The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-09-03
SERVED BY A GERMAN
CHEF ON WAR FRONT
That Is Queer Experience of
James Caudle, Returned
Journalism Student.
SAW HARD FIGHTING
Was on Staff of the Indian,
Magazine of Second
Division.
SAW HARD FIGHTING

Fried potatoes, soup, black bread
pretty good fare-served by German
chef, on the German lines at 6 O'Clock
on the night of November II, 1918.
will rank as the most unusual in the
life of James w. Caudle, former stu
cent in the School of Journalism, who
returned this week to resume his
work at Columbia. Caudle. men,
Der of the Fourth Replacement of Ma
rines went through the fighting in the
Champagne, the end of the Soissons
battle and ended his work in the Ar
gonne. all of his service sending him
back to the University reader than
ever for good job and hard work, the
only reminder of the battle front be-
ing slight shrapnei wound, which
the marine himself describes as
mostly an iodine burn
Caudle's first introduction to the
realities of war came when he arrived
in Brest and was assigned to work
with the Prison Guard there.
Standing near French guard and
his German prisoner one day said
Caudle this morning, Il saw the Boche
raise his canteen for drink of wine.
He finished and as he replaced the
canteen a bit of water fiicked from
the top of the canteen struck the
French guard a drop or two hitting
him in the face His punishment was
instant death the French guard delib-
erately bayonetting him in the heart.
Calls 1t Rabbit Hunting.
Rabbit hunting" is Caudle's idea of
killing Germans. He feels that it is
difficult to say just how many any one
American killed but believes that he
fired as many shots effectively as was
possible. In his seventy days of ac-
tual fghting-and the Journalist-Ma !
rine saw some of the stiffest of it
he had a chance to bayonet one Ger |
man and instead preferred to take |
the man prisoner. Some of Caudle's |
hardest work was in the Champagne
when his organization was turned
over to the French for use in attack
ing Mount Blanc.
"A perfect nest of machine guns,
said Caudle, regarding the hill. "The
French had made four attempts and |
after failures the work was turned
over to us 1t was real fighting, and
the roar of the guns started at 5:03
in the morning, lasting only until 2
o'clock in the afternoon. Shortly after
this attack we were sent back for a
while and it looked as if we would be
held out of the real fight for quite
knowledge We were loaded into cam
ionettes and started for the Argonne
where | had my first and only little
burn of shrapnel"
Lived in German Home.
Caudle with his organization. the
5th Marines, crossed the Rhine in the
wake of the German retreat Decem-
ber 13 and took up his quarters in a
German home in Sagendors. Later
he was assigned to Marine Division
Headquarters where he was made
business manager of the Indian, the
sixteen-page magazine gotten out in
a German publishing office by the Sec
ond Division of Marines. His life with
the Germans was pleasant, American
money and American soldiers work
ing together to promote friendship he
tween the two races. Old Moselle
wine cellars, so Caudle says. were
opened to the Americans and many an