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| ~aF qT . 4 a a A PAGE OF. AMERICAN WAR NEWS ~ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, STORY OF “LOST BATTALION” IN ARGONNE BROUGHT HERE BY U.S. OFFICER WHO ESCAPED Lieut. Arthur F, McKeogh, of The Sunday World, Had Stir- ting Adventures in Forest. SLEW THREE GERMANS. Fell Into “Funk Hole” on Top of Boches—Wounded by Enemy Officer, Lieut. Arthur F. McKeogh of the 808th Infantry, 77th Division, First National Army, graduate of the first Plattsburg Officers’ Training Camp and formerly on the staff of The Sun- day World, returned here to-day with twenty-four other officers who have just been appointed instructors. He brougtit the story of heroism per- formed by the men of his command during the dash through the Argonne Forest from Sept. 26 tc His story shed further light on the thrilling experiences of the “Lost Battalion,” which for some time was cut off inside the German lines, The returning officers are all mom- bers of the First National Army—all veterans of active service at the front for more than a year. They have re- ceived seven days’ leave prior to be- ginning their instruction at various training camps, but will work in the final dash of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Lieut. McKeogh, bronzed from long service in the trenches, spoke highly of the New York troops, whom he called the “Buttonhole Boys,” and it was his story of the fighting in the Argonne district that revealed the true American spirit under fire. “On Sept. 26 the 308th Infantry was ordered into the Argonne Forest, partly to relieve the French contin- gent and to extend the Yankee line for the first dash through the woods,” said Lieut, McKeogh, “At 6.30 A. M. the word came to go over the top, and We started forward in a dense fog with Major Whittlesey in command. “The advance continued the two fol- lowing days. We moved along rapid- ly and encountered very little ditf- culty, establishing runner posts in the rear. On the morning of the 29th we discovered that we had been moving too fast for the other commands, We reached L'Homme Mort, where the Crown Prince's army was checked in 1916, greatly in advance of the other divisions, one on each side. RAN INTO MACHINE GUN NESTS IN DEEP RAVINE. “We plunged into a deep ravine and found that we had walked right into several German machine gun nests. ‘They began to open fire upon ug and gradually worked around our left flank and opened up on us from the rear, {n this way they completely isolated us and it began to look hope- less. “Major Whittlesey was determined to establish communication with the| rear at any cost, and commanded me to pick fifteen good men and try to break back through the newly estab- lished German lines of attack. My men were armed with the deadly Chauchette, a light French rifle, and we left our position little knowing whether we would reach our lines alive, “We discovered on the first lap of the return that Runner Post No. 10 had been put out of action by the ma- chine gun fire from all sides. The} fire was so intense that I ordered my men to dig in around a small knoll We were #0 close to the Germans that one of their officers called on me to surrender—and you can imagine my veply. YM around us that at 7.30 A.M. I sent ing his advice whether to proceed or defend ourselves there as well as we could, He replied that 1 was to re- main there as long as possible and ordered me to send back all my men but two. As soon as the time arrived | I was to proceed toward our lines to carry on the original mission, “At noon that day the two runners | and myself plunged into the dens TEA Catching the bbe It is so economical compared with ordinary tea or with coffee. And then °". you have that inimitable flavour, *::'': a ) “The Germans were so well posted | ck word to Major Whittlesey ask- | PERSHING OFFICERS BACK IN U. S. AND LIEUT. M'KEOGH — PERSHING’S LATEST CASUALTY forest toward the American optposts. We avoided the forest paths for fear of detection, and while crawling along on our hands and knees at about 4 P. M. we almost collided with two German officers who had been sep- arated from their command. “They yelled something, and with my limited knowledge of the German language it sounded to me that the ery had been ‘Kamerad.’ Jack Mun- son of New York, the little runner who was with me and who was for- merly a buttonhole maker, knew Ger- man quite well and told me they were not surrendering to us, but wanted us to lie down to them. GERMAN AND YANKEE FIRE AND BOTH ARE HIT, “I called to Munson to drop to his stomach with me and we prepared to resist the Boches. We crept slowly forward on each other, crawling | Kan.; Second Lieut. J. B. Powell, 61st through the underbrush, Finally 1| Infantry, 6th Division, Raleigh, N. C.; fot a good sight on one of them and , Second Lieut. H. N. Stephenson, 313th fired. He let me have his at the game | Infantry, 29th Division, Stephenson instant. My shot struck him be- Depot, Va.; First Lieut. B. J. Dash- tween the eyes and he rolled over| Mell, 116th Infantry, dead. His bullet entered the under | Snow Hill, Md. part of my right arm, Second Lieut. Charles G. Cooley, “I found some papers on the dead| 14th Infantry, 29th Division, Balti- Boche that later proved of interest |™mor, Md.; First Lieut. L. BE. Syn- to headquarters, A moment later|derm, 146th Infantry, 37th Division, | Munson came running up and told me| Akron, O.; First iLeut. Philip 7 the other Boche had turned tail and| Williams, 143d Infantry, 36th Division fled, It was thea getting dark, and| Greensburg, Ky.; First Lieut. Garland we moved along as well: as we could,|D. Runnels, 144th Infantry, 36th Divi- | I became separated from Munson and | sion, Grosbeck, Tex.; Capt. Frank L. | the other runner in the darkness, and|Culin jr, 30th Infantry, 3d Division, almost immediately I fell into a Ger- | Tucson, Ariz.; Second Lieut M.| man funk hole—a small trench heavily | Haas, 311th Infantry, 78th Division, | camouflaged by branches and foliage, | Delance, N. J.; Second Lieut, A. R.| “Fortunately I found it empty and! Normant, 326th Infantry, 82d Division, | climbed out and staggered on, I was|Hirmingham, Ala.; Second Lieut. H.| so close to the Germans all the way |G. Leedy, 353d Infantry, 89th Division, that several times I could hear them |Plattsburg, Mo.; Second Lieut posting their sentries, Then—crash! | Charles L. Green, 137th Infantry, 33d I plunged headlong into another funk | Division, Chicago hole, but this time I landed with all > big toch oe sneamowsess © RUSSIAN FLAG IS RAISED | proved more startied than 1, aithourn| AT THE ALTAR OF LIBERTY I was so surprised that I blurted th Division, | | shell and so bad he John L. Toole, Com fantry, a fe Post-Offic | bak ; | Thousands Weep and Cheer at Cer- as iss los? which is about all] ; ‘ the German I could speak emony in Mad n Square— “Vas iss los? replied the German | Ambassador Speaks. I was straddling: but before he could| sren who thought they had known regain his senses I put my automatic 5 Ea fll SAGAN RET HACASLAP to his head and fired. I then jumped | 1O"S 2&0 the full my . of Liberty changed their minds to-day off and shot the other one through! i214 wept and cheered when the flag Che stomach: of Russia was lifted above that altar. “I was more dead than alive when I |” y+ way different, ‘The flags of other crawled out of that hole, but kept on! gree nations of the alliance against au- going, determined to reach our lines if it took all my remaining strength I guess I was favored pretty well, be cause I staggered into our advance outpost at about 7.30 A. M. without encountering any more Boches. | “They took me to headquarters and| was ete I suddenly remembered that I hadn't! atic party, headed by Amba eaten for two days, The Colonel|pakhmeteff, and escorted by s realized my plight and ordered me to| and sailors of the United States. The sit right down and eat the hot cakes! Russian army and navy also were which had just ben prepared for him. represented by Col. A. M. Nikolaieff, Then I learned that another division | military attache, and Capt. LV. had been sent out to relieve my com- |M ichtovt, naval attache, It was after rades fighting to the death in the! Col, Nikolaieff had raised the Rus- forest and that my mission had been | sian flag that the Ambassador spoke, fulfilled,” “We can see now the dawn of tri+ As soon as Lieut, McKeogh had re-|umph in this est of all wars,” covered he was