The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1918, Page 14

men ARTIN GREEN’S DAILY STORY OF THE REAL FIGHTING AMERICANS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1918 | Eight Months at the Front ' With the American Army SIZING UP OUR PRISONERS The Attitude of American Soldiers Toward the if ‘ 7 : German Prisoners We Have Taken Described | BELATED BROOKL in To-Day’s Article, Fourth of a Series. A German Officer, Who Had Lived in America, Gives His Views on Our Part in War, and Tells Dramatic Story of His Capture by a Young American Soldier. By Mart in Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), R IDING into a town near the front during an attack one day, I came to an open air dressing station at a cross roads where several hundred wounded German prisoners had been grouped awaiting transportation to the rear. what was left of the City Hall. thereabout was a town marching soldiers. dying. SArDe A German boy, apparently about tighteen years old, was brought in by tn American soldier on @ horse. The young German was badly mangled and covered with blood. The soldier had lashed him to the saddle and walked beside the horse, “I found this kid in a thicket along- tide the road a piece ahead there,” said the Américan soldier, “and I brought him in. I feel sorry for the poor little devil.” “Oh, you do,” put in another Amer- toan soldier, a Corporal, with a blood- stained bandage covering his head and part of his face, “Well, let me tell you something. THE FIGHTING “HEINIE KID.” “I seen that Heinie kid this morning. He was behind a machine gun and he was pumping ‘em into us as hard as he could. He didn't surrender, either, but tried to got away when he saw we were bound to get the gun, He looks kind of helpless like now, but, believe me, if you had seen him when U did you wouldn't feel sorry for him.” Other soldiers agreed with the man who had brought in the young Ger- man. They expressed sorrow at his tondition, A German speaking Amer- ican asked the boy if he bad helped serve a machine gun that morning, The boy nodded. ‘The wounded Amer- loan jubilantly welcomed this corrob- oration of his statement that he had seen the German poy fighting and proclaimed his belief that the German boy had not received all that was coming to him. “Aw, hell!” shouted one of the Americans in the group, “he fought, @idn't he? He didn’t pull any of that *kamerad’ stuff, did he?" This proved to bo the prevailing view. The Americans generally ap- peared to feel no hatred toward the Germans. The soldiers grouped about the dressing station were quite similar in their eagerness to see and hear to @ crowd of American civilians crowd- ing around the victims of a street ac- cident in New York or any other American city A Captain ® the Medical Corps was in charge of the American and Ger- man dressing stations and he was ex- tremely anxious to get the Germans away. His anxicty was shared by @ medical Major of the German Army who had surrendered most of the Ger- man wounded under circumstances which he explained at some length the American medical Captain, a French officer attached to our head- quarters and me. We bad a long talk in the {mproyised office of the Ameri- can Captein. A GERMAN OFFICER'S VIEWS, The German officer was a big, hand- some fellow, with two livid scars on his face, one a memento, he told me, of a duel at the University of Frel- burg, the other the mark of an en- counter with the foils while he was a student in Berlin, Ho talked perfect grammatical English and sprinkled his conversation with American idioms and phrases accumulated while he was polishing off bis medical education in| Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and Hellevue Hospital, New York. “1 had returned to Berlin from New Yerk just before the war," he said, “with the intention of taking up the practice of medicine. I have served 8 & medical officer on the eastern and western fronts. I have beed in Rus- #ia and Siberia, and since July, 1917, F have served alone the line trom Flanders to the Vor; _ “We thought we uid win the war Nearby was an American dre: The day was hot and clear. sunlight bathed the countryside and all our little world moved a continual teries boomed on all sid high explosive shell landed in the vicinity of the rail- road station on the other side of the town. The seriously wounded Germans were lying on the ground in the shade of a wall. Many were shockingly torn by shell fire. - less seriously wounded moved about doing what they could for their comrades, the sufferers. Swarms of young American soldiers, some of them slightly wounded, surrounded the stricken Germans. A number of the Americans could speak German and they were acting as volunteer interpreters to groups of their fellows who were eager to find how the Germans felt about the war. ing station in Blistering haze of white dust. Through the line of trucks, cannon and Aeroplanes droned overhead, bat- and