Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-02

in the country (the brigadier generaD
who is very fond of radishes (prison-
ers). He wants one for breakfast to.
morrow morning without fall This
reached me some time at about 10 oc
i o'clock. The raid had TO be ex-
ecuted before daylight, In the mean
time, the plans had TO be made, the
company commander notified, the
raiding party chosen and all ranks
Instructed. Add TO this fact that
everything had 10 he done during the
d9rk and you VIII see what a difficalt
proposition it was. | got hold of the
company commander, got the men
c}2anized, telephoned to the artillery
and asked for rive minutes prepara-
ton fire on a certain point, Joined the
lbfding party ana went forward with
it Then the first of a string of mis-
fortunes happened. On account of
the hurry and the difficulty of trans
mission the artillery mstooli the co..
ordinate and fired 500 meters too
short, with the result that an effect
i've bit of preparation fire was wasted
or my own ratding party. BY the
time this preparatory firing upon ourI
own raiding party was over the Ger
man naturally understood that son.c-
thing was happening, for why would
We strafe our own frGntline trenches
to no purpose The result was that
when the raid went over every ma
chine gun I'm the area was watching
fol them. They got to the opposing
wire, ran into cross fire and aftcrI
various casualties found 1t entirely
impossible to get by the enemy wire,
and worked their way back. As they
were working back senior sergeant,
Marlborough by name, was sitting in i
shell hole, machlne-gun bullets sing |
ing by him, checking his party as ii |
came in. Lieutenant Ridegely, who
had been with the party came up 20
Inn. As he crawled along Yarbor |
ough said to him: Lieutenant, this !
reminds M of story. There was
once a guy who decided to commit |
suicide by hanging himself, Just a"out
The time he done a good job of it the
rope broke. He was sitting up on the
floor afterward when ! came in, a.
rubbing his neck, and when he saw
me all he said was, Gee, but that was
dangerous.
Chateau-ThlcTy Drive.
During this period the German
Chateau-Thierry drive was made, and
again they made clean break
through The Second division, which |
was coming up III our rear TO re'teve
Us, was switched and thrown in In
fl ont of them. Shortly after the Hun
attacked toward the town of Com
piegne, in an endeaVor to Straighten
cut the re-entrant in their lines wi Il
its apex at scissors. This latter a.
tack passed by on our right flank.
We of course, got iittl5 bur runner.
In the trenches you are only vital!'
with what happens on your
immediate right and left What goes
or ten kilometers away you know
little about, and generally are so busy
that you care less. sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof" Is prov
erb that holds good in the line. In
this last instance we were more in
terested because we believed that as a
result of this attack the next point
to stand a hammering would be where
we were holding. Our policy, which
held good through the war, was de-
veloped and put into action at It's
time. The orders were all troops
should resist to the last on the ground
on which they cid. All movements
sould be from the rear forward and
rot to the rear. Whenever an ele
r1ent in the front line got in trouble,
the elements Immediately In the rear
would counter attack. This extended
in depth back until 1t reached the di-
vision reserve, which, as our general
put it, would move up with him in
and after that, replace
ments would be necessary
There veg young fellow called
Fenessey from Rochester, New York,
in "B' company He was being edu-
Gated for the Catholic priesthood. AS
soon as war was declared he enlisted
and came over with the regiment. He
aid we'll and was a good man to have
around the command because of his
and humor. He was even
tually made corporal of an automatic
rifle squad His rifle was placed in
the tip of a small patch of wool
guarding a little valley that ran back
toward the center of our position.
These valleys were Important as
down them the Germans generally
delivered thrusts. The Huns. one
morning strafed heavily our position,
Fennessey's automatic rifle was dc
sIroyed and he was hard hit, his righ,
aIm torn off and his right side mang-
led. Fenessey knew he was dying.
The straffing stopped, the first aid
men worked in and Fenessey was
carried to the rear. They heard him
something, listened carefully,
and found he wished to be taken to
his company commander. They car
iied him back to Lieutenant Holmes,
When he saw Lieutenant Holmes, he
said: Sir, my automatic rifle has
Teen destroyed. | think the company
commander should send one up inn
to take its palce." Fenes-
sey died ten minutes later.