The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1918, Page 7

SNIPERS SHOT AT WOUNDED MEN | FROM CAMP LEWIS; ENGINEERS AVENGE KAISERIN NEAR DEATH, RUMOR COPENHAGEN, Dec. 23.—The eondition of the former empress of Germany is reported very bad, ac- cording to a statement in the Frank fort seavg, She is reported near deh Pom heart disease and apo plexy Mme. Rosalie Marie Brochard, sw of Order of Sisters of Mercy at Bagdad, has been made a Knight @f the French Legion of Honor —--—-~ 7 om om - It's been almost a week since my eee SSS lant letter from the we and a % few f those days are tt ox (elt of my young life, and one nev (ler to be gotten—altho I'd like to ) Aw for myself, so you won't worry % nt the start, I'm all here, not wound ed and t ally “ Over exer — oe ee " tion, general That shows that it Total American Army Casualties to VMN? lon sauce nut tecae tose fe Killed tn action (including 396 at Died a Weanded in action Missing in netion (ime! Te Washington State Killed tn a Died of wo: Died of discane Died af necident Wounded tm action Missing tn netic: Tetal to date st other causes contain the names of five & ext of kin J. BR. Reynolds 1302 N. Ie Anderson, next of kin Mra. J. Sand F next of kin Nick eh em. ¢ Emil J. Kienlen, nded. degree Bext of kin Nels Mortensen. Washington state o walties, in KILLED IN ACTION Name— wate Ralph ©. Lucy ...... te Ward A. Reynolds WOUNDED wate James Manley : ate Rayfield J. Nicola Private Salusaino R. Sanchez Private Renjamin Anderson Private Athanasios Paches WOUNDED—DEGREE UNDETERMINED Capt. Marshall Schudder ‘orp. Edward F. Murphie Private Louls # Isitt Private Pmii J. Kienten Erwvate Dale 4 “oe Ray P. Watson . Pav ¢ Albert Vern Poliom WOUNDED irate C. E Thompson . vate Martin Lund ..... vate Vernon W, Nelson . Mortensen wate Marius C. _ RAISE MUSK OX, SAYS EXPLORER OF ARCTIC (Special to The Star by N. BE. A) TORONTO, Dec, 23.—Stefanssen, Arctic explorer, says there is land in Northern Canada which would main: tain musk: oxen enough to produce as | much wool milk and butter ax in Ar | gentine. He declares it more valu able than reindeer Egypt is producing fuct gas from Vegetable refuse ee Mr. I. W. Ringer antees them as to DUCKS, 803 First Ave. ELLIOTT 2036 enuses ing prinoners) (tuctuding prisoners) . determined 5 fist ave, PACIFIC MEAT CO announces the arrival of a carload of freshly dressed GRAIN-FED CHRISTMAS TURKEYS From YONCALLA, OREGON lected each of these fowls and guar- We Have Our Usual Supply of AND POULTRY PACIFIC MEAT CO. sf SEATTLE "EM, WRITES LT. BOYD How a group of wounded 91st division men at a first aid station in the Argonne forest were shot down by man snipers; how some U. S. engineers avenged them; how a Portland lieutenant, a minister's son, shot down a German prisoner-officer who refused to ¢ ya sores and how a other wounded Yanks “got up and killed’ 31 of those Boches before I could stop it’—these episodes are just a few of the high lights from a letter received in Tacoma by the lieutenant's wife. | She is Mrs. Thomas Henry Boyd, in charge of the girls’ ss house at Greene Park. Her husband, Lieut. Boyd, was with Co. F, 864th in y. His letter came from base hospital No. which lescribes as a wonderful old hotel with rare mural dec- orations, He writes sen) fine And I go back to duty tomorrow altho it will be a week befor h the company, as you can't j walk out the door and move up to your outfit. (Later repert from SARIS Lieut. Boyd says that he i» still at the hospital You have to go bach and be examined and get re-outfitter and it's quite a long wa Casualties to Date I expect it will take several days on Jes {| the railroad 3 ocked Out by Shell a4 | Here is my little part of the bat aaa} and it in not ve foun, I'm tle y to say. I got too close to a seeees seeteeeeenees bd H. B. (high explosive) or rather it M| Rot too close to me. Hecause I cer | tainly tried to get out of the way jopt ter Suntey | we had been heavily shelled for 49th, kiile Private Ben-| some time, and I remember this one dn: e434 ve. and Private) had a peculiar near.whine, and I K Ps Ricwion 1itt | Started to duck. 1 worked Mortensen, | 10 feet fre (having be je ralire when happened my wa Ih ting headache and felt sore luding the above, are as follows all over, ff} Address Next_of Kin Got up and the sight that 1 saw 1 Saeens ae ree taigy | sare you. Lieut. Cochran, who wa " within four feet of me, was about yr ead unre bie, and several worse Renton Mrs. Orlle Mantey : ern hd M. J. Nicola | 42d many wounded. To show y M. I. Rodes| what funny things happen—all the left of us got it, all on my xt Seattle } were only stunned and not a wound jin our crowd | Mra. Leona W. Scudder tho El We did first I could do nid for a while Mrs. b ttle, ax Lob alla Mra J Mra. Katie K over. Finally we got t vectors up Et Jonze and went « I