occasionally a German Some of them were The Not a groan escaped from —<—<—$ ______. captive and J have seen many things | to open my eyes in the past twenty- four hours, I still think we shail at- tain the objects for which we are! fighting. I honestly beliove our cause is Just, but I do not believe the United , States was intrigued into the war by | England. Many of us were convinced, | » from the time of the sinking of the! ! Lusitania, that the United States! would enter the war whenever we had brought England and France to the! end of their resources. You see, a’ great many officers tn the German Army have been in the United States and have mingled with the people as! civilians, and our standpoint was not| always the same as that of the om. cera attached to the embassy and the consulates. | “When the United States declared! war on Germany we wore not, there- fore, unprepared for the blow. ‘Those | of us who knew the resources of tho United States and the love of most of the people for their country did not underrate the new power which had entered the fleld against us. I am, pained to have to state in truth that the idea that Germany can lick the world is not absent from our officers, and I have seen numerous instances of foolish belittling of the power in arms of America on the part of men who have never been outside Europe, | AMERICANS UNDERRATED. “We have been pretty closely in- formed about what was going on in the United States and France. In the rank and file of the army there has been a feeling that the Americans could not come to France in pmic tent numbers to bave any effect on the war, but I knew better, and practi- cally all the men I knew who had been in America know better, I think I may say to you that officers of the German Army aro not entirely igno- rant of what is going on in the world “We heard about what the Ameri- can soldiers were doing in Lorraine in trench warfare, and we gathered from our information that your sol- diers were, perhaps, dull pupils, in- asmuch as they were in training for such long periods uader the guidance of French officers. Wo talked a} great deal about your forces, We knew you bad started with practically no military organization and that you had furnished so much ammunition and war supplies to England and France and Russia that probably jt} would take @ long time for you to| readjust your affairs that you! could supply your own forces with. parrassing your allies. SN N : ] t= 4 tf \\ SY Se PAM \ @ \ & s SOc mth THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1918 | New U. S. Ambassador To Great Britain Looks Going Back to Brooklyn at 3 A. M. YNITES TAKING THE SUBWAY HOME TO BED, SKETCHED BY WILL B. JOHNSTONE pamery THE MAN WHO BUYS THE MORNING PAPER: AND bs THOSE WHO HELP HIM READ IT THE STRANGER WHO FALLS ASLEEP ON THE WANDIEST SHOULDER - ADVERTISEMENTS THE CABARET “SONG BIRD". WHO JUST CANT KEEP AWAKE THE MID- NIGHT WAG ea WHO ‘DECORATES THE Like President Wilson John William Davis Has Won an Enviable Repu- tation as Solicitor General for His Oratory and Legal Lore—Works 14 Hours a Lay and Does Not Care for Outdoor Sports—Happiest When Buried in Books or Briefs. By Henry Tholens OHN WILLIAM DAVIS, newly appointed American Ambassador to Great Britain, ts tall and slender, with a shock of almsot snow-white hair, @ slow, grave, gentle smile, and the general air of a student. J | Seeing him for the first time, one’s first impression is his resemblance to President Wilson, who has just named him as successor to Walter Hines ‘Page at the Court of St. James's. He has the same refinement of features and fastidiousness in dress, the same general cast of countenance. But he has not about him the same atmosphere of reserve. There is a quirk in bis emile, an occasional flashing twinkle in his eyes that dissipates the sug- gestion of Likeness to the President. by (ec ety REHEARSING Hts ALIBI 4 : os t ON THE WAY HOME THE 3 ALM, QUARTETTE ce. Occasionally some partic- | his lef . His sleeves ‘olled J wy" nena" Aathen?" i [ap aad vat as ented ss Tow [ Began My Stage Career grinding along the road toward the front would attract his attention and he would stop in his recital “A week ago,” he said-this was on July 19-"we understood you had one million seldiera in Since I have been captured 1 @ been told that you have two million, Can you tell me if that is true? We told him, truthfully, that we felt sure our forces numbered over a million at that time and that the American were coming over in swarms, What do you think of the way Americans fight?" yelled a young soldier from the outskirts of the crowd “Believe me," replied the Major with a si I have not seen your soldiers fi Let me tell you what terday morning there de- upon the vil scended was quartered 1go in which I with my ambulances and nurses and hospital outfit a rain of shells as if from the sky, Build ings were destroyed, Men were killed and maimed There was great