Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-11-06
STORIES OF BRAVERY DISPLAYED
BY OUR FIGHTING IRISH ANIERICANS
Boys Ninth Massachusetts and Fighting Stynnth of New York
Die Fighting With Smiles on Their Lips but Huns pay
Yank Taken Prisoner by Three Huns, Drops Gre
made and Kills Captors and Self

| behind. Suddenly one of our shells
! lit within a few yards of the party
The three Germans ducked. l thought
at first our hoy had. But. no, he mad
reached into his hip pocket. He
dropped a hand grenade directly at
his own feet and those of his captOrs
and the three Germans were killed
81 got there quickly afterward TO
where he lay. He smiled up at me.
Yes, he smiled, though his arm and
half his side had been blown off.
God boy l said, Mortified, why
! did you do thatT
Saw me get EN-. did you, Door ne
answered.
Eyes, but didn't know what to
| say as I tried to dress that frightful
wound.
Gave Life to Get Three.
"'Well. DOCTOR, he said grayely.
I'd been to communion this morning
and l guess l was ready to die. But
/ / wasn't ready TO 20 to Germany.
They searched me for grenades when
| they got me. the three of them, and
| they took those out of my bag and
/ out Of my side pocket. But l always
carry one tucked into my pants when
| 20 out here, just in case of-well.
anything like this. And when those
three Germans ducked it came through
my mird lot quicker than / can tell
it that three dead Germans and one
dead American was lot more on our
k%se of the score than three live Ger
fEzahs and an American rs good IS
sFlead In Berlin. SO let her CO.
"He tried to raise his head ami
look around.
Never mind. boy. you got them
, all 1 assured him.
"'Any-any chance for me, docT he
said.
II didn't answer and he knew. His
remaining hand crept beneath his
blood-soaked tunlc, gripped something
tight and stayed there. After u mo-
ment he spoke again.
Doc he said, you know all the
boys around our square. / wish they
could know | was game.
ANU uOts HIS NOltG WIS MtdheIs
will you-will you tell my mother
had-I had this when--I went
"Slowly his hand came out; slowly
It opened; that boys hand strangely
old and worn with the bloodstaIns and
CRIME. Slowly ii opened and there in
the blackened palm glistened a tiny
bright silver crucifix. He was dead"
Won't Stop Fighting.
It's Chaplain Hanley who tells the
story of the Sxty-nInth They refer
to the chaplain as holding the clerical
record for mileage in No Mans land.
They can't keep him off patrols. Chap
lain Hanley knows the story of most
of the casualties of the Sixty-ninth.
lie substantiates the statement that
not man has been killed or wounded
by German bayonet, Notwithstanding
the regiment has encountered In pitch
ed and open battle three of the five
divisions of the Prusslan Guard at one
time and another of its career. Need
less to say, the Prusslau Guard divis-
ion can make no such boast. Father
IluIlEA SugN Allt AuLhtSl AAiut AlitN
have with casualties in the Sixty-ninth
is to make them stop fighting when
they're hit. He is himself just recov-
ering from a wounded leg.
"The officers are as bad as the men,"
he declares. 1.-The day l got this
wound was working up with Captain
IIurley's company. They'd been driy-
en- back little by vicious German
barrnge and they were on little ridge.
They'd got orders to hold 1t, and they
did, for four days. When they left 1t
they Went ahead.
"Well, l was up there this day and
| heard of wounded man ahead and
a little to one side, just over the edge
OF the hill toward the German lines.
| told the captain I'd better go to him
and he wanted to detail n couple Of
men to help me. / declined and start
ell off by myself, crawling on my stOm-
ach underneath a stream of machine