New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
North Carolina IN
After Stormy TIN
With l,4OO Trooaa,
Forty Marines Who HeI0.,
Clear Chateau Thies,' -
Fliers Taken Prisoo..,' .
and Western Men Abo,.,

Forty veterans of the desperat.ss
ing around Chateau Thierrv rs 81
as General Catlin said. with ". .
OF God and a few mariness the ~
mans were finally hurled from J
throat of Paris, arrived yestera,u
board the armored cruiser North q.
china. There were nearly 1.4OO o,s
officers and men on the warshin ~.
had to fight her way through sn...
sive storms all the way from Bress a
was the vessels second trip :.
cruiser transport.
The troops brought home in.,n.
besides marines, eighteen officer. ~
Sd2 men Of the 11th and 18th ba.,.r.s
CT the goth Engineers, a Calito,,.
organization commanded by N.;.
Frank H. Barnes, of San Francis.
four officers and 1877 men of TIM II
service, twenty casual officers. sir,..
civilians and three Y Nj. C. A. ser,
taries.
The engineers were of cOnm,,
which rebuilt span of a bridge /,
the Vosges nine times under fire. ar
otherwise had no chance to do sm,
tacular stunts"
Among the officers who arrived p.u
Captain Gordon Reel. u the air s..
vice, and former Highway Comm
sioncr of New York, and Lieutm,
c. A. McElvain, of Albany, one of tbp
aviators taken prisoner during a
aerial fighting over Chateau Thien,
Lieutenant McElvain told of SPY d.
vices in the German prison to seem
American military secrets.
Marines Saw Much Fighting
Captain W. A. Duckham. Of Pitt
burgh, himself the wearer of a W. \
Cross and q wound cheyron, was h 4
charge of the marine dctachnent
which included Sergeant G. Callopy d
Spring City, Penn, who has be
awarded the French War Cross sn
recommended for the American Ned |
CT Honor, and Sergeants William Il
Mitchell, Joseph Rankin and WaltsI
Hillman, of the 9th and 9Th marh [
regiments, which won successive ci& +
tions from Chateau Thierry to Seds,
Livery man brought back in the detsa
ment has seen from twelve to eightes
months service in France. All bM /
been through hard fighting. Capna
Duckham's own company, the 45th. ii
the 5th Regiment alone received b /
fore the armistice 670 replacements, ii
addition to its original 200 men.
"The French were practically rouh
at Chateau Thierry," said Captsi
Duckham. CAS- they fell back we be |
came the front line, and we stopppN
the Germans. Of the 5000 men in ti
two regiments who went into the fight
ing, 1900 came out"
"Take Guns at All Costs"
Sergeant Callopy's story of how hi
won the War Cross and cifAion in b
American orders of the day follows;
"On June 20 the 47th Company G
the 9TH Marines went over the m
with the 18th and 20th compiH
to take machine gun nests which ted
been holding US up for day. BH
we failed to take them, and "
dropped back to our old holes Or
the 25th the 47th received ords1
to take those machine guns at s.
costs. We formed in six waves 81
got within fifty yards of the Both
before being stopped by the rifs
grenade and machine gun fire. Ate
careful reconnoitring we rushed u.I
Boche defence. My company captuH
800 men, twenty-five machine gun
and four trench mortars in that llii
200-yard space and cleared the B&a
from Belleau Wood"
Sergeant William E. Mitchell, vii
comes from MOnongahela, Pennr vi
with the same marine outfit. He ps'
ticipated in the same desperate hga
ing and also wears the French "H|
Cross.
Spy Devices in Prison
Two of the aviator officers broug
btCh WSiS AlSulSudlto % ECAOo ~. 49,
er, of Evanston, H.. and William
Plyler, of Kershaw, S. c. Both vsH
prisoners of war for weeks, and Lee
tenant Miller is also the wearer
a War Cross with palm, and wous
chevron. Lieutenant Plyler was esiF
ured after he was shot down in =
spring of 1918 during a fight with !,
teen German combat planes was
had been attacked by five Amerlcsh
Lieutenant McElvain went through ~
fighting around Toul without mlsa,,9
and then was shot down in oa.~
with an overwhelming number OF I
ers from Richtofen's circus" on us
Chateau Thierry front
Lieutenant NcElvain was faNa
with Lieutenants Miller and Plyief I"
the officers prison at Villengen.
All the rooms in Villengen prisos
Lieutenant McElvain said, were N.Y..
with telephone devices which enaps
spies to remain concealed and hes
any military secrets which the o..
GERS might thoughtlessly reveal J.
conversation. The officers were wal,.
however, and avoided conversation v
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