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— Wy ANN AURA NAY AAR or TW AY AY x \\ WY x \\ \ Be a cy \ ANIURR ake Sie \ AK \\ ue ae \ Ae. PIS rs . \ NY \\ Re WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 18, 1918 — Eight Months at the Front ‘How Citizen-Soldiers Feel With the American Army When Killing Their Foes | ave Ditty Heaimarten Oran er ieane| Fathers and Sons in the U. S. Army In the Business of War A Explained in To-Day’s Story, Third of a Daily! America’s Entry in the World’s Biggest War Has, in Several Instances, Brought WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918 | 7 . * j Series, Also a Description of Remarkable Adapt- About the Coincidence of Sons Fighting and Winning Commissions Under the Same | War Book by Lieut. Antoine Redier, an Editor Before He Be- a ability Shown by American Artillerymen in Flag Their Fathers Already Were Serving as Officers of High Rank—Some of the More came a Soldier in the Big War, Describes Efrect of Battle = Learning to Serve Unfamiliar Captured Guns 4s in Record Time, Turning Upon Germans Ar* tillery Captured From Them in the Same Engagement. By Martin Green (Sta Correspondent of The Evening World) Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) the news of the current American advance in the direction of Metz the chief interest centres, naturally, on the movements of the soldiers at the extreme front—the men who are in actual contact with the retreating enemy. They are delivering the =| on Men Who Came Under Arms From Peaceful Pursuits Notable Examples Are Presented in the Photographs Reproduced Below. f : of Everyday Business and Professional Life. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall i} Cayyrigut, 1918, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World), OW! men feel in the actual business of war, waich is killing, is H something which is omitted from most of the war books but about which the person who does not go to war wonders considerably. What is the psychology of the citizen-soldier, who is the backbone of the Allied Armies, when, for the first time in his life, he is ordered and encouraged to slay? Tie most interesting analysis of this moment is to be found in Lieut. Antoine Redier's fine war book, “Comrades in Courage,” written in the trenches of the Somme It is a book filled and running over with proofs of the unselfishness, the generosity, the devo- tion to duty and the other high spiritual qualities of the soldier. Yet it has remained for Lieut. Redier, be- fore he was editor of the Revue Francais and a trained writer, to express succinctly and truthfully the way the average, kindly natured soldier reacts to the business of putting his enemy out of existence. “There is among us a good fellow sae Im appearance,” |@ large one, it had done its work ances Lieut. Redier. “At the out-| Well.” | set of the campaign his section was| “I looked at him, bis eyes were | caught in a tight situation at a very | turned toward the sky and he seemed |short distance from a line of enemy| to be experiencing an almost super- sharpshooters. He threw himself into] Natural joy. : | @ huge sbeii-hoie from where be) “Do you work for a butcher in could, without great danger, shoot at} Civilian life, my friend the devils in helmets as they ad-| “He answered that he was a studen? vanced. The rest of the soction—| cf theology. Since that story I never condemned to an inglorious inactivity | fee! assured when I ask people tneir until the order came to show them-| Profession.” blows, and the details of their operations are pretty thoroughly covered by the correspondents. An army is @ machine. It cannot move without direction. Back of tie lines of battle are what might be termed the power houses from which flow the cur- rents of operation. These are the headquarters of the various units, all functioning along carefully prepared plans formulated by the General in supreme command. A division headquarters during a battle is a verit- » able hive of effort. When the field of operations is ear some distance away tae headquarters is located in a chateu or a farm house. If the operation is an ad- vance, the headquarters follows the soldiers and locates in a dugout or a cellar. The enemy devotes a lot of attention to locating a headquarters, and when he has located it he showers it with higa explosive shells and shrapnel, and sometimes gas. The high commanding officers located back of the lines are always in danger and do most of their work under- ground. An officer at a headquarters in a supposedly quiet sector Invited some correspondents one day last spring to walk down to the bank of a river about tiree hundred yards away and inspect some new shower baths he had installed. The members of his staff went along. While we weret looking over the shower bath plant a German shell dropped into the selves on the ridge—sought eh: Lieut, Redier adds: “There ts not a building we had just vacated, blew the commanding officer's office to pieces a ditch a few yards to the ri ayldier at the front who could not and seriously wounded @ field cler&, who was the only occupant of the|, 5 ‘ A i ? t lwhich they could watch their cvxn- fooun' twenty similar anecdotes. Place. That headquarters was immediately relocated in the cellar of a - be f a . 