The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1918, Page 9

SATURDAY, Eight Months at the Front With the American Army MORE ABOUT WAR’S SCENE LOFT AND PROP- ERTY ROOM. SEPTEMBER 28, 1918 mans Into Revealing to the Americans Their Machine Gun, Positions, and “Jimmy Casey” Draws the Fire of a Sniper and Contributes to the Boche’s Sudden Finish. In These Yankee Manoeuvres the Casualties Are All German. By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). N the mist of early dawn on @ day last spring, German soldiers in out posts opposite one of the American fronts in Lorraine saw three col- umns of ghostly figures rise out of the ground in no man’s land and advance slowly but steadily in perfect formation toward the German; trenches. The forms of the soldiers were shadowy, indistinct, but there was no doubt that an attack was on, for here were Yankee soldiers coming across without the warning of a barrage or artillery shelling of the German trenches. The outpost sentries sent back the word. Rifles popped all along the German trenches on the front line, Occasionally one of the advancing soldiers dropped, but the columns moved on steadily, sometimes hidden in the floating, steamy clouds of mist. All at once, from a post- tion in a wood on a hill at the right of the advance, ma- chine guns opened up. Streams of whining bullets flowed over the ficld, and every figure in the advancing line disappeared. Just one minute later a large, energetic American shell landed in that clump of trees on the hill, and in the next five min- utes @ hail of heavy explostves dropped there. The machine gun fire ceased and the shelling of the wood slackened, but for the rest of the day and all the following night an occasional American shell exploded in the position. As soon as the machine gun fire opened und the shadowy forma which had been moving toward the German ines disappeared soldiers tn the front ne American trenches began to pull vigorously on ropes which passed over the top, under our wire and out into no man's land and soon there came tumbling into the trench what appeared to be sections of stage scenery. ‘The American soldiers lavehed up- roariousty as they folded up the sec- Uons of wood and canvas and carried them to a communicating trench where other laughing soldiers started with them toward the rear. Some distance in the rear an American Colonel in an observation post picked up his telephone receiver. “This is Col ——," he sald. “Con-| pect me with X. Y¥. Z. 4-11-44." There was a grin on bis face as he began to talk. and fn many places the wooden sup- ports were splintered. They were sent to a workshop, where artisans and ar- tists patched them up and painted them over, and before many hours had passed they were ready for duty again, somewhere at the front. “Good old Ife savers,” remarked the officer in charge of the camou- flage plant o% he passed through the, workshop and looked over the work of repair. “Chinese soldiers,” as these pleoss of war property are called, are used frequently In trench warfare to trick the enemy into revealing positions which cannot be located by air ob- servation or talks with prisoners.| They are used in many different ways and under many different eircum- atances and they are nearly always effective because against selected backgrounds or under sclected weath- over a Chinese charge on them and daylight, so perfectly are they cut they opened up from thelr new ma- out and mounted and painted, they chine gun nest enfilading us on the oo. Geeentive at a distance. Incl. right. From the way it looks from dentally, the Germans use them too. here we have blown up the position with our artillery and we can keep them from locating there again. Gen- eral, It was actually funny.” One hot gfternoon Inst summer ay German was making things) mighty uncomfortable for the occu-| |pants of eriean front In thig instance the military prop- | trenoh. concealed in the} erty room, far removed from the bat- | ruins of a village back of the German Ue line, had furnished to the fighting lines, and so skilfully concealed that} forces trick material which had re-|our observers could not come any- vealed a concealed enemy machine | where near locating his hiding place. fan position