THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAXP,- JULY 21,- .1918
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f TTANKEB doughboys"have grlven
j good . accounts of themselves
wherever they have been
brought Into action to repel the great
German drive. They have , been hur
ried to the front-line trenches by all
sorts of methods of transportation,
trains, motor buses, canal boats and
on foot. The Marines, too, are among
the American troops who have given
a. wonderful account of themselves and
whoso names have been mentioned in
official dispatches from General ' Per-'
ahing.
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When . crews that man big guns
ret Into action the men strip to
the waist in order ' not to be annoyed
by perspiration or encumbered by
khaki shirts. Loading and firing a big
pun when being - vigorously worked
during a period of action Is work that
calls for great physical strength and'
peedy action.
Seventy-seven bodies have been re
covered from the wreck of the excur
sion boat Columbia, which sank in the
Illinois River recently with about E00
persons aboard. Of these 68 have been
Identified. Red Cross figures show 22
missing. A diver said he believed
there were about 25 more bodies in
the wreckage. The cause of the sink
ing is said to have been a sandbar
which was struck by the ship. An in
vestigation is being held by the author
ities. ..
An Interesting development In con
nection with the. hostile shelling of the
territory around Mont des Cats in the
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Kamtnel region, where the famous
Trappist Monastery is located, is the
fact that the Germans have been bom
barding this Flemish elevation heavily
and the monks' home has been badly
destroyed. The Kaiser recently wrote
a letter to his commander in that area
asking that Mont des Cats be spared,
because the aged prior of the monas
tery was the only living person who
knew where the Emperor'a relative.
Prince Max of Hesse, had been burled
after his death In the monastery in.
October, 1914. The prince was attached
to the cavalry which occupied Mont
des Cats after the outbreak of the war.
In. an engagement with British cav
alry Prince Max was mortally wounded
and was taken to the monastery. While
he was being nursed by the monks, his
comrades were driven from the hill by
the British, who occupied it. The prince
died and was buried in a certain place
the location of which was not disclosed
to the world.
The Emperor wrote the Pope, asking
for information as to the prince's
grave and asked the return of the
body. His Holiness forwarded the let
ter to the monastery and it was then
that the Kaiser got the famous reply:
"Not until he would evacuate Belgium
and make just restitution would he
learn the location of the prince's
grave."
Wilhelm now appears to be worried
that his guns may kill the only man
able to give him the desired informa
tion, but his request seems to have met
with small response thus far. for big
shells continue to fall on the monastery.
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