Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-05
PRAISE GALLANT ioWANs.
Wounded Mon Say 16ath Regiment
Suffered $500 Casualties in Ono Day.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 5.-Five more men
from the 1SSth infantry have been re-
ceived at the general hospital at Fort
Des Moines. Like their comrades who
have preceded them they have received
injuries which have incapacitated
them. But they are cheerful and proud
of their regiment altho modest of their
own part In the heroic fighting which
the regiment has undergone. Another
party Of Iowans is expected to arrive
late today.
The five Iowans who reached the
hospital Wednesday night were: Ser
geant Cyril w. Bazel. Company
BURLINGTON: Private Sidney w. Lux
ford, Company A. Beech City: Private
Robert J. Neal, Company D. Allison;
Victor I. Parker Company F, Dexter,
and Arthur Olsen, Company F, Dexter
Sergeant Bazel reports that the
16Sth suffered $500 casualties in one
day in the Champagne sector. mostly
Of the original members. At Sersy the
1SSth went thru a German barrage
which lasted ten hours. The Amerl-
cans were in waiting nine days before
acton was begun. The Germans lost
nine divisions in this fighting.
Sergeant benjamin Pierce and Pm
yate Albert " Armstrong, Of Burling-
ton, both wounded men, returned to
America on the same ship with BaZel-
In an interview given out here on the
fighting at Sergy Bazel said:
1T was terrible. Nearly the whole
regiment lay IL open country. c!" cn!y
shelter was a small dugout ana 70
reach this we had to cross an open
field amid a perfect rain Of steel. Men
were falling everywhere. But Major
Brewer stayed right on the JOB ana
YOU have read what he did there. DO
you wonder his men have faith IN
him?
"At Champagne nine German dlVls-
ions were used against US. They were
trying to get to Chalons and fully eX-
pected to get there q day or two after
that drive began. They never reached
their objective. But we found maps on
bodies of dead officers showing that
they expected to reach the towns
Capt. /. c. Bum. Of company,
Glenwood. was wounded three times III
the arm with machine gun bullets.
The regiment was cited for bravery
Six times and many Of the Iowa men
wear the croix de guerre. .
High praise for Major Brewer ana
Tdert. Colonel FINLEY, of Council Blufs
was sounded by Bazel, who declared
t,Ann hard boiled-no fooling with
I fftern--but great officers" Bazel was
With Major Brewer at Lorraine, at
Champagne and in the battle OF sergy'
and was injured the same day as the
: major was hurt, July 2S.
"You fknow when they command,
they mean IT," the sergeant said in
4 creating Of the two officers. They
{ think Of their men. We trust EN-
<, that's the way we feel about 'em. Ana
they don't ask US to do anything they
{ vouldn't do themselves. Lord-Tve
Y 800 Major Brewer standing in
Aownpour Of shrapneI, never batting
II ~ eyelash. He's a square fellow
- like al the officers in the 18sth.,
r. was at Chateau Thierry, July rs
mat Major Brewer was injured, Ser.
ssant Bazel said. Gas and shrapnel
s INT the commander to the hospital
~ sergeant hadn't, seem him since.
~ NV him about eight hours before
\ n, - we're wounded" he said. Il went to
I, MOI 70 aex him what to do with my
$ ..l4ssc. aKeep It busy was ALL the ad-
~ Ne could give me.
& sour regiment took village. were
tyeh back, took it again and finally