told he had been com- | said, “this war for the freedom of all missioned to return home as an in-|the world, for the vindication of hu- structor. | man rights, My own Russia has gone | The names and commands of the | through an agonizing collapse, but it} men who returned with Lieut. Mc-|is temporary, and R | Keogh are as follows: |again—is rising—s Major Curtis C, Rorebeck, officer in| before, a free nation, The hope of Joharge; Capt. Paul Goold, 338th In- | Russia is in the triumph of the Allied | | fantry, 82d Division, No, 226 West 78th | C@Us® and that Los iol ald | Street, New York; Firsy Lieut. Thomas S Joyce, Sith Intantr$, ith Division, | MOUVET SPEAKS FOR LOAN. |No, 1466 Hoe Avenue, Bronx; First viet Lieut. Arthur F. McKeogh, No, 52|Corporal at Liberty East 93d Street, New York; First | mands Barbariam Be Sta Syl Blavts Ge Ws Hahnal; 108d Intantry) |» cure. Geer Meuvel of the French . Foreign Legion opened the perfc n Division; Second Lieut, E. F.| arco at the Liberty Theatre ain jr, 18th Infantry, let Di-|gtrect and Fifth Avenue with a Elizabeth, N. Y.; Second Lieut. | peal to the people to buy b R. E, Ostrander, 30th Infantry, 77th | order to stamp out everything Ger Division, Kin ton, N. Y, man. i Mouvet born in New tocracy had floated over the altar be fore. But here was the flag of a na- tion yet fighting to be free. And the spectacle was one not to be forgotten Thousands of Russians were in the great crowd through which a lane i for the Russian diplo- dor ter than ever | Mc vision, | Firat Lieut, J, Hi Courtney, sistn| }0r* of Beleten parents. wont tn |Infantry, 78th Division, Itacaha, N.| sunk. He has been gassed, wounded NC 20th | and ted ha By Oratk, 120th I betieve the war will last long oth Division, Memphis,/enough for me to go back on. the Lieut. W. H. Scott, 51st | field,” Corp. Mouvet jared. “I pray | God ‘it will Jast until all German bar Infantry, 6th Division, Washington, | barism is stamped D. C. First eut. Baldwin Robert > n, 362d Infantry, 91st Division, Salt ELLS $1,250,000 B Lake City; Second Lieut, Paul Royer, s $ Lastaliol ONDS. 103d Infantry, 26th Division, Abilen Y.; Second Lieut. J | Infantry, | Tenn.; Firs ‘oliceman “Big BIL” Roberts Gets 81,000,000 Im One Ballding. & Bill’ Roberts, the stalwart pa- Street and Broadway, has so 000 in Liberty Bonds He paid two visits to the Telegraph and Telephone Building. The first} netted him $50,000, and to-day he got| $1,000,000. Other’ friends purchased bonds to the amount of $200,000 $1,250,- |DOCTOR DIES OF PNEUMONIA. | Port Chester © Patients, died in. the ‘ort Chester to-day * was a graduate of clans and Surgeons 1 Hospital mber of the New York and Westchester Medical and @ number of fraternal Oreapisations |Dr. Charles Rytte | United Hospital shrapnel wound serg hole I was hit again.” after that, he writes, an explosive bullet broke his wrist Brown of No, 44 Harrison Morristown action in France his br was cited for gallantry in action. Charles was wounded four times by shrapnel on the night of Aug. 13, but ing to letters to his pi brothers had enlisted t old 7th Regiment of New York and went to They were together in an advanced post when @ shell landed in their group. Charles was hit and Russell, he| Mrs. Patrick J. Met Summit Road, Elizabeth, wounded in action on with the Leat for bravery in action, He went a will rise}through the battles of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood without re- ceiving a scratch, He ix twenty-thee ye }1917, in Company ©, br 1 de His letter wa oficial notice to his # and Mrs, Annie Mack, gives Sept, 5 s the date of his 30, Was a pat in the old 23d New York Re he ou! He 106th Infantry, He is twenty-nin trolman who directs traffic at Dey|t¢ fiv |H |General ¢ ng, in behalf tionary Forces and himyelf, has cabled Ja letter of t the Eddystone rifle plant of the Mid vale Stecl and Ordnance Company, ing to do dur the General said 2TTHDIISIONBOY WOUNDED 3 TIMES IN THE'BIG PUSH? Sergt. John L. Toole, 106th} Infantry, Quit Hospital in Time for Flanders Attack. Buried alive by the explosion of a burt he was in a ee days, Sergt any E, 106th In rmer clerk in the y at No. 212 14th Stree We went over the top, . Brooklyn. he writes. "In forty-five minutes I received