New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-09-26

cTAWleQ apVut q mile tNpugh tneT
territory, creeping by their outposts
and through their wire.
"We came, to the first line trench
and found no resistance. Second line
the same, third line also. 1t didn't
look as though we would find a pris-
oner. We started back towards the
front. Then we came across a dug
out. The lieutenant went down. He
came up pretty soon and said ths>>a
were about forty men down there. He
didn't talk very long about it but
threw two grenades down. He heard
3 couple of loud explosions. He then
4 went down to sec how things were
coming along, and plugged two gas
bombs down. 1T was quiet He re-
turned with a German gun and
German helmet on. We couldn't get
anyone alive to give us any informa-
d don. A German advance post ahead
u Of us, by which we had to go, began
q firing at us. We surrounded the post.
OF course there was some mix-up.
But we dug one live Boche out.
We had our prisoner He wouldn't
keep still and, here the speakers
! Ups drew taut as he hesitated n mo-
ment. We'll, boys, to get on with
The story, we bumped him on the
head. After we had fixed him we
cut his shoulder straps off. They gave
his regiment and numbers, the in
formation we wanted. One of our
men had gotten himself wounded, so
Dad we couldn't carry him back. We
had to leave him behind. OF course
we don't like to do this, but-Well,
y fellows, raiding parties aren't nice
4 anyway. though things were going
4 pretty we'll with us. Things were
pretty busy then, so as we had fin
4 ished our job we went right home"
1t Happened At Chatcau-ThieTy.
Unsatisfed with his story OF the
\ war the party induced Hopkins to
start again. He told of the stirring
scenes about Chateau-Thierry.
when the U. S. Marines got
there" he said. the French were
falling back. 'Allez', yelled the
F'rencl'--that means beat it, boys.
The Marines came in trucks. The
Boclle were attacking the Metz Paris
road. At Meaux the Marines stood.
Fhey climbed right out and there
hey stood. They held the Bochc.
They kept holding them. The Boche
we're going to Paris. The L. s. Ma
rines said no. What the Marines
said went. The company with which
I
rines. Both the Boche and We
threw out patrols. The American
troops wanted the railroad station.
We didn't know where it was, we
couldn't see it but we decided we'd
take it. We started to attack Our
division ran into bad machine gun
Ere. We withdrew. Meanwhile re-
serves and big guns on both sides
were being brought up. Our COM
panies divided into parties Of TWEEN
ty," ("Oh, say this fight isn't going
right" he said in an aside) Sure
it is Hoppy," chorused the crowd.
go on" Hopkins continued. II
drew twenty. Things were hard to
follow from then on Each bunch
got scattered. There was u wheat
ield--Ill never forget that. We beat
through it. Fellows were dropping.
Machine-gun and rifle fire is bad
he announced refectively. ave came
i up with some Boche, young ones, aW-
full young boys, sixteen to nineteen.
We surrounded them. They didn't
want to stop lighting. We didn't want
to take prisoners. When we went on,
machine guns hidden up in trees shot
us in the back. We couldn't have
hat and have prisoners on our
hands. They were too young to die.