4, rade. ‘They prove only that we are fighting building half a mile away. y “He was shooting as if on the target eee an sccsy vue! has ee vanee (2 fore 88 (eee x y J , } lrange—loading, aiming, and firing| pointed out to us. We are here at ths Coggred Sestavasierc of Phe “eur |Wtirred thete clothes, “Those boys,” | newer ® : f : |with exactly the same precisi-n. He| W4r to kill the Boche; so we kill them divigions was located in a great cave | *aid the General, “could sleep right on said afterward that he bad made} 4nd that is the end of it. cut into the upper part of a high hill | top of the gun wonderful scores. But the remarkable} “We have been given knives, great overlooking a valley. The entrance! A battery of 75s was placed in a thing :wae the) expeoesion of greed!) Uleene & Enivos: “omeny Sropne ae was through a sort of cut leading | ditch at the side of the road which, at and pleasure he showed cacia time a| who were familiar with the use of the from the main road. The out was/this point, was cut through a hillock. . : aR : “5 |man fell. His mouth gpened in alffie, revolver, bayonet, or #° rd Ban i cosas ‘Lett Je. B Pes and yes| Were, at firs prises c camouflaged by akilfully placed| Firing the first gun of the battery] fae bib : ft Lie Aralie. Shem 66>) Co: oes Boe tastes he we patie sip ubedite bred branches of trees. ‘There were many |was a lad of about twenty who had 4 ; Th aie fe nd Set : : eeanoun 6t murderan ‘ chambers tn the cave. One of them | discarded his tunic and khaki shirt, : , ‘ BAC a or RO & BuACK inlet a atare would have accommodated the New| His face, arms and chest were black ext btn ; ‘ am pchbe RA rchsahm bocnbatecti ci cal Riods Bets a York City Hall, and in this chamber | from smoke and dust ae ‘ o mann Esoeaainy ie kind and ¢ sparkled. He looked like a 1 lsitting down before a mountain of cakes. That man, who in civilian life perhaps never even wanted to see| them, They are useful for fighting in He was sitting was located the general in command and his staff and working force, Outside the entrance was a dynamo, hidden in a sap cut into the hill, which furnished power for electric Nighta, The officers slept when they on the ground with his back against the side of the ditch and toward the enemy and he didn’t see us as we ap-! proached through the bushes. He was singing at his work, crooning a song which has spread through the army death, was actually laughing while | killing Germans.” Here is another of Licut. Redier's examples of the psychology of killing in war: Yne evening in camp I made the the boyaux, and f& that barbar jas peration known a foloaning tis | trench.’ Oh, it is pot pretty! We are | soldiers, b' » never been butchers. Yet the only thing to do is te accustom ourselves to it; it is the we ha had a chance, which was not often, | called “Poor Boy.” The song relates on cots or bedding rolls alongside the | the experience of a young negro who boxes or ledges which served 44 thelr | despite the warnings of his parents deska, In the centre of the chamber} eo: into bad company and finally was @ long table upon which were! wound up on the gallows and as he spread out the detail maps showing | sands there, waiting to be hanged, he the country over which our soldiers} 164 his father approach. ‘The gunncr =e advancing, some three miles) ¥45 singing the chorus descriptive of way. this episode » 80) s he Two telephone exchanges were in eis Anny iged era FH operation, one for the infantry, the ni, inaders inserted the shells, T other for the artillery. As the eol- song went like th F diers went ahead Signal Corps men, : close behind, laid telephone lines “Oh, daddy, ain't you got no silver? which kept the front in constant com. |. daddy, ain't you got no gold?" munication with the headquarters, | (Pow!—and a shell would start in the Additional communication was fur- | M#rection of the German lines.) “Or is hished by runners and motorcycle and | Yu goin’ to wee your poor boy hung mounted messengers moving contin- | UPON dis hangman's hold?” (Pow!) ually between the regimental head-| “Oh, son, J air't got no silver; oh, ‘ quarters in the advance and the Gen- |son, I ain't got no gold." (Pow!) ‘eral Headquarters. “So 1 guess I got to see my poor|~ | acquaintance of a little Sergeant who| German Inw! had just returned to the froat or} “They claimed th in war migut 1 on the Meuse in the] ceatas right. When a unit of troops, great retreat tapidly advancing, has taken a first | «His thin face surmounted by blue| tne of trenches and has to go on ty clouds of smoke, the young brigand| the next, t is not e enough to me horrible stories of the war.| disarin and render powerless the oris- ly the story of a ners they a ng to leave behind. r who had gud-| In the olden days the rules of war t would have forced the defeated peopfe way from a French colua..] to remain harmirss. But to-day oue is sheltering his fat body be-|krows that, obedient to the laws of big tree,’ related his execu-|Cerman civilization, they will be fy i nee re protruded @ grimacing face | treacherous, It is therefore neces~ Fest ‘ sary to slaughter them,” f } aimed at us, I was In front, I " wight my gun to my shoulder and| Thete ts, therefore an Allied will to Loreen de fell with a horrible cry.