New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1919, Page 5

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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALDH y | thirty or forty davs more they Will be | belonsed to the non-combatants, They ! I among you. (Applause.) got the men from the front lines to y Wanted to Stay Overseas | the operating table in an avera ¢ T[] E N ICUT b i e scrutable ways P S o and avhen 1 realize the things that &M% sy ent right up to the gy [ would like heen through, perhaps it Bogs From This State Clean and beretv.ousi Maj who commanded the 26th divison in General Clarence R. Edwar: 1 was sent back first because if Brave‘ Leader Saye oUibe i TiconlaNnevenihexs ROV Sn e SR AR N oL RS a welcome from you o = rted, calculating, stecly. callous Jot of New Englander: grandson of a sixth Division cannot be analyzed have happened to me personally and | AT O know what these mothers, friends oy and sweethearts have ) ' witch-burning ancestry 2 Ffahee until racalléd to this country of the cold estimate of worth by a sH1l unexplalned order nof the Prevalent in New alcome on behalf of war department addressed a large ' oicome OB for me personally has Dames, went out on a wiring expedi- two hours from the time he to have stayed and s 1 record thai, | am told, them but God's in- before been equalled in the w throuzh the fire and brought in g where before it had taken sometimes days. Mine don’t blame von for ) feeling I had | proud of emi. Talk about those Nutmegs fighting! The conduet of mand was put through a harder tes [ am a6 the ten months' struggle that we : = L went throush than were the Conne ; Englander wit v . ec iy 1 have heard = tieut trooy Often patrols went ont that is , into the night with a sergeant anq England bt this four or five men Lieutenant Bishop the Twenty- | and Corporal Olson, near Chemin des Bseomblage in the Foot Guard armory. peen more open-hearted than any-ition. “They wired all night under Harford, last Connecticut’s soldiers whom he led in battle on the France. Governor troduced Jows: Tt being two States reco it war and for war. The cut ald was to ! sward troops to war strength and onc what a sustaining power that was August she sent the (wo Wec only got o units consisting of infantcy and It came in bunches. I, myself, had vear ago last neral Edwards as fol- lacks now one month from nized the fact that it was CGermany. It has be o haclk bout two years for the United State omen il the countries of the world at first thing that Connecti (#irls with ¢h night at which time he thing that 1 have ever paid a glowing tribute to the valor of @ny of the Orient 1 have serve i) welcome but blood soaked fields of since the United recruit hLer national meant ack cavalry to France. This was the first (o send a cable nattonal France m the ar was over. s known as the shock more part than did arvision general montns manded plause.) were gl néecessary : : preachers or “allesed Christians” who serious ; e people of Hartford would have done ‘In the Yankee Division there were | saw greater grief than (hat he Gun Battalion, who had gone so fast = % o i : A Sorions tflfl'fif?fiffif"fifi,; ‘i‘lt n f”vf per cent. of courts- | evinced at the death of his friend, in their Fords that these had been ' 'aVve been felling lies about the boys B! i GLE e ‘he avorage in the | Captain Locke. He told me how faken away from them and they had | In the 26th Division and telling moth- § *17den to usg’its arms. General the erowd the winning those of the Twenty-sixth (Applause.) \It was a grand ganq true. hting division and it had a grand (Applause.) For nine the battleline up to the signing of the armistice it was com- Cieneral Edwards. (Ap- General Edwards will al- ays be known as the general of the wenty-sixth pleasure and Holcomb, honor,” =said Governor turning to General Bd- wards, who was seated behind him on the platform, erzl Edwards this capital guard outfit fo land in can see the hungry looks of thoso Within fourteen months jads who stood up to their waists in | time of their landing the ud and couldn® The Yankee Regiment iamilies back home hid their own p he fighting regiment, yaiions. They regiment. No troops had ynjess it was a bunkie how they felt. of the war It was the real were behind them thai made them And it gives me great Sod & good husbands. ones-—well. i1l away from ¥ to welcome you, Gien- who could to Connecticut and to B R 4t reached man's o | 3 Lo the boys of ‘1,..'-,}:":;“}",\.7:1,‘ r‘,’,j\.‘;?,,‘; of proportion and have lived 15 years | acter, an old regular, who stood like light. This was acre Hattenchat- | Scorcs Army Slanderers. 1«16\(1‘.:9:::]1;‘;1;(?:6%5" of stokes of all ed men, the gsituation took a morc | tiggh conditions in this ripe for a car like the Oldsmobiie. Any dealer can sell cars when giving | the public honest value Troops from Chester intercepted |seven passenger Oldsmobile is the rioters in their march upon Aber- were ' gele, near Rhyl, and also prevented a threatened raid on get hold | Five men were killed and forty jured in the course of this fighting, it follow vou to hell if in one I am sure that the But Few one-half of onc Edwards rose and saluted martial, when Everybody in the hall Army was 3.9 manifested his love for the father of zanization of the 26th was cited for | Seicheprey, fought like a tiger and 1024 Infantry proceeded with their daughters marry the boys who the Twenty-sixth in like manner. rallantry and took pride in ‘carrying | dropped fighting. Rau_ hore a ! colonel info the dark, forming col- “Fiiends, his excellency the gover- on' and looking out for the man in | charmed life after that at Epieds and umns of fours across the Soissons d that he wished he could wor, his honor the mayor, ladies and the mud. We had no non-combatant | Trugny after we had broken through | railroads, determined to prick their of that preacher and brand him as a gentlemen and my comrades of the troops in the Yankee