The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-11-08
STORIES OF BRAVERY DISPLAYED
BY OUR FIGHTING IRISH AMERICANS
Boys Of Ninth Massachusetts and Fighting Snnh Of New York
Die Fighting With Smiles on Their Lips but Huns pay
Yank Taken Prisoner by Three Huns, Drops Gre
made and Kills Captors and Self.

behind. Suddenly one Of our shells
III within n few yards Of the party.
The three Germans ducked. / thought
at first our boy had But, no. he had
reached into his hip pocket He
dropped II hand grenade directly at
his own feet and those Of his capto%
and the three Germans were killed.
81 got there quickly afterward 80
where hc lay. He smiled up at me,
Yes. h" smiled, though his arm and
half his side had been blown or.
God boy, ! said, h0rritied, why
did YOU do thatY
"'Saw me get EN-, did you, Doc| nu
answered.
"'Yea, out I didn't know what &"
say us I tried 10 dress that frightlui
wound,
Gave Life to Get Three.
"'WN'l, doctor he said graycIy.
I'd baen 20 communion this morning
and ! guess | was ready to die. Bu'
| wasn't ready to 30 To Germany.
They searched me for grcnades wheU
they got me. the three Of them, and
thcy took those out of my bag and
out Of my side pocket. But | alway"
carry one tucked into my pants when
/ 20 out here, just in case Of--well
anything Hike this. And when those
three Germans duckcd it came through
my mind n lot quicker than can tell
II that three dead Germans and ore
dead American was IL lot more on our
SlGc of the score Than three live Ger
mans and an American as good as
dead IN EcrIin. SO ! let her 60
"To tried 10 raise his head AMI
look around.
Never mind. boy, you got them
all assured him.
LADY chauc" for me. docE he
said.
II didn't answer and he knew. His
remaining hand crept beneath his
bIood-soaked tunic, grippcd somethin.
light ana stayed there After ii mo-
mcnt he spoke again.
"Doc,' he said. you know nll the
boys around our square. ] wish they
could know ! was game.
"'And, doc his voice was weaker,
will you--will you tell my mother I
had had this when-I went
SLOWLY his hand came out; slowly
Il opened; that boys hand strangely
Old and worn with the blOOdstains and
CRIME. Slowly il opened and there in
the blackened palm glistcncd a tiny.
bright silver crucitX. He was dead
Won't Stop Fighting.
It's Chaplain HanIey who tells the
story Of the SiXty-ninth. They refer
to the chaplain as holding the clerical
record for mileage in No Mans land.
They can't keep him Off patrols. Chap
lain Hanley knows the story Of most
Of the casualties of the SlXty-ninth.
He SuhstantiatcS the statement that
not man has been killed or wounded
by n German bayunet, Notwithstanding
the regiment has encountered in pitch
ed and open battle three Of the five
divisions of the PTusSian Guard at one
time and another of ITS career. Need
less 10 say. the Prussiau Guard divis-
ion can mike no such boast. Father
Hanley says the hardest time they
have with casualties in the SiXty-ninth
Is to make them stop fighting when
they're hit. He is himself just recOv-
crinc from wounded leg.
1.-THE officers are as bad as the men,
he declares. The day ! got this
wound / was working up with Captain
IIurley's compare. They'd been driv-
On back q little by vicious German
baIragc ana they were on Il little ridge.
They'd got orders 10 hold it, and they
did, for four days. When they left it
they went ahead.
"Wcll, l was Tp there this day and
heard of wounded man ahead and
n little to one side just over the edge
Of the hill toward the German lines.
| told the captain I'd better 20 to him
and he wanted to detail couple Of
men to help me. / declined and starr
ed Off by myself, crawling on my stOIn-
ach underneath stream Of machine