The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-09

three German lines. After we had
taken these three German lines, there
was still a front line, and we got
word to go as fast as we could hike
against. these Germans. Finally,
my battalion came to the small town
of Versey,~ southeast of Soissous. My
company, the. Seventy-Third Machine
Gun, had to take the town of Versey.
The main army had left, and there
was only left the machine gun men.
Generally, the machine, gunner are
the last to leave. They leave one man
to assist, and one man to. fire the gun,
and they can fire as fast as you can
count. We lost q good many men
there. Finally we thanked this. little
town and took it; and went up the hill,
and there. we met str6ng resistance.
They had sthis hill fortified with ma
chine guns, and as fast as a man
would stick his head over the Hill,
they would pick him-of Finally, we
advanced and they came up. After
we got there, the machine guns didn't
bother us. any. We started to advance
about three miles, but got orders to
dig in. We dug in on the 18th, about
ten o'clock, and stayed there until
the morning of the 10Th. The Sixth
Regiment of Marines was holding the
front, and the Fifth Regiment was
ordered to the res to support the
Sixth. We had rather be in the front
line than in the support, because the
artillery is trained on us. We Cell
back about a mile, and then received
orders to 60 to sleep. We didn'5 need
any orders for that. l had picked up
a blanket on the hike, and hung 1t
acros my h~aversack: We got orders
to dig in and lie down and go to sleep
A pal of mine from Chicago; and
myself, dug US a hole and got in to-
gehter with this blanket, so that il
it rained-and it's always damp ir
France-to keep the dampness out
We were lying there, and I was on the
left side of the bed-we called it :
bed-and he was on the Highland
was just DOING off, and he was laying
there smoking a cigarette, and hi
punched me in the side and says, GIVE
got a feeling that something's goins
to happen" I sajd,, fob, go to slee1
and don't bother me-" and-I dropped
! off to sleep. I don't suppose l hat
been asleep o than ten of fiftee1
minutes, when / was knocked uncon
scious; never knew what hit me. 4
shell had landed just in the e o
{ our bed, and my pal didn't get
scratch He shook me and shook me
and FINALLY he came to me, and 500
1sreahxed what had happened. H
said. re you wounded? 2" I said, /"
/, dont know; it seems that my head i
cominosof." Finally he ran his han
around my head and found that l wa
+ bleeding, =and then he called first ait
The first aid man gave me first aie
and then1 was sent back to the hos
pital, and there was sgiven anti-toS
l.ine serum to rrrexents.shloud poison
They inject this serun in.fhe stomac
n with q big needle, andMNlsE don
take any pains with it, eith4HAte
II / got over that / was sentato th
= American Base Hospital Ne. ~
e American Red Cross Hospital; Al
THE doctor looked me over, and sal.
e Il cant do anything for him; / gucs
d he has lockjaw; take him to No. q
= immediatelyr They :rushedsme owe
1 Ito No. 225, where they were suppose
= to have the best doctors in the worl
3 and in fifteen minutes after ! reache
\ there WV On tie operating tab