Kot our company fi] rs. Minnie z 5 | hie mike together strong, reformed, and fi} eurawr.y on we went, Now I have told that Ritsvilie Mrs. Ella Woehr| Part. and will go back and tell you James Lund | all that [ think the « ir will pane h Nelson by and you can connec - Nele Mortensen t the above with x the rest of the story. Needless fj to say, 1 nk God that I am still here, and wonder often why and luse MINE- SWEEPERS FOR FISHING FLEETS: how it is mighty ni that I am. to atill be or have But it is iy on Our papers here | pecial to The Star by N. E. A) | tne story and I know yours full | LONDON, Dee. 24-—With the ob-/of it, and they tell tots that If] fect of Increasing England's food sup. | Wouldn't tell, beeaume; when in it. Hit ply, the admiralty has plans for re-{%9UF vision is very natrow, so you will have the general setting and converting the large number of mine-| Know w od GeNenenas: to} Verdun. The towns that I have seen mentioned in the paper that I know personally are Vanquols and Epinon- | sweepers into trawlers. These will fishing fleets, and will be used as partly snake up for the large num | ber of these fleets destroyed by the | * as I can mention thone | U-Deats, | Artillery Duel First | | After my last letter in the |woods we waited for dark and started for the lines, Old Prita eit to us whether he knew/ lwe were there or not, as we got shrapnel and gas, but no one was hurt that I know of, | We hid all night behind a hill under perfect cover and it a long, cold wait At midnight our artiliery let go and I'll tell you it enificent. As far as we could her wa the sky waa lit up amd t flashes wer very bri and the roar—words fail me | shells passed over our heads with a FRESH DRESSED TURKEYS —THE— ateep was ech that waa deafening I'm that the Huns were getting it and not w 1 was honestly glad | when the hour arrived as it was a relief to our nerves. Over we went ur first trip to No Man's Land! n our troubles started. The | woods were thick, the French barbed | wire wasn't cut’and trenches every | where, | ' Bes NM this they threw a amoke nto the valley and you STAR—MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918. PAGE WHEN YOU SHOP TOMORROW, WILL YOU PLEASE SHOP EARLY? THE STORE WILL OPEN AT 9 AND CLOSE AT 5 B* taking full advantage of the morning hours, those who have gift- choosing and other shopping errands still to be accomplished, will help themselves and others, too. Ample inspiration remains, in this store’s varied stocks, for appropriate Christmas selections. Busy men of affairs who find themselves at the threshold of Christmas with “home gifts” still to be chosen, may depend upon this store’s homefurnishing sections for helpful cooperation and timely deliveries To many men and women, FREDERICK & NELSON Glove Bonds and Gift Certificates will logically commend themselves as pleasing solutions of last-minute prob- lems. Attention is directed to the stairways on three sides of the building which will enable shoppers to progress without delay from floor to floor. Patrons of the Tea and Grill Rooms are reminded that express elevators to these rooms run without stops, at frequent intervals, from the Basement Store. Fredericko=Flelgon FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE | couldn't nee 10 feet aw It neomed | ©244m road on one #14 rth! We reorganized and went forward | peaceful and didn't expect us that/and were great. I saw several! crosses and pistol gone. Somebody like hours until we got to the little |(0Ur direction); on the nar-|and went five kilometers before we | da Boches fall to their credit, but I also! got away with my souvenirs, Here I stver, jrow gau railroad track, both beau- | saw a German ept dead ones or Gets Long Rest noticed that every time a Boche got I was treated fine and was accepted Boche Shells River | tifully camouflage A regular arbor | prisoners, We went just as fast as long about here the pace told on | UP at all, their artillery gave some-|as a gas patient as they had decided Phe river was swollen by the weex | the Way up. vines overhead, or | we could walk and were not fired at Feats “bee , frequently |ONe hell & little later: that. weap trouble. 