The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-10
FIGHTING COLONEL PRINCIPAL
SPEAKER AT PALLADIUM FEAST


tactics and win out. We found that
night, because they had decided that
night we advanced at different hour
and caught them sleeping. 1t worked
that way dozens of times"
He explained briefly the unwhole-
some "Comrade" trick of the Boche,
in which they again became too dog
matte for their own good.
Situation In September.
1.-THE general situation on the west
ern front in September, when the
Boche had been driven back to the
Hindenburg line, that mass of modern
field Notifications, was that the French
had been stopped at St. Quentin, and
the Canadians had been halted at Cam
brai.
Our organization at this time was:
Infantry, heavy and whippet tanks,
going first to get the objective; then
the Australians. and then the British.
The artillery was modified in mass
to fire the barrage, and the guns were
practically hub to hub. We had 1856
heavy machine guns, added to artill-
cry, motor car trains and cavalry.
ION September 20, at $50 o'clock,
we were to go over. On September q,
we got orders to straighten the line,
and our machine guns and artillery
let go at the zero hour. Only one
of our tanks continued any distance.
The fighting continued for three days,
and as it waxed hotter it became more
and more difficult to see the main To-
cations of the lines through the smoke,
but the battalion continued to advance
and eventually took the trench. The
casualties were of course very heavy.
Make Steady Gain.
"At the end of the third day we
went back to rest, but in six days
came back, making a steady advance.
We went through the Somme Canal,
fighting day after day, going over the
top day after day"
Colonel Bryant said that his divi-
sion entered with 5000 rifles and end
ed at the Somme with $50 rifles.
Twenty-six hundred men and "a Of
ficers of his regiment went in, he said,
while only 300 men and five officers
came out. They gained, however, ev-
cry objective, and took many thous-
and prisoners.
boys the colonel said:
There are few lessons which this
war has taught soldiers, things of
admirable help to you who are grow
ing up. The irst thing, boys, that a
soldier has to learn is self control,
and the second Is consideration for
others. Self control is a bully good
thing for anybody, and lack OF 1t is
fatal in peace as well as war. An
other necessary thing which our men
have learned in this war is accuracy.
Fatal to the utmost have been some
, mistakes made simply by careless
clerical worker in writing orders.
Even the difference of thirty seconds
one way or another when 1t means
concerted advance has proved fatal
for the battalion receiving the wrong
order" he concluded.
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