Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-11

o he AmerCus accorded a
great pvegche opportunity of seeing and hearing the fore
individual hero OF the ALVIN 4 FORK OF
Pail Mall Tenn but Yesterday that the newspapers and
magazines filled with the thrilling stories OF the exploit OF this
mountaneer soldier boy who brought ~ German officers and
pvates on 9l while bullets flying the
Argonne forest battle, the windup of the
This column be devoted more interestingly today
Than recalling the of York brief Reference to pub
hadons following Yos triumphant return home serve to refresh
the details
ON THAT MEMORABLE October day York corporal in
Company c. 328th infantry ed division which had trained
Camp Gordon Atlanta He of sixteen ordered to put
German machine gun out OF commission lhe guns
he3 after the other side OF slope 10 gam their OBJ
iectve the Americans forced climb hill exposed part OF
The enemy fire from other positions They accomplished
this without loss and began descend the other side their obJc
they found themselves in cupke valley the hills where
they sPd Germans ahead of them One OF them surrendered
went into skmsh order and continued to forward Ar
small stream the Americans discovered on the other side
twenty thirty Germans them several officers who
apparently holding conference The Americans hred with the
result that the entire body of Germans surrendered Just they
the of departure with their prisoners dozens OF
machine hidden the slope of the hill facing
them thirty yards away opened the American de-
achment Captors and captured Immediately dropped flat their
somachs but before six Americans had been killed Three
men wounded them the in command York
hind raked both sides by fire he could get
and the Others guarding the German prisoners Hence
York left to hight entire machmegn battalion alone
George Pauo told the story the Saturday Evening POST
LIE NEVER THOUGHT of surrender His problem was to make
the up quickly possible and he kept yelling
them to come down
though the surrender of battalion individual soldier the
usual hngand really believe he regards that provided
Somehow knew wouldn't be killed he said 4 never
thought would bnever from the started here
AT the first crack of the machine the slope opposite
him York dropped He narrow path leading to the
cnpacemens Directly in front Law the bocbe prisoners groveng
fear of their comrades FIRE The machine guns
thirty yards and blazing straight down Their
re moved off the tops of the bushes though they had been
And then the second elder (as in his church
back home) got going his Sighting carefully
in
he began pong the boches their oxho and the bochc who
hiding behind and the bochs who were firing
from the shelter of logs And every shot brought down
an enemy No am he showed in reehoIe
"YoU NEVER HEARD racket all your life he
couldn't see any of our boys Early and Cutting had
run along toward the left
started, but didn't know they
IF I'd moved I'd have been killed The
what saved kept close them, and
hill had to fire little high for fear hitting
bullets cracking my of twigs
down
"we fred clips or settings were moving pref
y lively 50 didn't know how many did shoot-and first thing
knew boehe got and flung little bomb
silver dollar 1t missed and wounded the prisoners
ground and got the boche-got him square.
Next thing that happened lieutenant
of them machine him. The whole
like this.
81 had my out by then and let them have it. Got
the lieutenant right through the stomach and he
ed lot All the boches who hit pigs
q You killed the whole bunch?v
Yes sir At that distance killed this dc
peIoie te! couid charge twenty hclgh
As the Germans drop most Of them
quit hng their machine and the battle
on shooting, but in minute here
cd with the first bunch reckon shooting at
himself because heard firing from the prisoners
found out that his pistol empty
He put his hand shoulder and said to me in
English: Don't shoot surrender So
said All right and he did 50. and they did
CORPORAL YORK with his OF tn
American lines being assisted by who also
along three who had been wounded On way they
other German machnegun nests, the connected ali
thesa
decided to surrender So when the finally reached IT,
/: American forces, the prisoners numbered b.
.
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