New-York tribune., 1918-10-02

4 GonEngEus Uf American wounded
agh.ing nen came back to New York
/ yesterday, smiling, to carry message
Of battle from the trenches iii France
to the people at home.
, The majority of the detachment
we're marines first 70 fall In she
ranks of ~she first TO fight" Having
s3axted Sha Germans on the high road
oS eer4ai, defeat in the historic battles
/ o5 CA6SeAn Thierry and scissors, they
again started over the top for their
sHunsry in the interest Of the fourth
Liberty Loan Several already have
savsd enough monsy OK their pay TO
lnv~se In ths new bosd issue, and
proud3y wore the button on their tunics
with thesr other wax ribbons and dee
oxatScns-
New Yntk made heroes Of the Chaa~
ssnrs d'Alpin1, who came from abroad
Is help put over the third loan. The
LegionSi1ea Of France, more recent
visitors. thrilled the city. They were
friends and allies, but they spoke an
othes language and hailed from an
osher continent.
Imst Plain American Boys
TIE naarsnes are different. No in
texpceGers are needed for them They
ssvs jas$ pIain American boys, from
CalSissnla and Illinois and New York
Syorn tho etgiss and farms Of the ccun-
sSy. Only faw months ago they lefS
tbs workshops, the Offices and the col
lss@s to v~n$are forth on "a high mis-
sion. When they returned New York
sreessd them with misty SMILES OF in.
tima%y, veGoming hac kthc natien's
owN.
Theme ara fifty men IN the party, and
all ay~ wonnded, few have paid the
pssca with Leg or an aSm- Their
bodies hxv2s been torn by shrapnel and
rntchaas x0n bullets and fragments of
high explosive shells. And each man
@9 tbs ffty would be glad To go back
sSa FYanes and make the sacrifice sll
~eeS axmdn II he could. All weres full
sf psans and hopes for tbs future, and
sas1as had any pity TO spare for himsal
/ Ih@ zufe21ngS OF abe French civilian
.oSor'rlasaoa has left deeper, more last
ing Impression than memories Of bat
1lse spr saawssing stations
learn tp Hate the Hun
@r MI lszarn to hate the Huns wnen
-Sa gse to thr 'front.' xald taIl, slow-
sslking GARNER boy from Alahsma.
s'yhs xonasan AND children who came
a.G5sas @u,x advancing !inex to look FOX
fahalE hsanas=s wsrs enough to resch us
fsssSs- Il. turned fox eorruheyatiSu su
a2s 5sspnxed, grs,D-1Ipped cirls ox his
a,szsnfcssszS. "Ths sight Ok the children. >
has nSsctss- "&h:as made surra Of ths buys
rr-x-'
OSe' ~etaersn Of the group received
HIS fiasaal1xr wounds while advancing
2rvza Csasstsau Thierxy vitM tno 1satb
.S&ssEixneans itins old aghtinx apth). Az
citizen. 3 former s4e~yls paimter FROM
Bsraokly1. served his apprenticeship 10
sd22a'@sutsss's before tis wax by crawling
tsser' fihs corniceB Of New YoSt sky
Ycresyers~ 4 third youth saw service
Cavalry when he was fifteen years ald,
Aad was wounded in France with the
nrartnes before he was seventeen Ons
&C uplained bitterly becauEe be wss
knocked out in his first ac1s1on and
hadm* seen enough 10 suit him in SIX
short huurs Of war.
Private Darwin Kragle. OF The lSth
lnfantry, who was severely wounded
while holding q pill bow beside two
Il Il - yn.a MNtv A
sssia his chief regret was his failure
to understand the words Of ths French
colvnei who decorated him with the
CY'oix do Ctuerre.
"There vera three Of us 10 pill
boa out ahead Of our lines on the night
of November Is. 1917 he said. eve
had an automatic rife and 4,2oo
rounda, and were keeping things pretty
hot. Ths Germans were shooting all
around the clock. but finally machine
gun one of my pals. Later tho Other
WAS killed. and I was left alone.
Ordered to Stick, He Stuck
~lsa bean ordered to stick who're
was. so l stuck. The next morning.
my friends In back saw me out thega
but couldn't get 10 me. shot up al
my ammunition, and the neXs night
ono oG our boys crawled out with mora
sheils. BY then ri been hit hy so,ns
silrapnsl and machine gun bullet hae
pat out my eye. I'd been gasscd. too
so the other fellow and ] decided W.
ought to 20 back. We were fired u,
pretty heavily, but we managed *
make the trench, and there ! cola psed
don't remember anything then unit
r,ssst morning when the French Office,
Of instruction woke me up TO pin OIL
tho cr0ss.v
Corporal Hit by Shell
Corporal Frank NJ. Jacobs, 81 keaI
SShraes, Brooklyn, WAS on tho first trans
pps+. " leave tho United States 70,
Tsanaa. He went through tha Chateau
Tsiargy fighting unharmed, hut later
losst 6 log before Soiseons. Eve wexs
advancing in shor. rushea under