The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-02
.. LUST A HINT. ........ See the Ketchikan Bazaar announcement at the top
 of page 2 in today's issue.
MEMBER OF 65TH ARTILLERY COMES
 BACK TO ALASKA

Ben H, Larson, who left here two byears ago to report for active service
 returned recently, after some wonder
 famous 65th Artillery, and will take
 up his old position with the firm of ! Sawyer & Mckay at their logging
 camp at Mud Bay where he was em-
 ployed before he left.
 MT. Larson had enlisted in 1914 with 1 the National Guard and was On the
 reserve list When war was declared
 by the United States in 1917, he was
 ordered to report which he did in Sep
 tember, at Fort Ward. From there he
 boarded the Northern Pacific, the
 huge ocean liner which had been con
 verted into transport, arriving ill San. Francisco i'll January, where the remainder of the famous artillery was picked up. Then the ship made her i way to the east coast via the Panama ' lullct ANOliOlhy e's AOl q short stop, then on to H0boken where /; they debarked for Camp Merritt. On February 25, about the time the ill., 1 fated Tuscania was sunk by a torpedo off the Irish Coast, the 65th and 55th Artillery left Hoboken on the Maure- tania for France, without convoy, and crossed the Atlantic alone until they were within eighteen hours of the English coast when they were met by the huge British Dirigibles and convoy ships.
 After short rest in British camp they were rushed to the cattle ships on which they crossed the English Camel, landing at Le Havre, another British rest camp. MT. Larson says the Brit ish mess was not particulaly relished by the Tanks, and they were finally glad to reach Limoges where they Were billeted in some old French bar i racks with 20th French Dragons, a 1 famous regiment, a relic of the days l of Napoleon. There they found that they were the first American troops to 1 reach that section of the country. An ordnance school and training center was established there later which be- The artillery regiments remained there until the end of July, when they left 1 fer Lacourtaine passing through Chau- mont the headquarters of the Ameri- 1 can Expeditionary Forces, reaching the front August 26, 1918.
 The 65th Artillery was first used in the famous drive at St. Mihiel. After their arrival, it took them eleven days to set up the big guns, 9.2 British 1 Hcwitzers. On September 12, at 1:20 a. m the regiment put up the biggest artillery barrage on that front which [ was succeeded by the All-American drive. The barrage destroyed every thing in sight and was a great sue cess.
 The regiment then moved to Verdun where they Were employed in the first and second battles of the Argonne ! Forest At the time of the signing of the armistice the artillery had just been moved to Pont De Mousson~ out of Sedan.
 MT. Larson is rather reticent in talk ing about the real happenings of the war but the crinkles come into the corners of his eyes when he speaks a bout the colored Infantry troops with whom they were fighting. The color ed bows always address the white boys as Soldier. As soon as the Artillery | arrived at the front, the colored boys began to grow anxious for them to get into action and they would keep want 1 ing to know when they were going to fire After the first barrage was sent over, one colored boy came up to MT. | Larson and looking over the big How tiger from every angle, he scratched his head, and said, Soldier! That's a