New-York tribune., 1918-08-26

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Ohlc. AS they advanced by stabbng
rushes and ensconced themselves in the
courtyard Of wrecked farm they saw
something which had once been human
and still wore the dark-stained olive
drab drooping unhumanly from barn
door.
1t was the body of Sergeant Cole.
He was dead. German bayonets had
been driven through mis- hands and
feet, and he,was pegged to the barn
door as farmers in the Ohio River Val
ley peg out skunk skins with hammer
and nails.
Finds His Own Brother
Private Cole saw that it was his
own BROTHER said DR. Howard. "He
took down the crucifxed man. asked
briefly that the body be laid aside for
CHRISTIAN burial, and plunged forward
to the attack. He survived and later
attended his brothers funeral
Before that day was over he had
evened up the score. cannot give
satisfied with the penalty Fritz paid
for that piece of tiendshness."
DR.. howard also told the story of
Joseph Chicano. Chicano was a mem
Der of a machine gun company and was
left behind by his comrades. snot
through an eye, when they gave
ground temporarily before German
counter attack. Still conscious, but
mpletely blinded by blood and pain,
the Germans led him before an officer.
who put question after question to
him.
Chicano speaks no German and could
not understand The officer therefore
drew pistol and shot him. The bull
his hip. For four days and nights
Shlcano lay unattended on the battle
feld within the German lines Then
retreating Germans began to pour past
him. They were deaf to his entreaties.
At last German officer heard him and
stopped. After looking the manned
man carefully over the officer levelled
his pistol and fired another bullet into
his body
Chicano still lived when the Amer
leans swept over the spot again, and
Vas wa on the road to recovery when Dr..
Howard left France.
Il am back to testify to the eff
cheney of the Salvation Army on the
battlefield" said DR.. Howard. "and to
say to the American people: Get tn at
nun NJ or ne will get you, and if he does,
al YOUR ideas of unexquisite hell will
fade in comparison to the reality"
Or. Towards welcome to the battle
held was from an exasperated colonel
who sought him out and exclaimed:
"Yo GU are Salvationist; tell me how
l can keep these women of yours out
of danger. l have cautioned then,
hut
them N'N wv '<'' Spa
In response to a reiterated query
from the colonel as to who would look
out for the women. DR.. Howard vent
ured guess that the Lord would
and the dirt-grimed colonel slappe d
his thigh" continued DR.. Howard "and
exclaimed: That's it, by thunder
God'll look after them!' and he dashed
away"
Dr.. Howard found sixteen battle
field Marthas" almost in the firing line
giving first aid and comfort to the
wounded as fast as they arrived, and
orushlng away the vicious, unclean flies
that rise in hordes from any active
battlefield more than few days old
Inc women even got mosquito netting
from some mysterious source to pro-
tect the men from the flies.
well have these women been
dubbed the little Marthas of the bat
hours before they had been serving
coffee, pies and doughnuts in the huts
rot 50 far away. Now they were toll
ing like Trojans with the wounded and
the nuts were Abandoned 4 fifth of
their food supply trucks was impressed
as ambulanccs"
The fighting courage of the Amer
ican men was entirely different from
the passive courage of the American
women, and Dr.. Howard scarcely knew
which deserved the higher praise
Il personally saw the Americans
knock the farfamed Prussian Guards
into cooked hat" he said and
cannot even attempt to describe it. A
scene that will transform an orderly
citizen of peace like myself into a
wildly screaming and gesticulatine
person, who dances up and down, who
howls and shouts and races around
like q wild man, is not scene that
can be told of in mere words.
II stood within a city block of one
of the points of contact and saw the
flower of those Boche fighters rush
forward. saw the Americans tear
INTO them and don't believe it is
profane to say that I saw our men
from the United States simply knock
the hell out of them. There isn't
enough left of that picked Prussiar
Guard to-day to make a respectable
link sausage for a cannibal.
That same day I stood alongside a
French major in charge of a battery
who had just located German am
munitlon dump, or thought he had
He figured out the range, trained his
guns on distant clump of trees, told
US to plug our ears and let fly.
"Blewey! Up went those woods in
the finest piece of fireworks | have
ever seen, and with them the German
ammunition dump serving that sector
The flame must have shot 500 feet into
the air and the smoke blotted out tha,
part of the landscape
"The French major jumped into the
air. threw his cap away, grabbed me
and, while humming q scrap of music
two-stepped with me in and out
amongst the guns. while his men
howled with glee and performed sim
liar antics.
Feeling that they had earned 4
respite, these Frenchmen spotted nv
Salvation Army uniform and shouted
for the women with doughnuts and
lemonade Regardless of all that was
transpirlng around US, We GOT them up
there and the men got their doughnuts
and lemonade in twenty minutes.
Just before I left France the United
States government paid a tremendous
compliment to the Salvation Arr.v by
turning over to it all of the lost mail