The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-12
WOULDN'T UNLESS
ALLAH WAS PRESENT
DOUGHBOY TELLS INTER
EsTING STORIES OF WAR.
American Negro Meets Afri-
can - Cowboys Rush
Germans,

Some amusing incidents are re-
lated by a returned Bradley county
boy from overseas who was attached
to the Thirty sixth, or Wild West,
division, composed principally of In
dams and cowboys from Texas and
Oklahoma. A large number of them
trained at Chickamauga park. He
says 1t was an unframed organiza-
tion,. was wild and woolly, but al
ways gained it's objective; If not in
strict military style, it got there just
the same.
He says the first time they went
over the top the French laid the bar
rage for them, and they moved so
fast that they caught up with 1t,
went through 1t and drove eighteen
kilometers in advance of their objec-
tive. When they caught UP with the
barrage it was necessary to either go
forward or backward, They went
forward and rushed the Germans
with a wild west whoop, screaming
like Comanche Indians, which they
were, many of them. "Whoop, whoop!
Big Indian chief, heap United States
army Hunt shelter!" they yelled as
they rushed madly into the German
ranks, striking terror to the foe and
driving them back in CONSERVATION.
When they stopped they were eight
cen kilometers in advance of their
objective, and the French barrage
never caught them again.
French Africans and American Ne
gro Meet.
The narrator told of an amusing
incident in which an American col
ored soldier and a French African
participated. The African was
bushy- headed and as black as a
crow. A doughboy told the colored
American soldier to go over and have
chat with him. He approached the
African rather timidly and finally
blurted out: Say, mistah, wha is
you-all frum?" Par compre bing-
spat yahoo follydrum," is what the
answer sounded like as the bushy-
headed African expanded his chest
and threw back his head.
Say" retorted the colored Ameri-
can, "Ah believes you is one Of dem
cannon ball fools what eats folks
raw, and don't know nothin' bout
Newnited States langwij. You amt
no cousin of mine"
Troops OF India Pray to Allah.
Another ally of the United States
was he brown man of India. He
nOlQ DeCulldT 1eIlSlOuS COnNlCllOilH
and Allah is his God. He was
slow to go in battle, but fierce fight
ers when once started. Each regi-
ment had an old man, rs to so years
old who kept in close touch with
Allah. They would not go over the
top until the old man told them Allah
was on hand. Sometimes 1t would be
two or three days before they would
move an inch, because Allah had
failed to show up, being busy Some
where else. Unlike our God, Allah
vas not omnipresent. But when Al
lah appeared they would go over with
knives in their mouths and ahso-
lutely without fear, for every one
killed is saved when Allah is near.
The Germans dreaded them when
Allah was around.
Australians Pay Tribute to Ameri-
cans.
American troops thought well oi
the Australian troops as fighters
and comrades in arms. The Aus
tralians returned the compliment
Australians had taken German
trenches twice-the same trenches.
Each time they had been relieved by
the British who lost the trenches
both times. Then the Australians
took them again. The next time
when they were to be relieved they
refused to get out unless Americans
would come in, saying they would
only turn them over when they found
troops who would hold what they
had won.