without the loss of a) Frequently he sent a bullet into our man or a shot. For the soldiers the! parapet dangerously near to one of German sentries had seen advancing through the mist of the dawn wero | bullets had passed through a crevice not real soldiers. They were sil-|in our sandbag protection aud! houette soldiers of canvas and wood, | dropped on a soidier sitting In the mounted, by a hinged arrangement, | trench writing a letter, on platforms which could be mantpu-| A steel helmet on top of a rifle bar- lated by ropes from the American] Tel was passed along a short sector trenches. jof trench where it was necessary to During the night, at intervals when |#tOP almost double to keep out of! German star shells were not illuimi-|S/8"% A bullet from the sniper! hating Do man's land, a fow Ameri. | WP2#¢d over, struck the helmet, was| cam troops had pushed under our | ‘fected and slightly wounded an of- | wire entanglements three long, flat, | 1°" Snding at the door of a dugout | Led Seacaenanth to when twenty feet away, Other helmets | were attached numerous tines. ‘They Wer? Pass a along the same: piney | were left !ying on the ground in front |) ot" of our wire and at the morning hour sniper ine; our observation posts, One of his! sniper refused to shoot at them. The Lieutenant in command] sent back to headgt ere “ when the east began to give warning | sy) s1my « _, Maar TOre BES f approaching sunrise and the /al-| “nat pices Ph 1 “Jimmy Casey” arrived ey was heavy with fog and observa- jon was apt to be faulty the lines uanging In our trenches were pulled ind @ certain number of silhouette representing American sol arrying rifles with rning, Ww the sun Was sh Jimmy C. ver there ground, al- ning brightly, sey” was cau- the » At jthe head of tiously ra first rapet. bayonets Set, popped up stiffly and stood mo- | peare. ar ducked “ie ine otal nies, Jor two the top of $ helm ype | An oificer at # firing post, looking eu ae : Was dosu Vy = rea ae (brough a powerful night glass, whise | yun along the line Vor th | pered to 4 runner crouched on thir Jiu Casey” shows lirlng step at his fect The simself for a hoitre of no man's} oldiers are all on the job,” he said. |jand. ‘This time he popped up quick. Tell the Captain to start thom on/1y, snowing not only his belmet but belr way. bis face Gnd one shoulder. Zing! The runner disappeared and in a 4 went through “Jimmy Casey's” | moment reported to the Captain in and duWnm be tumoied into tue| charge of the work. Whispered orders b passed along a certain sector of the | ely the Lieutenant and} trenches, and soldiers began to pul renin Mie and beld @ teadily on certain lines hanging over | j a pe ® the parapet and away from our wire | showed ‘ aranet haa and out into no mats land moved ° uly marked, ‘The wound eee aite : VOD. | him in the left eye, passed through plop, plop uns was | his ud and emerge heard tho auld 11 the ropes guve His right ear, Tho Lieu a grand h 1 which jad |Mep of the 1p n the ground be On been touvte y isionally befor Nd ieegee eget 20 and the car idiers fell flat on r making some Hy the movable platform to which they | pencil on t the map he were fastened urew f sition in | Two days later th vas troopa| pceug to Ne jwhich had fooled the Germans into| mark the map indicating tne| ruins of the village back of the Ger- were sieve-like in appearance, Ma- carefully studied the village ru iw chine eun bullets had riddled them ‘brough a elas. evealing their machine gun position \ \\ The Flags of the Allied Nations A “Chinese Charge” with Dummies Fools the Ger-|THEY WILL ALL FLY ON FIFTH AVENUE TO-DAY, IN A DISPLAY THIRTY-FOUR BLOCKS LONG, FOR THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN. THESE PICTURES WILL HELP YOU IDENTIFY THEM. (The Story of Each Flag Will Be Told in a Series of Articles to Be Published in The Evening World.) UNITED STATES ENGLAND All Allied Nations FRANCE Po a —— HONDURAS TIBERIA <= NICARAGUA a7 46 Greece is} 4s Guatemala FJ asec 44 Haiti + | This Key, in connection with the pictures shoton above, will aid you in locating the 43 2. fiag of cach Allied Nation, Read the map upward from 26th Street, indicated by the numeral in the lower left corner, continuing in the same manner in each of the four