7 Beaweoe righ 4 d Area 29 alba Aare “ p tree At Hed together at the top| by anybody the nd 1 Engineers Fight, Too wasn't gassed and they agreed and We carried bridges with us and it bad rg: Palatial Dugout t when the front was held up by a| While at the aid station I saw a) pent me here. We came in a grand was a terrible job to get them there Capture Much Material I felt terribly sore and had a “tand the Gernans made as they re dirty sight; probably 60 wounded | jive A. ‘hen bead here it's simply and worse to put them in and ¢ No view t at @irplase way, | Splitting } che, but that was sb Ave me a long rest, | Roches and 20 of our own, with #eV: \\teing plwee 4 — — bs and the Boche turned AP Hea “Skne upto shen ealire Thee T cavaht uh to the line-and tw time to ko T was as eral like me. ‘The doctors left us to | Natering place with. the peautiful y loose on the river. He w | ¢ little while getting a dv of ot Orders to clear out a little woods. Wie ty and in real pain.’ cove forward and just at dusk we 7° Be xy rae we had to Cross and t us there. | ¢ r most munition, We We were fired at but easily got the hile there last kept coming in, were fired on by several rifles, quite ¢ n up all afternoon walking or mor ammunitior two or three at a time 3 about the town, so you see that I | It was terrible captured all kinds of stuff, barbed "machine gun and after that it was |‘ : continually. Two or three ot the men | oi. an pent I've bes tinea tie Result of it all was a great man) re colle by the thousand: raifroad | easy.” W und artillery there, four Seth with a lot of men were hit and it was uncomfortable. 3 . je been exacnined ny ‘ ‘ i is was a welcome sight He heard I . a . * on doc and it was merely the con- were lost in the woods and we tracks, guns, and piles and piles of &uns with the breech blocks gone iailed ome engineers who were building | cussion of that H. E |no room to o It was every ammunition. On either side the 4nd got Germans out of the big dug: | 1" Killed. We had a great time get: roads appeared and I told them about | pu ee rhe ine (oa a that I will |man for himself up thru the German) woods were almost impenetrable and Ut, all artillery men and good look: | | foe coeaaty all lined up, and the incident. The lieutenant sent tculintaOw i be: Stud 1 aya, I leave | woods, bus absolutely no opposition.| the dirty devils had filled the ravine |!"® men, te They were well “1vanced, I suppose, another kilo. | some of his men over into the woods; ak be cee S.qveat a Kilometer before I saw 8 wi: nm (Clothed. wy vila. The Huns didn't fight. They | they killed three and took 15 prison. Betz will be interested to know ent a , aW ©) with mustard so we had to stay up| ©0t would hold a good position with ma t ’ , | that Cy Noble was killed by an H. E. |live ¢ an and they surrendered} on the road or track The boys killed many who cam ers, which they left with us, They » jon th or tra chine guns and when we started in “satya ty about 100 feet from where I was laid ached | We wero almost out of the wooda| Ut of the dugouts too slowly. One were Prussian artillery men with an systematically to rout them out. | crtice out. He never knew what hit him. their overcoats and packs on| and onls machine gun had fired “ugout was a peach. One of the ut. officer ; : ‘ they would let us come about 600-700 s - The worst of it all is to see your ady to come in. They told that that I know of and I never ard men told me to come and see it It was just getting dusk when the ; va Kn ‘ v ards from them and then all beat it soe i friends killed or wounded. It's ter- the night bombardm waa terrible Hun shot fired, altho they did) Way down, 40 feet probably, all ce her arrived and I took char a Hun sho r e » tt if 1 to the next rive, They did no dam . rible. And the news so great; that and that they were ady to quit.| cate few snipers there and kill| Ment, pictures on the walls, three man officer prisoner refu jal atch a few snip 5 Kit . Oe0- Gnd we Gd litte us vou cant cay i the Huns are on the run and the wild They were pitiful | them real beds, tables and women’s clothes ; ; carry a stretcher at my com: | on oa that Old. men, laundsturm troops, with!" Mostly they surrendered and went |ON the wall. I personally inspected | Ket them that far away, but all of mand and I let him have it. I no| {ale now is that Bele ; a few boys, all dirty, poorly equipped | hack without hardly a guard—glad| them, Also a swell uniform po time our men kept arriving and| more than had done it when the|..° oan ety: et eM ae ee Jand with a fear in their faces I'll t go and wald wo Get Tren Oraeete : Kine guns and all was) whole bunch, wounded and all, got yacthvs h ally se | never forget! 1 AIL BE & atta tie nea vena Speed i as out ap we advanced, up and Killed 31 of thowe Boches be az personally Usually we found the Huns alll and they shelled the railroad track | qt, Ulan tron cross off of it for you See Balloon Fight fore T could atop it : ARRAY OF KINGS TO | ined up in front of their dugouts, but and road from the front to the back | TP* _ ™é reset i odpm ebgcyise pies ‘ My conscience hurt me some for 7 ja few had to be invited out and if) and I had enough of it pieces for souvenirs and they Ko come no Stiglaed I s me va MY | it is terrible to kill men that way, yet VIEW GREAT PARADE quality. }no one answered we threw a bomb! you didn't know what to do, If| #000 ones, too, ee at ae deur one a all wot black | that dirty devil had it coming to him| PARIS, Dec. 23.