The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 6

PAGE 6 Ly peer MANDAN BOY TELLS OF OUR TROOPS’ PART Mighty Tasks and Brave: Deeds Performed by Flicker- tails Are Recorded. © , THE OLD FIGHTING FIRST Regiment Which Made Such Splendid Record in 1898 Hits the Ball Again. Writing from the office of tlie Stars and Stripes, the Yank newspaper in Paris, for which he has been field cir- culation manager for several months, Parl H. Toste' son of the publisher of the Mandan Pioneer, and one of the Slope’s best known young newspaper men who during the war has developed into a magazine writer of prose and poetry, tells in the Mandan Pioneer the following story of our boys over there: Perhaps in the course of the future when the catacly: cent past shall have lost their yor of gore, when the blood which has bee! shed in the cause of humanity, justic and right shall have washed + blood of Christ. the soul of erm world; when the pr suffering and the recent we indescribable shall by i sis of time changed into a yx istence for all men, made peaceful by | the eradication for all time of the, power of the Hun and his mer When the historians shall have record: ed in glowing phrases and word yaliant deeds of the men who fought and won; then it may -be possible fo you to read and pick out of the t ar Volumes the names of those you know. interspersed through Ho the of the American part in the conflict will be little notations of deeds of men from the northwest. Censorship is time for the breaking of silence has come and I shall try to note briefly the history of the regiment once ealled the First North Dakota, then the 164th infantry of the Sunset division. As a unit, the 164th never entered action. However, the story of the vol- uuteers from North Dakota is a story identical with that of the famous t division comprising the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th infaptry regiments. and the Second brigad¢ machine gun battalion. Seattered now from one France to the other, a full meed of their precious life taken to enrich the soil of France at such tremendous cost in mental anguish and snffering to the folks back home, scattered as the birds in fall, the North Dakota. boys look forward to the day. of their. migration homeward, The old 41st division, the Sunset, was ;selected upon arrival in France as a replacement division. There. is 4 melancholy pride to be derived-from. that dubious:honor. . It was significant that the men from that division should | have been. sufficiently trained as sol-} diers to be made a parcel of the ret- eran division of the regular army to be made comrades in arms of the men who followed Pershing into Mexico. The old First.North Dakota left Ff. Lincoln, Minot, Grand Forks and Wil liston on Sept. 30. 1917, and arrived at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C., on! Oct. 4th. What transpired there you know, We left Camp Greene on Nov. 1% and arrived at Camp Mills, Hemp- stead, L. I, on 3 17. Then the next move took us to Camp Merritt. Tenafly, J. well heated barracks, able spring cots, mattresses shower ‘baths. Then on Dee. 14 we packed up barrack: bags, slung mic days of the re-| ‘las w ¢; Wierd | newspapers . thought the whole regiment in - jcontlict. Bur there was no such Inck {for the corporals ie a the} till in force, but the} the} packs on ! about 250 Red. Cr 12,000 on board. The story of tha since guessed. across England to Winchester eight days at Winnal. Downs, Hill camp. . On Dec, 31, we w and Morr with the new yea ie ing southward. word ‘speeding.’ better. It was about 3 morning of Jan. partment of Creuse. came. North Dakota, the pride of Montana, the 164th. and 16rd were smashed. Twenty-six hundred men (privates) {from our ‘old regiment, to the 16th, | fantries, while the be {chine gun companies went to the First nd Second machine gun battalions. The full history {sion is yet to be written. could tell fri reports which carried the Back home most of home fo ‘commisisoned officers. Just the yr vates were taken for the replace- ments. On January 26th, the remaini men’ in the headquar | supply company, Compa jand D were moved to Gonder at F. G, and H were sent to Ch {fon sur Seine, and the Third Rattal- school at Gondrecourt had pnenty of work for the boys of the fi: talion while the Second Army corps officers training school at Langres provided work for others, Since Jan- uary 26th the non-coms of the old reg- iment have been drilling casuals, for action and sending .them of. About two months ago the regiment ; Was united again at St. Aignan {tensibly to be built up.for service as ;2 combat unit, together with the oth- But most of that information. you have gained from letters sent home by. the boys. “It is the chaps. who saw service in the trenches and the open fighting: ithe boys from North Dakota