con fusion We ught shelter, and the hews camo to us that a great army of French and Americans had broken through our front lines and were ad- vancing you sent a division into Picardy in April we knew all about it as soon as your soldiers took a continued as you had in Lorraine, we obtained the idea that you were still in training, When we heard of your advance on Cantigny we thought it was a training stunt, because the French aided you, Really, although we had information that you were, contrary to our expectations, placing hundreds of thousands of soldiers in France, we thought you would not be an effective factor in the war be- fore next, autumn—perhaps next spring.” THE BOCHE MAJOR'S STORY, Swarming about us as the officer talked were American soldiers who had unobtrusively drifted into the room through the doors and win- dows. The medical Majér was not apparently displeased that his little “All day I gathered the wounded, sector, and as time went on and you! and those who could be moved I sent | \to our rear and others I placed in a |cellar in the town, Last night our | troops moved out, leaving machin |gunners for rear guard action, W | were under your shell fire until after daylight this morning, and sometimes |woe would get a new patient in our cellar hospital HOW HE WAS CAPTURED, “It war At 6 o'clock this ing when } no longer heard our ma chine guns, and 1 went to the foot of the steps of ti intending to out and inves morn cellar, ute | the steps appeared an American sol ja “He was a young brown, thin face and burning eyes his, right hand he carried @ hana man with 4 nade and he had some more in his start, and, although I ams talk had attracted wuch an attentive, metal helmet, which was banging on of perspiration gleamed on the browa hair on his ¢hest. He raised his right arm and shouted at me. “Come out of there, you blankety blank Dutch bum, or I'll spill a bas- ketful of these on you.’ Tho American soldiers gathered | about, laughed and shouted and pounded each other with fists and fat hands. ‘Che Major sat smiling until the tumult died away. Then he MI WAS the day I realized I was on this earth. Long before 1 was ten years old I was an expert at ys und I an actress from I ‘being some one else,’ At tho top of arose, had memorized whole scenes “I had been in America, gentle-| from numerous plays. My parents men," he concluded. knew the; took del t in my antics, and I young man meant nat he said. || ave no doubt but what | was one of understood him thoroughly. It was| those child prodigies who so often not for me to have, as he termed, a| bore the neighbors to extinction, at basketful of grenades spilled into] the same time bringing whoops of our cellar hospital, so 1 called to him) delight from their fond mammas and as as unarmed and in English that I the time I was te | | | TZ1. A Mimic From Early Childhood, Mitzi’s Ambition to Go on the Stage Was Fostered by Her Father, Who Was Fond of Comedy. | It must not be assumed, however,)son. Ho works fourteen hours ot that his smile is perennial, lke that|more a day, and is happiest whem of his distinguished predecessor in the | buried in books or bri He ts ine high office of Solicitor General of the United States, William Howard Taft. Mr. Davis's laugh is more sedate and quizzical. He has a passioniess and in- tellectual mind, in which he again re- sembles Mr. Wilson, It is packe@ with legal learning. As Solicitor General | he has had wide scope for his attain- | ments and it 1s agreed that he has !measured up to his job, The Solicitor General 1s the Gov- ernment’s trial lawyer, second in the Department of Justice to the Attorney different to golf, tenn In fact all outdoor sport between him and the purely an intellectual cemented on t links, As an orator he is convincing but not spec He does not indulge adject flights of rhetorie. There fireworks in his delivery. But he states his little nd big facts so logically and clearly that he usualy wins his point. He fishing and The bond ident ig and nol Pre ves or are y ts il @ young man—only fore s pla jenera 8 the Cabinet member |ty-five years old—but he ha would surrender, and he called to it was plainly General, who is the , @ years old—but he has been im A ldlere and I gavel* 1 to go on the} and office lawyer. As second in rank | politics since 1900 and very active ia other American soldiers ai 5 : Riek ty annie in this highly important legal firm he | public affairs, He is a thirty-second up myself and forty-two wounded |* \ Orta eget ° 1 that is all 1 have seen of| tion and took me to see plays at least [nas charge of a varied practice that |dexree Mason and an Ek. Rey nen ‘ap tlepia Diy . once a week, Comedy was his choice | extends far beyend the statutes of the hen the war started, Mr. Davis ur soldiers as fig p Ba livad'ta Ss vanti, ani Tikm a | United geographical dis-|was in Tours, Franc Mrs. Davie An hour later @ train of camions | u y Brains | : 4 and