The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-31

-oul sector,p said J. w. McCHntock of
Kansas CITY, as he rested q game" leg
on the side of his bed, that the s9th
made such showing that it was desig-
mated as shock troops and kept be-
tween the famous First and Second
divisions We fought. all of our most
important engagements in that posi-
ton" lass
McClintock tells of the advance Of
September q in which the S9th and
famous hill 80 on which both French
and British had suffered terrible
losses. The hill. also known as Mont
Sac, had been fortified by the Ger
mans for four years and was consid-
cred almost impregnable. The First
division lay to the left. taking that side
of the hill while the seth attacked the
right Starting at daybreak. McClin-
tock's regiment. the 356th, passed thru
a ruined French village and took the
wood at the foot of the hill. aided by
tanks and following most intensive
five hour barrage. The hill itself was
taken b. O'Clock with comparatively
few casualties In this advance, says
McCIintock, the seth had a twelve
mile objective to make ia four days
1t took them just forty-two hours to
gain it, including the taking OF the
hill. 1t was on this advance that
Major Bland was killed, McClintock
DelnS puI a ACW e-'Ns
time.
Andrew o. Matson of Clay Center,
Kan. told of the reputation MADE py
the 353rd Regiment which saw heavy
action at st. Mihiel. the Toul and Ar
gonne sectors. First Sergeant Adams
of the 353rd, won the distinguished
service cross for capturing 500 Ger
mans" he said, and that was but one
of numbers of decorations awarded
men of the seth. AS he waited the
approach of the surgeon with fresh
dressings, Matson described Sergeant
Adams's unusual feat.
One Man Took 600.
at was in the st. Mihiel action,
said Matson THE Fritzies were 60
| ing backward so fast that sometimes
we had hard work keeping up with
them. At this one place Sergeant
Adams noticed bunch Of them ur
ahead making for what appeared te
| be a group of dugouts. All he hac
| was his revolver but he fired at then
and they hn down the dugout en-
frances. He covered the doorway
with his gun and called for them t.
come out which they did. By getting
all of the Huns who surrendered from
| the dugouts and rounding up a Few
| outside he got almost 500 altogether
and marched them back by himself
| For his one-man surrounding OF thu
| Leander Richardson was with Com
pany B of the 356th Regiment unit
( October 20 when he was wounded II
the Argonne Forest "Our compan!
| got ahead of the line in the Argonne,
he said. land we got SO scattered il
the underbrush that there was onl!
a platoon and a half left together un
| der the command of Lieutenan
| Schwin, when we dug in for the night
The going was awful and in addition
10 driving rain. the mud underfoo
| was slippery and deep. The tree
had been fairly shot to pieces by shell
fire but the brush was SO thick tina
you couldn't see a man rs yards away
and 1t was full of Hun machine guns
That was the worst fighting we had
but the men from the Middle Yves
I stood up wonderfully and earne'
many commentators" Richardson
from Maryville, Mo.
More than q hundred of the wound
ed from the seth are at Debarkatiol
Hospital No. 3 here or~have been sen
on to other hospitals for final recup
Grafton. About equal numbers hav
been sent to Debarkation Hospitals
and 2.