th Artillery Of our heroic Second
Division, and that day devoted
largely to the back areas, with only
few hours intensive fire on the
village itself.
Nothing Remains
But Skeletons
On the rim OF Naux the skeletons
CT houses alone remain, gaunt. stark,
ugly skeletons, and through the ribs
the red and dying sun slanted a
bloody glare. The ravine ended
choked with debris at the entrance
Ct the town. and now there was no
longer a passageway. The guidS
began climbing the hills Of large
and little stones, mingled with bits
of wood, very few strips of struct-
ural steel and the thousand indis-
tingushable objects which had once
been part CT the beloved home of
the refugee citizens.
Suddenly there was a whirr, not
CT a shell, but OF wings, and those
wings not OF acroplanes. From out
assure chicken flew by cackling
and down into another hole The
guide dashed after it, picking up
and throwing a stone as he ran.
Chicken and soldier stumbled about
minute and then the guide won the
race.
Real stew to-day he said, hold
ing aloft his trophy.
That chicken was the only live
thing we found in Vaux. Even the
songbirds had been killed by the
bombardment, and their tiny gayly
colored corpses were on the roads
and in the shattered barns. In the
ravine the beetles and 'Ies cafards.
the water bugs, were dead, and in
the fields the moles had come from
their burrows and had been killed by
the explosions.
The guide, who had been a run
ner in the battle. tried to find traces
OF the German gun positions. where
the machine guns, where the NOR
tars and where the grenade batter
les had been, but nothing was left
to distinguish them from the sur
rounding devastation. We crawled
slid, scrambled about until We
reached the main corner.
"Salina Street"
Chalked on a board and stuck be-
tween two huge stones, there was
the sign:
avenue de President Wilson,"
The main crossing thoroughfare
had been renamed. The 9th Infan-
try was not to be outdone by the
French authorities Of Paris. who
have named an avenue for our Presi-
dent. But Salina was the "hone
sweet home idea of the major, fol
the regiment calls Syracuse, N. Y.
its home.
This part Of Vaux had been SC
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with the -- U. S. Infantry on the
left.
The engineers came forward and
began hauling the cowed and hum
BILE Germans from their holes. AS
they cleaned up cellar and tunnel in
order they came out with their
prisoners and chaIkcd neatly on
each entrance: "Ready for Use"
These signs remain to-day. The
entry of our troops was so surpris-
ing in its speed that few of the Ger
mans in the uugouts were aware
that the intense barrage had come
and passed them by. By 1880 the
engineers and signal corps boys had
established telephone communica-
ton with the rear and had collected
25O prisoners, including six officers,
and sent them rearward while they
were consolidating positions. Part
of this job was very pleasant. 1t
consisted simply of turning Maxim
machine guns from pointing south to
pointing north, and when the Ger
man counter attack came some fifty
OF these weapons helped smash I'D
the regiment.
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they had dug on the slope a thou
sand yards away. The "spotting"
by our aeroplanes enabling our guns
to register few shells before the
attack was invaluable, and thus the
four services-the intelligence, ar
tillery, infantry and aviation-are
linked in the victory.
The men who captured Vaux may
be called old fighters by those who
judge only from the integer over
the crossed rifles on their collars,
but found in one of the shelters
group composed of soldier who had
been in TEN sin, another who spoke
of how his regiment won the ia
nous punch bowl in China, youth
from st. Louis who Joined Just be-
fore they went down to Laredo,
Texas; a drafted man named Joe
Salinous. from Waterbury, Conn,
born in Suwalki, Lithuania, and
number of officers from Syracuse,
n. y, one of whom had spent most
of his life with this unit, and an
other who never dreamed of mill
tary activity before April, 1917.
Battle Rehearsed
Like a Play
The officers took their men out
and rehearsed them behind the
lines. They drew up a plan of the
village, laid out the streets and
named them. They preferred to do
this instead of numbering them, be-
cause names remain, and that is
why yesterday while 1 was stun
bling over the debris in Vaux 1
found myself at the corner of Salina
Street and Woodrow Wilson Ave-
nue., and ten minutes later came to
Broadway and Forty-second Street.
Salina, of course, was named for
the street in Syracuse, N. Y, which
so many of the men remember we'll
and hope some day to see again.
The rehearsal provided for the
capture Of the town house by house,
cellar by cellar, street by street. 1t
was known that there were a GER
/ tain number of tunnels in Vaux and
suspected that the Germans would
take refuge there. 1t was known
that the Germans had built a tank
trap and that they had minnen-
werfers concealed at certain places.
Provision was made accordingly.
On the day of the attack the
/ lieutenant colonel of the Intelligence
/ Department invited us TO witness
the battle, and upon the capture of
Vaux permission was given to en-
ter. The artillery fire began the
day before and in twenty-four
hours more than 10000 projectiles
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City, Iowa, led the way down the ra-
vine, while Lieutenant Melvin Fl.
Leonard commanded the company
which came down the gentle slope
toward the German battery on the
outskirts. The first prisoner was
found hiding in tree in the ravine.
He was on his way to surrender
when captured. Lieutenants Gray
and MacNider took the next four
prisoners with a machine gun from
behind a wall on the left bank of
the ravine.
1t is one Of the incidents of our
exploits that is becoming more COM
mon to find among the prisoners
Germans from America. Sure
enough Lieutenant MacNider not
only found one, but a German whom
he recognized as having seen in Gin
cinnati. This prisoner had later be-
come steward on a HAMBURG
American line steamer, and Mac
Nider brought him in chatting over
"home" scenes in Cincinnati.
Outhanking Nests
OF Machine Guns
The right unit of our attack en-
countered only small resistance. and
at 6:27 o'clock had passed through
the town and reached it's detectives
with only three casualties from tho
time it left the ravine. The Left
unit which had to pass through La
Roche woods encountered more re-
sistance. At one place a nest of
oe'eA machine guns continued to fire
upon the men and we opened two
machine guns against them while
bombing squads operated around the
TANKS. and in five minutes from the
time they we're held UP our men
captured seven enemy guns and the
advance was resumed at GAO O'Clock
The left unit had reached its obiec-
tive along the railroad and our
whole line was digging in. They
established liaison with the -
French Infantry on our right and
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Germans Again
Smelling Vaux

