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and attachments from Lieut. Col.
Ruby CARROTS Missouri Signal
Corps-about 500 men in all lived
and flourished there for several
days, convinced before they left thai
the better part of "Kultur," as the
Germans practiced it, was the art of
being comfortable.
Pretty rustic walks with hand
ratings curled through and around
its cluster of cozy houses; there was
one OF those amusement park rifle
ranges with a moving target; the
Otfizier-kasino was snugly uphol-
stored in red. with bright electric
lamps, tasteful wall paper, a buffers
pantry and electric push-buttons for
tsummoning the drinks or the chick
en- salad
The rest house for soldiers was a
pretty little chalet with picture post
cards plastered on the walls, show
ing the German army being joyously
greeted in Brussels and London
crmbling into the Thames under
Zeppelin bombardments.
| And there were rows and rows of
, houses for officers billets, rows of
squad cottages like hunting lodges
in the Adirondacks; bowling ;.lley,
an electric power house, a hospital
central kitchen. 1t was a tiny
model city and to live there after
the mud and foxholes was some
what like a vacation for the Rain
bows division headquarters.
Not mine or boohy-trap had
been planted in the whole place, so
rapidly had the Germans left it.
They had not even taken time to
remove the signs from the villages
and the bungalow city, calling upon
all soldiers who wanted to settle on
the conquered" land to file squat
ters' claims with their officers!
Clamored for Metz.
And now, with the new line of
the first American army all COIL
solidated and perfected the men of
the Rainbow division, now holding
not only their own sector, but that
of the First division on the left as
we'll. wanted to go to Metz. They
felt sure they could make it. They
growled and fumed constantly
about it. But they did nothing ex-
cept hold on to the new line under
the constant fire of German artil-
lery, until the night of September p,
four days before the opening of the
first Meuse-Argonne offensive Of
September 26.
As soon as the St. Mihiel salient
was reduced artillery and reserve
divisions were on their way west
ward for this, the supreme effort of
the American armies. Absolute sec
recy was essential. So in order to
prey upon the Germans nerves, to
keep them in doubt as to the next
attacking point, and to obtain infor-
nation of their plans, several raids
were planned and executed. Some
of them had not been very success
full. It was on the night of Septem-
Der p that the Rainbow division
turn came.
Haumont. to the northeast of St.
Benoit and Marimbois Farm, to the
northwest were selected as the OBJ
jectiVes. There were to be two
raiding parties to strike simultan-
eously, one at Marimbois Farm to
the northwest of St. Benoit and one
at Haumont to the northeast. They
were to be "Go-and- Come" raids
like one in the Bots des Chiens back
at Baccarat in May. ,
Struck a Last Blow
Detachments of picked men wer,
made up one from M company o
the 10Th (Alabama) infantry, unde,
Capt. Maurice Howe, and the othel
from the 10Th (Alabama) infantry
under batteries of the Illinois
(149th) field artillery regiment wa
to support the Alabamians ant
Iowans.
And to make a long story short
they rushed over while the artiller.
poured enfilading fire into the farm
! and the village, killed more than s.
Germans while most of them re
. tired, fearing a general attack, AM
J brought back rs fine healthy prison
ers and two machine guns. 1t wa
the best nights work around tn
4 old ST. Mihiel salient since the nigh
/ the salient had disappeared. t
FINLEY in Charge
At about this time there were
? few changes among unit command
: ers. Colonel Mitchell, by the way
{ had led the New Workers of tn