Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-08
BOCHES AFRAID
OF PENNA. YANKS
Returning Philadelphians
Tell How Foe Ran
TerrOr.Stricken
TALES OF HARDSHIPS
Local Boy, Blinded by Shell,
Lay for Twenty.four Hours
on Battlefield
TALES OF HARDSHIPS

How the artillery OF the Twenty eighth
Division terrorized the Germans in the
Argonne forest was related by Sergeant
Joseph J. Menagh. 1927 Rand street,
Philadelphia, who was with the 10sth
Field Artillery, Battery A. Rand ar
rived home yesterday on the liner Sax
onia. which docked in New York.
"On September &C." he said "for
eleven hours iong-range heavy guns
pounded away, destroying everything for
miles around. Scores OF white faced
Germans ran into the American lines
terror-stricken."
returning prisoner was Frederick
g. Wade Company l.. of the 109th In
fantry, Of 263s Kensington avenue.
In No Mans Land German patrol
surrounded my squad" he said. land
ne refused TO reveal information and
had TO live on bread and water for five
days"
Among other Philadelphians on the
Espagne were Frederick Kricher, $50
West Indiana avenue, Company n. 3t5th
Infantry, who lost finger in the Ar
sonne, and Corporal John y. Patterson.
S54s Jasper street, of Company c, OF
the 3flst Field Artillery. cohvalescent
from Illness
Blinded Philsdelphisn Returns
On board the Saxonia were fourteen
men who were blinded while fighting
with the American forces in France.
Walter L. Baker, civilian. OF Airing
ton. ~ j., who has been blind for
twenty-siN years. instructed the men on
the voyage. Among this group was
Corporal Harry Kiefrider, who was
blinded by the explosion of a shell. lie
lives at 1918 East Moyamensing ave-
nue. and was with Company \. 3t5th
Infantry. After the shell detonated, he
said, he remained in the field for an
entire day before he was picked up by a
stretcher-bearer During this time he
never lost consciousness
II lost my sight on September 2s,
two days after we started the big drive
In the Nerdun sector" said Corporal
kiefrider. "A high explosive shell drop.
Feu III 'front.' or me and blew my left
eye out. 1t shattered my left arm, but
didn't bother my right eye. though l
am totally blind now. Just say for
me that am in high spirits and thank
full that I came out olive"
Sick and wounded Philadelphians on
the Saxonia included Corporals Alvion
Mosier, Company X. of the Thirty fourth
Infantry, $40 North Twenty-fifth street !;
Privates James Mcfarland Company f.
of the 127th Infantry, 2736 West York
street. and Harry Stogryn, $50 North
Sixth street. of the headquarters COM
pany, OF the Ninth Infantry.
Sergeant Major Clayton j. Biddle, 222
North Wanamaker street, Philadelphia
of the headquarters company of the
3l6th Infantry, returned after recovering
from shrapnel wound received on
October Is.
Covered 10000 Miles with Dispatches
Charles Roy Rice. whose home is at
1880 North Sixty-first street. has tray-
eled 10000 miles with his motorcycle, in
his capacity as dispatch rider with Head
quarters Company, 326th Infantry. ac-
eording to letter received by bis friends
here.
While on a dangerous battlefield mis-
sion. Rice's motorcycle was blown from
under him by piece of shrapnel and
on another occasion he discovered twen-
ty-fve machine gun bullets lodged in a
tire. Rice entered the service Septem-
Der, 1917, and after training at Camps
Meade and Gordon went overseas for
duty April, 1918.