The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-26
Paris Paper Tells of the
Long Fighting Of Division
Containing Ken0sha
Troops.
PUT FLAG ON GERMAN SOIL
Captain John s. Coney in Letter Under
Date of November goth Expresses
Doubt Of Early Return of Keno
sha Soldiers to the States.

Now that the war is over it is pos
sible to say just what part some of
the Kenosha and Wisconsin men had in
the winning of it. November 18th was
the half year anniversary of the
planting of the American flag on Ger
man soil and it was the thirty second
division, Of which both the volunteer
companies from Kenosha were mem
beers that did the planting The
Paris Edition of the New York Herald
Of recent date which has reached this
office tells an interesting story of the
part the Thirty Second had in win
ming the war. In speaking Of the ac-
Invites Of his division made up en-
tirely Of Wisconsin and Michigan Ma
tional Guard soldiers it says:
When the American army of occupa-
ton started its march toward the Rhine
on November IL, one of our crack divi-
sions, the Thirty-Second, was celebrat-
ing an anniversary. Just six months
before this division first planted the
American flag on German soil in Alsace.
On May 10, Wisconsin and Michigan
men came under enemy shell fire, and
from that date to November II the divi-
sion has outranged Boche guns. Only
ten days after it's turn in the trenches
the Thirty Second chased the Boche
from the Ourcq to the Vesle. Then it
went to a sector north of scissors and
stormed Juvigny Plateau, fighting side
by side with the heroic s'poilus'' Of
General Mangin. After that victory
with the French it had a rest for ten
days before getting ready for the final
drive. The American army's scrap
north of Verdun was but three days old
when the Thirty Second went in, and
for the next three weeks the Wiscon-
sin and Michigan boys battled the
Boche for Kreimhilde Stellung. It was
they who finally broke through the key
position of lila Dame Marie" from
which they then pushed on to Freya
Stellung, pushing the Boche gunners
out Of Bantheville Wood. They carried
the line up to the point where the final
attack, on November !, was launched,
and followed in support Of the divi-
sions which crossed the Mouse at Dun
and captured Stenay. In the last few
days of the war the Thirty-Second went
into line in the Menuse bridgehead Sec
tor, and with the French were in the
midst of an attack when the armistice
stepped fighting. During che war the
division has fought on FIVE fronts -
Alsace, the Vesle, scissors, Argonne
and the Mouse and has fought TWEEN
ty Of Germany's best divisions, among
them the Prussian Guards. It has new
er yielded a yard of ground to the en-
emy's counter attacks. =
This is the first statement received
in Kenosha showing the activities of
the Kenosha voluntee in the army.
Practically all Of the men who march
ed away with Company NJ. under Cap.
tain Ed Dayton had part in all OF this
service and the detachnents led by Cap
tain Dayton and Captain Asbury Vale
were in the very thick Of the battles.
The last word from Company E. comes
from Captain John S. Coney under
the date of November Goth. The let
ter of Captain Coney is addressed to
one Of the Red Cross leaders in Keno
sha and is says in part:
'tThe writer wishes TO thank your.
self and the members of the Nash plant
on behalf of the members Of Battery
"Eo for the check which you in
closed for 800 francs. This sum has
been expended for the purpose intend
ed and each and every man has received
his proportionate share. A copy of
your letter has been posted OH the
bulletin board, where all had an op-
portunity to read it.
I have just returned from leave of
absence covering period of two weeks,
during which time I visited Paris, Ly-
ons, Marseilles, Nice, Monte Carlo,
Monaco, and was up on the italian from
tier, the same being the most beautiful
country I have ever seen. I was at
Nice at the time the armistice was
signed and I never saw such dem.
onstration as the people made. They
were simply wild with JOY. I remained
at Nice for five days and during this
whole time the people were celebrat-
ing the signing of the armistice.
The fact came out in the papers,
that our Division is to be one of those
which viii form the Army Of German
occupation. This fact may delay our
departure from France for an indefinite
period. I should like very much to see
German territory and to visit the var.
ious large German cities, but now that
the war is practically over, the writer
thinks that his job is completed and
that his place is back in God s country
I am glad to say that good old Bat.