ambulances had removed the|tain he never saw a sad play in his j tribution tt rom Maine | was with hi Hurrying to Livere« jerman prisoners and the German) jife, It was his love of comedy that to Hawali and the Philippines, from | pool, they took parsaxe on the Maus German p . y | medical ollicer who gave signs of POS-| 1140 me choose the lighter form of Alaska to Porto Rico, At times he/retania, which finally landed them sessing a senso of humor stage amusement as my vocation, 1! must hark back to the English com-|in Halifax, | orb found I w 1 to make people laugh,’ mon law, at others to the Code Napo-| He is now on his way to Berne | HE KNEW BETTER, land I do even to-day t lecn and the Spanish code, which 18) Switzerland, for a conference on eme HE little boy who live: ina big) ary memory has always been a 700 years old and looks its age. It i8| change of pr rs with represem I apartment house where almost} ary), 1 would learn a whole scene real work fora real lawyer, Although | tatives of 24 everybody else 1% TOWN UP oom a play just through seeing tt a he has been called a “corporation law- > had just the best time out in the | once, At the sume time I kept up my of MITZI yer,” he has been more feared by cer- | ps * yeas country, There were so many things] school studies and never was far be- ' is tain prominent attorneys who have First Airplane Victim }to see and so much to learn that he}, ing the leaders in my classes n opposed the Government in varivus Was be] S Amy Officer berdiy knew walsh oer fe Hl AL ay of twelve I was sent to (original version of “The Spring|suits than any other man in the De- pA Beaded f Pe ERO TR ee tenn eee ee rear tis Ganlaty ta lteetacet ae aisilee y parbetorteengon enjoyed almost a8 much showing off | iach pupil was pledged to go through pieces, Perhaps the best testimonial to his AD airplane eeilenh was Lieut, wonders of the farm as the little | seven years’ course, but two years n came an offer to come to) abilities and effective work in tho} | Thoma Selfridge of the boy snioye B Benelli ets ae later the directors were kind enough America, Here I first played the Hen| Department of Justice is the fact ue 4 tae 8 wr rps, Who Was kno was amazingly wide, a tl 4 vy 3; 7 vhe: ere a ied in September, 1908, while fly! ne caught her in one grave mistake, |to release me in order that*l might |Pheasant in “The Barnyard Romeo" | that when there was a ancy on ype » mb r, oA whi flying “These are tomatoes,” she said, in- ate the lead role in the y, {at the American Roof Theatre in New |the bench of the Supreme Court, due} as 2 ig with Orville Wright dicating the red and green globules |.nn¢ seven Sisters.” Krom that time | York. Next 1 was a member of the|to the death of Justice Lurton, the} at dyer, Va. The next fatal afm ac ae beat iy aplied the Nttle Jon I advanced steadily Winter Garden organization for a| members of that high tribunal were] plane 4 eldent eolivvad Gautee 1% my Fennec le le | 9 boats i eri o1 e ous in esi later in France when Kugen - . “Tomatoes don't grow like Fred Wright, the English comedian, | »rief period, and after that I took up} said to be unanimou h desiring pilings ane gene Le | whose name bas been such an import. |My od role of the Princess Bozena in| that he bo appointed to the place, | ! was enro as one of the | They do too!” returned Pheeny hehe with tha Shodan i }erhe Spring Maid. They had been deeply impressed by} martyrs to Ue juest of the alr, “Can't you see 'em?” ant ene 18 WOns ane id . s remarkable presentation of issues| Since the outbreak of the war, ‘ “You,” said the Uttle boy. “I see|pany, offered to make me his leading} Henry W. Savage engaged me for |! dpa sip them course, brave flyers without Mies them, but they are not tomatoes.” | woman if I would study, I accepted, |the title part in “Sari” and made me | and cases at IAS EWAu! ‘choIbinsntn | Bava wiven: tuelk lives “107i beieeeee “Aw, they are too!” insisted) ng in his travelling organization, I|a star after the piece established itselt| Hi# name also aay ‘ ead Pheeny, | ” SG | ocess. Then came my se: mentioned for Secretary of State| spective countries, and a list of them t lyn't polite to con-cont'adict” (14) Pityed many parts, We practiced | a8 & success. came my seasons] | 4, william J. Bryan resigned from| ould fill pages. The first and per- a pretty lone word for the little | stage “busin and dancing by the |in “Pom-Pom” and now I am in“Head he Cabinet, haps the only woman to be killed in bey) @ lady, But tomatoes don't|hour, Me w. INdelauguvie, With \Uver Heck Now you entire | the enue at ee ay airplane accident was Mune, grow on weeds! they grow in cans." |Mr. Wright | made a continental tour, | professional history, Ti is my| Mr vavie ve own LO wind Lig! Mooro, WO Jum. nur Hie « EtMApeR, kansas City iar, appearing in “The Merry Widow,” the | Life and I love i, in the estimation of President Wil- France, in 1911, PMO a Peay REC F: Percy