Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-22
WAR 'SH0RR0RS
ENACTED AGAIN
BEFORE EDITORS
American Doughboys
Go Over Top, Take
Everything, Hoist Flag
Veterans Hear Rumble
That in Days Of Yore
Often Lead to Death.

h!NSbuId, July -i.--lbH ne AS
soclated Press The deep boom of
the los echoing, blanketed by the pail
OF smoke which hung over the battle
field. the sharp crack Of the shrapncl
bursting overhead the crash Of shells
bursting with a concussieH thar shook
the stands mile away. rockets and
flares. the rat-tat-tat Of machine guns
and continuous tattoo OF rifle fire
from the doughboys brought TO the
thousands of spectators from all over
the northwest some of the small
realization of the hell the boys aho
fought on the western front have gone
through"
French Village Bombed
The military spectacle opened at
$50 Friday evening the army planes
flylng about in reconnaissance and
combat work. A typical French village
was bombed and destroyed while vari-
Gus signal rockets played through the
air above the flaming ruins.
Dense clouds of smoke emitted from
smoke bombs spread over the valley
from the battlefield, and from behind
1t came the muffled report of cannon
belching forth
A momentary lull in the firing came
Just before the hour of $50 D. m. and
then all hell broke loose with roar
as the barrage from the American
guns laid down on the wire entangIe
ment IN front of the enemy trenches.
FOR time there was some desultory
firing from the big guns of the enemy
but soon these were silenced.
Shortly after the doughboys' ad-
across the field pitted with shell
- could be followed by the flashes
from their rifle fire, and as an oc-
caslonal starshell lighted the ground
they lay like dead men. until darkness
again enveIoped them before pushing
on.
Two and Three-Star Signals
Through it all the intermittent flash
ing of signals from various obserya-
ion posts could be seen. Two and
three star signals, red. white and
green, shot into the sky from time to
-ime, guiding the men in their advance
through broken wire acknowledgements.
shell holes and battered trenches.
10 the spectators the battle NAV
nave been bit too realistic. as they
;ould not see the advancing lines
'learly enough. but to the men who
lad been through the real hell-fir sf
,attles, 1t was all too real for them
t brought back the memory that each
lash was the harbinger of a nessen-
ger of death. The rat -tat-tat of ma
'hlne guns meant more than n biz of
lolse on the distant hillside as he nic- /
ured days gone by when his buddies /!
umbled into oblivion to that same |
music.
Capture Last Trenches
With final outburst of rifle fire
rom the opposing infantrymen She !
American doughboys captured the final /
inc of trenches with rush and I'm /
md at en-. fellahs," that had all the I
est and earnestness of a real fray
a moment later number of flares
lighted the field and Old Glory was
oisted to mast while the band I
which had been playing all the old war
unes for the audience during the hat
le, struck up with the Star Spangled
;anner. The audience stood in silent
espect to our national emblem and TO
hose who have paid the supreme sac
ifice upon the field in keeping it's
ieals untrammeled. /
As the thousands of automobiles |.
onked away. more than 500 tired
ustv doughboys of the Montana Ma
onal guard and the Fifty eighth in
nntry. stationed at Fort Missoula.
tumbed back across the broken field
D assemble and return 10 camp where
Dday another weary round of squads
ight, and other drills. await them so
ley will be prepared if the necessity
ONES to defend their country