Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-01

By IND SOD
gilmore Mar Just Returned
From Frarc Had Enough
Thrills 70 East Lifeline
WAS BADL WOUNDED


whose family live 81 2523 Barclay
street. III thai Gift has inst arrived.
81 this city from fance He i nov
Ill DISSERTATION H0sVisal No. ?. recov-
erIng from bullet ,unds Ia the abdo-
msn. right les, ana gas poisoning In.
the eyes. Telling If his experiences
ever there he said
On April 10th. sailed for France
with tho headquarssfs company Of the
sassh infantry Regular 18th division.
and landed III Bresf The 10th 81 MAs1sa
with asttle prelimI s@ries We we're sent
fnto the foul seciyr. TO reIjefe q col
oged regiment when the Germans
found ont they had green troops
against them, lhep organized At mid
nlght, raidIng paSa Our first battle
y as our frst victoixi and We captured
four prisoners and killed about six.
while We suffered no casualties The
next morning We found everything
torn up, but IN tilsse we got used to-
that
We held chat ses pr for twenty-five
days, during Whick Time we Got used
60 raids and ehellH.5 AT one time seven
os us organized siding party, and
started out for the 5nemy. About half.
way out, We ran 10 German de-
lachment OF about swenty men We.
Instantly dropped the ground. and
they opened fIre ON as They signal
led their artillery I'D We soon found
ahails bursting abk.rt ua. Our guns
were meanwhile sws ping this section
@m6 Iii half al hour only another and
myself reached our snss out Of seven.
three os whom wers ilied BY our own"
axe.
Was 40 Cllaayku Thierry.
Next day / was sps on 4 listening
post duty and bstwssa twelve and two,
Iii the deep night, eYawled across the
shell marked grourEa until reached
ma enemy line. There | listened for
paasihie informatipl but got none
Every lew minutes 4 store OF shell
would fare I'D, ana II / was then
standing had TO raspatn rigid for II l
moved. the lookout Would see me. and
I would 30 gone. taught no import
ant message, Just ordinary talk We
Ware then nAaved To. Chateau Thierry
here my regiment was used as shock
S00ps for two days We would dash
oveT the top, and jump on the enemy
trenches. could never use the bay
onet "a Ii was too brittle for me, and
so used the rifle as club. and put
ave Germans out OF business The
ghsTd day waa hit By shrapnel In the
len hand. and for twelve days rested
Ii the hospital,
Then August 20th, went with the
regiment to yerdun where We held
the e for rs days was mostly
onpa Lroldusy. there September Gath,
ID patrol duty there September Gath,
We marched 10 Manfauloonse sector
That day our barrage opened prepar-
tng FOR the drive AT 5:45 We went
over the top. our own shells dropping
twenty yards aheadoEna. We had to
york on schedule time otherwise the
value ot the barragea would be lost,
cur schedule being three hundred
yards Iii SIX minutes. We advanced
easily until $40 when we met stub
born machine gun resistance ut 8 40
We were held up. With q yell we rush-
81 them and took tho first trench, ut
o'clock and captured Monfauieon At
Has instead ot IL, but with heavy
OAsualties.
That night we were heavily sbeiled
and lost many good men. The next
day We advanced again, and had easy
lighting until we came to Hill 3o4,
where an almost impregnable fortress
was made BY strongly intrenched ma
chine guns We were held up for
swo hours until We got automatic rife
men who fanked the German guns
They retreated gradually while ne
stood up for 4 dash. covered Ave or
Ten yards. then dropped again to make
another dash and drop again II took
us eli night and good deal of the
naxt day 10 make the top.
Bible Saves HIS Life.
That evening French tanks came to
our assistance. but they proved great
burden for they attracted the Ger
mans heavy artillery. and we we're
soon being smashed BY shrapnel and
hlgh explosives. We finally took the
hill and lost tank. We had pushed
tha anarny TO the edge Of Argonne and
on the 27th attacked again At $50
we took the last concrete dugout, and
ran out when : SHIPPER caught me.
and four machine gan bullets made b
perfect square under my heart. The
one that would have finished me was
stopped By small leather Bible, and
a. attn III Acts. chapter q drop
ped In the trench badly wounded.
That sniper kept close watch on me.
sAry time 1 novel, he would pat.
ast, pat
Ak about O'Clock the Germans got
nv range. and shrar ael burst In that
aag0nt Bleeding. aAS weak as was,
tearing shells mot5 than bullets.
I sprang from the TEACH and crawled
cut on the road I'D into another
trench wv stomach vas bleeding pro-
Ensely but cEepke On over shell