Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-29

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piece OF accommodating that the second
brother must do that evening. and
they decided not to tell him until
morning that his brother had been
killed. When evening came the SER
gcant and a lieutenant started out on
their mission. which took them along
the trench from which tho Germans
had been driven that day. And as they
came upon body. face down. Here's
one OF our men," the sergeant said.
"rll see who II is--if there's any
thing we can do" he added. and turned
the body over. The lieutenant heard
a little exclamation, a few words not
spoken to him; then the sergeant
Strengthened up and continued on his
way. He left his brother lying there
dead. and went on with his work. He
had another brother. also, a sergeant.
who was killed. as was a cousin; he
himself was later sent back to this
country as an instructor.
There was similar tragedy in con-
nection with the death Of Captain
Hudson, chief surgeon with the tSSth,
who was killed as he was working In
his dressing station. A short time
after Red Cross hospital searcher
came to the place on her usual errand
of collecting information, and in the
course OF her inquiries asked about
Captain Hudson.
He's killed." the officer she was
talking with answered.
Are you sure"
"Oh. yes. 1t was very sad" the on
Ger replied. and the searcher went on
to queries about other men. After she
had gone brother officer called to
him:
DO you know who that WASP"
No, the first officer did not; she was
a Red Cross hospital searcher, that
was oil he knew. SO the other told
him.
THAT was Captain Hudson's half
sister,
The killing Of a surgeon in his dress
ing station was simply thing
to be expected in lighting the
Germans, the soldiers knew. In Cham
payne, one officer from the 165th
tells, by way of example. that a
building in use as dressing station
was being fired on under the direction
Of a German plane just above; a shell
fell In one room and knocked the
heavy oak doors, that formed almost
all OF one side wall. into the room
where the wounded men were lying.
Two officers, Lieut.. Metcalf and Lieut.
10 nf
door, and would have been crushed II
an orderly had not got there in time to
catch the falling panels and give the
men time to crawl out-a difficult
business, for they were both badly
wounded. All the men who could. left
the building at once, since it was evil
dent that the open was safer than a
hospital just then. A few minutes
later another we'll directed shell fell III
the room. knocked what was left of the
building to pieces and killed the Ave
severely wounded soldiers whom there
had been no time to move.
Names Of Many Dead Not Known.
The necessary hurry in making re
placements" was responsible. officers
explain, for delays in tracing facts
about missing" men. In lays when
hundreds Of men were ruhed up from
reserves and sent immediately-be-
cause they were SO badly and so ur-
gently needed-into the hottest OF the
fighting there was no time for paper
work" and many men were killed
whose names no one in the unit knew.
One day a man who had just been
sent to Company II Of the 165th went
up to Captain Finn with his gun in
his hand and told him that the firearm
was of no use to him. I'm motor
transport repairman." he said. rive
never fired shot in my life. They sent
me here because they needed men.
They just grabbed us up. They thought
could fight but can't"
Il didn't know what to do" Captain
Finn said. in telling the story. "Or-
but for all | knew, he might just be
scared. There wasn't time to investf-
gate: we needed every man who could
fight at all. So just said. III you've
never handled a gun, this Is q good
time to learn: go on out and they'll
show YOU" And he didn't say anything
else. just went.
His corporal told me afterward he
had to load his gun for him; the man
literally didn't know how. But he did
not make any further objection-tust
took his gun and went where he was
told to 60. And he hadn't been In It
more than few minutes when he was
hit in the leg.
THE Germans fired low at us you
know That was BEGAN the Ameri-
cans are such great crawlers. Our
men are proud Of the way they can
get on on their hands and knees-and
when the Germans got on to that bit
of TACTICS they began to FIRE Just high
enough from the ground to hit mans
head IL he was crawling. Then IL he
was standing they could hit him In
the leg and knock him out--and hre
again when he was down, like as not,
and kill him.
This mans leg was hit. and he be-
gan to crawl, and almost at once he
was hit in the arm. and then again IN
the same arm-right arm. It was. That
ended his fighting experience. He
wasn't killed; he's all right again