American Falls press. [volume], October 04, 1918, Image 4

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Uarr; Tidings of Battle as llun Goes
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They had been pals together out In
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Hhupp And they were together In
Company I. when their regiment left
America last fall. Because they were
young kud slim and could run like the
wind they were chosen as runner« and
as runners they wore together or.
the greatest day and hour of their
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It came In that historic fortnight of
July, lkis. for their regiment was one
of those who walled with Mied bav
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Ourcq lay behind them.
' It was the hour when an Important
message had to he carried from the
company commander to a deep, hid
di-n dugout then serving as battalion
[ headquarters. The message, first read I
aloud to both of them was thrust Into I
Shnpp's hand, and he was up and off!
like a shot, racing noroas a country j
all gouged and quivering from the
battle, racing over fields and roads j
where shells had been falling for
hours und still were falling with
deadly regularity.
A minute later, 2H0 yards behind,
perhaps, came Hoysen, for, thus man
aged, the message would have a dou
te chance of getting through. It was
Hoysen who delivered It because as he
ran he saw his friend struck and tos
sed Into the air in a geyser of earth.
He himself was wounded, painfully
wounded In the log. hut he was not
done for, and a few moments later
• he battalion adjutant raugbt him as
he pitched, weak and white faced. Into
the dugout.
"They're killed Shupp, sir," he
hlnrted out, "and they've wounded
me."
Then he poured out the message,
repeated It more slowly to be sure,
and turned as If to start out again—
out Into the storm.
Several hands caught him. Where
was he going?
"Wher'm I going?" he cried, the
hsterical note mastering his voice.
"Where'm I going? I'm going back
to get my buddy."
Then he fainted.
That Is the story of two American
runners In the second battle of the
Marne. It's only one story, and there
nfo so many. It. Is chronicled here
Just because there are so many like
If. In the chapter of The Runners.
(Jo to anyone who has lived through
any day or week of that battle where
tt wus hottest and ask who were Its
heroes. He will want to name all the
men who put their shoulder to its tre
mendous burden from the ammunition
drivers,plowing stubbornly on through
maddening miles of mud, knowing and
asking no sleep for many days and
nights, to the battalion commanders,
who could not and would not remem
ber what the books suld about their
place being behind the line. But If he
must single out one group for tribute
the chances are he will reluctantly
pass the others by and say; "The
Runners."
The runners are the fleet young
sters who, as the battle «ways and
strains, keep regiment in touch with
battalion, battalion with company,
company with platoon. To let each
unit know how the others are faring,
above all in such fighting as the last
weeks have seen, to let the nervous
guns know to what line the surging
Infantrymen have attained, this is the
business of the runners. The story
of much that is crushed down under
such verbal impedlmrntla as liasion,
reconnalsance and communications
can tie told In the terms of brave boys
legs.
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All the fine devices of science to
quicken and insure communication
collapse In the swift hours of such an
advance as began at the Marne on
July IS. By indefatigable work the tel
ephone wires, though shelled again
nnd again into fragments, cun be re
paired and kept intact between divi
sional headquarters and regimental
But what of the ntllo of quaking coun
tryside from there to the front?
The T. P. S., or ground telegraphy,
Is admirable, hut Its machinery Is too
heavy and Its mechanism too deli
cate for the climaxes of open warfare.
The wireless Is wonderful until the
German buzzer Jams It. Lamps, flags,
every type of visual signalling, can
not bn employed to such advantage on
a shifting battlefield all cut ■ with
grooves and knolls, and sometimes
catch the enemy eye and draw his fire
on the signal man
In such fighting as drove the ar
tnles of the Crown Prince from the
Marne to the Veele, the leaders In the
buttle revert to first principles In
more ways than one. One way Is their
heavy dependence on that same device
which served the Israelites In their
battles against the Philistines, served
the Athenians In their warn with all
the world. That device Is the human
messenger, the runner of the battle
field.
Most of them are boys of 18
field.
Most of them are young boys of 18
or 19. Their work Is Important be
yond measure. It is dangerous be
cause sometimes they can not crouch
and lake cover, though their path lend
them through a curtain of fire. It Is
u little more difficult because the
runners must go their way alone,
without the incalculable lift and cheer
it gives a fighter to have his brother
fighters shoulder to shoulder with
hint. ,
The runner ha« one definite task
before him. without any agony of
choice. He has a single thing to do.
He must carry the message to Gareta
—and he does, or dies trying Very
often, on the heights that lie to the
north of the Ourcq, he died trying.
One would erawtNo the major's dug
out. forgetting to chuck the cigarette
that dangled from the corner of hts
mouth as he nonchalantly delivered
the message -cool and unruffled. The
mxt would lurch to the major's «tde,
drop to hid knee« and spit out hts
message with clenched hands, pop
ping eyes and Ups so trembling that
he could scarcely make himself un
derstood. But though the whole world
seemed to shake with the thunder of
the guns, though the bullets from the
hidden machine guns fell like rain all
about them, each kind delivered hts
message.
Sometimes the path was so peril
ous and the word so vital that three
were charged with the one message.
You can imagine them crouching in
the dugout, straining at the leash, as
It is read to them in quick, sharp
sentences. Have they got it? The
three heads nod. Then, like pistol
shots, the lieutenant gives the signals.
"Lanigan!" And Lanigan ts gone.
They give him two hundred yards
start. ''Jenks!" Jenks is off.
"Barton!" The message is on its
way.
The adjutant goes back to his work,
hoping that one of the three will get
through, praying that all of them 'will.,
From the number of substitutes,
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battalion sergeant-majors, tntellgence
section aids, and
turned runner In those sleepless days
and night«, you can guess how many
of the regular groups, with the red
bands on their sleeves, fell by the way
sometimes killed outright, offener so
wounded that they could only lie in
the field and try their best to catch
a passerby and send the word on by
him—-the word on which the lives of
a company might hang as on a thread.
Many caught up a message and went
on with It, though they knew It had
fallen to them because the others who
had tried were dead. Many got all
the way, though they were shot as
they ran. One private, with a hole in
his abdomen, held his hand over that
hole and somehow carried his message
the last eighth of a mile across a field
that the German guns were blasting.
After he bad delivered his message,
he died. |
On the day the Yanks went across ^
the Ourcq and up the hill, Private M.
A. Treptow of Iowa ran hts last race
from the company to the battalion. He
had almost reached his goal when a
machine gun dropped him. '
Rater, in the pocket of his blouse,
they found his precious diary. On its
first page he had written something
that many a man in his company has
since copied into his own diary. It
was this:
America shall win the war;
Therefore I will work,
1 wdli save,
l will sacrifice,
I will endure.
I will fight cheerfully and do my
utmost, as if the whole issue of
the struggle depended
alone.
Treptow had called this 'My Pledge'
and thereto he had subscribed his
name.—Stars and Stripes, Paris.
many more who
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In the new Franco-American drivel
west of Verdun the Americans Satur
day had passed beyond the Hinden
berg line and were facing the Kriem
hield line.
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1 Holstein Cow, 4 years old.
1 Holstein Cow 9 years old.
1 Ewe.
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1 McCormick Rake, Self Dump.
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1 Spring Tooth Harrow.
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1 John Deere Gang Plow.
1 One-Horse Cultivator.
1 Derrick.
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100 feet inch Manila Rope.
1 Work Harness, Heavy.
1 Buggy Harness.
500 feet Lumber 1x12x16.
1 50-gallon Gas Tank.
30 Rods Woven Wire, 32-inch.
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Iwo Stacks of Hay, About 25 Tons Each
1 Galloway Separator, New.
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1 Ivers & Pond F*iano.
1 Underwood Typewriter, Late Model.
1 Ford Car in Good Repair.
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1 Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet.
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