columns ; , Ine), Pap 7 wr By Candidate ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, Fourth Observation Battery INSTRUCTING THE RECRUIT. ] accustomed to the blisters caused by the weight of t OR preliminary instruction a squad of raw recrusts is formed, It & down on their new army shoes. Many a + F you don't like ‘em too raw, you will find that four minutos’ roast- | wuiled by shooting the rifle too suddenly near his ing will inake ‘ens all hardbolled. | SOLDIER AT ATTENTION A squad consists of thin soldiers or four ¢ es | He the ground and as close ther as your army shoes permit should be aligi reding to complextion, as @ trv n Foe out equally and at an angle of forty deuree is much nea na rank of brunettes, Red-headed sold " the forty-five degrees docwn't mean Fahrenheit. ‘Th always bo hidden in the rear wil 1 wr that hia shoes are seven or eight ms too s Don't align your mon according to height. Mix crults up for ¢ In case of surprise attack he will be able to re with tall or This gives bizarre broken-toothed comb effect so | treat sta ven sizos without deserting his post popular in our army circles, uight, with the dimplss horizontal INSTRUCTIONS MINUS ARMS. lilps drawn in without any Hawalian floumshes, ‘There are no The raw recruits should be drilied without rif the ome | ukulelos © field musite. — dh Rai — _ Weight of the body distributed evenly on both feet. That means t to his neck | w By reference to his map he estab- | (0 his neck ate ahel? te 4 Chest arched and inflated Like stock in @ Pennsylvmnia munitiga ed that ine he had drawn ae ua through a hole in sual feck sed, for noses of his obacrva. Skull erect and chin drawn in so that the battery commander won't jon, through w w tu root called a runne 4d scribbled ca ¢ our Adam's apple ess stone struc! that bad served | Message w y uimht to the front, You are there to drill and not to ft abou utes | from fut have your head through the roof of your hat. ¥ t de the vilage women in days of peace | Qing e landed rahe ve your } ; , as @ community wash house, There|the wash house, Asother landed It you do it the QM. Department would soak you $1.75 for a ey had gathered to scrub and pound) little in front of it A third struck 4 vi y had 25 pee nae a 5 in fair, Othe € dint "i Kars must be kept within the ranks and as close togeth the thelr hou NG S308 OE" YAS eRe pot, Af att conforma of the soldier permits. of a stone-lined pool. ‘The pool was| from the sniper and tne papier ma Aine clog naturale at the sides, with thumbs folded neatly alon still full of water, covered with green | nead and torso of “Jimmy Casey” was| , : ta, wh Bh t | our money pockets, which should be as empty as a last year's bird's scum, That there was water in the! sent to battalion headquarters as Ex. | nest nd generally are. d been shown by photograph. D n the port 0. D prs potips Our eareplane Ghecrtern, | was incnted and ailencat’ Vaimeey In standing at the posttion of attention the soldier should be natural “Heinle,” said the Lieutenant to ‘himself, “is in that pool, probably up| room of the war. ) © Casey” {5 a product of the property mim yl and not rigid soldier ts just ag comfortable az an ant on « hot griddie. When properly executed tite position ts normal and the | AATOREAS SEPTEMBER 28, 1918 [ Red Cross News of the Week Allotments Made | Big American Advances Increa +s to All Red Cross Chapters for Work and More | Volunteer Workers Are Needed—New Activities of Local Chapters Include Plan to Get More “Smokes” for Soldiers, a Chapter “ Lunth Room” and New Classes in Red Cross Work. By Hazel V. Carter Hin and heipt tT P Never afore sino the verte: | Kiddie Movie Star hing of the war has there been | nt need tor volun-| Will Give Earnings most every division To the Red Cross va insted t \ Div feh an urge teer workers in al f the American I Women wor are 1 Lateve ters to turn out the increased allo luring the big American advance the model workr of the New| unty Chapter, No. 20 Bast 36un| Street, a call has been received for on enormous quantity of war relief sup plies The Sureies Dressing Department is working day nod ulec immediately: ave them , but scores of addi tonal workers are needed to complete | | the task ‘This tna call to Amertean women | to YOU | ITER will be an exhibition got! | match for the Bronx Chapter | Hugh we Reilly tr of the American Red Cross at Pelham Bay Public Links to-day. | UGH REILLY, No. 264 Nassau Jouly e {men at Pelham Bay | Street, Brooklyn, has been 48 n will be contestants. hoping that the Government © first half of the %6-hole match | would extend the a limit for regis- be held at 930 A. M. and t ation still f as to include 1 half at 2.20. Red Crows work. | t Rut chteen is the youth will go among Mca avigige St so-)iimit, Hugh w go Into Red Cross funds for the Hronx Chapter. | aie Sine bit tabla will be Thomas Ker- | % iain - id aoe he Siwanoy 1 full ff { movie star, All of his the I urst Clu arnings will go to the American Red Tver and Hugh Clasby | Co peeer et On sdays and ‘Thursda AVE you loaned your automo |2 to 230 F. M.. and on Oot. 2 @ Hone | | i tha Me eee Gl tay, Wednesday and Friday, 9.16 4 bile to the Now York County | ay ‘class will start. Further infore Chapter yet? nation regarding the courses and the “We need 100 cars immediately,” | dates on which they will start can be Mra. John Glenn, Chairman of the] obtained by applying at No, 160 Mone Home Service Section, sald yesterday 4 The Surgical It simply means that every car that) yom in open 4 loaned to us for a day permits us to care for four more families.” on Tuesdays a Thursdays f WAM. toa ?, M | and In the evenings on Tuesdays and Fridays from 7.20 to 9.30. N Dressings, Praatice 4 TER CHAPTER has es ed a bath house for the of the soldéers and sailors AW YORK COUNTY CHAPTER use of the American Red Cross will im tREoiieh the, otty collect “smokes” for the soldiers aria ®land satiors through the chain of 4 hav nite dur- | ninety stores In Manhattaa, it he sun son record that] w anced Priday a whole bi there within 450 men—bathed a half hour, EW YORK county Chapter of IN the American Red Cross has ew York County Chapter exeeu- lives believe the plan wilh bring im more smokes for the men in service r ever promulgated, xes will be placed opened its own lunch room atlin every one of the stores, These its headquarters, No, 389 Fifth Ave oxen will re ve clgarettes and -to- hue, it was announced to-day. i ns, as In previous The lunch room Ws on the fourth|¢ 1s will not DO ace j floor of the New York County Chap plan that when @ ter Headquarters at No, 389 Pitt mel! & package of Avenue. One of thé members of the il at the same time Lomay Mis How * preparin or a soldier or sailor, and mille, wet Vand h nthe box, and the same ap- (sp shes at & minimum oe all kinds of tobacco and Hto mom the Chapter. ore’s one w York County Chapter has stipulation to the Chap. ter luneh ments to have Oxes You must wash your own dishes. | 4 week, when the cone That iiembers patronizing the | tents will be forwarded tocamps and lunch room are asked to expedite the ital ; rder of things and wash their own| The co rating the cigas Yining stores voluntari a red to add At 10 A. M. each da advan ent, of the nis of the agente” of the lunchery tour the| exes when collec That in, it will ny ledd one-fourth of the contents from the company’s stock. and Lake ra. Only the women of the Chapter are entitled t |the lunch room privilege | “4 - jee ACE olive pits here for Red ‘ Teac A woman ov Staten Isl IA \ yn Teach-| aietcon the othac ane { ing ¢ lay and ey " - " tractive jning, in ome Hygicne and kets that were put @t each yt Care : \ Kir Aid f at every | to the Injured. urgical Dre rs r all of the band “Home Dietetics" should apply ots “ re would be fat the Teaching Centre ; oe on I}go Montague Street, § harcoal eh aay I "Klementary it ene, | msetion | 08 Mond Red Cross News Is Printed in The Jo mestin t Evening World Every PM. CF Aid,” O Ness Sse santmmntinnndl “Tea” in Rest Room Keeps Up the Spirits Of Red Cross Nurses in Hospital in France fow re is for the Amerioan slways at five o'clock. ne that the nurwe n of the war, m in American © to drop in for a ining ha s are showing Jerful tvength and the w spirit which the n ver | it is the only time in our day thal we Ave & MAIC | our troubles to each other,” a Red Crows nurse writes, “bu time ort that we | usualy forget our troubles when we get to the rest room and laugh theme Off in telling of the sunny side.” | to t is so 6