Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
SINGING BULLETS
ENRACE OUR TROOPS
lust Makes En- Mad. Says Sol
dier Describing How Americans
Rushed Into Fight.

With the bflliSH hiiiN III ''ai''t
Saturday, Aug. 10 Delayed. -" lhis
wav To the war" some soldier wag had
written with piece of charcoal on Il batter
cd house beside shcll-torn road between
the Somme and the Ancrc, just 10 the
rear of the ground over which American
and British troops have been fighting
so stubbornly TO gam their oblectIves IN
this battle IN Picardy.
II was up this road that the Amcn-
can soldiers pressed on their way to
the front. and IT was in a barn nearby,
neatly cleaned up for n dressing station,
that some Americans and Bntons who
had gone that wav and had been brought
back over it in ambulances, were having
their wounds attended to as the CORE
spondent visited them.
These men who had stepped hllthcly
forward to the fight and had been carried
back not because they wanted To come
but because thus II must be, were m aS
b;gb spirlts on returning MS when they
went and were showing il by both manner
and words.
Not only Americans were here, but
wounded British and occasionally
rrav-clad wounded German prisoner
mn Of them however, receiving attention
from the American hospital ordcrtcs-
Inside the dressing station one Amcrl-
can who spoke with pronounced Swedish
accent was sitting on a strctCher having
his foot dressed His head also was
handarcd. but IN ono hand nc held
sandwich and in tho other a cup oi hot
chocolate. and II was evident he was pay
ing moro attention % his food than to hiS
wounds He finished eating. looked
and smiled and SAID
If had cig now would icei top
hole.
rtCK Ur BRITISH slang.
He like all the Americans here. had
been trained with The British and had
rlckrd IN much Of the slang Of the British
soldier
The appearance ~ case Of American
cigarettes brought request for on" from
ever, slightly wounded man IN the room
and Tho contents of the case Disappeared
IN los t'mc than II takes To tell It
The soldier Just mentioned after CIV
ING ms name. Winch cannot lee repeated
nov talked freely OF his experiences.
.-rhr-e weren't many II Is. he
stl.i but W. xcnt up on the run and
got in the thick 81 cm qnck he tlr~t
thing | knew thc bullets began TO sing
around Is from q rise IN the ground We
halted i momcut 10 let them have It,
and then went on
NV platoon leader led rs to the
rlsc " hcrc Ne came upon tive hoche hiding
out IN >hcll-holc and collarcd the lot OF
them All the time the bullets whcry
whlzzing around ,ls but VIC didn't mind
them The jtl>t made me madden than
ever. The platoon leader told me Ia take
some prisoners back 10 the rear. 50
placed en- III front u me and We started
acrcSs tho rolling ground got on top
a little hill. when the bullets began To
rain abound Us One prisoner was Int on
the head and killed and another was
wounded while two bullets hit me. one
IN the foot and one alongside the head.
The four prisoners that were left and
mvself got away quick then, and here
am. All full of hullct-holes and the fight
still going on Rotten luck.
Stretcher-bcarerS came into the room,
lust then bearing q long-lcgged German
sergeant. who had been wounded IL the
body. He was placed at the end OF. the
row. alongside an American This tow
headed son OF Illinois locked at the Ger
man hard and heard HIM muttcr some
thing. Then he lost no time IN callirg,
"Hey, orderly this frtz i sick.
ALL THE WOUNDED GRITTY.
The summons brought bearers to the
aid OF the German who was removed into
the farmhouse nearly where the American
surgeons gave him their attention for
wounded German looks just the same 10
the American surgeons as any other
wounded man
One American talking 20 q comradc
across Il smiling Tommic on = strctcher
asked. What do the TONNES call these
things We got Geoige'
George answered w ounds-Iust
regular honest t-to-goodness wounds
That Wa not what the questioner
wanted 10 know He said No. No
! mean tho slang Then after a pause
he answered his own question oh
YES. | remember is hlighty, George
that what We got, hhghtles
George replied Rlighties Is right
/ got two I made MP my mind ] wouldn't
stop till | got two and got en-. Say
Dusty. do rou suppose we might get to
Paris or London Or some place with
these? I'm tlrcd of the country Id
like 70 60 to the cIty for while and all
right. captain, m feeling ilne I've not
been cold since got these blankets on
and some food inside
George took Il cigarette a hat point
and began 10 amu~c himself by seeing
how high he could blow the smoke toward
the hayloft whiIc living fiat on hls back
That i the spirit ii which the American
wounded come out Of a fatfle.
TIE British commanding general. who
saw the Americans in action, said last
evening ms orlv wish was that be had
more Of them under has command all the