Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, July 21, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextHlNlt.tr, Jl l.Y 01, I0IK. DAlLf BUGl'K RIVES. OOUUKIt PMiiiH;mniii;iiimiiiiiiiitniii!iiiiiiii'j .,. wa( 0Dly woun(lwl. Gunner Depew ,7ierl i. Tkptw fm-Cmmm a1 CVW Pall OlAm. IT. NtpMMd J lU , .la al Fran Caatale t.e 1 un. FraMli lUltUJup t'Mfd Wtaaafal la Cii titf HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiltllilllllilllllllllilii7i,3 The men who 3 u It were over the imriipi't licfnro 5 i tliu order wim given mid ilii'ii the jjj I whole liuiii'h after tlietn, bersuse they, ' tNi, thought ha win killed nml fltired 3 I he never would know how lliey cume s ! out shout their vows. AH tli men In the compiiny were glud when , Ihcy 2 ' fo'tnd he wnm only wounded. While hulf of us were on the firing i'ii tlirmiKhout the dny or night the 3 , oilier liulf would Iw In tln dugout or sitting ground In the hoitnm of the trench, playing little games, or mend Ins clothed 'dr" sleeping or cooking or doing thouimiid und ont thing, Tie mnn were always In good humor at Much time and It eeemed to ni even more so when the enemy Are was heavy. If man wee elluhtly wounded down TM&:&2 m,ld c"" r",, ,0 or,,"r a mumw mn MfiMi ' etttil statist, ftutllia asms pndiiv in 'Ml "Right tide wey. YNOPdH. CIIAPTER l-Allxrt N. fxpew. eulhor t III eturr, enluia In I lie United hixmi i.vy, Mfvine foul ton ami aiuiiiing In rank el ilil( pelty oOUer, nut-da gunnar, CHAPTER 11-Th grl war ilitli nn allar tie le liuiiuiablr illarharsad in Ilia tinvr and he Ha fur frame Willi 0. delannlnallun la tnllil. wne euro to shout. One frunc," It w (funding Joke end they slwu)s did It The poll a who did It mot wai a 8wls end lie waa alwuya pluylnir a Joke on otnehody or Imitating somo one of : u or tonkin! fare. We were all sorry when thla Swiss "take and bum every time a ; "went went," aa the Lluieya My, and ' deL ' we tried to keep up hie Joke and my l ' Ht Jt n ' the Mime thing and so forth, nut they ! I(lrt t the town, In trenches that I did not go rery well offer he waa , had been won and loet by both sides to Iota both the chaplain and the vil lage wit In the, aaine charge, along with half of our officers, and then have to give op the trench. Every man In the bunch was sore as a boll when ws got back, CHAPTIP. VII. topping the Huns at Dlxmudi. I waa standing In a communication trench that connected one of our front line trenches with a crster c ued by the eiploilon of a mine. All around me men of the third line were coming np, climbing around, digging, hammer ing, shifting planks, moving sandbags up and down, bringing up new timbers, reels of barbed wire, ladders, cases of ammunition, machine guns, trench mortars all the things that make an army look like a general store on legs. The noise of the guns waa Just deaf ening. Our own shells passed not far above our heads, so close were the enemy trenches, and the explosion were so near and so violent that w nen you rented your rids butt on something solid, like a rock, you could feel it shell CHAPTER Ill-lie joins the foreign 1 dead, lie got his In the enme charge n,"n7 umee, uur aeconq line was in wh'.,."m. 1 ln hlrn ,h fhnphiln Vus wounded j the streets and the third line was him liish honors. E CHAPTER IV-tfv le detschad from la alilp anil aaot wim a rtltmant of Ilia lun lo I liulr whara lie aoon Anils imaalf la tli Irani Una Irenvhae. niAITKIt V-lla le detailed Is lha ar. Hilary and make lha a-oaliitano of the "Ye ", Hi wumlarful Kumh suns that hava aavd Ilia day fur Hi alllaa on maiiy balllnld. Blor aliif any atitlon, h la urdarr back la his rtitiul la Uie Ironl line Irene has. He was Jimt one man from me as we got the word and atood up on the fire step. He was not armed with an tmii'h na a pin, hut be Jumped up on I He waa one of the bunch Hint charged almost at the south end of the town. 1 before the order was given, when the I The Huns were bard at It. shelling chnplaln got It, and was running pretty near me until we got to the Iloche wire. I bad to atop to get through, though mut of it was cut up by artlt- tbe battered remains of Dlxmude, and to the right stretcher bearers were working In lines so close that they looked like two parades passing each other. But the bearers from the com pany near me bad not returned from or thirty paces ahead of me. We got l,,S'7.7m. 1,1 II.. fW,.,.n. .h.l lima aid ,b " Piling HP, Waiting for them. lery tire, but he must have Jumped It, for when I looked np he was twenty lo the (lermana about that time and I was pretty buy for a while. But . - . . ... -,. av company oi tne zme Legion Ktran soon I aaw him again. He was pulling h r . , . . t.i. l.. ... . h.k ..k.. ' g bad jusi ro tne up to tike tneir his bayonet out of a Boche when an- ",,. . .,. . pet of sandbags. A shell landed among them Just before they entered the cra ter and sent almost a whole squad 1 v t1 jr vi other made a Jab at him and stuck htm In