The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-09-13

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employed failed 10 take the position
and Miss McGee has been selected
instead. She will have charge ol
the 9TH aud 10 IN grades; Miss Cof-
IN the 9th. 5ih aud slh. Miss Law
ther the an and 5lh: Miss Winston
ID aud ard aud Miss Emerson aud
Miss Irene Roach will teach the pri-
mary department
trance. hut our famc lhruwcrs. .li-
quid fire. advanced TO the entrance
Of II under protection Of a couple Of
tanks. then they got 10 work. Don't
think any Germans were captured
there.
Three lhrr fellows and myself
funud seven Germans In a small line
of trench They were all trying Ia
lie down In the trench and nghiing
for bottom berth. They seemed lo
think that We were going In shoot
them hut they offered no resistance.
u was q good thing they didn't for II
was no lime for foolishnoss.
u seemed that some of the Ger
mans IN the rear lines gut away hut
they were IN ,urh haste that They
even forgot Ia take h"ir i,iir-
with ihcm Tor the ground was M
tered with rifles hayoncls. and 9th
or equipment. picked mp two Ger
man pistols. ur rather two that were
almost rifles They were between
fourteen and sixteen inches IN length
and had raised sights. Mere good
mp IN roo yards and have an attach
menl that nts on the grip ~ that
they ran be- put In the shoulder aud
frcd like rifle. and they have q
magazine that holds g. s,rlls com
pared tn ours which hold Z shnls. I
afterwards lost them when I gul
shocked out Would sure liked in
have kept them and sent them Ia
you but maybe sometime later will
have another chance You know the
American soldier r. great souvenir
hunter. saw fellows loaded down
with various kiud- of things. such
~ rifles, haypn"ls, hrlmrl.. u,id
glasses, pistols. and lots of other
things. I saw one fellow with an
iron cross that had he'n awarded IN
inli llc said hc gni II on major
Would sure liked lo have had II.
viii tell you what W. lid the ncNt
day. n started about q. M. but
our harroec was not as heavy ~ II
was The day before. Al Of our guns
had not been moved up, guess. aud
the going was not as easy The
Germans were not firing much ariil-
lrry, hut they were shelllnR a little
They sure had lots of machine guns
and they were using them too. hut
We continued IN drive them hack
and had advanced two or three kil-
"mclrrs whcn We run into an awful
mess of them We were gping M a
little hill aud II seemed 10 dcmoral-
We ~ for while, hut we fell back
under the hill and reformed aud
laying there waiting Tor tank to
come Mp and help ms out Mean
while the Germans were shrllng a
road hehind us about - yards dis
lance ! was laying there smoking
cigarette aud thinking how tired
! frlt and how sleepy for had not
had any sleep for two nights aud
three days with the exception of
what had got that nieht which
was abuul three hours aud that
was the last I remembered TN I
woke up In hospital AT --.
Since then I have got considerably
better hat am still little nervous.
one fellow In Company & that Is in
the hospital here told me that |
wanted 10 keep going toward fle
German lines and that he had hard
time getting me started back An
other fellow IN the company that
saw mo u The dressing station said
I was trying Ia turn hand springs