Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-19

When the advancing horde of boches
had reaohed shell hole about ten yards
distant. Walsh yelled:
Fire ="
Bullets chugged from Yankee rifles,
and several Of the Huns went down.
Mix in. boys. now and kick hell out
of em.' shouted Walsh, jumping into
the thick Of the fight and laying about
him in every direction. He put a bull
let into a aggressive Germany, and
cracked the skull of another with the
butt of his automatic The Yanks. in
spired by the plucky work of their lead
er. fought with the vim and courage of
American fighters of old. It was hand
to-hand fracas that would have made
Israel Putnam. that fine old saint of
Yankee battledom. chuckle with glee
The Americans sweated, .puffed. swore
and grunted as they lunged with knives,
swung rifle butts and searched for Hun
nish windpipes with wiry fingers.
As for the Huns, they quickly realized
they had unwittingly struck into very
bad hornets nest, and they retreated
in disorder, throwing away their rifles
and trench knives in their haste to get
back home.
In the sans attack a big Irish cor
poral ran into two Germans near
traverse in the American trench. He
was SO close to the boches that he
couldn't use his bayonet, SO lie grabbed
one of them by the neck and pressed
his thumb clean through the fellows
windpipe. choking him to death. The
other German started to run, and the
corporal spitted him with his bayonet,
An American private of small stature
engaged i'm a terrific hand-to-hand fight
with a giant Prussian- The boche was
as powerful as boilefnaker. and bent
his adversary backward. evidently with
the intention of breaking the spine Of
the American soldier But the Yank
grabbed mess fork from his boot leg
and jabbed II into the throat of the
Prussian, who died instantly.
When the raid began, Private Wolfe
started to throw grenade at the enc.
my. The grenade slipped from his hand
Telling his comrades to beat it. he threw
| himself upon the grenade in the hope OF
eXtinguishing the fuse: The internal
thing exploded and Voile's legs were ter
Corporal Thomas Cosgrove had his
head stuck over the top when the raid
started. when, zip! machine gun bull
let passed through both checks. knocking
cosgrove was sorry he lost the chew, but
he was mighty glad he had escaped SO
easily.
An. American doughboy was buried by
above the1earth On those feet were a
pair of brand-new shoes. A boche came
along, unlaced the shoes, removed them
and beat it across No Mans Land with
his booty. When the doughboy was dug
out by his comrades he was SO enraged
at the loss of his boots that his com
rades had to lay hold Of him to keep him
from, rushing over to the. German
trenches.
Most Of our boys who were wounded
We're able to walk to. the first-aid sta
tions. When they arrived there the sur
geons would make use Of that famou.'
English expression, Are you down.
hearted?" ~
And the doughboys would roar back
mo, we're going back and get some
more of those boche devils"
Sergeant Joseph Petrush Of my bat
terry. was awarded the Croix' de Guerre
for conspicuous bravery during this en-
gagement.
Shells exploded all around him, but
he stuck to his post The spoxes of his
gun carriage We're blown away and his
shield was riddled with shrapnel. Ar
exploding shell wrecked his gun pit, bu'
Petrush didn't quit He cleared away