The Pulaskian., 1919-10-31

directly to several of the gun positions, where he commended the crews and told them how proud he was of them"
 During the fight in the Argonne for est General Pershing spent nearly two months in it's recesses directing move ments of troops. His mobile headquar- ters was pulled into the heart of the forest where it was camouflaged by made visit to. the advanced post commands, which were almost at the barbed wire entanglements, to see that his orders were being carried out.
 'The general never took any chances" the sergeant said, The ale ways went up to the front to be sure things were done exactly as he ordered"
 One of the peculiar things sergeant Santini noted was that every time he took General Pershing to Paris the Germans would start a long range bombardment or send over a flock of bombing airplanes. 1t did not seem to matter what hour of the night or day they reached the city the lombard ment would begin directly after their arrival and invariably continue for hours. Sergeant Santini is not so sure that the Germans did not receive in- formation as to when the general was going to the city, although every effort was made to keep the movements of the commander in chief in the great est secrecy.
 Sergeant Santini probably drove more historic personages in the time he was in France than any other chauffeur in the world can boast of to- day. He drove President and Mrs. Will son on several occasions, President Poincare, Premier Clemenceau, Gen. erals Foch, Haig, Petain and Bliss and King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. King Albert awarded Ser geant Santini the gold Medal of Merit of the first class.
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 On the two occasions that Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, visited the battle front in France he rode in General Pershing's automobile. Ser geant Santini tells of many amusing incidents and tricks General Pershing resorted to in an effort to evade news l paper men. One of these incidents oc- cured during Secretary Bakers first visit.
 Secretary Baker and General Persh- ing were on their way up to the front line, the secretary in one automobile and the general in his. There was a score of other automobiles loaded with newspaper men in the rear. AS Gen. eral Pershing came up to turn in the road he leaped out of his automobile and into that of Secretary Baker, neither of the machines stopping. The two machines then separated and the newspaper men took up the trail of the generals car.
 The automobile General Pershing used was equipped with special tanks that held forty-two gallons of gasoline. Gas masks and helmets for the oeeu- pants of the machine were tied in bag on the roof in a position where they could be reached easily by the driver or orderly. Inside the machine there were always several extra blankets in the event of an emergency. General Pershing never had occasion to use a gas mask.
 During the time the general was in France he had in all nine different kinds of machines. An automobile was discarded not because it had been worn out or failed to function proper ly, hut because a better model had been found. The orderly and driver carried side arms and rifle was strapped on to one side of the car.
 Sergeant Santini was asked if Gen. eral Pershing was in the habit of rid ing very fast, and he replied that "the general was sometimes in a hurry" He admitted however, that at times he had exceeded seventy-five miles an hour His orders were to "go as fast as you can, but take no chances with the general" Sergeant Santini is satis- fled he carried out those orders to the best of his ability.
 When General Pershing moved from place to place his war car" travelled with him in his mobile headquarters, the train which the French people are -ow suggesting as gift to the Amer
 n people as permanent war relic