|¥'N, but # Is a reflex of the Gormun Mas. BaBORM are mad with joy, Tran to him apd] Will to Kill, And this is inevitable. foie) , boo being wound {1 remember , big Saxon 0! appeared, revolver in han THOMAS Cte . Whencock. . edie WOOD. DIMER NT OMAR LA, arewcr t tad made, ‘i rnile T assure you it was| by Doubleday, Pi Co, (Pow!) zing balloon and destructivencss-of our artillery fire | wires holding it brushing against the |eastward before the | 2 At noon on the second day of the raed peer LAURETTE TAYLOR turned him over to see the wound my| “Comrades in Cou is published A VISIT TO AN AMERICAN BAT- |boy bung upon dis hangman's hold,| abandoned by the Germans we came| floated lazily in the #ky directly | balloon with machine gun bullets an4, M Sta e ( ‘areer vund advance the Brigadier General in| The lad operating the gun regulated |1n one German machine gun nest we] tops of a grove of trees in a draw be- | reached the his D found 35 dead Germans and seven} tween us and the main road, the balloon descanded with the aid of fe the Be Ne peglatll is Sapna (oe sapaning the aaa pet disabled machine guns, “ll blown to| All day American and French planes|a parachute, landing almost at the} When the “Child Entertainer Changed ae Name She ecb eeprperiend her yl gy cn inserting the shells moved to the dron. | Pieces by shells we had dropped there | had been passing to and ¥ro over the| headquarters entrance. came Ingenue in a Western Stock Company, gat ete yee ges t ‘ “Jing music of his voice, Occasionally |'¢ day before. The Germans are| headquarters position, In the waning| The German prisoners were plain- but New York Made Her a Star. yore sary ney tinal ass they would come in all together with | Wonderfully efficient in hiding their | atte they disappoared, probubly|ly delighted at the show their coun- von ables poy to feed their men|® Tousing “Poor boy." Soldiers were | Machine gun positions, but the blan by ‘saerte of o @uring the brief respite, and then he |*!ePing on the ground all about and | ket of a lp we had shed over thal thd: ng, Bie attention of < pearly | ein omoer @ropped down on Dis cot, murmured |*40Ns the trees horses were placidly | COUNTY had picked out many which [ever beady oulniue f arters wi art “Gall me in an Dour,” and fell asleep, | Inewine As the General went by, the eee) . pis ROR aresaaty we liseli f twenty and shouted a had been there a while the leading He bad not cle nea his ares in seep aalninn ch syadly soot dl read i tussome-]and automobile horns warning of|and away the Germans i lady left us flat and I was promoted, before for sixty hours, He was calle sed grin > Copyright, 1018, by The Press Pablishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ll from another part of|tryman had pu! up before th It didn’t matter much to the man- r eye 4 NCL upon a time there was 8] rched them down O child entertainer, You know—|ager who owned the melodrama—he on to the main road | just renamed it and we served it man prisoners,| There he lined them up in pli up to the clamoring public, After I attention of nearly} Their office of the kind that comes into a parlor and, urged on by the family, recites “Mary Had a Little Lamb." Her mother thought her oon und of sirens mmat have ta h th acing fo suns,” er a gas attack or the approach of | narching the “goose step." rf - Pa RA NS ep Vil never forget one play we did. at 1 o'clock and immediately left on | 8 #00ty face AVERSA HA DRE oe prinel. {German planes, Antlealr PAC TER MERIAL. Ee et ferigiee au pitta contend we roa witained for |E Wiis supposed to be wife No. 333 in a tour of inspection of bis battery / ACCURACY OF OUR HEAVY AR-|j10 was to hide them away as a misor!on the poak of the hill began to!amusement went up from tho Ameri- tre, {i omakement wan online UM line guitan’s harem. Driven to des- positions. Two correspondents ac- TILLERY FIRE SHOWN, hides his hoard, in spots where we| #veckle the sky with white clouds of:can and French soldiers, The Ger-!a gmall Massnchuaetts town, There jparetion: by hie orusitien § escaped oompanied him, Some distance to the left we caine| thought the enemy wouldn't look for |#moke marking the explosion of| many marched stolidly on, raising| the tittle p i ajtated |2hd conevaled oso a tower at The first objective was a regiment) upon heavy artillery placed in a de.(them. The Germans place their ma- |S8rapnal shells, Officers shouted com-| clouds of dust as their heavy boots | ( . nd did av titie| tM sates of the-city, At the end : Teeivcd a ride of a couple of milee| (010, Us that Ue ahells from this bat-| most ody tions, with the re-|Under cover, All eyes were direcied! peared around a bend in the road. |Thon her mother took her home and|his back and gain my full freedom, involved a ride of a couple of miles { tery were landing on Soissons, eight miles aw @ bridge !n| sult tha Close by | tactics are trained to hiding | aloft |"They passed a group of us and on the | put i in finding en-|GERMAN AVIATOR'S DARING | faces of most of the Germans were was a battery of ( man 77s which! ew guns bursting, as it ATTACK ON A_ BALLOON, jun akable grins, The officer in we had captured, with plentiful sup.