But war caught US on the road
out. We were spotted by the Ger
mans high on Hill 204. Eight or
ten men were coming into Naux'
Our party going out had been IN
creased to four. and these numbers
may have appeared like a relief OF
food detail. They used their rs
The first shell swished, swlshec'
swished toward us and fell in a run
at the edge Of the town. 1t klcAeu
the last remaining wall into the al
and the pieces of stone and plaster
descended upon us. Every one ri.
for cover. The secoHd shell passeu
overhead, down the road a way
where TIE men were coming up'
There was pause. Then the tillf'
shell came, but the guide had TAKEN
nc to the ravine and we lay t'e1''
More pieces of houses and DIRT i'o'"
the field came down on US. Inc H."
shell buried itself in the near VICE.
field, and a gust of wind covereu -
with dust and its sutfocatlng 1uia.S'
Then everything was quiet asa'-.
Heads popped up from the fa''"
and from old shell holes, shouNe
warnings were exchanged. ana w.
man at a time ran either into ''''
or down the road from 1t. one W..
passed me had his trousers torh
ribbons and some blood on MS pa' :.
leg, but he told me he was W..
scratched and would not go 70 y"
doctor.
Ten minutes later the Ieii"'
were again Smelling Naux. hu' w."
itself is dead, and dead 1t WIZ =,
main unless Americans some ~. ~
after the war think of resurfe'"
this first village which ams'
artillery murdered.
Copyright, 1918. by Edward MATS
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Withstood Several
Counter Attack.
andBrunt of Wave.
of Enemy With
Machine Guns
Vaccine Guns

thoroughly demolished, our art;l,..
had been so accurate in registers
on the buildings, that as 2OO-nounSs
er after 200-pounder fell into tbos.
blowing their walls and cont.n.
into the open, the mess in the strss,
grew higher than the ruin left ~
the foundations.
Here we found two of our l.;
shells-duds-the only two unoT
ploded ones known to our infantrr
men, and incidentally it is worth,
Of record that the artillery has won
the complete confidence of our
doughboys, that they trust Our oun.
jGst as they trust the French which
are admittedly the best in the world
and as the major of the 9th nut i
they love our barraye. Thor
hug it."
Pushing on to the northern mr.
ton of the town, we prowled ahor,
IN the cellars and in the pecu,;o,
little tunnel which the wine maker,
used. Here were ample signs NJ
German occupation-and defeat
Equipment lay strewn about. He1
NETS, water bottles with holes IN
them, gray coats stained with dried
blood, even some of the loot tber
had tied up in packages to send
home to their families, French babv
shoes and French clothes and souve.
Mrs of their glorious march II
fsrs' And letters home Boosting
of how I'VE will show up these IN.
tried Americans"
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The American artillery murdered
Vaux, tore it to pieces and scattered
it on the poisoned winds, and in it's
mad fury turned the debris into
prison for 500 Germans and q
grave for no one knows how many
more When the sanitary column
reach it Vaux was only an odor, an
odor that betrays the missing enc
mics and which no soldier ever for
gets.
The battle for VauX was the first
all-American victory. This is the
history of our effort in France:
Lorraine and other sectors, trench
raids.
Apremont, distinction for the in
fantry.
Cantigny, distinction for the
D. Division.
Bots de Belleau, to which the ma
rines brought the breath of the tide
and the tempest that has stirred
their valor from Tripoli to Vera
Cruz.
And then Vaux. The raids were
training; courage famed up at
Apremont, skill and decision came at
Cantigny. In the battle of Belleau
Woods we stopped the German on
the Marine and carried the bayonet
through his close packed lines. On
these fields part, or most. of the
leadership and material was
French. Even at Cantigny the artil-
lery plan was French.
But Vaux is a complete American
victory. There we prepared the way
with American intelligence. We
blazed the way with American can
non, spotted by American aeroplanes.
We stormed VauX with American
troops and with American fortitude
and courage we held Vaux against
German counter attacks. So VauX
really marks the crisis of American
intervention. 1t is the event that
proved to all our allies and to all
our enemies that the American army
has the will and the material. "the
elan and CUTS" for decisive victory.
Such are the facts and the as
poets of the storming of Vaux, and
SO they will remain whether we ad-
vance north of Vaux or quit it's
ruins. AS military fact, as hu-
man fact, despite it's comparative
smallness Vaux is an event Of large
significance in American history,
for VauX goes into American his
tory as the first European battle
where guns, personnel and plans
were undiluted American.
Preparation for
The Attack
The preparation for the attack
began somewhere in that mysteri-
Gus department of the army known
as CO, and, censorship or no CEN
sorship, it is common sense that of
this part of our military operations
the least may be told But it is due
to be said that we have begun to
bring our native genius into the pro-
gramme of gaining knowledge of
the enemy and of organizing our at
toSfro anu Pi SPebi etlOlo Win Vic W
most use of this knowledge.
Of course, the lieutenant colonel
at the head of the divisional intell
gence department and the major
who assisted him had the use of
French maps and aeroplane obser-
vation reports and photographs, and
they worked on these with the
scraps of information brought in by
patrols and confessed by prisoners.
OF course, they had sound ranging
and fash ranging instruments for
the German batteries, for these are
the common ways Of the game. Blu.
these two men, the eyes and the an
tenn9 of their division, originated
and used successfully methods typi-
cally American, daringly revolution
airy in sense and proven invalu-
able by what followed.
In this battle our perfect inteli-
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German Dead
Cluttered the Place

