The Holly chieftain., 1919-04-03

Ambulances and trucks, too. filed
with serious eases went rapidly
back A B" battery man went for
ward without gun, souvenir hunt
ing. He went into dugOut near
what had been the front line and
discovered live Germans. Surprised
heg rabbed German rifle and has
tily retreated outside and opened
fire Two Germans fell and two
came out and surrendered and he
marched them back and showed
them off to his admiring comrades
1t was a cOmical sight. He had a
German rifle and belt and a great
flare pistol hung from the latter as
he marched his prOsiners along.
B battery mess sergeant gave them
big beef steak sandwich each, and
they certainly went for it. Our own
cuisine here proved "pas bon We
got some coffee and bread and
monkey meat, some of which the
other batteries donated.
That night the battery moved for
ward short distance and remained
"a hours which was uneventful ex-
cept for an areOplane duel in which
a German came down and escaped,
flying close over the battery. We
gave him the machine gun but did
not get him. That night, the 18th,
we again went forward through a
village captured by the French. 1t
was fearfully shot up. Equipment
of all kinds lay by the road. We
stayed most of the Goth at this posi-
tiOn, which was in the open with a
wooded ravine in the rear which
was torn by shell fire and contain
ed American, French, Moorish and
German dead and equipment.
On the afternoon of the Goth we
again advanced to battery posi-
tion, which was French, then Ger
man and is now American. The
road leading to this position was
strewn with dead men and horses
and the fields likewise. All Ameri-
can and German equipment too
was scattered everywhere. The wheat
fields having been filled with ma
chine gun emplacements or pillbOX-
es which are deadly things to take.
Most of them are just shell holes or
small isolated holes or bitches for
| two or three men and gun, but
one nearer the original front was a
veritable fort of 10 machine guns
! and 40 men. Thirty-one Americans
lay dead before it and no one
knows how many were wounded.
There were no wounded Germans.
The position we occupied on the
! Goth had many dugouts of French
and German origin. Much equip
ment was here including German
ammunition and gas shells for los
IN. m. hoWitZers. Two French rs IN.
m. guns were here also, both injur-
ed, one almost completely ruined.
! Much IS ammunition was here also.
The Germans having used it in the
roofs of their dugOuts. We had
been here but few minutes when
| shells exploded close in our rear
and killed two horses and wound
ed two more. With our usual luck
though, they were from D battery,
which was along side. The next day
one of our men got slight wound
from fragment, many of which fell
into the battery from the Germans
sweeping fire, and fire on the road
near by. D battery also had a man
| wounded when caisson ran over
a hand grenade and exploded it.
! On the evening of July Goth a
dramatic incident occurred on our
left. A barrage rocket was sent up.
Instantly the guns crashed and
kept up barrage which gradually
died away. After brief quiet an
other rocket was thrown up. In
stantly shrill yell was herd from
the front as the boys (French)
dashed over, and it's echoes were
drowned in solid roar of artillery
laying a barrage for them. Only a
few moments passed when a second
rocket signaled to life the barrage.
Evidently they were in their objec-
tive