the arm. Then the Boche mad a awing at him with bla rifle, but the Bwlea dropped on one knee and dodged 1t He kept defending hlmielf with I bis rifle, but there waa another Oer ! man on blra by this time and be could i not get up. The corporal of our squad j i came up Just about that time, but he ; was too late, because one of the Bochra got to the Swiss with his bay onet Us did not have time to with draw It before our corporal atuck htm. ! The other Gcrtuun made a pais at the corporal, but ha was too late. The corporal beat him to It and felled him with a terrific blow from bla rifle butt The Huns were pretty thick around I west besides wounding several others, Almost before they occupied the crater the wires were laid and reached back to us, and the order came for us to remaln.whera we were until further ordors. Then we got the complete orders. We w ere to make no nolne but were all to be ready In ten minutes. We put on goggles and respirators. In ten minutes the bombers were to leave the trenches. Three mines were to ex plode and then we were to take and hold a certain portion of the enemy trenches not far off. We were all tuck Hla Htsd Over the Parapet and Oet It Square. the step and atuck his head over the . parapet and got It square, landing v iigbt beside me, I thought bo was fflljed, but when we got beck we found saw. There were a couple of well-known savate men In the next company and I nw bos of them get under rrtts's guard with his foot sod, believe me, there was noma fore In that kick. De must have driven the Oerman'a chin clear through the hack of his neck. We thought It was pretty tough lock i i ns -it ti i i tKaatwata 4iisi aa si aanAthsae fWrtim m rA m. . . w ' fsiainv ffA gttnfft tin thai intiAmnm tarTisin gmailf miha tin A luwihA ai tarn net hla vlfla. ' ' w - y mi smuvw " . h. .,4 .i... y AnAmA i, they moved NliTs section over to. ours the Boche almost got me. The ewlng ' "f" h 0k1 t0. "4 took blm off bla feet and then the cor- fj'"0 ' ,port- poral did aa pretty a bit of work as nrf"ke ' flft "d a I ever saw. He Jumped for the Bocae, ; , 5Tl A . ,. ... who bad fallen landed on hi. face L K2 "A V !y W i? with both feet and fata It to the next " J!?!? b'ck ,0 b." on with hla bayonet .11 at the same I the bombers came np to t.m.; He wi. the qulckeet ana I . I ?!t "! w X y. mvse vu uicir ivti nua, uut luia- ate now,' esia tne otneers, getung on 1 their own ladders and drawing- their revolvers though most of the officers of the Legion charged with rifle and bayonet like their men.' v . Then Boon I Slam I Bang r and the mines went off. "Allear and then the parapet waa filled, with bayonets and men scram bling and crawling and falling and get ting up again. The smoke drifted back on us, and then our own machine guns began ahead of us. " Dp toward. the, front the bombers were Ashing- ft their bags and throw ing, Just like boys after a rat along the docks. The black smoke from the "Jack Johnsons" rolled over us and probably there was gas, too, but you could not tell. " ' ,' The front lines had taken ' tflelr trenchea and gone on and yon could see them, when you stood on a pan pet running about like hounds through the enemy communication trenches, bombing out dugouts, disarming pris oners very scary-looking in . their masks and goggles. The wounded were coming back slowly. Then ws jot busy, with our work In the dugouts and communication trenches" and Are bayi, with bayonets and bombs, dig ging the Bochea out and sending them "west" And every once In a while a Frl on one side would step out and yell 'Rnmerad," while, like as not, on the other "side, his pal would pot yon with a revolver when yon started to pick htm up, thinking he was w.nucft ' Then we stood aside at the entrance tQ a "dugout and soma Bochea . came out In single fllo shouting "Kamerad" for aU they were) worth. One of them had hit mask and face blown off; yet ha wai trying to talk, with the tears rolling dowia over the raw flesh. He died Av mrautea later. One tabght while I waa lying back In the rmncb trying not to think of any thing and go to aleep the bombs began to fet pretty thick around there, and -hen I could not stand Jt any longer 1 rushed out Into the bny of the Are trench and right up against the pira pet, where It was safer. Hundreds of star shells were being sent up by both sides nnd tbo field eud the trenches were as bright cs cloy. All up and down the trenches our men were dodging about, keeping out of the way of the bombs that were being thrown In our faces. It did not seem ns if there was any plnce where It wc possible to get cover. Most of the time I was picking dirt out of my eyes that explosions hsd driven Into them. They Are Mile Makers SEE tKc rugged nupportlng shoulders on either aide) toftheAjax tread. Thcao civo more strength when strength is needed. Ajax Shoulders of Strength aro fully patented no other tire tin have them. 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