Evening journal., 1918-09-18
GERMAN GUNNERS
Chained TO guns
Yankees Find Three Huns
dashed to Their
Posts
NOT PLAYING ANY
MORE DIRTY TRICKS
BY HAROLD Z. BDCHTOL.
european Manager OF the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoclatlon.)

European Manager or the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoclation.l
LONDON, Sept is-The German ON
4 e-sssss : 80 eh halEsIag German machine gun
ners to their nrst-llne guns.
There have been reports OF this sew
eral times Now YOU may take II as
verified fact
Lieutenant r. /. Gary Of Peoria, H.,
saw II.
who told you about it'" asked
him
Nobody told me" he replied heat
edly. ''ln front CT Amlens ! saw three
German gunners chained 20 their ma
chine guns
zone OF 'em was dead. Two were
alive-wounded.
"They had steel cuffs locked around
their left ankles and the chains ran
10 the bases OF the guns and were lock
ed there-so they couldn't beat it.
can tell you the links In the chain were
good and heavy. | know because we
had to cut them, 10 take the guns and
the two prisoners"
Lieutenant Gary is an old National
Guardsman-one Of the Americans brig
AIDED with British and Australian
troops. lie was in the allied push IN
front OF Amiens, and got hit In the left
arm by a piece OF shell.
I found him at the new L. S. Army
Base Hospital No. 81, at Dartford, Just
after he had been "bllehtyed" to Eng
land from a hospital in France.
lie was sitting under a tree in the big
hospital grounds, watching an Ameri-
can twO-seater circling overhead and
putflng a black pipe lie went on
Those German machine gunners
play lot OF dirty tricks. Not so muon
as they used to. though. They've learn
ed they can't machine-gun Americans
until they're few yards away and
then throw up their hands and yell
'kamerad' and expect TO be taken pris-
oner.
Ever hear OF the Ksmerad Screen p
They tried that once on some Austral-
ians brigaded with us. A lot OF Ger.
mans appeared in a long line 100 yards
or without any guns, standing shoulder
10 shoulder, holding up their arms and
yelling kamerad, kameradr
The Aussles went 10 take them and
suddenly when they got nearly there.
everyone OF the Huns dropped fiat and
row g machine guns behind them be-
gan singing away.
"They killed a LOT OF Aussies, but
they're learning Australians and Amer
loans are the wrong guys 10 try their
Hun stun on"
Lieutenant Gary has had exceptional
opportunity 10 see German prisoners.
My first sergeant, Bill Mettln-he
comes from Illinois, tOo-talks German.
and he examined lot OF the prisoners.
Mettin ran onto a German prisoner
around Amiens who went to school the
same place ne did.
What do you think about the Amer
icans?" Mettin. asked him.
Not many OF them over here" re-
piled the German.
''Mettin told him there were nearly
two million in Europe, but he wouldn't
believe It. Their morales bad. Any OF
them will tell you Were better on than
you are-were over the river-that's
the way they put it Tickled TO death
TO be taken prisoner.
But they're big, strapping fellows
that 'weakling business is bunk. They
seem to be pretty we'll fed, except when
the allied artillery or airmen shell their
communication lines so they can't get
the stun up. Then we get them so hun
CRY they'll trade their iron crosses for
food.
Sometimes you'll hear a Sammy say
We'll, they can send me back t0mor-
row. But he always laughs. None OF
them would go back II you asked 'em
TO.
"They don't like IL, but they're in It
to finish IL quick And they know that
means lighting They're over to fight,
and they do fight.
"But they smile too, all the time.
"The Germans never smile.
That's the difference"