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son? the reporter who had asked tho
question In the first place asked again
JUST WOUNDED, THAT'S ALL.

JUST WOUNDED. THAT'S ALL.
Some" said Henry. II got mo n
bullet in that fight through the right
root aud | got me q bullet through
t'e left foot tho same minute. Aud
when l come out OF that fight I find
got me bui ct in tho right arm and
ono in the right thigh and one in
the head. And | got mo this scar
on my lin and two bayonct wounds
In my side. l got silver plate In
my foot now and some kind OF metals
IN my arm and a plate on my left
ankle. But I'm all right now. I'm
better now than when sailed for
France with Col. Hayward"
As tho crowd melted away from
Horny johnson to seek other celebri-
ties tho reporters came upon n slight
young man who wore on his overseas
cap the silver bar ST First Lieuten
ant and about his arm q wide black
oand or crepe. He alone Of al tho
mon aboard did not seem over.
Vhelmed with tho JOY Of the homo
coming.
On his tunfc he wore tho ribbons
which showed he had won tho Croix
de Guerre with Palm and the Distin-
guished Service Cross. Some ono
asked him IL he were a Manhattanite.
Il suppose So" he said uncertainty
don't think 1t occurred to me during
tho last few months that have or
haven't homo now-not until we
came up the river and I saw tho
skyscrapers."
He was Lieut.. Harold NJ. Landon,
1t was learned, and he had been i'm
hn t1tD
lea entered the war. Then ho had
promptly closed his desk and joinod
Col. IIayward's REGIMENT. At that
time his mother, Mrs. Edward NJ
London niece OF tho late Levi p.
Morton, former Governor OF New
York and Vicr President Of the United
States, and her two daughters were
doing Red Cross work in Franco
MOTHER KILLED IN CHURCH,.
Lieut.. Landon sailed for Franco
with the old Fifteenth. Shortly af-
ter he arrived in Franco he was sent
to French training camp. On the
day before last Easter he saw q
French newspaper in which were list
cd tho names of the men, women and
children killed by the long range
German gun while worshipping in
Paris church on the previous dav,
Good Friday. Well up on the list
or Killed were the names OF Lieut..
LAnaon's mother and two sisters.
Lieut.. Landon went to Paris and
saw mother and sisters. Then he
went to the front with Col. Hayward's
regiment to do real lighting. How
we'll he fought may be JUDGED from
tho decorations he Won From Sep.
tcmbcr PC to October ; continuously
he worked twenty-four hours Il day
MS a runner, establishing liaison
line in the Champagne under n
frirhtful fire.
oh, don't know where my adj
dress is now" he said with a sad
little smile. 1--WE used to 1.-Two DO.
fore the war ut 40 East Fifty-first
Street, but my sisters and my mother
are gone now. Isn't It strange that
l should go through all the fighting
ana come out uniniured and my
mother and sisters should be killed?
suppose | shall live at the Yale
Club. l don't know.
REGIMENT GOES TO UPTON.
The Lieutenant and his Colonel, the
Scared and decorated blacks they
commanded, all Of them ate Red
Cross rolls and drank Red Cross cot
fec on the pier for n while. Then they
went by tugboat and train to Camp
Upton. where they Joined the first
battalion of the regiment, which ar
rived here few days ago.
1t is probable that Col Hayward's
regiment will be mustered out of
the service shortly. but whea tho
great day arrives when the city turns
out to welcome her own and SEQ
them march in grand review Col
Hayward and his heroic Negro boys
Will be on hand for tho big shindig
Ana the statement goes undisputcd
that the dusky heroes of the "Old
tlfteenth' that glorious day Will
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