Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-29

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until his wounds forced him to lay 1t
down.
Enemy Gets Under Cover
The boches hid in the grass in rye
fields. in dugouts anywhere there
was the slightest cover
Then came the work with bayonets.
grenades and flame throwers. Thirty
Germans were incinerated in one dug.
out when they fired on the Americans
after crying "kamerad!'
Big cellars in Cantigny. where it
was possible to conceal a hundred
troops. were completely smashed by
American artillery. Enemy losses
were probably the heaviest IN these
pits Of death.
The Germans ran toward the Amcri
cans "Eamerading" in groups Of ten
and twenty from dugouts or when
they We're Cornered.
In hand-to.hand fighting the Ameri
cans used the weapon they have
learned to love--the bayonet--and the
hoches squealed like pigs when they
faced the cold steel.
Prisoners were polyglot mess
ranging from boys of eighteen or nine
teen to men of forty.five. All were
the tremendous bombardment which
preceded the assault.
French officers gave the highest
praise to the offensive spirit Of the
Americans Not only did they show
no hesitation in the assault. but their
officers experienced considerable diff.
ficulty in holding them back.
wounded Americans Cheerful
,,, a,. r,,os,io, ,,Eod nv woundej 4
soldiers arriving at the hospital was
always as to when they would be able
to return to the line.
"If anything more like this is COM
ing off I don't want to miss IT,. ex-
plained one.
lieutenant Albert F. Billings. Of
Brooklyn. was brought in with a slight
| scalp wound.
At the same time Lieutenant Butler.
another American soldier. was brought
in wounded.
"where did they get you"
| "In the leg" replied Butler laconically,
then added, They tried to give you
hair cut"
YES. they nearly finished me-" re-
plied Billings "a machine-gun bullet
plow.d through the front Of my tin derby
and out the other side. II II had been
! half an lncn on tne OtneT sue sou oIus
would have been sending me daisies
How is Lieutenant Churchill?'
We'll he was spun around by shell
but he is all right. I reckon was the
answer.
we gave them hell. anyway" de.
clared Billings Me for snooze. NV
bed sheets now look mighty good to me
Lieutenant Irwin Wood. of Oakland
Cal. a graduate of the University OF
Wisconsin. who was wounded, was a
cheerful patient.
ut was Just little clip in the leg.
said he. Tell the folks In the states
that the gallantry of the men in the
ranks was better than anv football game
ever attended, 1t was regular party
walkaway"
After the first arrivals the doctor:
were extremely wary in handling thu
uatients until they had examined theil
rockets. They found the ma jority o.
them had hand grenades tucked al
over them. When four grenades wcr'
p,Illed from the hip pockets of one o.
the boys he drawled:
Great ball game this morning, doc.
All the Americans rehearsed the at
tack in the rear OF the lines. but many
of them said that when they saw thu
foolish looking tanks actually waddlinl
across the shell holes they had Il
laugh. Some times they thouSht thu
tanks weren't going fast enough 81
they ran ahead OF them.
Lieutenant Wood. Of Oakland, Cal.
said he had the greatest difficulty II
l.hlding his men back. Wood wa!