The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 11

AMERICANS PROVE BATTLE POWER IN CAPTURE OF VETERAN, 74, HIT ENEMY POSITION | BY AUTOMOBILE; BADLY TORN BY DIES INSTANTLY Struck down by shortly after he of comrades with flowers, 2811 BE. Tt eran Thursday afternoon. an omas st vi was almost tr automobile minutes later at the Providence hos | » | BOMBARDMENT! PRED 8, FERGUSON | AMERICANS IN PICARDY, May 31.—American troops showed thelr punishing power at Cantigny | From behind a friendly pile of | beets, on a knoll in the great plain | pital which faces Cantigny, I witnessed ‘The auto was driven by Mra. H.| the attack which resulted in capture ¥. Langrell, 1808% Terry ave. Mrs.|of the village TLangrell was released on her per | Amidel the detonations of hun E igonal recognizance, following a re | dreds of guns, which filled the valley | F iport at police headquarters, She/ with smoke and dust and flame, the | later exonerated of blame by er Tiffin, ident unavoidable. who declared the ac Miscalculation of appearance and fintent led to the fatality, loner decided ithe left to avold the machine When darted back as the lchanged Its course, the Norris jumped ft auto witnesses sald cor rat to and also re. Langrell said she was driving jabout eight or ten miles an hour. Norris is survived two sons and two da 14 Charles FE. | weekly luncheon, Friday noon a | ! 4 out amid the smo! low, signaling to the batte 1 harassing the enemy. 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Round a sharp cor | | ner I came upon one battery which had been wheeled into the open and was withering the enemy with direct | Overhead French planes carrying American observers darted in and | of battle, fying sand kaw an American flag fluttering from one| plane which was headed for the front, after having dropped a mes: | sage at headquarters, and a moment later I knew t and § were waving over a new zor ing the fire of our guns raked the ground | Once past the heavy artillery. the| guna could be} © Stare whose filled the alr as heavy shells passed | guished. The roar was more like Prisoners File Back When I reached the beet pile ob- | height. Returning acrons the fields. tween lines of Americans covered/ with the dust and grime of battle, | but grinning broadly When t American infantrymen rn entered Can ny they opened a) ~ \ grenade attack on the enemy, and | bat quickly cb the village With Cantigny is a natural cave, capable of holding 400 persona. Forty | Americans carrying fame throwers | were detailed to take care of that| spot and places like it. | American machine gunners fol-| newly won lines were quickly consol! idated. After the capture of the vil-| lage, carrier pigeons carried by men | in the first compank which went over were released and carried back to headquarters reports of the bat te's progress. Men of the signal corps rapidly | strung wires to all points of the oc | cupled territory, and soon all of it| was in touch with the commander. Foe Lines Battered Meanwhile, the artillery fire con-/ tinued in terrific volume. Bursting! shells from the big guns were seen to the rear of the German lines, All the German batteries were bathed In| a deluge of gas, and the roads be- hind, over which the enemy might send reinforcements, were kept under & constant rain of high explosiv | shells. German sausage balloons at | tempting observation drifted and swung in cnidair, but the French| of the air. | REFUGEE STREAM POURING OUT OF INVADED FRANCE | ~——- mecrnoneaes | Continued From Page One + —--—____—_—__——_4 transporting the effects of an entire |household. On top of the piles of goods on some of the wagons I saw groups of old women sitting, with | babies among them, some of the/ children clutching geese and | chickens. | In line with the farm lorries, we! |aaw buggies, carts, even automobiles and between them and flanking them, the less for- | tunate families who had to march on | foot carrying their sole possession in | wheel barrows, baby carriages and hand carts Babies and Bundles And there were ,some folk still | poorer, whose only possessions were what they were able to carry on their backs. Sometimes the luggage which these wanderers bore on their | shoulders was topped off by a sick| baby, tied firmly to the bundle of| |household effects. Intermingled | | with the human caravan were herds | of