South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-09

T am listening 20 now When YOU
read about this attack. remen Der
that We fred one Of the FIRST guns
and are SIN firing and I can't but
believe that they will 5e held this
time"
That concluded the typewriter
letter. Then, in pen writing was
this, under date or July is
Line Not Even Bent.
We still have him held and our
line Is not even bent he mas been
driven back eight times Dead men
and horses are evervwhere Our
division has sixteen hundred casual
ties so far Again my outfit Is for
tunate not over dozen. besides
some missing Enemy lighting be-
hind their dead
The letter began.
We are in the midst OF the big
gest scrap we have been in and have
been firing since II o'clock last
night, and as I have 20 keep awake
/ ! am using my automobile as my
I post or command. debating this let
I ter that Will be written some time
after this fight is over. The enemy
/ has now reached point in front OF
our intermediate positions and un-
less we are all badly mistaken. 7
+ think that we will hold him there
! We thought that We had been I'm
the game before but no doubt YOU
/ are reading in the papers this morn
/ Ing OF the attempted advance.
Lose Two Planes.
We have had two planes go down
and one Of our balloons in front Of
as. and as am writing this the en-
envy has moved up two balloons so
that we are now under direct OBJ
serNation
Indiana Is verv'fortunate in hav-
ing cen. Nclntire commanding a
brigade Of artilIerv as he is very
/ fine officer. ] spent month with
I him in 1911 az San Antoine He has
spent quite a little time in the Aus
trian army before we declared war
~ have just had one of my guns
blown up which makes the second
since We have been here However
that is all part OF the game. but We
always hate 10 have accidents Of
that character"
I'm the earlier letter the officer
wrote i'm part:
We now have the proud distnc-
ticn Of being what some people call
shock troops and Will fight here
after wherever troops are needed
most and viii no longer hold sectors
as We have been doing heretofore.
We now are In an entirely diff
ferent part Of France, and II [ could
tell YOU the names OF the towns
YOU would recognize them as those
that have been foremost in the press
throughout the war
Fortunate SO Far.
Up 10 this time We have been
very fortunate. only having abcu,
! 100 casualties. and have buried only
( 10 men, but there is no doubt but
what from now on we can look for
Z heavier casualties. This is now in
deed veteran outfit We can and
have moved at an hours notice and
without any confusion whatever. We
did the small job OF loading 10
trains Of 80 cars each. a total Of
/ 500 cars. which il takes to carry
this regiment at the average time
/ OF two hours per train. one train
being loaded in 50 minutes
ct wish I could tell YOU what is in
I store for us at this time. but YOU
/ viii probably read about 1t later. We
have about 1900 very fine aninaIs
I now and have been reported on by
inspectors as having the best groom
I ed animals OF the 800 in the di-
4 vision Our guns have fred over
2.0G0 rounds apiece and we have
I built some very splendid positions
( from time 10 time In other words
we have done all things that soldiers
/ are supposed TO do. and believe
I that this Will be one OF only two di-
visions that viii remain intact and
| keep IFS identity The others are
split up or changed around as soon
as they arrive