The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1918, Page 11

SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918 Four Months in France _ With the 165th Infantry. AG “ee < (The Old “Sixty-Ninth’’) | the Soldier—Heroiem of Lieuts, McNamara | and Booth—Adventures in ‘No Man’s Land.’ SEVENTH INSTALMENT, By George H. Benz Former First Lieutenant, Company I. | Written Exclusively for The Evening World | Gear, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) | © LL the villages, or most ail I saw, are in the valleys, with a church | spire lifting high above the surrounding buildings. Toward eve- ning the tinkle of o bell afar is heard, and soon the town millt- ‘Wald, or town goose girl, comes driving her flock before her. Night settles. You can walk past ono house after the other and through the windows seo old French people gathered | : about an open fireplace, and in the centre of the| | group you will flad not one bit perhaps half a dozen | Americans. They might not live in the house, but the old lady has adopted them. Her hearth {s their hearth. By the light from the fire, or trom a sputtering candle, perhaps it is your boy who is writing home to you, using a table several hundred years old as a writing | desk. I've seen Bill Helgers at it, Sergt. Ford at it, Corpl. Jacobs at it and a score more. Rad Sometimes I've wondered about this affection be- ox tween the French civilians and the Americans. It amounts to more than affection—-really to love. Perhaps that old mother bas given two or more sons and several male relations to the cause of | right. And our boys over there come to be her boys. Speaking of writing letters brings GER back to me a serics I read from one| Was in tho hospital yet, but the phys!- of the men of our company to a girl) cians sald he'd be back with his com- fm this country. I wouldn't give bis| pany in a week fame for any amount of money. It's} While I was with the 69th neithor) Very possible the girl might read this.|our regiment, battalions nor com-| It ie the practice in most com-| panies went “over the top” as units, | panies for the platoon leaders—that| but there wasn’t a night but that| i, the Lieutenants—to read or censor| some of our men weren't out in that! af the letters from men in their|stretch of ground misnamed “No platoon. I had tho first platoon, so| Man’s Land.” As a mater of fact it the job was mine too. I admit being| was the 69th’s land. responsible for a lot of slashes in| Patrols were out in our sector from letters received here. | darkness until dawn. Before they left ‘This soldier evidently had left New| they were always given their mission. York, to all intent and purposes, en-| Usually it was to go over either our gaged to @ girl. He was in France| own wire entanglements, to see the six weeks and never received a line| Boohe had not cut them, or else take from her. I testify he wrote to her|@ trip along his wire. At times it several times a week would be to get prisoners, or again Tm his first letter I read he told of| reconnaissance. his great love, of his yearnifg forher,| Lieut. William Finn was particu- and insisted either the boat carrying) larly daring, I sew him sltp through his mail had gone down or else ther®/ our wire one very dark night and was a foolish delay somewhere. disappear, crdwiing through trees and Bince he received nothing at the} over shell holes. He had not been next writing, in this missive he spoke! out there four minutes before a star less of love and doubt seemed to have! shell, which is a bright burning light entered his mind, He “wondered” if| suspended from a little parachute the girl still cared for him that holds it up in the air about a This went on for two weeks. The| minute, burst above the tree tops. doubt in his mind grew. Me was con-| Tho aren where Finn lay was turned vineed, he wrote, that she didn’t care| from darkness to bright daylight @ hang about bim and that undoubt-| We watched over the top of the para- edly some darn slacker was taking! pet, afraid every minute a Boc her out to shows and restaurants, His Sharpshooter or observer would s heart bled, but he was glad he dis-) him. We listened for a machine gun 4 IN WARFARE REALISTIC AS JUVENILE INVENTION CAN MAKE IT. GUNS AND PAPER GAs