Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 5

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918 LETTERS FROM OVER THERE (Continued from Page Three) every point along the whole battle!without a scratch and reported in front from the North sea to the Swit- zerland boundary and the old regi- ment was with the St. Mihiel bunch as I wrote you in my last letter. The trench system that we had started in with was almost abandoned during the last few days and in fact we only had little fox holes here and there along the skirmish line, the rest of the boys taking shelter behind natural features as best they could. The ad- vance was too rapid to consider any trench digging and at night we sim- ply had to watch out a little more carefully than during the day. The Huns relied a lot upon trying to infilter and attack our rear. This infiltering means that a single hun with part of a machine gun on his person besides his regular rifle and equipment would lie doggo as we pas- sed over him. In fact the Huns had the game down pretty fine, they would sud- denly open up with a bad machine gun fire on our skirmish line at a certain point and try to get every one in the advancing line, they gen- erally succeeded too. Then when they got the hole in our line and as new treops were being sent up they would sneak five or six thru the gap each man having a part of a machine gun on his person, they would scat- ter out and then meet at some point behind our boys to mount their gun and whang it to us from the rear. The little game succeeded fine until we got the plan of it one day from head- quarters and after that we were on the lookout for them. One hun ac- tually was found buried under a foot of soil and with a short piece of pipe running down to furnish him air. The spot looked like a new made grave but one of the boys kicked a bunch of grass and uncovered the pipe, then two of the fellows dropped beside the grave and started to dig with their intrenching tools: they stabbed the hun a little and he came up out of there like a bursting shell but he didn’t last long, in fact he might just as well have put a pistol to his head in the first place. I had a little personal war of my own during the last few days of bat- fle. It started just after we had driv- fn the huns out of Trieux and I hap» pened to be stung for guard duty that night. I was in the second relief and my post was about 50 yards in front of the picket, in ¢ yon don’t know military terms will say that a sentry is a single man on guard, a picket is three or four or more men behind the sentry and acting as a support. A sentry is on two hours and off four. Well when the time came for me to get busy I crawled out and as’ soon as I reached the sentry he crawled back to the picket for a sleep. He whispered the orders for the post} and other little items before he left. Everything was quiet and I had hard work keeping awake, Then I heard a rustling ahead of me and I thot one of the scouts was making his way back but when I gave the signal (wish I could tell you how we make that signal) there was no answer so I knew it was either an| animal or a hun. I started to crawl over a little and instantly he heard me and stopped so then I was sure it was a hun and I got read to shoot by sliding my rifle ahead of me and pointing in the direction of the sound. Then I started to crawl towards him and he seemed to have the ears of a deer for he immediately began te back track. I had a notion to stand up and jump him but the moonlight was too bright and they would have gotten me; then I heard him give a squeak that I remembered having heard before in a trench raid on the huns and in a moment a machine gun began to play on the ground close by. The bullets went right over my back and they were so close I could fee] the wind plain. dy, but I sure did hug that old dirt under me. Then they stopped and here I made a mistake for instead of playing dead dog I started to move away from that vicini The hun must have been lying within ten yards for he suddenly cracked down on me with a pistol and that bullet came near get- ting me. ‘and into a patch of shade before he had a chance to fire again. Well I watched there from the bhade of that bush for a half hour, J %hot at times my watch had stopped. the time went so stow and then 1 thot I saw a shadow move about 50 feet to my left near where the hun had been, I let the shadow have it with my rifle and then a hun ma- chine gun fired at the flash of my rifle and again came within an ace of getting me. We had the signal system down so fine that the pickets don’t pay any attention to stray shoot- ing like we were doing but still I could have brot them in an instant if f had wished to. I must have miss- ed the hun for after a while I saw another shadow off to my right and took a crack at that. The machine fun opened up again at the flash but I was too low for it, and besides they were shooting at least two yards to the right of me. ‘Then my ‘relief came and after { had turned over the post to him I Btarted out on a still hunt. When I got to where Thad seen the hun last 1 found a helinet and took it back with me, but as I turned around he must have been close by for he crack- ed at me again with his pistol and 1 made tracks to get out of there before he got my range. However, he did knock my soup bow] off my ixead and T did not stop to get it for when the bullet hit it. it rang like a church bell and 1 thot sure it would bring out the whole Crown Prince’s army. I reached the picket under the bank ed forward and 1 stood on a hill und said sale to take place at the front, Boy How-} 1 was out of the moonlight! with a requisition for a new lid. The {hun lid I brot in had a name and address in it, Henrich Hulden, 9th !Bavarian regiment and he was from a little place in the Black forest. I jasked a prisoner afterwards that part of Germany and he sai |those fellows were all fine marksmen and good woodsmen. That accounts for the good scouting my friend the enemy was doing. | IF YOU watched them advance across the clearing where I spent the most of the night. They went across in lit- | He rushes thru the high grass, a bunch would get up and run forward and about | then drop and another bunch would id that | start up down the line farther. They gained the woods and their rifles Tang out as tho they were shooting among a lot of tinware. It was quite a different sound from what the guns Well I got a little sleep between | have out in the open. the marches next day and then we were again up in the front only I was on the picket instead of sentry. Pret- ty soon one of the boys came in with | bottle and a letter and it was ad- dressed to me. It said to come out and try it again ana was signed by Heinrich Hulden. Maybe I wasn’t surprised to receive a bille doux from ahun. The sentry said he was just making a little detour around his post when he heard a whir and a thump and then saw something bounce about 50 feet to one side. He laid low thinking it was a potato masher but after a while he crawled over and investigated and picked it up. That hun must have gotten my old tid and my name and address was written inside