Atlanta semi-weekly journal., 1918-02-01
TWO u. S. SOLDIERS
SLAIN BY GERMANS
I'M RAID ON SECTOR
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night Captain Kingman was crawling
over No Mans Land in a night recon-
noissance and in the darkness an Amer
lean soldier on the firing step Of the
trench thought he might be an enemy.
Discovering his mistake, the soldier
hurried out and helped carry the wound
ed officer in.
All the shells which claimed these
victims exploded in trenches and sup
port areas.
One of those killed was an interpreter
an ex-cook at the Blackstone hotel in
Chicago.
He was accompanying colonel on an
inspection tour of the trenches and was
blown up by a shell as he stood at the
very entrance to the coloners dugout.
The colonel had lust entered the under
ground The interpreter was close be-
hind and was in the act of descending
the steps when struck.
The colonel rushed up to find his COM
panion mangled and dead.
On one other recent occasion a large
shell screamed through the air and eX-
ploded in the center of a little knot OF
soldiers Three were instantly killed
and two were wounded. This was sew
out of the dim misty dawn and rushed
the wounded men six miles to the rear
of the trenches where the field hospital
is located.
There orderlies hurried out and ten
derly lifted down the stretchers bear
ing the manned men inside. one
stretcher carrier a soldier from WASH
ington state, apparently about twenty
years of age. He was taken to the op-
Grating room. where the white-robec
surgeons saw at a glance that he mas
only one chance in a million to survive
An operation was quickly decided upon
The soldier had frightful shell
wound in his abdomen. Despite every
care the boy died within fifteen MIN
utes after his arrival.
Surgeons carefully placed his belong
ings in an envelope for return to his
parents. They included three photo
graphs One was apparently that of a
little sister of the dead man. The girl
was leading three big horses to a
drinking trough.
Another American soldier recently
wounded was a sergeant from Winches-
ter, Tenn He was crawling in shallow
trench at daylight when he came in
sight of an enemy sniper. The Boche
promptly plugged him in the shoulder.
1.-THE shot bowled me over into deer
water-filled shell hole" the sergeant said
today from his cot in the hospital. 'My
captain pulled me out or l would have
drowned
1.-THE minute | got out / reached fol
my pistol and found my right arm help.
less. Therefore, 1 turned my belt around
and grabbed the pistol with my left
hand. 1 wanted to get a revenge shot
at that sniper, but ! couldn't discover
him. I'm all right-Ill be back in the
line soon"
One Boche shell the other day struck
a cook shack in a battered little town
within the support area. A cook who
was baking a birthday cake for an of
ficer was instantly killed. Seven men
in all have been wounded recently, but
of these six were reported to have suf-
fered accidental injuries.
One man from New York emerged
from the trenches today with frost
bitten feet-and yet smiling through
his mud-coated hair.
I'm bet I'll catch the dickens for
getting my feet frosted" he said
whats become of all those tobacco
funds we read about being raised all
over the u. S. A.? For Gods sake give
a fellow a cigar. 1 haven't had a smoke
in fifteen days"