| were, right In front of their faces,” Suddenly, back of our lines, coming} charge was laughing. In his Ge ©) ples of ammunition, the previoux On our return to headquarters we | down alm@st perpendicularly from a] way he was “joshing" us, celebratlu mé Un the d All right-—so far, 8o good. The eie- ( ‘ phant was composed of two supers. ed that the stage The scheme worked fine for a few sion and a snare. performances and then treason de- hat little girl was myself veloped in the beast's hind legs, One | ] twas born in an apartment house| Might I heard them mutter to the : \ thorou was @ de- over a densely packed road, At 1,35 her back in schor o'clock we were still some distance from the first battery, All at one the artillery opened up, in accor: with the orders the General had front legs: tion off witnegsed one of the most dramatic | great height, we made out a Ger | with an exhibition of the "goose step" | in West 125th Street, New York, and|” phis ‘is my last night at this stunt, miss Gi at noon, and the comparative! French artillery officers our gunnors| incidents I obeerved at the front, As| fighting plane. The aviator had prob-| the daring daylight destruction of| was named Loretta, When I got old|bo, This afternoon she came down » avtone quiet whic: ad endured in had learned to operate the G I have said, the headquarters was at|ably been up three or four miles be-|one of our observation balloons right to pester the callers with|n my neck like a pil 2 01 vieinity for fifty-five minutes gave guns in twelve bours and we were|the top of @ hill, All | plastering the retreating foe with hi I jumped, laughing, The hind legs thought | was Kidding him and in| through an One day I decided that/y fit of anger let me down. The ele- “4 it the en-|fore he began his downward swoop,| over the head of the Major ¢ ance Were rows on rows of auto- | Straight and true he held his course | commanding the force; “al da Little Lamb" I devel- way to the barking and roaring of big and small guns. ident. I was rehearse s in that sector ing in a melodrama at the ist Regi+ . own shelis, fred from his own artil-| mobiles and auto trucks, and hun- | downward and forward in “he dires- — “Laurette” would be a much more|phant went out in two sections and|ment Armory. As I was going We left the automobile on the road-| tery, A French laison officer who ac-| dreds of soldiera were moving in the | tion of the observation balloon over NOT HIS FUNCTION. flossy name and forthwith I adopted |! followed on foot, I never forgave} through a death scene @ representa- 2 side and approached the battery on | , ose hind legs. tive of the Messrs, Shubert saw me on back to the original |""Aéter''a long time out in Seattle] end told tie Arent mee oh moane theme of ory w a! I came to New York and began to| They obtained a promise from me to After a year and a half of school T] haunt J otfices, Nobody] play under their management, or “ n tried to see my| some time they had nothin, ‘me, cannot give you that informa. |Ttecelved an offer to play ingenue my m y had nothing for me, of the hill, just} our heads, The air wbout the plane] “TI want to know,” said the grim-] it But co dquarters entrance,| wags literally alive with exploding, {ced woman, “how much money my Giads of American soldiers forming| struction as our men 90 German prisoners were | shrapnel shells and pieces of shrapnel| "USP4nd drew out the bank last Feserves were asleep in the shade.}jearning to th i > cominand of one of the ell like hall on th Svery’ wa | learning captured | lined up in cominand of one of r]fell like hall on the bill, Everybody present manager, George C, Tyler,| but just the same I had to turn down Zoey bad marched in a couple of/ pieces. This same artillery outnt is}own officers, who was giving thm] armed with a riffle or a pistol began! tion, madam,” answered the man in| roles in # steck company in Seatile,|but he was too busy, Just to show] offers from Henry Miller and David before. We five men sound | now working in the St, Mihiei salien;| instructions, dictated by one of onr| io shoot at the German airship, The] the cage. It was a ten, twenty and thirty or-|you how things can change, three] Belasco, Finally my first Broadway t of four guns| attack and, doubtless, using captured |German speaking officers, as tojenemy aviator kept right on coming,. v e; ‘Ss r. 7 tlear to} chance came. It was a part in. “Th u're the paying teller, aven's|yanization and we played ie oe My, Friern waveney Bee eet et contami metbie Geran cagnon, marching (0 @ prisoners’ camp five| passed over our heads at @ height ot}? ca, but I'm not the telling payer.” | eetperene. we could tad n Mislead =" i jey Manners, whom | later ws progressed into the territory oes eo: Ari ntaeeralie® Niioen Letras sisting Mn ohanaratien — Recess Boston Transcript | companied us said that he had never] vicinity. On the sl foot through a clump of trees. Hun-! n such rapid assimilation of in.| above th i Ft had shown in}about 4 loose. Hartley Manners, whom | later mars