The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1918, Page 8

i } AMERICANS PREPARE CALMLY FOR BIGGEST OPERATION; ADVANCE IS MADE WITH EAGER ASSURANCE Tribune Staff Correspondent With Pershing’s Army Northwest of Verdun Tells How Our “Yanks” “Go to It.” In Face of the Huns. Li BY. C. C. LYON. H Sleep Out of Question. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. | Not an officer or With Pershing’s Army Northwest | whole front tried to sleep thaht night. £0 of Verdun.—All day long the divisions | It was after dark when the men were | have been filled with “underground | » going forward. The rumors” of an impending offensive. uld start at 11:30. Ev- For three days, day and night, ev-}erybody waited up to hear it. ery road leading toward the G T- | And when it did start, nobody could man lines, has been clogged with) have slept, even it he had so desired. horse and motor-drawn artillery, thou-|It was said later that pouring steel sands—it seems—of ammunition wa-/and gas into the Germans that night gons, loaded to capacity; and then | was’ the greatest concentration’ of ar- the never-ending stream of heavy |tti-lery the world had ever seen. trucks carrying the paraphernalia of! The night passed as with one long, | the enginecrs and material for mak-| continuous roar, save for a short in- bridges and roads. |termission between the time the corps The infantry has been in billets! artillery finished its work and the di- close to the “jumping off place” for| vision guns started theirs. some da watch) For more than an hour before the) s ;time fixed for the infantry to start] forward, the boys were in formation; Early in the day the colonel sends every bayonet fixed, every rifle in| for all his majors and captains and | perfect order, every cartridge belt | they are in conference for more than | bulging. an hour. When they‘return to their) 1 had imagined that boys who were own commands all the officers are|about to réceive their first baptism close-mouthed, while the doughboys of tire would be nervous and unset- are consumed with curiosity. tled, but I was forcefully imp The captains send for their lieu- | by the calmness and steadiness tenants. More conferences. Then | prevaded all ranks. { the lieutenants, in turn, are close-; | can't say they were. light-hearted mouthed with their men. for festive’as they stood there in the See That Rifles Are in Order, | darkness waiting for the ‘hour of 5:30 | But rght after dinner each lien. 0 come. There was none of that. On tenant announces “inspection. ; the contrary, there was something “See that your rifles and hayouets | Positively piritual — about them. | are in perfect order,” he s signiti- | Their boy clean-shaven faces cantly. \seemed to as I peered into then There follows the regulation inspec: |The test hour for Americans tion, during which the men are told | come: or uecoaie Ot ura A to do into bundles everything but; BYe a & 2 Be yess the actual fighting equipment. | AND WE'RE GOING TO GIVE IT.” || Emergency rations are passed out! “Zero Hour” Sees Line in Mo | to those who haven't any. i tions . Everything buzzes with excitement) he “over. the top hour” came, and during the supper hour. op | from one end of that twenty-mile front The company cook has received Of | to the other tens of thousands of | ders to have all-equipment connected | shadowy forms moved forward in the with his rolling kitchen outfit ready | graw dawn. It had begun to rain. lies for, moving. “So much the better our pur- SO erat aneteeal agree | pose,” a colonel said. “We'll pull a! mong themselves... We Te goin: surprise party on the Boches. They! the top tonight sure. | won't be expecting us in this rain.” agi hin gui [ear After dark, the captain comes; We took Bes pa ea tee : 5 them completely by T-| around and addresses the entire com: prise, Our artillery fire pulverized | pany: their wire entanglement. “Yes, boys,” he begins, “we're 60°! “Hefore 8 o'clock the rain had stop- us into a fight Ai Pata ea | ped, the haze was lifting and the ‘sun ' ee Reet y what wo | Come out, permitting our airmen to but new 1 want you to know what W4 | watch the retreating enemy. are going to do. ; ‘Unly one serious difficulty confront- | i ed us, and that was in bringing up Biggest Operstion. Yanks Haye {our artillery. Our infantry was ad- “The German lines run through| Vancing so fast the big guns couldn't those woods yonder”—he points to 2|kcep pace with them. : dense forest some three miles to the), What had been No Man's Land a north. “This is going to be the big- few hours before now had to be cross- gest operation the American army has | ¢d with the heavy guns. There were ever tackled. The corps artillery will | 2° roads, and the ground was so soft open up at 11:30 tonight, and will | hammer the German back areas for two hours and a half. We're going Puts 0. K. on Bill of Fare! to give them plenty of gas, ‘too. 50 they can’t bring up their reserves. “Then, at 3 o’¢lock in the morning, | our division