MASKS, THEY CHARGE ACROSS"No Man's LAND? IN THE BACK tors | >, SDE EQUIPPED wire covered her fickle nature in time. | to send {ts hail of death in his dtrec- DARING OBSERYERS SCAN QN PARAD' _ 2 = * wa < EPAN HELMETS 4&ND WwooDdk ‘Then be received fifteen letters from| tion. Minutes passed, then a rus- NOE Roca or aie, lt 4 eke 2ONS aereR A_sUccES batch. heard beyond our ow t $ hbk ge \ ¥ ber in one | tling was h dt da nm ENEMY 2 N THE BAcK LOTS The last lettor 1 censored made me! trenches and Finn leaped in. He had blush. There was nothing to censor| been out 600 yards, to the German| in ft. Every third word was either| Wire, and came back with informa- ©) PHOTOS BY UNDERWOOD ANd WaDERWwRagp ee 93 § ’ Over the Top’’ in New York’s Back Lots iad ag CITY’S “NO-MAN’S LANDS” THESE DAYS ARE BATTLEGROUNDS WHERE YOUNG AMERICA}? ee thers Letters Home and From Home—What BEATS THE BOCHE honey” or “deary.” His faith re-| ‘lon that caused a shelling from our duad tie feed. | Bakes ries the next day, Letters always did come in batches. | Sergt. Cooper went out one evening Bvery time you'd go to headquar-|with a detatl of six men to replace ters you'd hear Lieut, McNamara, some of the posts wrecked by shells Léeut. Guggenbeim of Lieut. Me- | With all their equipment that rattled wailing about no letters. A/left behind, and bearing only pop later they'd be all smiles. | tools and rifles, they sl Mention of Lieut. Francis J, Me- sortie steps and crawled away like N * brings memories of | 4° Many snakes UST because one American is as good as three enemies is no | The stingy husband thinketh that each dime he giveth his wife aes mn a rem alone ane te ed eo | hidden papers from my tunte. famara’s name bri eme | bi ; Mc, aia ite y three men’s pay. hath an enduring fragrance like an onion, Quiet E pcWld: Neer Fe 3e u “Reinforcements wei heroism under fire that is rarely sur-| Out there it was an allent as the reason why one profiteer should draw three men’s pay | B m8 ‘ I got out, the least noise would cause a Leesa bs) yey 4 Pressed passed. This bappened during the |tomb that night, or a 7m | * . ms my | me to shake like a tree in the wind.! i the se 7 ia fs wd same period that Lieut. Norman was|Posts were placed, then bagging on Before grabbing time by the forelock make certain that it isn’t | The dancing instructor thinketh that the anti-loating bill will | sy shail nover forget the ordeal) me ihe deisehmenie from the dtth kid, the top to deadon the sound of the| @ toupee. | make it tough for the sluggard who putteth the icing on top of | which won for me my medal, In), YiNon at ihe Mullane Betas “Mack,” as he was affectionately |wood mallet as it struck them, and nineaien | fancy cakes, September, 1916, the Ruslana bad ie ite tne northwest and enveloped istant Regiment: |the work of em we — assed 10,000 troops in the centre of| er % called, had been Assistan ewer replacing them went on One long blast followed by three short toots meaneth danger f ; mmagaed 18,090 sr90Re lthe Roches, After a flerce battle, last~ al Adjutant and then was sent up on| Suddenly a moaning sound was 6 td 7 4 Thee chirped a chintul. a aix mite front, Opposed to this) aa. Garman t the fine in charge of a Stokes mor-|heard and a shell burst near the whether thee hath thy earpieces stuffed with cotton or not ~ | front the Germans had brought up! 1% retreated: ip peas Ween tar gang. A Stokes mortar isa steel |Party, Bits of shrapnel scattered —— Never carry a bundle by the stri jequal numbers. The plan was [0/1 y returned to my Own Buia ibs. on 8 mee! base fro _ mia jibineh: the “iroee and struck near The flapper useth talcum on her nose in habit forming quan: “ we Gee pee me eahiigtrt pales havea having had sufficient rest from the trip, dembs over a foot long are she i ey lay sprawied out in| tities, he slacker taketh one tl niece Ane te t RAS WO DORMMEROS Te 5F aa Gen, Ivanhoft was so ple ‘ You ean keep nine shells in the air at|shell holes, For ten minutes a rain ie The food slacker faketh one thick plecs of bread Instead Of (WO |icause we had. thane. aneninied 09 when hy presented with the Crone ome flme jf you want to, but you of shrapnel caine down around them , 1 thin sl clonely. When the Boohes attacked, |» 5 Ge h aie bee never do, You fire