—-When the pick Jin it before any one went down, aa! one lit near and you ran forward rev and hurdte Sey cant Ge Sn” he Geran and the engineers should really have | of the allied troops march under the we didn’t want any nine trap; you night run into the next one eee sheared Ackadie 3 noid ae re os te Baa td ioe i ‘fi ah {| finished that job up there in the Arc de Triumphe, the sovereigns and | most hing was destr I was clear up to the front with the | er Gugout: had a gad sd wal nt me to fall back as T| woods, And I don’t feel either heroic | supreme leaders of the allied nations | the barr Jc of the woods in sight asd 1/SORAS® cocking on the fire. Ouse) ws ee or brave about the deed. will be saluting these bronzed | ; see or ete ible eights on the way, | men ate it for them. I got anoth I just couldn't go any farther, You see I haven't fought a real! riors, Parisians are going to have | ine Gardens. gprs geben at the | Fon cross and a revolver, We got) ly’ there and rested. That was! poche yet. I got the dirty artillery the supreme satisfaction of witness | Then came further troubles. The! .420’ oe the woods, One lit near and, Out 31 prisoners there about 4 p.m, Cutler came up and ‘fire and none of the real resistance ing on that P greatest assem | woods got very thick—but wait we were all down on our stomachs|,.. 2M still undetermined whether | later Pe nd th rught lost where we had our innings. I've. pt ot thered to- | the German reservo ling thru theso "0, “Ere we win again when the rmana knew we were coming, | men. Alito al the oth Com heard here at the horpital about it.) gether in man There will | woods it was a veritable park, E Rina’ ta kie Mas that ta ate huey knew an attack was on, I| pal ere the same way. Finally ‘They advanced part of their objective | be the kings of England, Italy, Bel- walks, nice buildings, dugouts, wow Abo as the night before an airplane | t walked k tot id station and and got a big slege Friday when) ptur erbia, Rumania and G ‘ | clearings with gardens. In these Re \ 1 Ad a showered us with pamphlets in Eng-| Promptly fainted n T rested they met the Prussian guard who! together with President Wilson and | gardens were hammocks hung be porganize and Advance lish and French with heading , the wand SAW con great ahs, fought like devils. daiehebithtives of tha einaaeciaat tween the trees, a canteen with) I lost track of time as I don't know | “Peace Before Winter Our observation balloons were behine . ' the republics of South America, ltables and chairs under the trees when we crossed the river, but I| we could have it if we us and a Hun ple attacked and Wakes Up in Hospital | Chink and Portugal and many bottles and beer kegs un- must have been there quite awhile. |ing to dismember Germany, that we | burned four all in a minute, T could That night I came in on an artil 2 4 ' y wher came “to «| coule ck he f ho |distinctly see the 0 lery truck that shook to pieces, We touched That's actuall 0 \nyway, when I eam t thi uldn't liek her, and that all sh listinet « p They showed that they had been! shelling was over, the wreckage left | asked was to be left alone, ete. ete.| down, and here in to|came over a road that was well Kellogg Named on there tt ears and that they took and they got lots of their own men | Algo we no opposition where ex-|me is a balloon leutenant who pitted with shells, while several os mers) " life easy, Hemember this line had that we had captured, too, When 1| pected owe ell places for | jumped and hurt his back when he | mines had been exploded in it, but Civil Service Board 4 been intact for three years, Our ar- went forward into the next valley her to hold us up and not a Hun in) landed It was a French marked | everywhere w p Yanks bullding it J. YY, C. Kello a lawyer, former 308 Pike St. tillery had spoiled the landsenpe and all open country—and reorganized, 1) sight plane, but a captured one used by a 1 got to the clearing station at 3a. m.| city councilman, has been appointed in places I saw rabbit cages, chickens | could only find the ones I mentioned.| We went thru seas of barbed wire | Hun, They thought it friendly until| They sald T needed sleep and gave a member of the civil service com MAIN 16 and lots of gardens I was told that Capt. G was and at the top a trench system and |it fired at the first balloon, But our|me a shot In the arm mission to fill out the unexpired Now up to the thick wood: A! killed and I had not seen Cutler or | no stand made th yet the dugouts | aviators got him. Our aviators were I woke up in a nice bed in an| term of J, C. Downey, resigned, by \ Jdcep ravine cut in with a good ma-| Pete since we went over the top. land cabbage showed they were still) over our heads all during the fight! evacuation hospital with all my iron | Mayor Hanson ee yen 0 at ce NEA ATER ESRTT: