The Pulaskian., 1919-10-31
Generals Personal Chauffeur Declares He Spent More Time Under Fire Than Any Officer or Enlisted Man of the American revolutionary Forces-AMays in Advanced Post
 Directing Major Operations

New Yorh.-zGen. John ]. Pershing was the hardest working man of the
 American expeditionary force and was under fire a greater number of hours during the war than any officer or en- listed man under his command, ac- cording to Sergeant Cesar Santini, who was the generals personal chauf- feur throughout the entire length of America's participation in the war. The general worked late and was al- ways in the advanced post command directing the movements of troops dur ing major operations.
 General Pershing personally direct cd the St. Mihiel fight, was in the Ar- gonne forest commanding operations for nearly two months and mingled with the advanced troops at Cantigny and Chateau Thierry. He questioned prisoners brought in by the doughboys at Cantigny and Chateau Thierry, and in the latter operation walked into the wheat fields to the gun positions to personally commend their crews and to tell them how proud he was of them.
 Sergeant Santini, who reveals these hithterto unpublished facts of the do- tngs of General Pershing in France, is a Frenchman by birth and enlisted in the United States army as an auto- mobile chauffeur and engineer at Gov ernors Island on April 23, 1917. His knowledge of the French language and his ability as a chauffeur led to his selection as the commander in chiefs personal chauffeur. Sergeant Santini sailed from the United States with General Pershing, he drove the gen. eral over forty thousaL miles of French roads during the more than two years he was in France, and he returned home aboard the transport Leyiathan with the commander in chief.
 Awarded Citations for Bravery.
 The general has given Sergeant Santini gold cigarette case as a token of his appreciation If the chauf- feur's services to him. and the ser geant holds citation personally awarded him by the commander in chief for bravery under fire. The ci- tation stands as mute evidence of the hazardous situations General Pershfng found himself in at times, as Sergeant Santini was virtually never out of close touch with his commander, and they both naturally suffered the same ordeals from shell fire.
 Sergeant Santini was recently mus tered out of service and has taken it upon himself to tell of his association overseas with General Pershing.
 Long before American troops reach ed the front General Pershing went through the rigors and strain of in- tensive shell fire. In the summer of 1917 he was the guest of the French and witnessed the attack on Chemin des Danes. On ths oc- casion the commander in chief rode right up to the h4rbed wire entangle ments in his automobile and crossed the German trenches directly behind the lines of French infantry.
 Again in the Luneville sector where the first Americans fell in the war, General Pershing went into the line. He donned hip boots and traversed several miles of trenches during an enemy bombardment. On this occa- sion Sergent Santini waited in a com munication trench until the general re- turned and admits the Jerry was using his high explosives to compara- lively good advantage.
 Shell Just Misses Car.
 Of the numerous narrow escapes General Pershing had in his time at the front the narrowest was, accord ing to the best recollection of Sergeant Santini, the day before the battle of Cantigny. The general was riding along a road toward the advanced