The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20
there. on November 2. 1915. he joined the Foreign Legion.

there, on November 2, l9lo, ne JolHeu | the Foreign Legion.
 WENT TO THE OISE FRONT | On February we went to the Oise front and in the first attack in which he participated, the legion took BeDev- en-Santerre
 That's where my friend seeger was killed" he said.
 Alan Seeger"
 Alan Seeger. never found his grave. But l looked for it. It was an open fight, you know, at Belloy-en-Santeree. When we started for the Germans Seeger and I was almost side by side, and when the shell got him--it was right across the stomach; it's a terrible thing to see friend get it that way, poor fellow-he fell just in front of me stopped moment and strengthened him out on the ground and tried to cheer nim
 up.
 :" Don't give up,' told him. See you later I saw that he was almost done for, because the shell had ripped him
 badly. But he didn't give up He had the courage. Seeger had, saw him. l looked back and saw him. Lying there, torn up, he had got hold of his rifle, and he lifted it so that the bayonet vas down. Then he stuck it into the ground, a sign to the brancardiers-a ambulance
 men--that he was alive and wounded. He had the courage, Seeger had But l guess he died there on the field before they could help him. Tt took my nerve away bit to have my only American friend in the com pany killed. We smashed the imperial guard in that attack and four other German regiments and took $500 prison- CTS We caught them in the open, some of them just getting our of motors and they paid by the score for every lesion- naire they got"
 This was Moyets initiation into the power and the glory and tragedy of the Foreign Legion. They went into rest hil- let's Then followed the Somme that terrible half-year or laundering. slow advances by the British and the French which brought on the first German re-
 treat-and after that, AuherivA-
 AUBERIVE TESTED LEGION
 Auberive, like Verdun, tested the le-
 sjcn to the utmost of human endurance.
 and like every great fight, it is marked
 by the sacrifices on the field of at least
 one American of the legion. James Paul
 Of San Francisco fell at Auberive, in
 the Champagne, and the story of his
 death, which has never been told, fol-
 lows in the words of young Jack Moyet: We mourned two men of our regi- mcnt after Auberive," he said. Our colonel Duriez, and Jimmy Paul of Fris- co. Colonel Duriez was killed leading his men from the trenches for that at-
 tack which gave us Auberive and Mt. Cornillet. Paul was killed in the German lines
 lie was great grenade thrower He got hls first citation for hurIing 250 bombs in five minutes. You don't know how important good grenade thrower Is in counter attack. It was in the Auberive counter attack that the Ger against us through our machine gun fire and our grenades. Paul was throw
 ing we'll But they were coming closer.
 l saw the man who killed Paul. He
 was German Red Cross man, and
 he shot Paul with his revolver.
 But that isn't the real story. Paul
 had grenade in his hand. The kind
 with safety pin and a lever He had
 removed the pin and was about to
 throw but the German bullet went through his brain and he couldn't move his arm. The trench was full of men and Paul fell among them, with this timed grenade in his hand and the pin gone
 from it. He couldn't throw that gre
 made away. He knew his own life. was lost, but he thought of us to the last He had enough strength left to cry out twice.
 Grenade grenade he cried, then nis voice sank and he was dead THE LAST GRENADE There was something in that cry that we heard above the shells and the guns and the Germans coming closer to us. One of the men got hold of Paufs hand and doubled his fist over Paul's. Then he extricated the grenade from Pauls dead but firm ringers and threw it at the Germans. mat night We counted the Ger
 mar Eed Cross man among the Ger man dead before our trench Some of the men say it was Paurs last gre. made that settled him." At Chemin- -des-Dames Moyet was with the legion. The American contri. button to the glory and the soil of France in this hot corner of the world war was Deming. It was Deming's 1 first day at the front and Moyet did not know him. On the 2bst of last Au. gust the legion attacked again at Yer dun.
 That was the day most of us learned how to pray The gas shells did that. The Foreign Legion moved past regiment after regiment cheer. ing us, and got into-well, they weren't trenches, but ravines with two feet of water in them. The fog just drifted down on aus and the Germans sent over tear shells The gases hung
 
 filthy with green and yellow colors God, how we cried. The tears just ran down out of our eyes and we hardly dared to breathe and get the poison in our lungs
 Tn that fog we attacked. We were glad to leave those awful front line trenches. In the first rush an office, and l. got lost in the fog and strayed around while. but returned in time to help our regiment take Cumieres Regnieville, Hill 264 and Cote de rOise The next day we took Forges" From August on Moyet was with the legion at Verdun. in attack and count CT attack. and then in November. as | 1T in celebration of two full years of the hardest fighting any group of men in history has ever undergone. he welt to the hospital to regain 1 health and strengtl, and today he is l convalescent at Versailles. l He wears the Croix de Guerre. It's | presentation is the one bright event in his military career he says, for l General Petain himself pinned the green and red ribbon with the cross
 on his tunic. That was at Verdun, too.
 Moyet tells of 1t:
 l PRAISED BY PETAIN l "The regiment was lined up and the general inspected us. Then he called out some names. He called out mine
 was surprised, When I stepped for ward and saluted he shook my hand asked
 "Almost two years, my general I l replied.