Evening star., 1921-06-26
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON d. c. JUNE 26 1g21-PARr

one. OF tnOse Dig special eStdoi!sH-
ments for men incurably wounded, ,
"The finest lot Of boys I ever saw"
said the commanding lieutenant col
onel. Never In civilian life did
complaint for the same amount OF
suffering-for in civilian life people
suffer. too. you must remember We
have heard talk of sacrifices, Of men
praised in print for consenting to
give their life blood for transfusion; On
ahead. II, it will save his life! they
say quite simply. And in slow. wear
ing pain--we cannot keep them
,stupef1ed-! wondered. sometimes,
'wes it pride or shame that keeps
them silent? 1t is neither, but be-
cause to whimper might disturb the
others.'"
Here we first saw those signs"
which became q feature of the A. e.
F. Where wounds were quivering
fering lad put up his humorous notice:
GO EASY
HERE
BY ORDER OF ..
DEPENSE!
Another lad. named walter Moon.
had an infected compound fracture
which made it agony for him to be
moved. So he put up his little joke:
MAKE THE NOON RIsE!,
One Montana fellow. with his arm
lost. would never tell the meaning Of
his sign. from which he obviously
took subtle satisfaction:
DO Was x9S sST6FFesE S6ETesE
To st. Nazaire and the great fac
victory as truly as did fghting) the
humorous signs" spread. These men,
who were, working eighteen hours
per day. believed that there was a
song out against them.. at, home:
Your sons in the S. o. S."
Who gets up the signs?" I asked.
''The men themselves" replied a
captain in charge of production.
There was not one but grieyed. to
been there crave to go.S But they're
rot all the time saying it. They saw
wood" -:
BY July 4. 1918. we had the big
gest thing in France to celebrate.
*** 49,
THE German offensive to separate
the French and British before
the Americans could arrive in full
force. appeared to be. succeeding. In
a concentration of heavy artillery
such as had never been known. the
barbed wire, concrete and steel
strong points of the Chemin des
Danes had been swept away like
sand and in six hours the German
shock troops were crossing the Aisne
at Maizy having shattered the Brit
of May 81 they had reached Fismes.
on the Vesle. The next day. they
poured southwark. Turning east.
they attacked scissors and entered
the town in two days. At the same
time. their jager troops entered
Chateau -Thierry. but were prevented
by American Machine-gunners who
blew up the bridge and raked the
waterfront whenever the Germans
formed up to attack.
Wheeling to the westward from
Chateau -Thierry. the Germans de
bouched along the main Paris high
road. less than seventy miles from
the capital. and commenced a march
on the city. =
The I'd Division. A. Z. F., rush
ed up from the Chalons region. was
thrown across the Paris highroad
on May 81. Just as the Germans. after
pushing out from Chateau-Thierry
along the north bank of the Marne,
had seized Hill 20, dominating the
river, and we're infiltrating into
Belleau Wood. -.
Rushing supplies. reinforcements
and munitions into Chateau -Thierry
by motor conveys. the Germans were
forming up their shock units. for a
final attack against the sole troops
barring their route to Paris-the
Americans.
The Germans organized and pre-
pared their fighting forces under pro-
lection of the dense woods. and 1t
was through realizing this. that the
American Marine Corps and the 5th