Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-24
STATE
SOLDIERS FIGHT
LIKE VETERANS
Letters From Operseas Give Thrilling
Tales of Warfare With Huns in
France; "We Have HeIAsh Hun
on Rum" Writes Physician


drive at the Marne:
WAS very much surprised my
self, and I thought for a while I was
going to be scared; but after
ducked a few and saw what was
going on never thought a thing
about 1t.
And maybe our boys did not give
1t to the Germans! And they are
still at it. The Germans pulled
some yellowNtricks coming over at
night through tunnels, but they were
surprised to- find Americans, and
they got some welcome. When day
came they also found that the
Americans were not afraid to fight
in the daylight It's easy to get
them on the run.
"One of our officers and seven
men took q whole machine gun out
fit, and many more brave acts have
been done by the men. All the
Johnstown boys are fine and stick
ing great. OF course, we swallow
hard once in a while"
"Hot" Birthday For Him
Private Elmer McKechnie, of
Pringle, who is with the Thirtieth
Infantry, writes to his brother:
ION July 16 was my birthday, and
on that very day the battle with the
Boches started red hot. Some cele-
bration, hey bo? We kept after the
Germans for days, and the Huns
could not stand our cold steel and
artillery fire. so they finally had to
retreat. We hot-footed after them
and moved them down in squads.
"It surely was regular hell for
several days, but thank the Lord
we triumphed over Kaiser Bills
army!"
William H. McCombs, fighting in
Picardy, writes to his parents at
New Castle:
THE second time I was on the
front line a raid was attempted at
dawn on our immediate right. 1t
was repulsed, and when l saw the
Germans falling back across No
Mans Land 1 thought I'd show OH
and got my machine gun and went
about ten yards out and started
shooting at them.
About that time heard
'P-s-s-t' past my head, and another
kicked up some dirt, and you should
have seen me somersault back into
that trench! This is false courage
has, and the only trouble with some
recruits is that they must see half
a dozen other recruits bumped OIL
before they get any sense"
Eight Blair county boys, seven or
them members of Company q, are
reported missing in action. The
Company G men are Privates Dun
can B. Mcintyre, G. Howard Vance,
Harry E. Rhine, Bernard G. Rob
ison and Charles F. Stewart, AL
toona; Alfred Smith, of Holidays
burg, and Francis Diehl, of Tyrone
Private John NJ. Anderson, of Bell
wood, with the headquarters COM
pany of this regiment, is also miss
ing.
Letters from Company I men of
the One Hundred Tenth, who are
wounded, have been received al
Greensburg. Edward e. Haman'
Richard Leone and Thomas w. Rids-
dale are in hospitals. Jacob Elpern
was gassed and buried beneath
eighteen feet of earth by a shell eX-
plosion. Edward Eyring is recover
ing from wounds. Emory Drinke,
of Grapeville, and Roy E. Clawson,
of Youngwood, are missing.
From Company e, Dewey King,
dale, and George Mawhinney, of
Tarr, were wounded July 20. From
Company N Sergeant George Byerly'
of Youngstown, and the following
from Latrobe were wounded: Ser
geant George Dunn, Corporal James
Gallagher, Corporal Gray, Corporal
Russell q. Mowry, Private Don
Mowry, Private Carl J. Clark and
Private John r. McCallen.
Emil Lindquist, of Vandergrift
and William Tosh, of Ligonier, both
with the One Hundred Tenth, have
been missing since August 2. Henry
Harrison Null. of . Greensburg, OF
the headquarters company, is miss
ing.
Alexander Meyers. of Green Lane,
with Company M, One Hundred
Ninth Infantry. is missing Meyers
was born in Russia. Ray A. Master
with the Fifty-eighth Infantry. who
escaped death when the Moldavia
was torpedoed, was killed in action
August 4, according to word re-
ceived at his home in Reading.
Huns Use Women to. Fight
Private Sterling Alexander, of the
Marines, is missing, and Corporal
Roy V. Milton, Seventh Infantry,
boys are from Franklin. In a let
ter to friends at Franklin, Corporal
James A. Murrin, of Company F,
One Hundred Twelfth Infantry,
writes:
THE Germans are using women
to fight now. Our boys have seen
women a. the Hun machine guns
fighting from trees"
Edward Williams, of Mahanoy
City, with the Twenty-eighth In
fantry, is prisoner in Germany.
Private David Eicher, of Somerset,
Is in the same prison camp as Cap
tain w. Curtis Truxal. who led Com
pany e, Ono Hundred Tenth In
fantry, III barring tho path of the
Germans to Peris at tho Marne.
At least one wounded soldier of
the Iron division has been returned
to America. IIe Is Dewey Bowman,
of Chester, with Company G. One
Hundred Eleventh Infantry. He was
gassed and Is now at hospital In
South Carolina,