The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-19

Inc voice OF every COIuei "
America tells this story. This is sim
pie transcription of the words of Yam
kee boys on the cots of an American
hospital near Paris. It's their story
They speak for the American contin
gent which made part of the marvel
Gus army of General Mangin, stuck its
vicious fangs into the German crown
princes right flank up above Scissors
and hung on and shook and shook and
hung on and snapped from one fierce
grip to another-until the crown
princes main forces came tumbling
back in pain off the Vesle, across the
Aisne, and beyond. There, at Juvigny
and beyond, the brotherhood of arms
between the Americans and the French
was sealed as never before.
1t is the voice of that army that
speaks with one accord, though the
accent be that of New Hampshire on
New Orleans. Listen to Sergt. Nor
mar Clark of 80 First street, Edger-
ton, Wis. He speaks the way they
all do. He says:
'Now get this right. Don't let any
one think we Americans are asking
too much credit. OF course, no Amer
lean unit has fallen down on the job.
Give 'em an Objective-and they get
it.
"And I'll tell the world fair that this
fighting for General Mangin is all the
same as fighting for an American gem
eral. He hops into a battle to go
through. And he goes through. No,
sir. he doesn't waste any men-but he
gets what he sets out to get.
1.-The bit he assigned US to get and
here a grin spread over the ~sfrgeant's
lean jaws, "the bit he assigned US was
Juvigny."
And the grin b%roadened as he point
ed to the American line at Leffaux, a
good five miles beyond Juvigny, as it
showed on the map on the hospital
wall
Toughest Nut, So Far.
'We'd been on the Vesle," he went
on reminlscently, land we'd had some
lAlQ nSAtlAuEs VIC lbDi a III VI Eb8A
men. But Juvigny was our toughest
nut, so far. 1 guess maybe Berlin will
be harder. Machine guns was what
made 1t tough. They had 'em every.
where. And we had to go through 'em
before we could really begin to fight.
But say, when we hit the streets
of that town we did fight. They had
machine guns in every attic and every
cellar. I've read it when you newspa-
per guys talk about a rain of lead |
saw it that day at Juvigny. Say, the
air was foggy with machine gun bull
lets.
"But the boys went through it. 1t
was a quick duck around a corner,
into a doorway, upstairs or down, and
good-by to a machine gun crew-with
the bayonet. 1t was too close for
grenades. And those Germans were
game. They took the cold steel before
they quit"
saw, git out" came a grunt of pro-
test from the next cot. "When you get
home, sarg, you'n outiie the G. A. r."
This from one Private Fermin
Goertz of Butter Ranch, n. NJ. He
was not in the platoon with Sergeant
Clark. He had different times with
his Germans.
'This open warfare is the DOPE" he
declared with conviction. 1--WE all
got tired of trenches. So when they
gave us the word to up and at EN-,
you can bet our crowd shook a leg.
Sure, 1t was tough going to get into
and through that town, and to put ali
the ferries to sleep there. But we
did it and went on beyond. OF course,
they finally slipped me a pill, a ma.
chine gun bullet in the leg there, but,
believe me, they paid for 1t in adj.
vance. l handed several Germans more
than a pin in the leg with that old
Rosaiie bay0net of mine. But | had
to stop when they hit me in the leg
Cause why? Cause you gotta keep on
running to fight these Germans. You
gotta run through their machine gun
fire, and then when you get to the
machine guns the ferries quit and
start running for themselves-until we
ketch up with EN-"
Huns Fear Bayonet.
'They don't like the American bay.
onet," sagely remarked Private Joseph
p. Kelly of Elmira, n. Y, because
the Yanks know how TO use that tool
Gosh, l used to cuss bayonet drill bach
In the States when they'd set US tC
jabbing sandbags and bundles of woot
and things. But l guess 1t was tbs
right dope. The Germans won't stanC
1t. Yes, you "a credit their machine
gun crews with half courage. But tn,
rest of 'em-whewl towards wher
they see the Yank bayonets coming