artillery will vegin play-| ing on the German wire and trenches for another two hours and a half. “We're going forward and TAKE those trenches at 5;30 in the morn- ing.” ‘A ctuze of conversation and numer- our vexpressions of satisfaction run through the company. Everybody has-an “{ told you/so” expression on his face. The captain continues: ‘ow, boys, this is not going to b any picnic party. We have informa- tien that some of the t troops the} Boches have are immediately in front! of us. In fact, some of them have been identified by our intelligence de- partment as Prussian guards. The Downcast Dyspeptic Takes Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets After / Eating and His Stomach Is Now a Twelve-Cylinder Racer. The old-time grouch is now a Sunny Jim. Instead of feeling dull, stupid, irritable and dizzy after eating, he jtakes a Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet nd is bright, active good natured | and full of “pep.” He puts his O, K. on the entire bill of fare; everything is good from the soup to the pie and! cheeso and sets sung and comforts| able. | Once you learn the remarkable ac: | Company Keyed to Combat Pitch. | tion of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in “We have just as big a part to play'| digesting foad. preventing and over: in this offensive as any other of the | | coming gassiness, heartburn, sour ris- hundreds of companies that go for-|ings, lump in your throat gagging ward. We must reach our company | and the other distre: of indigés- objectives, else the troops on OUT | tion you will eat what you want at left. and right can't advance. accord- | jaar time without the slightest dis- ing to schedule. » Get a i nt box at any I know you boys, and Tl stake | drug store and join the throng of my last dollar every one of you will/ jive ones who are doing their bit and} put into this fight the very best that | | doing it again overtime. is in him. “All 1 ask of you men is that ee follow me, and go where I go.” | * The whole company joins in one) big shout when the captain has fin-/ ished. | 2Will they follow him and give the} best that is in them? Just wait and! see! There could be no other inter- | pretation of that shout. { This operation, marking the open-; ing of the great. battle to the north-! west of Verdun, was, as the one cap-{ tain had told his men, the biggest | thing the Americans had yet attempt- | ed. Facing the Germans on a front } of 20 miles, that night were several hundred thousand American troops. And the back areas were jammed with tens of thousands of reserves, who would wait to be thrown into the bat: | tle if they were needed. Furniture Company Bismarck 220 Main Street Furniture Upholstery Repaired, Re- finished and Packed. | | | Horses Wanted MIMI I will be at the Northern Pacific Stock Yards Satur- day, November 9, to buy Geldings from 5 to 9 years old Eefpoea eleven hundred pounds up to sixteen hun- Ane ra broke. These horses must be sound ne CHARLES HORSE BUYER \Gpand Pacific Hotel, Bismarck. 5 ; made roads. affairs, but, a man on that; 8Uns that the first guns sank to their hubs and stuck. Building Roads.as Advanée is Up rushed the engineers, next few hours hundreds of big trucks dumped their loads of bow!ders and [ahoad and charge into the machine soon there (gun nests and blow ’em up, and then we'd rush in and mop ’em up.” The boy who came back’ that day crushed rock, and pretty began to appear through No Man’s little white streaks of newly | They ‘were hastily euiu | so long as @e gun car-{ riage drivers were careful, they were able to get through. riags or a truck, however, { a the patch and into the mire, | was no time for delays. | police, whose job It was to “get the and through,” rmalities. “Ditech it!” truck or piece ain flow past. ‘As the day wore on the spirits of the entire American higher and higher. nd what had arded by Little Work for American Surgeons. Only oecasionally bulance come bac The 2 wounded. Don’t *, Telephone 115 they'd of artillery got ¢nired and held up the stream of traffic, and, while the artillery officer commanding that particular piece would stand by and protest and curse that he could get it back on the road within quarter of an hour, the “M. | with the aid of the mules and horses, would be pulling it off to one side. | | And then the streams of guns would sem was an avenue along American boys. only saved when they were earning. account. Made. ‘same story to tell. For the nye without having his German souvenirs mighty unlucky. When a car- One there The military. neck. wasted @ time On| my question. “Oh yell when a prison camn. P.” and his men, for army mounted Every road he- been the German | Rémedy, . in some prisoners, | good.” aration would an tinal ailments, doctors in the | funded. The Bread Line Holds many men who would be eating in their own homes instead of where they are if they had While you are earning is the time to save. put it off. 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