The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-10

/ on my loot, ana with the plane gath
/ ering speed rapidly | hoped along
with one foot In the air trying to get
| free from that loop of wire. had
mental pictures of dangling by one root
from a plane some two or three thous.
ana feet in the air, ana spent an eN.
ceedingly Joyous" half minute of fran.
| tic endcavor, Just as his rudders tilt
ed TO take the air. the wire came off
and | stood with 1t in my hand watch.
ing him rlsc. II had merely been
caught around the strut i'm the rear, and
as son as he got off the ground the
wire slipped off. | was duly thankful.
of course.
Shells We're still falling in the vicinity
of Dricourt, in fact, the Germans con.
tinued To shell that territory as long
as we were in the Champagne, but no
serious damage was done.
one morning they put over something
like four thousand shells and SO far
as could he learned not man. horse
nor piece of equipment was injured by
the harragc.
The indeiinable Iool,
After dinner the Q. NJ. got busy. and
before dark the Ammunition Train was
again equipped with shoes. The in
iantry was relieved a day or so before
we got our moving orders, and while
they We're moving out, Ezra Dyer and
one of the Ford boys came by and told
our Ardmore contingent "howdy."
They had been up for something like
20 days, and they certainly looked the
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the lines came back with that indefn.
able look in their eyes, the look which
comes from having faced death for days
and days, accompanied by al manner
of hardships. and, with their comrades |
falling near going steadily on till death /
gets the upper hand or until they come |
out victorious.
our orders to retire came on the 2Sth, /
and we rolled back through Somme.Py. |
Souain and Suippes, camping for two .
nights in an Old French camp, "Camp .
PogGi' on the southern side of the
Hindenburg line. There we found one .
of the most extensive dugouts We had .
yet seen-one that had been constructed
by the French, and which could fur.
nish shelter for a whole battalion. Near
it, in the woods, was an observation .
tower from which the defenses to the
north could be seen for miles. in fact
clear to Blanc Mont. While at poggi.
which was perhaps more than fifty
kilometres from the Germans lines. we
had an air raid scare, which proved
harmless to us, but disastrous to others.
\ German plane bearing the allied col
ors, came over and bombed the supply
houses at LaCheppe, several miles from
us. In returning the aviator came low
over our camp. Just skimming the tree
tops ana almost colliding with the oh.
serVatiOn tower. During the night we
heard our own bombing planes going
over and in the course of an hour or
so they came back escorted by a for.
nation Of French planes
French Woman Shot to Kill
From Poggi we Travelled to the vii.
lage of Herpine, where we spent a cou.
pie of nights in the section just south
of st. Menehould. Then we rolled on
TO DAILY, whore we We're TO stop for ten
or twelve days and rest and re-equip
to going into action near
Nerdun. Waly is right ON the edge of
the line of occupancy in 1914 ami the
villagers had many tales TO tell of the
German atrocities at that time; of how
the Inhabitants were imprisoned in the
church, and fed on potato SOUP: one
day, when one of the guards attacked
a young French woman she shot and
killed him with a small revolver which
she had managed to conceal when they .
were imprisoned.
For this act five OF the most promi-
nent men of the village were marched
Dut and shot, the kaiser's forces thus
serving notice on the people that the
German soldiers should be allowed to .
10 as they pleased.
On Edge of Verdun
We put in our time at Waly in a very 5
pleasant manner considering every
hing. 1t rained q great deal, but we '
lad grown used to the rain and paid
t very little attention. The trucks were {
1usy day and night, hauling ratons
md supplies, for the division was scat
cred over an area of some 80 miles,
With headquarters at Conde, and it was
he intention to re.equip everybody
With serviceable clothing and all other
'quipment that needed replacing Eu
nors stated that the Seth had made
such a good record with the French
,rmy in the Champagne, that we were
o be used in a manner similar to the
ierman "shock troops" and that with
he termination of our breathing spell"
November 10, we would go into the east
rn edge of the Argonne and take
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Over There Theater
A week after we arrived at Waly a
rio of entertainers came along, two
aides and a man, all American and
ood entertainers. They were members
f the cover There Theater League"
nd had been very close to the front
n several occasions. One of the young
ldies had suffered sprained ankle
ihile climbing from a wrecked ambu-
lnce several days before But she
ad a knack for story telling that
'ouldn't let a sprained ankle interfere.
.dded to her natural ability was the
aspiration of having seen and hugged
nd kissed her kid brother" who had
Ist come down from the front with
ne 36th division. Under their leader
nip we learned "K X X Katy" and sew
raj others said to be the latest of pop
lar stuff. The same day "Y" opened
our town, and we We're able to buy
little candy and tobacco and hot
locolate. This was quite Il treat for
e hadn't had an opportunity to buy
nything while in the Champagne.
RumOrs of Armistice
Thus we drifted along, and were prac-