Arizona republican., 1920-11-22

large German anti- tank rifle and took the bolt for souvenir which I still have. Tn a trench I found an American lieutenant colonel buried by merely having the dirt from the parapet pushed down over him as he lay in the trench.
 The regiment did not come that day nor the next The orders had been changed. The American Third Army was being formed to follow up the withdrawing Germans and to become the army of occupation. The Third corps became part of the new army. The Fifth division was made a mart or the Fifth corps and was to take over the sector Of the Third corps when they advanced to a position ahead Of the front, lines. A messenger came recalling me and my detail to rejoin the regiment at Liny and we marched the l4 kilometers that Sunday afternoon over the fields where much of the bit terest fighting of the Argonne drive i had taken place. My oldest brother who was a captain in the Eighthietb division, had advanced across these same fields with his company as aft erward learned. l did not know then whether he was still living We had not seen each other for two years, he having entered the army from Nichi- gan and I from Arizona. We did not meet till the following March when We were both in Paris attending the caucus called to organize the American Legion.
 On the 18th the 11th infantry moved back over the same road we had come over on the 14th to the old front lines and took station in the big chateau a+ Louppy. On the 22nd the forward movement of the whole Third army ! began ho
 llne Of communications. The IIth was the advance unit of the division. Colonel Peck with Captain Stinson. the aaJutantl had gone on to Longuyon by automobile, leaving Lieutenant Colonel l west to bring the regiment and I was acting adjutant. As we rode at the head Of the column that afternoon into the city Of Longuyon with our band playing the civilians all turned out to
 welcome Les Americaines" who had delivered them from the Germans who had occupied the town during the whole
 war. Many stories were told us of the
 cruel treatment they had received at
 the hands of the boche. The town was.
 badly shot up by artillery fire, much of
 the destruction having been done by American artillery in an attempt to cut
 the railroad at that point which formed
 one of the main lines of communica-
 ton from the German army. Some Of
 the damage to the buildings had taken
 place in 1914. when the Germans had
 first come down Into France.
 The first thing I did after getting
 into the town was to find a place for
 the colonels mess. Colonel Peck was
 great on the ''eats" One of the first
 questions he always asked on getting
 into a new place was whether or not
 had got the cooks to work at the
 headquarters mess. An old French
 man told me of little dining room and kitchen in a small hotel that had been
 used all during the war as a mess room for high German officers. They had not meant to leave us its comforts, however, for I found the dirty dishes
 still on the table. the kitchen utensils thrown over the kitchen, many Of the dishes broken on the floor and the cleo tric light bulbs all purposely smashed. But some of their revered wall decora- tions were still on the wall A photo , about 10x14 of the kaiser taken with
 his whole war staff and several other , small photos took as souvenirs, but a 7 large framed life-size painting of the , kaiser we turned face to the wall and 7 left there.
 , From Longuyon we went to Longvry on the 24th which place we garrisoned
 for about ten days and then on to Hsch
 and across Luxembourg to Remisch. on , the Mozelle river, where first crossed 1 into Prussia in Germany.
 , The Fifth division did not win the war. Many other divisions along the whole front had a larger share. and the , conditions at the time of the armistice as told here are probably typical of the . other sectors. These days are all an niversary days to those who were in } the lines just before and just after No vember II, 1918.