The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-28
Westminster Brotherhood Holds Meet
ing Devoted Largely to Recit-
ais OF Things in Com
bat Sectors.
M'MANUs AND HAYDEN
Two Lieutenants, One in Artillery
and One In Aviation Reminisce
About Things in
France

The large membership Of the
Westminster Brotherhood and
number of guests enjoyed a good
dinner and good war stories at Its
regular meeting last evening.
Lieutenant j. Riley McManus and
Lieutenant Van Hayden made talks
on their wartime experiences, and N.
IT. Wilcox talked on the New Era
movement A rising vote of thanks
was given the army officers for their
addresses which were highly appre-
ciated.
| Officers made annual reports, and
| the annual election at the next meet
| ing was forecaset In the appointment
of nominating committee.
The big attraction was the talks
| of the soldiers which were received
with much appreciation by the large
audience.
| It was the ninth time he made a
talk on the war to Keokuk audiences
since he returned, said Lieutenant
J Hayden, in beginning a recital of
some experiences in the combat Sec
| tors.
| An Aviator In Action.
| In the st. Mihiel region, there had
been deadlock between the French
and the Huns and things were well
settled, he said, but suddenly every
road became damned every night
with infantry and guns and supplies
and in the daytime the roads were
empty as before.
| The st. Mihiel drive broke out on
the 18th and the Huns had it dated
for the 18th and had shock troops
preparing for the latter date-which
was the original one set by the
American commander.
| He told of the burrows In Mont
Sec filled with furniture, pianos and
everything to make war pleasant for
the Germans. The American aYia-
Itors had not had combat work with
moving troops, having been working
with troops in position.
! Every Detail in Advance.
i Lieutenant Hayden told Of getting
orders to the whole army corps. lay
ling out every detail of the coming
Operations. each timed to the minute
land how the observers studied these
hard in large room walled with
maps. His aero squadron worked
with the Rainbow division which had
did it in great style"
! The speaker told what the Hin
Idenberg line looks like from the air,
lchief1y a line of barbed wire; told
of several flights full of adventure,
and described various kinds of feel
Iings produced by various conditions
)of modern warfare, including getting
Host in a fog over the Hun lines.
He called such things funny last
levening.
| "a lot of queer things happen in
the army he said once, and pro-
ceeded to tell about some Of them.
1 Tho A. e. f. and the G. A. r.
Much applause greeted Lieutenant
IL. Riley McManus when he was in
: ltroduced, and the good dinner re-
minded him by contrast of some diff
ferent kinds of meals he had in the
war zone, he said, and started with
Ia story of some meat that was de-
layed in getting there in hot
weat Their"
A six-inch rifle that shoots eleven
miles was the kind Lieutenant Nc,
Manus commanded, and he described
their use with the comment that
"there is a consistent endeavor on
the part of the A. e. F. to return
home and outlie the G.. A. r."
Exactly like standing under an
elevated train is what a shell com
ing at you sounds like, he said.
1The Germans seemed to possess
quite bit of information about our
affairs ON the Lorraine front" he
said, introducing an account of his
experience once when visiting x.
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