who did |their share in causing the utter rout of the Roche army, that resulted fn the ignominious capitulation,-that you are most interested in. | To land in Franee with your own ‘a-camp-in tha south central part of} ‘this country on the third of the month expecting a rest and training, then on | the seventh day to be sent up to the} jfront to enter jmany Norh Dakotans will tell you on | their return. } Do - you. {days of war ASTHMADOR; GUARANTEED TO_INSTANTLY RELIEVE ASTHMA OR MONEY REFUNDED——ASK ANY DRUGGIST gemember back through news to the original Do Not Get Careless Impurities Invite Disease. You should pay Barticaler heed to any indication that your blood supply! is becoming sh ean re is lessening in its strong and vital With Your Blood Supply ing. A few bottles of S. S. S.. the great seeetable blood medicine, will Sextatize your blood and give you strength and a healthy, vigorous Hitality. Everyone needs it just now to keep the system in perfect condi- ticn, Go to your drug store and get @ bottle to-day, and if you need any | medical a: 2, you can obtain it without cost by writing to Medical | D et Switt Specific Co., 25 Swift - Large at Bank . is this section YOUR NEW YEAR'S PLANS. Don’t forget to include - in your plans for the New Year a Savings Account compound interest. No matter what plans you make you cannot ex- pect to succeed unless you have ready.cash and the best, way to have ready cash ig to savé 4 definite portion of your earnings every week or month and deposit them in a Savings Account + with this bank. i One Dollar Opens an rere a compound our Wacks and’ hiked tivo {miles throgh snow two feet deep for | Can the train; through the streets of-Hobo- ‘ken and up the gang plank onto the Leviathan, the Vaterland of the kal- ser’s pride, humbled to troop ship duty ag the finest transport in the world. The old 168rd infantry of Montana and the 164th, several hospital corps units, nurses, and the crew of the ship made a total of some trip and what you want to know-is how the boys fiually landed as there are many of them today-in Germany. Christmas eve, Dec, 24, 1917, we de- barked at Liverpool, as you have Jong Then a flying rile nt by: train to Southampton and crossed the channel to.Le Havre, landing in France Thirty. hours later we were speed- We were making our way south sounds. o'clock of the. 2 that we left the crazy little French cars and hiked out t@ the camp at La Courtine, in the de- On Jan. 6 orders Tweny-four hours later the pride of were sent up 18th, 26th and 28th in-] vs from the ma- of the First divi- m1 some of the] he s| the) that their world might hold for them jion to Langres. The First’ Army corps bat- training school at Chatillon and an}; ;draft men and others, preparing them} regiment on New Years day, to reach} the trenches on he; | ninth; that is the kind of experience | the t and | Win 1 was the Let’s change that one It isn't true. and sent The way. Sis a ‘boards must reveal the information | We as soldiers do not know. the casualties have been small com- ‘pared to the total number engaged. To sive a full history of the@boys | ouestions and. wit ue longest in set- 1 i | | | | | | 1 fighting at’ Toul when all the Afiert- sector of their own? men were in that, too. patches of the ‘fighting at Cantigny where the ‘Americans captured the town and wot thelr first big victory in the Toul sector? trom the home state did their full share. ‘Then the great crush at St. Mihiél? As you recall the news dispatches your heart begins beating just a little faster, doesh't it, wheli you are told the North Dakotans ‘out of that same original the beginning of thé end? tatght the cold and would do. Then Claremont and Chepy, and the wild chase, after the Huins when battered pounding on the American and French artillery they raced toward Berlin and kaven't stopped going yet. Today North Dakota boys in Germany, for the censor has permitted papers to publish the factthat the First divi- sion is one of the four that has been to maintain order in the fifty miie wide band which has been established in Boche territory pending the peace settlement. The cost of the war is tremendous. felt back home; sacrifice, casualty list lished may reveal to you North Da-|nish no difficulties for the | kota has given her full share in ev i y than the majority. ited nearly every section of France| nearly 50,039 square miles and a popu- and have met men from the old state) everywhere, in ing camps, sections. at the front. at North Dakota men from Second regiment in, ambulance units at the, front. jfands of tales to be told and retold | when the boys get home—and they} are coming. 4 But just dig back in the old files; in the newspaper stories of Soissons, Cantigny, St. Mihfel, Toul,,Mont Sec} ‘er original units of the 4ist division. pnt the Argonne ahd there you find] . end of | forces had their first really, North Dakota a. Do you réeall mgat of the meagre press. dis- N. ESA, Spedin}: 46 The Tribune, London, £ng., Dec. 27.