about four und|As soon as the “hate” was fintshed Soon the Kaiser will be defeated and the world will be at peace | —— | the Russians were to spread out and! °) % orn De eae ae oa doth then beat it, otherwise tle Germans |they came crawling back, unhurt, | _ ¢Xcept tor bunions just before a rainstorm. | Even a loan shark hateth to garnishee the wages ot sin. envelop the enemy. Aiong the eis) 7 a ie lest May, 2019, cob ea With twelve Bhall heaa +) a —— —-— ~ — er. —— an — |imile front our outposts were sta- pened Raid Se will shell your emplacemen id heads as trophies. td bit . Barnovitch, that our boys first saw Rebramare had a position off the|Thcse were made of aluminum, It { . " ’ | Haned, ‘The Germans one night crept | and felt the terrible gas, From our freat line and other positions ready |Wa* the first time we had seen the ya 2 ( ; m f stealthy. Wp ond Killed O06 Be) go he could duck there after firing a/™MAde of this material. Pr re " en ur ro ecles ore te er an $ € eat every one. They took the clothing] Position In a valley aoe morning we r eviously i , : 5 |saw a wave of murky vapor begi” few phots, The Boche artillery was |they were of brass. It was pretty jommenna armies toward women, chil-|Germany, was the conclusion of the]of the dead sentries and put 98 ig wees ier pak pvgee wal und he trenches to pieces, but | "00d evidence that the German brass | ", . . om if - | ) and priests would finally unite] Danish philosopher orge Brandes,| They then took the same stations) rma poor teat sea ne Ara |supply was getting limited brass | World Conflict Predicted, With Overthrow of German Em-| utions of the earth in a de in 1881, After tha country would| as the Russians had held iri ag 0 the belente ere bead the enemy lines as long as he | (Concluded on This Page Monday.) | pire as Its Conclusion, by Seers Who Looked rumgle too m. | stand 1s hat y her neigh Gen. Ivanhboff picked me out to a omnes +i a Ie a ne ua Geeaiiidibn, Bballe struck a oonrioraaniiacs Far Into the Future Ambassador Gera sserts that|bors, but armed to the teeth for the| take a atch of distress to our re. | %> Mt ieibies "iat cata ee le < thal Czar called rst eo € " which and| serves, the Mth Division, ten miles | °"® ie vii 8 positions, machine guns kept the} KISSING AT “ fi 4 ‘ pes Bike, Hashing. ne Tote | NI PaING CHURCH REVIVAL, | 10 lorn world is ins; that in 1849 a gypsy fortune |ference af re ¢ "The Futu If succes tolto the northeast. I didn't relish tho| tracks. Ob, it was horrible. The boys crac! _ The minister had labored in his ro- | lined to acoff at latter-day|predictea the rise and fall y 1 book by a Russian named ob. To my mind there were many | {Ted to get their respirators to thetr stuck until he didn't have a par-|vival meeting all week without « sincle | eae at ; faces, but the fumes of the gas over- tially covered position left Jconvert. On the last night Jim Flint prophets, & number of predic» |Germas Bmpire. She appre 2 he TT bh ArmaHah in. phe) Batten fitted: (OF HR RMPREE RUE OR ee cee cen llet i He dia not ret a War Cross. Indeed, | hard sinner ar tough-looking ag , | ons of the great war, some made) William na Prussian Prit awful strucele, in w 10,000,000 the Kaiser and | pedition than myself, I was so smail | Powered them wh y were rai he came near being discharged for |lightwood knot ‘ame throu “Ve | more than a century and a buf ago,/and traveller incognito without any | soldiers would be inv 1, wa he r urit > power of and also was not very fleot of foot, | !n& it from their chest. Thousands phyéiea) disability. ie had suffered Pr" ed up the aisle, shedding bitter| ave been recalled, which ane im-~-|evidence of his rank, and at onc j-| told, and astonishing prediction}a new German leader; the climax of | These were Lvanhoff's exact words to | were later picked up stone dead with vombewhat from his heart two months|{ct"* %2 Profess before the congrega- | pressive because of the accuracy|dressed him as the coming Emperor | vf the part the mgrinc would play,|tho war this year, with pormercar| me. "You must get through at ail|their arms raised in this position— Wiowsly, but recovered, Ho fought | 9, . with which present events were fore-}of @ now German Empire, she is|s well any then u im-| pou WI, are recent predict a ot Costa to the Mth Division and inform | unable to complete the task, Their SH Loge Daca ty atay in marie Or the other side Of the church sat|told, ‘That Germany would one day!said to have given the date of tt ' modern warfare, was] pr Eugene Croft. Numer.