The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-10-31
ceneas Personal Chauffeur Declares He Spent More Time Unoer
Fire Than Any Officer or Enlisted Man OF the American
expeditonary Forces-AMays in Advanced Post
Directing Major Operations.

headquarters, which at that particu-
lar time was being hesvily sheiled by
the Germans.
Shrapnel shells were continually
bursting directly over the automobile
steel fragments on several occasions
landing ON the roof of the machine.
General Pershing and his alde-de-
camp. who were seated in the tonneau
of the car. seemed to be little affected
10y the "strafing' they Were under
going. and no matter how near the
shells landed their conversation. which
probably had TO do with the major
operation Of the morrow, was not In
terrupted.
zone shell-it was one OF Jerrys
largest"-Sergean Santini declares,
'hit the road directly in front OF us
and only about a hundred feet from
the machine. Had there not been a
heavy rainstorm the day before. which
turned the road into mire of mud,
none of us probably would now be
alive 10 tell the tale. Our automobile
was spashed with mud, but beyond
I that we suffered no i'll effects from the
/ explosion. Ii undoubtedly was the
narrowest escape the general had
during his many visits to the line"
I Reaching the advanced headquar-
tiers. near the town of Mesnil st. Fir.
mine. that evening, General Petshing,
who had been active since the early
hours of the morning, turned in for a
few hours of rest. He lay down on
n cot in an officers dugout and slept
peacefully during four hours of an
unusually heavy bombardment.
All Sizes Coming Over.
Jerry knew something was going tC
happen" the sergeant says. 'hecaust
he was sending them over in all size:
and shapes. Our ear was camoufiaget
under some trees and tried my bes
TO take little snooze on the seat
More than once the shells fell too clos
to the machine to make me feel com
Portable One big fellow hit and car
ried away the chimney of the dugou
in which the general was sleeping"
Next morning General Pershing wa
in the headquarters telegraph office
where he received minute reports fror
, the advanced posts which had alread
entered the town of. Cantigny. Tn
! general personally directed the move
ments of the various units of the Firs
division, which was engaged in tn
, operation. At about nine o'clock i
the morning the doughboys began
: come back with prisoners, several c
I whom were brought before and que
4 toned at length by General Pershini
The general was very much please
: with the results obtained by the trool
I in this engagement. the sergeant say
i and showed his appreciation by pc
( sonally commencing and shaking hant
b with the doughboys as they drifte
k back in small groups from the frol
: line.
e When the Germans crossed Il
: Marine river for the second time Gle
d eral Pershing was north of Chaumoi
d his general headquarters. Upon r
ceiving word of the crossing he leap'
e into his automobile, and Sergea
+, Santini was Informed the general W
e. ''in hurry" but that he must Ia
d no chances.
n On the way down toward Paris t
A. route took the general past where I
n second division had been in re
E. camp. The division was about
rs move TO certain point on the lin
IL General Pershing countermanded
orders on the road, directing the
vision TO move post haste to po
es on the outskirts of Chateau Ihier
at Commended the Marines.
IL '.The general reached Chate;
mt Thierry soon after the repulse Of
OF Germans by the marines" the serge'
ne continued. He crossed the engines
ed bridge and entered the town and w