Finally there was no more shelter
and the guide led US into tunnel
and into subterranean passage to
one of the observation posts. From
here we looked up the slope to the
north from which had come the Ger.
man counter attack and where a
German regiment had been broken
With the naked eye we could see at
least thirty black and twisted little
heaps in front of us, thirty of the
Germans who were lying in this No
Mans Lend where neither by day
nor by night could friend or enemy
venture to perform the last rites.
The machine gun sniping was con.
tinuous from both sides, and both
are using German guns.
We climbed back through other
streets as impossible as the first.
stopping sometimes to see some
freak of our bombardment. some
peculiar mad tangle of house or
barn. Then we heard music:
All the world am sad and dreary
Everywhere | roam,
Oh, darkies, how my heart grows
weary
Far from the old folks at home.
The piano accompaniment was
soft and the voice was low. The
sounds came from under our feet,
at once uncanny and familiar, mys-
ferrous and reckoning. We searched.
We climbed over and around and We
found an entrance. There in cave
sat one of our infantrymen at the
piano, a dark mahogany upright
that had fallen in with its home,
and squatting on the ground among
the broken wine bottles. two or three
I other men, listening intently, sober
faced and, who knows, perhaps with
wet eyes, while the out-of tune piano
gave up the ghost of the sweet
haunting song. Peace and fine sen
tjment still held out in VauX.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-04-11

Barred Rock Prize Winner.
at the 1917 Missouri Slope Poultry
show, at Bismarck, N. D., with %
eoekereis In his class. Owned by w.
w. Davenport, MeHenry county. North
Dakota.
They are active birds. largely nOn-sit-
ting, and do not as rule do well in
close confinement.
The Mediterranean breeds are Leg
horns, Minorcas. Spanish and Anda.
lusian. They are small, of excellent
type and noted for the large number
Of eggs they lay.
The Leghorns are typical and the
most popular Of this group. They are
hardy; feathers lay snugly to the
body: weight Is three to five
pounds.
The American races contain what Is
generally known as general-purpose
fowls or dual-purpose fowls. The
Orpington is an English breed, the 9TH
ers are all of American origin. Among
the most popular are the Plymouth
Rocks and other Rocks. Wyandottes,
Rhode Island Reds, etc.
In the Asiatics. we have the Cochin
China. the Brahmas and the Lang
shangs. These are generally speaking
the meat breeds. The French Is rep
resented by the Houdfn; the Dutch.
by the Hamburgs; Indian. by the Corn
ish and White; the English by the Or
pington. the Dorking and Red Caps.
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Demonstrate Possibility
of Obtaining Potash From
Chilean Nitrate Fields

Some Of the profits made in NUM-
years is being put TO good use in I'M
covering new resources to aid our pro-
duction and establish independence
from German domination. says Finan-
cial America. One essential of which
our farms stand most In need is pot.
ash. Germany is the pOssessOr of the
worlds largest known deposits. Our
crons have long suffered for the want
OF this plant food with German ports
all closed German leaders boast that
they will force commercial concessions
from America In return for potash
after the war.
To relieve this situation comes the
news that the Du Pont interests operat-
ing In the Chilean nitrate fields have
demonstrated the possibility Of extract
ing potash In large and profitable
quantities from nitrate ores. This
opens new source OF supply In the
field that also produces the chief ma
terial in explosives, which Is also an
other essential plant food, that Is. nj
trate
The Du Pont company has performed
a patriotic service at this time in CIV
ing the secret of Its processes to the
allied and neutral countries operating
plants In Chile. All are strengthened
against the common enemy of mankind
and one more club for the neutrals Is
lost to the PruSsian.