|them of our precarious position, Wo | bodies were rigid and because of their | nie rsd ba ate aay series » $ a4 m Scroge whose dress,| pe the scene of fearful combat, in|birth of the Teutonic Confederat ned ai hts, including the fac,| wre surrounded by the Germany—it i#| peculiar rigid position they were Mtoe nd he passed it success-|mace him str make-ud | which eastern hordes summoned tolay 1871 and the year of William's) Less nce us Gen, Bernhardiloug Madame do Thobes, claimed to| terrible” | buried’ in huge graves and fe @romeniay ona bs pee A “S| mated scarecrow, Being « pillar of iia | her assistance would be destroyed on;death as 1848, both of which were|in his famo k many and} haye foretold the w Many believe} ‘There were only two things to do.| Some of the men turned yellow 4 fully. Berea cant amnith aicom Jchurch, he at once ambteq | the banks of a great river by nations|correct, Her final prediction was Next War," published tm 1911 }rhat one prophecy already ¢ |One was to refuse to take the trip | inant Posie nantes fone a & rd Lieut. Boo! ee eeee ieee orn [over {9 the convert in front of the altar, [Of south and west, was forecast by|that the Empire would come to an| liv set forth 1 enough the ruth-|irye, When ( Allenby entereg | and die by pistol shot then and there. | oyes bulged until they almost dropper pany was another hero up hers ni embraced him and proceeded to kiss| Margaretta Stoffell in @ magazine/end in 1913, essness of his Fatherland, but was| , Bee hed as “Alia |The other was to ko through with it| completely out of thelr sockets, —f lagt tme T saw him Lieut, Lyttle of/nim on both cheeks Jarticle published in 1748. As the cli-) A newspaper in Paris published aj «ivriously wrong in asserting that|Na Prophet), who was] and accept the 100th chance of being | Personally saw hundreds of our men the Medical Corps was adjusting a| Ked-whisker Tim Dugan, who was} e, mighty Ge i a 1 t h od ee the . v die from what I learned afterward to max of the struggle, a mighty Ger-]remarkable forecast of the war, in martial spirit of the French was] on ree a elty shot by a German sentry, After being eer bandage on his thigh, preparatory to|'* hymn, stopped be sheer fright at seeing the terrible ed Kone 5 Quid of toni} man city would be blotted oug which it was asserted th: t 1, that England was a — | nanded the despateh from the handa | tragedy all about them. After that T sending him to the hospita oth |e had in his mouth and, pointing ca| Fifty years later, in far-off*Japan, | present century a lutheran rul ¢ tor, and that ACCORDING TO AGREEMENT, of Gen. Tvanhoff I appeared dazed for | lost consciousness. For two days wes ih @ heavily shelled sector and. |i, weeping, kissing couple, remarked: [!t Was prophesied that when menjunparallcled cruelty, though —h rt her in her |, Divp’t you say “satisfaction guaran-| . fay moments, Here I had been dea. | learned I occupied a shell crater. s due to bis bravery and heroism, saved) Aw, Brother Sutton, that thar right learned to fly like birds a war would |elaimed to be inspired by ( w |} That within ten 8 the genera Ye eplied the sua algsman. | ignated by the Cieneral to get help ten | V4 found with my reapirator saX ts 4. He was wounded with’, aie But we didn't whose, Gur sat factorily adjusted, but it Is though his command. e unded {D' is wuth yo! whole week's wouk + oocur which would involve all thef/lead the forces of anti-Ch 7 which still m 1a love f ee inaueh niles away! To be sure I had always that I got a whiff of the gas before & plece of shrapnel. When | left be mond Times-Lispatcn peoples of the earth, Lt is recorded! work of bis apies a: @ brutaliy cedom would Lave passed away ia fed."