Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-01-24
YANKEES GOT TIRED KILLING
GERMANS.

How the New England Division met
, the Kaiser's crack shock battalions
and literally got tired rddling the
approaching masscd formations is told
by Lieutenant Morris Clark in a let
ter Just received in this city. Lieu
tenant Clark was formerly a men,
Der of Company G, 7th New York In
fnntry, and his letter was printed
in the current issue of the Seventh
Regiment Gazette, says the New York
| Times. 1t follows in part:
81 have learned that war is hell
as | have seen it in all of it's horrors
and phases. l have been under bonn
bardment by German artillery in gas
attacks, and finally in = real battle
i'll which our regiment figured most
prominently. Ali through this have
not had sick day or received a
scratch, although l have had some
narrow escapes. 1t would take too
long to cover all of my experiences,
50 | will have to be brief.
we had been expecting an attack
by the Germans foo somtcime, and
one morning at about 3 o'clock they
started the attack and the battle last
ed until 2 o'clock. Fortunately for
our company we were relieved from
the extreme front line, which is only
about 200 yards from the Germans,
and took our position i'll support sew
cral hundred yards back.
THE company that relieved us had
number of casualties. JUS before
the attack and while it was going on
you never heard such bombardment
in your life. 1t sounded ms if all Ger
many had turned loose on u.s.. There
was very heavy dew, and, with the
smoke from our artillery, you could
see nothing except the flashes from
the big guns.
All Prepared for the Worst.
while the battle WAS going on,
the suspense was awful, as we did
not know what minute tho Germans
might reach our line. However, we
were all prepared for the worst, but
they did not get that fur. They pen
ctrutcd our front line on the left, and
town where our battalion made our
headquarters.
1.-The Germans We're scattered in the
town, but there was no giving in or
going back for our troops. They were
down for fight to II finish and could
not be scared away. They were form
ed in II skirmish line, and the bochcs
began to fall from the accurate aim
of the Americans. 1t was not long be-
fore thye evacuated the town and
realized that when they tackled the
Yankees they had some job on their
hands We had number of casual
ties. mostly from shells, but our IN
fantry, machinc guns and artillery
piled the German dead in heaps. Our
bnrbcd wire was completely Uttered
with German dead.
"Of course we suffered considerable
loss, hut our casualties were nothing
compared to thofc of the Germans.
They were up IL their usual game of
coming over in masscd formation,'
and Que of the boys who had been in
the midst Of it all said. Never be
afraid of Il German; they are II cinch;
! got tired killing them
The Lieutenant and his comrades
Iftcr their vacation in the trenches,
are not by any means favorably dis
posed toward the much sung Nor
mandy. One Of the officers wrote IL
poem OH the country, which Is ns fol-
lows:
Oh! Normandy, where are thy charms
Your poets and bards ! dispute,
Your Lorraine Chcmis dcs Danes
Are not TT for the beast or brute,
Between the rats, the mice and lice,
The rnin and the mud and the cold,
The shrapnel, the gas, and the bochs,
You sure are one Hell of hole!