Division, on behalf of those every man was, stout-hearted tdday I thank lads for the third time in the mud. T you for this generous telling of the part of th& non-com- | in two. “The gunners took their machine | told the fathers and whole-hearted welcome. In only about batant troops. realization of what it ur mail occasionally. “The governor has told me that T haven’t missed a pretty face all day All 1 can say is that it was impossible to shut vour eyes for a minute admire the good taste of the bovs! after secing the girls artford Wait for those husband. Those 26th. The motto of | and I had moved my headquarters to | way through. The 101st and 102d scoundrel and liar. ‘Look out for the man | General Shelion’s at Maison Blanche. Machine Gun Battalions followed the The audience came Why, even the nurses “Colonel J. L. Howard—If T had ' guns out of the trucks and carried their sons. experienced in | Tieavy Boche fire. That was w .| vountries in Which | we lost our first prisoners. Scrgeant I have received not a ! Shechan and his party were captured. benediction. 1 have [ 1 went out to inve ite and received Ireasured the letters and mes B ) G e e e from fathers, o vives hancueNlLEpllon ind confiding sweethearts which come dead or captured, becausc they ha tve made Howard my chief of staffy like love letters A sreneral who commanded those sto |1 15 2 spiendtia esample of wnallg hearted lads for | Came—Sometimes. thers, friends, Wives Olson and the rest of the band tayed with the command, T woulds of one's youth to the ' heen outnumbered three to on Le is o splendid example of what & becomes interested and is put under S- the militar te 1 don’t know of any pitals with their eves bulging out like man :hat I have ever known as amn fish-eves from attacks from zas. with officer equally effective on the offen- buf foam coming from their lips and have sive and when he got evacuated at tha sat down and talked with them be- the time when I needed him and 28 on, | cause I wanted to find out the effect apologized for heing so foolish a Decds of Brave Men. ‘T have seen the lads in the cighteen mont here to find that the mobilized as they lads fifst went away up these lads . 5. i | of the gas. Those boys did what they ; ; were #told, with the exception of three | Machincjcunnersiin Rords 4T men, who took their masks off when When Colonel Howard left, & || they' found that their corporal was YOUNg captain took command of the dying. The French would tell them battalion. On the morning of the that there was no gas. The experi- | ence of the gas upon them made them & . W . 4 SZick: the French cavalry. The Boche were v that 1 was alive. sional staff 24th we were in the Bois-Trugny with Lockhart S came in fo of ithe 26th, W “Captain €0 t get their mail. Theo I have spoken about Seicheprey | Pehind Trugny and Epieds and I sent and §:. Mihiel and I have made a list an order to the 101st Machine Gun eral, “does not of the names of Hartford men who RBattalion, which was riding in flivvers but 1 can talk &bl have taken part there. These are ,.n,..q with a canvas top. “You 1 recommended himis names that ought to mean something 5 E promotion, but never sue oy are independent cavalry. This order (i1t for him. e WaE Colonel Howard, Major Bulkeley, ®ives you the right of way through times. (. Major Taylor, Captain (now Major) Fere-en-Tardenois toward your ob- ieneral Bdwards spoke. of Lieu !':y\p.;:m:‘n:'b:).flc‘,ir‘f:m Kf‘?\;:zahx:n ‘?h:::‘:\‘n autive. Beat ‘em fo it’ The ma- :m H\:_\irmzs and Petty, a_chaplaigiigi R 3 L ¥ chine gunners got out their motors, [rom New Haven. He mentighed the [ my, Major Rau, Captain Locke, Captain (o1 their guns on their shoulders and Splendid work of the chaplains dtithe . | Tockhart, Lieutenant Bishop. Wagon- or Hampson and Captain Comfort.” After the reading of the names there was vigorous applause. and ithe 1dience rose once more never told anybod knowled: that all were boy: 3 malke And the married be just like cond lads who have gone | try could catch up with them | strained from going over the top With the trouble At 8 o'clock on ithe morning the men. H 1 th 1aplains were cd for September 12 in the Les ges | either “angels or damned nuisances.” T They b be controlled, have Major Rau a Valiant Leader. | 1024 Infantry to spare not an ounce . aRd when they were excited they often while other men e, know the sense “Major Rau was a wonderful char- | of blood in taking Vigneulles by day- | d gay I 1age. service were, sent a rock at Seicheprey. 1 never saw an felles, looking toward Metz. 1 was General Edwards denounced the Courts-Martial. | officer with greater modesty; never asked what yout the 101st Machine per cent. Every or-|Tocke had withstood the shock at been forced to use big trucks. The ers that they would not have their coming hack defiled and polluted. He is reported. have heard of officers | A chance shell hit him and blew him | infantry. camp awaiting “demo beld the skirmish line until the infan- {Tont and how .they had to be re. Emparkntion. THe me e fET I at 18 years of age oD hearistonnieint Sometimes, he said, they got human embarkation had ¥ forward and There was further promiscuous | shook hands with the general and he | shooting early on Thursday morning, mothers about | but at no time was firing by any armed the lattér plac there organized ’ pment P obile Sport Cars asuals wh afs or o This is a very me#® and racy car of ipiined iutigheir | the eight cylinder type and sells for een postponed | 1,875 delivered In speaking of the 0 had seen less .‘record sales of Oldsmobiles this sea- me. - son Mr. Cohen attributes the success of this car to the low price this ma- the discontent- | chine is being sold for, also the fact territory are The roomy is so now selling for $1,875 delivered here and embodies an eight cylinder motor of| | great power. The car | structed that the entire weéight is less| | than 3,000 pounds. 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