oxen, horses, sheep, goats and | cattle Here and there little girls drove | decrepit cabs and dog | flocks of geese before them. Others rded chickens and pigs, poking | them with long sticks to hustle them along, sometimes stopping a mo ment to glance back at the familiar scenes that were being left behind, | then hurrying on to give the family | Livestock another urge on its way. As mile after mile of the endless | column trudged past, we scanned | their faces, and saw that there were! }no young men among them. All the faces were those of women, girls, | children and very old men, showing! that every Frenchman who can t is at the front. | Where all these who were forced | | from their homes at a few momenta’ notice are going, God only knows Few of them had any particular en In view. With them, it was «imply a case of keep going—and weeping. CRUMBS TO STARVING LONDON, May 21.—London school children are collecting bread crumbs to send to the starving children of Croatia. A Sarajevo newspaper re- ports 48 boxes of crumbs sent recent: ly from that place, Lost: One N. G. Hun Title—Finder __Keep It; No Re ee: plaster that would it | playing like a good lit | erandfather, J | OR OPERATIONS IN German prisoners slipped along be- | NORTH ARE REPORTED BY FIELD MARSH 1 . le | servation post, the battle was at its) MIN ma by » Marshal mer digo J YNDON, May 31 the Bri efront were ann today Southeast of Arras one of our overhead and the low rumble of ex-| “Haron Johann Von plosions beyond c fire of the| Plantation a short time ago heavy artillery was so violent that ended so far separate explosions behind the Ger u e ant own on hia curls he rost of His life. Jac American on the sunny Aubur M. Fulwetle Halg in his official Hochatetter.” 4 mo t an th an h unweloome AL HAIG patrol enc a few pri Northeas ning STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1918. PAGE 11 ward Is Offered bark of the light heard. These guns stood in the open, | their short, sharp reports breaking | The Lord gives us our relatives; thank heaven into the constant ripping sound that | friends, Yes, and we can choose our titles, too. he's « to thank his mother for not wishing on When his daddy r declared emph tly waa con J parties rushed we can choose our Here's Jack, Some day |!" cally that German erned distinction of packing a Hun forgetting the kaiser (Cal) farm of hh rman port dur-| and took a few pris ren there were we took and machine gunm ters onere of Robecq we r Albert and between! America’s 60 AMERICANS CASUALTY ROLL WASITIINGTON, Ay Sixty American casualties were reported by General Pershing today, divided an follows Fifteen killed in action; ix dead of wounds; 11 killed in aecidents four from dineane; 15 severely wounded; eight slightly wounded and one missing in action KILLED 1 TION n tiabure, Kar Abney, Mineola WOUNDS Nationa DIED OF Altkens, AMERICA TO CONSERVE | WHEAT FOOD FOR ALLIES WASHINGTON, May 31.--Warn ing against relaxation of rigorous tan| wheat conservation was given agair yesterday by the food ad-ninixtratior The m beral consumption in nuld be but one aay, if America’s t from want men sh er| third nognal, they allies are to be k | 9 WITH THE AMERICANS IN PICARDY, May 21-—-German avi | ators attacked three hompitais tn the rear of the American area Wednes y night. They not only dropped bombs, but swept low over the hos pital tents, deluging them with ma chine gun fire. Thin attack took place on Corpun Christi eve—the religious feast day, on which the boches obtained tmmun. ity for their own towns thrn the tn tercession of the Vatican, following a) of the German archbishop of Cologne. cial care had been taken clear 9 identify the hospitals and great cromes were marked on the ground. The area bombed is entire pital nettlement ican aviators, preparing for a flight last night to drop flowers on American graves, a8 part of the Memorial day services were anxious to avenge the Hun attack “In addition to flowers for our boys, I guess we'd better take along ing for the boches,” said nomet 91 Seex Colambias Victrolas New Edisons and afl the Records i , “It will be the fattest bombs we've faced got—decorated with forgetamenots In striking contrast to the boches’ barbarity were the touching Memorial 4. wervicen French women and child e principal participants. 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