—There: will be a lot of knotty question left ‘un- pertlod .When the ‘big peace’ congréss quits. ‘British authorities agree’ that. the treaty of peace will, be signed within six months. Some place the limit of the conference @t ‘three. \, Frontier questions, . problems: of small people who cannot agree as to what they wanf or shogid have and other, details ‘of final peace’ cannot be _tiréshed out’ inthis time. Suca problems ag: these will prov ably “bé hated d¥ei~ to committees which will stay on the job 43 long at is necessary4t miiy {ake This: plan may “‘tivdlvée ‘a vourt of appeal from ,* pOmmitiee decisions. Most officials believe it would be bet- ter to choose the: Goniinittees care- fully and make. their findings final. Appointing. such committees would permit the, heddsof ngtions to go home, for they cannot be expect: od to sit indefinitely, - Biggest Problems Easiest to Solve. : The problems of Belgfimi and a” sace-Lorraine and the indemnities die to France and England Wil! nrobably be disposéd of readily by thé neace conference. Thé formation of the League of Nations will be a mitter also for the heads of governments to sit in on. Czecho-Slovakia is established to in- clude Bohemfa, Moravia, Austrian Sil- esia and Tatra, a combined area of 50,000 square miles and should fur- confer- Again the boys 2,606 had aw ‘big hand in it, helped td crush the salient and the biggest Victory which was 2For that the ati, the operation which irmans: ‘what’ “Aitericans there are the memories of Argonne, the fighting around torn lo.shreds by the terrific there are a great many into Germany, into Luxembourg toll in dollars you have all the toll in death and yet to be pub- y | ence. Luxemburg, evacuated and: to be re- stored by the Germans will probably | decide for herself any other question concerning her future and ask<only ratification of the conference. -* | Russia and’ JugoSlavia and the far jeast furnish the most complicated How many boys have given al mater which on the casualty still tlement. Greater Poland, as. “it ix “now pro: Dakota over here would be; Perhaps I have been more} 1 have vis-| posed. will include Polish Russia with ible. lation of 11,500,000 Polish, Germans, Russians, Lithuanians and Jews; Lith- uania and White Russia with 2,000,000, of whom 1,800,000 are Poles and which has an area of nearly 209000 square miles; Prussian Poland, dominated by ;Germans, with one-third of its 19,000,- ¢00 people Poles and_Galicia and Aus- ——————————— base ports, in train- in casual classification in the zone of advance and thé old early saw service and field hospital There will be thou-/ ty of the rank and file of the NS cra] bees on th HE HAS DONE HIS IT! NOW You Do YouRs— BISMARCK: DAILY. TRIBUNE. "TWILL TAKE MONTHS TO SETTLE PROBLEMS:BEFORE PEACEMAKERS trian Silesia with 8,000, 090, ot whom a‘ thir@’are Poles, Boundaries to Cause Controversy. Already. a. government is s@t up, but boundaries are. going to furnish troublesome préblems. A’ port on the ‘North Séa is ohe thing that a be assured the Poles. Finland hag set up a government and is now planning alliance with Sweden agdinat Russian influence in| the: future. Cdurland With nearly a° “million Lets, Givonia with a anillion and a half-ot-betis amd Esths’and Esthonia with¢néarly & half°million Esths and some Russians, all sesk freedom from ddiination of efther Nuss of German. ‘And fast of the Rusisan. prodlem outside’ of North Russia and Siberia ig the Ukraine. Here in 300,000 square miles aré Ukrdthtang, Poles, Great Russians, Jews and Magyar’. A government as been set up, but un- ity among ‘its subjects is lacking and the World confereiice inuist have some- thing to siy of its future. : ‘Jugo-Slavia is the ever present problem of the Balkans. It involves rudja. The Rumanian provls miivorvep the put SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1918. Serbia and” Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ‘Croatta, and several smaller states, besides the Da-! matin coast. thé new Jugo-Slav state come in con- flict. “And no peace congress will, in| six months, be able to reconelle them, ittls declared. dozen races and internationalization, suggested again. on racial lings, .a difficult task. ! will also be’ considered. will also ‘be considered, fer similar will have much to of these territories because of the part she played in driving out the Turks)‘ ‘Montenegro, Here is where Italy and Macedonia {s peopled by * néarly a in 1908, \may be offered | Otherwise, it‘may be divided Armertia } Internationalization of } fa i Syria, Mesopotamia and Arabia of: problems. 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