of it. Well, I reported the whole thing bnd it went up to headquarters and then I had to tell it over a dozen times to a bunch of gold bands from the information department. I hope they ‘got some good out of it. | Well, I am tackling this letter again I have been three days on it so far, so don’t know when you will get it. The upper part of my body is unin- jured except my head and it is all swathed up in bandages until it looks like a bushel basket, but it doesn’t, hurt and I have nothing else to do except sit still and write and talk. Yhe fellows on each side are asleep so am writing. Well, it seems that the old regi- ment was against that 9th Bavarian Kil the time during the advance and every time I heard a bullet whistle close I thot old boy Hulden was pot- ting at me. Every once in a while bome of the boys would find a note stuck in a stake or tacked to a tree alongside the road from Hulden tc me. He always wanted me to come out and finish our little scrap but failed to state where I could find him. They guyed me quite a little and we got so that we called him Heinie. Everytime a big shell would drop near our company some fellow would holler “Heinie is looking for Babe.” Well we got over close to a little town named Prussingen on the night of the 10th and there we heard about the armistice coming for the first time. We did not credit it, however. and thot the huns were really trying {to put something over. At a little jhill just outside of Prussingen we {caught a bunch of the boches be- tween two arms of our advance and the bunch that was left surrendered (They were out of the 9th Bavarian |Pegiment and I was in the battalion that took them up. I got detailed to take them back and on the way iI found Heinie had belonged to the same company in which most of this bunch came from, he was back of the front a ways on a special errand but would be back up again the next, day | (the 11th). ious to see that guy before there wa: juny chance of a let up. Well we turned the prisoners over to the M. P. and went back to thc company then I got stung for sentry again and went out in the third re lief to a little fox hole beside a big stump in, a clearing about half a milc mide. The huns were in the fring of woods and of course there pickets and sentries were close to ours ir the clearing, there was very littk {shooting going on. I hadn’t been there but a long quarter of an hour when some heinic must have got my range, for a ma chine gun started up and made thr jchips fly from the old stump. It | Stopped after a bit but I soon got out of the hole and crawled off to on side and went on a little scouting ex pedition on my lonely. I had gotter over pretty well to one side and made ‘a signal for the sentry on the next post when I saw a shadow lift it self up about 10 yards in front of my old hole and an arm swing up and down, then there came a flash of red light and the bang of a potato masher as the bomb lit square in my fox hole. I cracked down on the boche and believe I got him but at the same time another machine gun right in front of me began to play at my rifle flash and both me and the sentry who had crawled over, ducked for cover. Nothing else happened of note dur- ing our watch and the shadow of the hun who threw the potato masher never moved after I fired. We sor- ved our three tricks as we got back for breakfast in the early morning and then it was that we got the first real thot that the war was about to close. All the boys in and around the cook fires in a little sheltered gully were discussing it and the word had come up from the rear lines that at 11 o'clock we were to stop all fir- ing and do simple guard duty. We from the front line still refused to believe it until the Cap stepped up and read the order, then we started to break loose but they soon made (us cit that out. I was to have gone back to a rest billet but I wanted to see the end so T stayed and went back to the front line. over shells just like any other day and it seemed impossible that all was I sure was getting anx-| The bullets were whistling as/ usual and the big guns were heaving) T askéd a blesse who was on his way to the rear how things were going and he said that there was only two ma- chine guns left in the woods and they had but very little trouble in clean- ing those two out. I then walked down the hill and got in the clearing, the supports were | moving up in columns and I went ou to the fox hole which had been my little part of the front last night, just in front and a little to the left ; was the dead body of the hun I had got. I walked over and turned him up and went thru him. Well I got the surprise of my dear young life when I found he was actually “Heinie Hulden, the gink who had been caus- ing me all the trouble and guying. It struck me all of a heap for a time and then there was a burst of firing ahead and I looked at my watch, twas close to 11 so I hurried into t! woods where I could get a view of the new front. I reached the supports of Company |L where they were stationed on the edge of the woodland in what had been Germany last night and could look down a long slope where the Borches were still slowly being driv- en back. Our heavies were still lob- bing over shells and the Baches were | Teturing same tho with very little vig- * or as we afteryard found they were moving most of their big guns back. Everyone was looking at his watch and there was very little talking. It got 10 minutes and then to five, we were all watching the little n hand now on our wrist clocks. and then it got to two minute One fel- low suddenly let out a yell and every- body jumped as tho a machine gun had registered on us, then we all swore at the guy that did the yelling and all at once we heard some cheer- ing and awoke to the fact that all the guns had stopped. Maybe we didn’t break loose ourselves. , This is the fifth day I have been on this letter, hope you get it before New Years anyhow. Well all along the Ifne we could see the round tops of the soup bowl stick up as the fellows stood up in their hiding places. The silence was the thing that struck me most, or rather the lack of the continual bang ing and booming of the guns. There was no silence for close by there was a regular babble of talk and some of the companies were still cheering. Over on the boche side there was ery little cheering; they seemed to me to be like a man after a long and tire- some day’s work. They appeared on their lines after a few moments in a lackadasical way went thru their du- ties as tho they were at the end of their string. In fact as we watched them I felt a little pity for the poor ‘ginks. They were pretty good scerap- anyhow even if they did fight Now came the crowning achieve ment of the day for me, I had startec ‘back and I passed the body of Heinic in the clearing a little further on a dud sheil lay across the path in front of me and I rolled it over with my foot, I don’t recollect anything more |for it stopped being a dud right ther 4nd the doctors are still wondering how it was that I became a blesse in stead of a plain mortalit Yours Foreclosure Notice. 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