Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-11
RICHMOND TIMES DIsPATCH: FRIDAY JANUARY H. 1918

denourg is keeping his best wine "a
mo iast. don't know. but what VIC
cally.
And their physique was no, On.
HANGED by their clothing I, wns OK.
cecuihSiy poor and shoddy slug. apart
altogether from the, wear and tear
10 use familiar phrase of the battle
c'u' Ihey wcre particularly ill-shod
! ~ III iact' as I've said. what we then
50" oi inc herman army left tho i'm
preSsioh mat 1t was pretty down-at :
heel assortment
but one can't judge tho whole mass
from individual units, and before long
we found that. whatever their dress
ana their boots might be like. there
meIc samc enough fighters amongst
them. And tho nearer we got to The
litndenburg line tho more apparent
( that became.
! Before night time on this even,ru,
day the Huns had been ousted from
an their trenches, and the first pha Sos
" '"c herce battle still raging had
commenced. | mean the lighting from
nnI' holo TO shell hole and through
! ana about the ruins OF farms and viii
1 lagos.
reports were now current that tho
cavalry were i'm action. am certainly.
we saw them returning from one viii
''Sc, out they did not seem to have had
"iuch scrappinS, SO spruce and jaunty
were they.
however, the reason was not far to
seek. The Huns had fed at the very
I sound OF tho horScmcn.
'ut II the cavalry did not get their
proper innings at this particular spot
= can't say what they got elsewhere
the infantry got theirs a little far
ther on.
inc iirst sign OF the coming storm
Was Whch shells began to burs; with
uhSahhy regularity along side the road
10y "nich they were threading. Tho
runs haNo every inch OF the vacated
ground registered, and IL was no, long
'e'orc our men were beginning 10 hon
hf"nhu bit 10 avoid the German
"ca'icS which came humminG from
lar IN the rear OF the rctrcatinS line.
ma: say have heard IA good deal
about the Germans throwing dud shells
and all the rest of il. but / can a..IIrr
you that, with some executions. those
mat fc!i around at this spot were no,
aud by any. means.
Despite the dangers. however. the
boys took it all in good part For,
AFTER all they wcr. conQucrcrs that
Jay ana they were ready for anything
ife morrow might bring /. was a
marc and fearful grind all the same.
"h'. believe me. we were glad when we
CpHia Siir INTO the comfortabl. dug
outs which tho Huns had left behind in
the hurry OF that Strategic retreat"
Of theirs.
That's my story OF the part our lot
TOOK In tho battle OF Arras, but lot
M" a"d this yarn to n great capturc
We once made down near Loos, Of i'm
mortal memory.
occurred at dead OF night.
some Of us were out on business
OF ono KIND or ano,her-l forget it's
natuTc--whcn suddenly we ran plumn
into-what do you think?
Nothng more or less than a FULL,
equipped German ration party, loaded
TO the neck with goodies" Of all kinds
ana staggering along as best they couId
under their dclectablc. if heavy, bur
dcns.
nid we scrap?
Not bit OF X.
me fellows We're loaded I'm and
could not have knocked :, ny off their
noses let alone put UP fight. /,
was simply case OF making thu
fritzieS right about" to our lines. In.
stead of left about" TO their own
winch they did in double quick time
700, can assure you. For this was