The sun., 1918-08-17
Capt. F. B. Barrett Organized
Newspaper Mems Training
Corps in New York.
GERMAN AGAINST KAISER
Former Teuton Soldier Glad
His Son Is Fighting in the
Allied Army.

| signed from the service two years
later. entering newspaper work here
In 1916 he went to the Mexican border
with the Twelfth Regiment.
During his border service he was
promoted from a second to a first lieu
, tenancy. Upon the outbreak Of the
war with Germany he went to the
Piattsburg Training Camp and was
commissioned a Captain upon his grad
uation. He left for France with one
of the first units He was born ir
Georgia and Senator Swanson of Vir-
ginia Is his uncle.
Capt. Barrett organized the News-
paper Mems Training Corps in which
more than 200 OF the best known news
paper workers in the city were en-.
| rolled. Many members Of the organ
| ization have been commissioned since
the beginning OF the war.
Disowns Former Country.
Il am glad my son is fighting for the
Allies cause. I once fought for Ger
many. but l am all against her prin-
ciples In this war"
Caspar Metz, 12s Elmwood avenue,
East Orange, N. j., clenched his fist
| and emphasized his statement yesterday
when commenting on the report that his
BON William, 20, who fought with the
American troops in recent drives, has
| been missing since Jrly Is.
Young Metz was born in East Orange
almost twenty-one years ago. He Joined
the State Guard In 1916 and saw service
in that organisation on the Mexican
border. When the Guard upits were
| sent North from there and later taken
into the Federal service Metz went
along. He arrived in France last May
and has been missing since his first en-
gagement on the French front
Lieut.. Alan C. Clark. "a. son Of Mrs.
Grace F. Clark. SIS Madison avenue.
whose death from wounds received on
the battlefield in France was announced
by a cablesram last Monday. was
member Of the Twenty-sixth Infantry
Machine Gun Division.
Dreams of Chasing Germans.
He was we'll known in New York, al
though he had not lived here for several
years. At the time of his enlistment he
was living in Kansas City, Mo-, where
he was employed by the Fidelity
Casualty Company. He was educated at
Middlesex and Harvard, entered one Of
the training camps and received his
commission. His brother. Kenneth
MGR. Clark. Is manufacturing air plane
and ship lumber for the United states.
Lieut. Sam Mckee. Jr., son Of Sam
Mckee, vaudeville editor Of the Aorning
Telegraph, has sent letter to his father
from a base hospital in France. where
he Is recovering from the effects Of
German gas. The letter, dated July 2S.
typihes ehe spirit of American troops. '
He tells his parents that he has been
gassed but Is doing nicely and wants to
get back to the front again. He said
~ Ill In nj "
sixth Division, formerly the New Eng
land National Guard had stepped into
the big drive before he was incapacl-
tated. As the result of the intensity OF
the fighting he wrote that on his way
to the base hospital all he could dream
about was charging Germans across a
wheat field through barrages and throw
ing countless grenades.
Those devils opposite u.s." he wrote,
"are on the run and whipped. but too
good at this game to be anything like
routed yet
Lieut. Mckee is 81. He enlisted in
1915 in the First New York Cavalry
and served nine months on the Mexican
border. He is a Piattsburg graduate.
Was In Charge of snipers.
At the time he was gassed Lieut.
Mckee was a battalion intelligence Off
GER in charge of detail OF twenty-four
snipers. listening post men and No Mans
Land patrols. His regimental colors
were decorated with the Croix de Guerre
after four days Of hot fighting in Apre-
mont Wood.
Two brothers are in the service OF
Uncle Sam Lieut. Frank b. Mckee. "a.
is member Of the 305th Cavalry and
John B. Mckee is in the navy.
Private Patrick A. Walsh. killed in
France July Is. Sac City. Ia. Joined
Company /, 16Sth Infantry. when his
brother John Joined the colors, so that
the two could be bunkies. When their
organization. which formed a part OF
the Rainbow Division. ARRIVED at Camp
Mills Patrick and John visited two other
brothers, Anthony and James, at IA
West Sixty-f1fth street.
Their prospective adventures appealed
to Anthony, who was Is. and he too
enlisted and was assigned to the same
company.
James. the remaining brother. re-
Gently received letter from the trio in
which they aid that they were well and
happy and in the thick of the fight. The
letter was dated July IA. The following
morning a shell from the German lines
exploded on the lip of a trench In which
the brothers were lying and Patrick was
killed.
He Got His Germans.'
billie. get your Germans like the
rest OF the family" was the command
of relatives to Private William Corbett,
IS, l65th Infantry. Wien. at the age OF
II, tho boy Joined that organization.
Private Corbetc has been killed in action,
but he got his Germans.
After his company had had it's first
exDerien In the first line trenches Billie
was missed one afternoon. He was
net on a gr!ndstOne turned b. two Will
ing Frenchmen.
whats the idea" was the question.
This is too dull" was the reply.
Next time 60 out want 1t to cut"
The lad had nine relatives in the war
in the Canadian and British armies.
Lieut.. William l.. Murray. son o. Mr.
and Mrs William j. Murray. East
Orange, ". j.. seriously injured and re-
cuperatins in an American base hospital
in France, sailed from the United States
in September with Battery F. Twelfth
Field Artillery. He had served with
Battery A on the Mexican bosder. but
fter his return went to the officers
training camp at Fort Myer. Virginia
where he won his commission in three
months
In France he took a special course in
aeronautics and was made observer for
his battery. In recent letter to his
parents he described a fall OF 2,4OO feet
In his air2lane. He escaped serious in
jury.
benjamin Il. Gunnell. %, Company /,
/ 65th Infantry. killed In action July 2S,
survived his bride but "A few months. /
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis II. Gunnell, his