—Washington Star een detailed for scout duty, but this I could get It on. It was just enougt? oD: nd the brutality ' ee. . ‘ q ' | Poor Richard Jr. ‘BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) | SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918 Saved a Russian Army, | Was Shell-Shocked, Gassed, | Now Ready to Fight Again! Ilia Schenderovitz, Here From Russia Only a Week, Already | Enlisted in Jewish-Palestine Legion, Had Thrilling Experiences in His Three Years at Front. By H. C. Cutting Copyright, 1918, by, The Press Publishing Co, (The York Evening World.) A S the 260 menibers of the Jewish-Palestine Legion slipped away from Pier 18, North River, Wednesday evening, there stood om the wharf @ email lad, clad in a strat them any parting salutation. Lila Schenderpvitz less than “a week ago arrived in the city with his Russian uniform in tatters, In 1914, when Russia mobilized her wast armies, this lad discontinued his studies at the Petrograd Institute of Teoh- nology and joined tho colors. He has been through three years of the struggle. For conspicuous bravery Gen. Ivanhoff pinned the Cross of Bt. George to his breast. His regiment was the very first to join the revolu- tlonary forces when the throne wobbled. Unable to further serve his country because of the duplicity of the Red Guard, Schenderovitz, through the generosity of friends of Kerensky, was able to make his way to the United States. | He atill desires to fight, and has enlisted in the Jewish Battalion at |the headquarters of the British and Canadian Recruiting Bureau, One thing only prevented his leaving with the other members of the battalion Wednesday night. Ho only weighs ninety-seven pounds, But there is a | good reason for this. When he enlisted he weighed 140 pounds. For months after he first saw action in Russia be knew what it was to have one ounce of black bread for his dally allotment of food. During the summer of 1916 this lack of nourishment caused his removal to a hospital, | Where his peculiar disease was diagnosed as-Tvinga. His body swelled to twice its normal size. Ho has been gassed and iaid un- onseclous for two days in a shell hole! | until rescued. The entire back of hin| head was shorn of hair at one time| through concussion of an exploding | shell. Because of shell shock this | ambitious Russian cannot remain |etill one moment. When talking he} | paces back and forth nervously, wav- | | uniform, who could not Wave ‘ |ing his arms furiously as he appar- ently goes back to the privations he| suffered. Schenderovits is but twen- ty-three ra old, He is without friends, and fears his parents have been killed in Russian uprisings. Through his (interpreter, John Spit- zel of London, Schenderovitz was able to relate some of his experiences. He sald “When the war started I enlisted in the 40th Infantry Regiment and was immediately sent to @ training camp at Kechinoff near the Rourmanian frontier, Most of the regiment were young boys like myself and had never fired a gun, nevertheless we remained in Kechinoff but five weeks, With « z few students of the university like > , mysolf I was then transferred to the Ser |! @ 53d Volinsky Regiment, 14th Division, | & LULA — and entrained for Seldiitz, near War-| ~ SCHENOEROVITZ * saw. Se a “We got our first baptism of fire at Seldiitz, When the big shells com-, Job was by fur the most diMoult I menced to explode near us the sol-| 04d ever tackled. The German een- diers of my regiment jumped out of | ‘"/¢# were posted at intervals of Af- the trenches with fright. They ran—| teen feet apart. I crawled on my od with fear, | stomach the first mile, T did not ev L will tell you about sheli shock,|@ttempt to raise my elbows, I was When I hear an automobile backfire | CoMtent to wrizgie along like @ enall. I instinctively duck my head. I can-| Had I sneezed this story would never not help it—you would do the same, | 2¢ told. The fact that there was a» One day a big shell exploded. 1 was, 700M that night saved my life, standing not twelve feet away.! After I had worms my way beynnd Strange it didn’t kill me, eh? No, 498er of being discOvered by the Gare | gust the back part of my hair. Swish,| 40s Iran my fastest—and kept tt up ‘and then no hair, Quick a# I tell you,| fr five miles. When T stumble@ into It was at Lachovitz, June, 1916 | the presence’ of the commanding officer | at was taken toa hospital at Kiefr,| °f the 14th Division 1 saluted aim, but zs I was so exhausted that I scarcely Three months I stayed there, They! coud raise my arm to take out the es