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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1918
Doughboys Prove "True
Blue" in Battle Test
Against Hun "Finest"
(Continued From Pafja 1.)
to take pari in the defensive, of Kpernay
nd Chalons, Were fresh, in the first
condition, on their tip toes when they
met our men already fighting thirty
,- hours. Then the (irrmans tried to turn
our attack inlrt an advance for them
selves They failed, Holding against
a murderous machine pun fire. aKainst
numbs and millets from hostile aircraft.
aKainst the unquestioned force of Ger
man shock troops, the youthful Ameii
rans with their lrcch comrades stood
firm, and are standing firm as this is
being written. 1 he full story of the
light and fiercest tiattle has yet to he
mill. Word comes one minute that the
(iermans Jiave a village and ten minutes
liter word romes that the Americans
have the village. I'p the road go trucks
of ammunition and down the road
come the ambulance (jerman shells
come groaning from Iltinward, and in
reply one hears the sweet crescendo oft
repeated, which tells that hnttled de
struction is hound their way as well.
And d"un the roads from tke front
come everv tvuv and then big truck
loads of slightly wounded Americans,
all angrv to have hern put out of the
game A truck halts. A stocky Amer
ican lad, raked with dust, and with two
bullet wounds through his shoulder,
asks me f"r a rigsret and I ask him
what he thinks of it.
Rather Fight Than Eat.
"I'll tell yon," said he, "I never was
In battle before and I felt kind
aqueaniish a couple of hours before. I
felt squeamish when we went over the
top but as soon as the real fighting
started, 1 forgot to he squeamish and
went on until a damned boche machine
gunner got me Honest to God, I'd
rather fight than rt now. Hope the
Doc lets me bark soon"
This lad was a coal miner eight
months ago
The Americans started the second at
tack at 5 o'clock yesterday morning
Tliev reached the objectives a varying
number of kilometers eastward and
were consolidating positions when the
boche shock troops hit them fill tilt
bout noon. Then started the battle
that is still going. Aganist one Amer
ican unit two German shock divisions
were hurled. Against another the fa
mous Prussian guard came.' The Ger
mans had machine guns mounted on
wheels and hail r.dlrd them to the edge
of the woods. These guns shot explosive
bullets which is the latest piece of kultur
the boche has Invented.
Machine Guns Hun's Favorite.
One story is told by all our wounded
I 'talked with, and that is the great
number "f nuihine guns the Germans
have. This now appeaos a favorite
weapon of the boche against the Amer
icans. There is one feature of the bat
tle which stands out the number of
p isoners taken by the Americans.
The number placed to our credit
south of Soissons now numbers some
thing more than 6.000, two regiments
WHY WAIT?
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NOW
ON
CREDIT
McMinn Jewelry Co.
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have officially hooked 2,f0n more Ger
man captives, including sixty-six nfii
cers. Borhes Are Plrty Lot,
Coming down a wooded hill I saw a
sight that made me think that 1 had
run into the German armv. hut when
I got further on, I found only the cor
ralling of Germans taken by our men
There were more than .1.1 K) in a barbed
wire cagr. The dirtiest lot of humans
I ever saw. Will) the exception of a
colonel and some officers, there they
stand ami sat and squatted in the sun
light picking lice off one another. 'I hey
reminded one of nothing so much as
monkeys in the IUonx roo on a sunny
Suuday afterniKui picking off fleas. A
French officer told nit it was the most
unclean lot of men he had seen dur
ing the war. These pi isoners were
mostly from holding troops caught in
the Franco-Amrrii an surprise attack,
in every way they looked the beasts the
German fighters are.
Officers Are Different.
The officers raptured were entirely
(1 1 1 to rent. The colonel was a most natty
sort, glistening in many decorations
The captain with whom 1 talked used
to be a business man with an office in
New York, and a home in New Jersey
He gave the opinion 111... the war would
never end in a military victorv. but in
bankruptcy for one side or the other.
"Thinking of Germany, I am almost
sure the kaiser can not win a complete
military victorv, but nothing is left
now but to fight on in the hope of a
favorable settlement b negotiations.
For if we stop now the taxes will be
so hcavv for Germany that no one ran
live. We must fight on until the al
lies pay us " 1
Red Cross Praised.
This is a proper time to pav tribute
to one good American, f lark Williams
f New Y ork, former banking commis
sioner. In the 'lia'le ot a noMe oi.t
rbateaii lay a rd full of American
wounded waiting for the attention of
le surgeons. There .cic slightly
wounded and seriously wounded
happv wounded and discouraged
wounded, and hungry wounded.
There I found Clark Williams repre
senting the 'Ned Cross He had spen!
the night petting out from Paris five
tons of food and then sent the trucks
back for surgical material He was di
recting helpers to feed the half f. im-
-hed lads and himself toting cans of
bouillon around. Tis pockets were
stuffed with rig.-urts and tindr h'S
arms were packages of prunes. He was
truly a winking man. The armv sur
geon in charge of the hospital asked
that public thanks be given the Ameri
can Ked Cross and Mr Williams, whose
aid had been invaluable.
I spent yesterday hai k of our fighting
Tiie in territory that had been derman
the day before I have seen some shot
up places traveling across France, but
the scenes today beat them all Down
one road I went for three miles w here, of
all th trees lining the road, not one that
had not been bit by shells and most of
Idhem cut down. Here was a village
with not a building Irff standing. Here
another with an untouched church stee
ple, the only whole thing there Here
American and French shells had fallen
when the attack started and the tier
man reply shelling had h as wet'
Caught between two millstones of war
this strip of country was ground to
ruins. Shell holes were so thick one
could step from one to another. t
Dead Horses and Huns.
Dead horses beside dead Germans
were raising a stink to the heavens and
crying for thr presence of American
turkey hurards. There were camions
with broken wheels, shoved aside and
left behind A war-weary Missouri
mule shot in its tracks was shoved over
an embankment. Piles and piles of am
munition which cause an involuntary
'blinking when a hoi he shell comes
screaming over and lands fifty feet
away from this bottled death throwing
freaks of eaith ami stalks of ripened
v heat across the roadw ay pat ked with
the pageantry of war Camions loaded
ith jadrd fighting men made weary bv
n anv miles of jostling over roads worn
rough with ceaseless passing; ammuni
'ion wagons, their drivers cursing over
endless delavs, field kitchens on their
important wav. cannon going along Hun
ward followed by heavily laden cais
sons, swift automobiles darting in and
out with important looking officers,
mule carts, horse carts, men on foot,
seemingly numberless nmbulanres load
ed, one going one wav and ah eniptv
one going ano'her. all covered with a
thi.k laser of dust Here comes a
hrrtling b"che 21". alighting twmitv
vi'rds from the ro.nbide and a horse
shies and throws a field kitchen into
the ditch, while a nun h soiled dough
boy cook fitters maledictions upon the
kaiser.
Pint and More Dust.
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Irmakaa harah, atubbam. nappy hair salt,
long- anal aHky.
Priaa Sta by rnafl an rarolpt of itampi or coin.
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Never was such a procession, never
sveh a setting I et me sav. too, nnve
roll dust The brown of the d"iighhov
uniforms and blue of (be ii"iln look all
the same ft n rich side of t c road ran
a ravared fi-dd of wheat, the color rf
ubiili rilmost matched the nearby wood
land. Ili're a shell strikes a tree and
throws the erstwhile ruble foliage
across the procession. It is eleare I
awav in a jiffy, while the raw 'its hi"-n
i French generals' cars outdoes the
screechinif shells.
Hack behind it all. our runs keep
roarinsr, the earth seemiiiB to shake as
"ime biir piece sends a message of dea'li
to the bodies America knows no such
woods as is beer. Jleneath noble old
trees stop soldiers and siddiers and
wagons of war and more war. Here
poihis and doiighbnya are making them
selves comfortable for a brief respite
before being called on, when a shell
brines down a tree across a pile of
shells. All the world knows a fighting
man cusses. I didn't understand the
cussing of the poihi. but there was no
doubt about the doiivbbovs' cussing.
Unnamed Heroes,
A line of lads in brown is turning
northeastward. Their rifles are on
their barks and their belts are full of
ammunition I'hey have pone to argue
it nut with T'rit. This battle is never
to be forgotten, nor will the bovs who
are in it be forgotten. The rapidity of
advanre brought, of course, difficulties
in supply trains which made eating late
and often deferred. Our ambulances
always reach the wounded quickly and
right here, put down a word of praise
for our ambulance drivers, who, all day.
rait time after time into the jaws of
death on their errands of mercy. Some
laid down their lives as rain ly and as
willingly as the doughboys with heated
rifle. Say a word also for the ammuni
tion train drivers who took trucks tip
the road with shells popping right and
left. Remember our boys woo stuck at
their posts close to tfie firing Una; many
of them famed surgeons who were serv
ing their country for love of it. Keep
in mind a world renowned surgeon ly
ing now at the point of death with a
wound through the chest because he in
sisted in sticking where lis. was most
needed. The coinmuniiUei tell nothing
of what these men do, but they make it
possible for eight out of every ten
wounded fighting men to rejoin their
comrades at the front.
American Stamina.
If there ill anvone in the world who
doubts the stamina of American men I
call attention to one unit of our lads,
who Thursday morning went over the
lop fifteen minutes after reaching the
front 1 1 il following an all night ride in
camions. These fought all day Thurs
day, Thursday night and all yesterday
and today are there in line with no oth
er rest than brief snatches of sleep.
Stretcher bearers tell me they have
picked up hundreds of wounded men,
some with grievous hurts, sleeping
soundly where they fell. That is the
Amerii an fighter's spirit. They sleep
when their job is done.
We were here in the woods when we
heard the sound of bitter fighting ahead
I caving the car, we started that way
Through the woods, where shot down
trees lay in tangled profusion, we went
Across a wheat field, bolted with uglv
shell holes and then into another strip
of woods. Here we began to see the
bodies of French and Americans, but
mostly (ierruans sprawled in grotesque
attitudes, where they had made the su
preme sacrifice. It was almost ns calm
here as on a wooded hillside where so
in.iriv men had died and now lav about
awaiting burial. Suddenly a steam
hammer sound ahead told us to keep
out of machine gun ramie Through the
tiees over a little embankment and
then on the other side was a sight never
to be forgotten
Scene at Hun Trench.
It as t German trench position fifty
ards in length seemingly filled with
dead Huns. I started counting and got
to seventeen at one end and stopped the
grewsome undertaking. The scene at
the other end of the trench told a atorv
all fighting Americans have now learned.
'I here had hern a German machine gnu
nest of sheltered wickerwt k with earth
behind. Just in front lay the bodies of
three doughboys, part of a platoon that
had charged the gun. I knew their
comrades had been successful when I
saw behind the breastwork the bodies
of the German gunner and two helpers
dead from American bullets. All had
lain where they had fallen more than
twenty-four hours before.
A Yankee Charge,
' On beyond the trench position lay
dozens of dead Germans, and here and
there an American fighter who had fin
ished. Then from the top of the em
bankment I heard a whiatle and saw a
mile ahead a line of brown harks leap
out from (he edge of the woods and
start across a wheat field. As it went
through the ripening Rrain, I heard the
machine guns going again from a strip
of woods ahead of them. Some fell,
others fell, hut some kept on and the last
I saw of them was going pell mell into
edge of woods in skirmish formation
I don't know yet how far they went, b(t'
it was in that woods that bitter fighting
look place. I heard a bumping behind
us and there was an ambulance on an
exposed road, going to get the hoys who
bad fallen. A glance over the field of
wheat showed the surface shimmering
in the sumniT breee broken here and
Vliere bv indentations. Some of them
had he'-n made by a shell hole, but mostly
by falling bodies of fighting men. As
we left I roul I heir machine guns going
in that woods. While this show was
being staged bv the Americans south of
Soissniis and f.vther towards Chateau
Thierry other American troops marie
advances yesterday afternoon east o!
(.'oiicliatups, chaiging three villages and
taking prisoners.
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Registration now until July 27th, inclusive
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In our history have we been more able to serve you
than now, due to the fact that we have taken advan
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ments in advance of the heavy fall business.
We especially call your, attention to the wonder
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Herrick Refrigerators
Are nothing new they have been distributed throughout the country for
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Window
Shades
Hand made, on guaranteed Harts
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Exchange Your Used
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I or new through our Trading De
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Priced $10 Up
Y.M.C.A. Receiving
Applications for
War Work Overseas
Applications are still being rereived
by the local Y. M C. A. from Oklahoma
City men who want to join the Y, M. C.
A. forces overseas, but no appointments
have been made so far.
Five copies are made of each man s
application. One of the copies is sent
to the state office, one to the depart
ment a San Antonio, one goes to the
association's New York
sent to the government
goes to l'aris, Trance
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f.fthl
copyj
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nil lea, one
and the
On each
is pasted an unmounted photograph
Hie applicant, and the requirement
stipulate that it must he a full faca
view, sire Jx.l and printed on a whitoj
liaekgrnund.
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Druci Under lnvestlt atlon
Dr. Charles A. Kosewater, narcotic
specialist of Newark. N. J., was ' in
Oklahoma City yesterday studying 'hi
use ol narcotic and lulnt-lonr nsn
drugs. Vemphis, Tenn., according In
Doctor Kosewater s investigation, i iho
dope center of the nation
Still Keeping UpThat
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Wash Ties
Soft Collar
Plenty
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they temper originality with good taste; v
distinctive tone,
exclusive styles,
biff and attractive variety.
$5 to $13.50
Others in Madras, fiber silk, and pure Irish linen.
$1.50 to $6.50 '
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wit. OKLAHOMA CTTt
OVER 19 YEARS OF RELIABILITY
Double
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V Tomorrow
PAUL FESLER of 4
minute speaker fame
Manager University
Hospital -in close (touch
with recent Health Survey
will make some start
ling disclosures at Okla
homa City Advertising
Club Wednesday. He'll
try to put the "stir" in our
Booster spirit. He has a
message that will start
you a-thinking.' Visitors
welcome. HEAR HIM I
I A. WHITEHURST.
formerly merchant in
agricultural community
and on A. & M. faculty,
will tell about the bumps
of merchandising knowl
edge he gained when "Ad
vertising .to Farmerf."
From his interesting es
periences you may be able
to glean important fact
for going after the farm
and small town business.
COMEI
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