a! As we were short of ants, I carried on for about two hours, when one of the boys fell, and while trying to get him into @ shell A short time On the same day that Charles A street, N. J., was wounded in ther, Russell, now out of danger, recuperating in base hospital in England, accord- ents. The ther in the h Division. detailed for stretcher work, helped to bring his brother to the dressing sta- | tion, James C. McGrath, son of Mr. and ath, No, 104 pt. 13, was decorated vix de Guerre and Palm rs old, and enlisted in August, 1 Infantry, A r, William, is with the Marines. T'wo days after he wrote home that was going over the top, Corpl. Isaac Goldberg of No. 135 Chryatie | Street, who used to be star pite for the or Saxon Athletic Club and a mber of St. Mark's Boys’ Club, dicd n wounds in action, according to patch from the War Department dated Sept, 3 and the Mrs. Roe death ice, wounded on Aug. man when he enlisid ment at yreak of the Mexican trouble, went to France with Company iH, William A. ¢ and had been in the Pol years, His mothe 6, lives at No, 125 1-2 yn Ward jr. of No, 111 Brooklyn, was wound- according to to-day's He wrote his parents 31 that he had had his gas m. for four days and that when Kk it off he “got his,” He is twenty years old and went to France with Thomas R rs Aven ——— THANKS OF PERSHING. Rifle Plant ployeen’ Pledge. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Gen, Persh. of American Expedi nks to the workers of tone n reply to. their t 1,000,000 rifles to within a year . you have are doing now for What you are go & the coming months,’ for Ww host of a Manhattan, went back to} the lines in time for the “big push in Flanders, and was three times. He is now in a base hos- pital at Dartmouth, just written home to his parents, who | mittee to provide for the enlarged n wounded | war programme during the England, and has | lin developing a adquarters Company, 308th In-/, $6,349,799,664 MEASUREFOR WAR PURPOSEIN HOUSE Largest Deficiency Bill May Be Passed To-Morrow — Pro- vides for 5,000,000 Army. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Imme | diate consideration was given by the | House to-day to the Military Defic ng $6,345,755,000, jency Bill, car! reported by the Appropriations Com- nine months, Leaders said the ure would be passed to-morrow. | “This is a measure providing for ution of the war with the the prose utmost vigor Chairman Shirley in presenting t bill, “In its preparation no consi¢ eration was given to recent events, No money thas b on the war.” An army of about teen in training at home by July ne calls for, ‘To prepare and mainta the amount now propo the annual Army Bill and the Fortitl cations Bill, It will bring the total appropriations and authorizations for the year up to $36,000,000,000 Gen, Mare), appearing before the committes when the bill was drafted, described it as the “maximum effo for a an He pointed to the fect of such a measure. Legislative features of the dill in- at War Salvage end ll be made of property acquired by the clude a section authorizing Presid Wilson to establish « Commission which would recomr to Congress what disposition sh Government during the war, Powers of would be inert ize extension of the facilities of ship yards, dry docks, marine railways and piers. Authorify also granted to 0,000 sricultural activities the War Department to use $: on land controlled by the army. More than half of the total of appr carried in the bill is for the Ordnance Department, to permit the ordnance needs until Dec, 31, 1919 Gen, Horney, head of the Ordnance | calls for 14,400 new Hureau, told the committee new programe guns for the in rtillery > FAIRBANKS FLYING HERE. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Dougias Fairbank Washington for New York this morning at 11.45 o'ciock in mail airplane to seek a man who w match Bernard M. Baruch's m dolla plion to the Fourth Lib y Loar He carried a fragment of shell fro: the long range gun that bombard Paris, lent ary Raker to pu on exhibition New York R. M. DIXON DIES SUDDENLY. | Dixon, President af the Heating and Light No. Rector Street om. cken muddenly with acute tndiges at his home in Kast 0. morning and died a few hours after 1,200 © Under German LONDON, Oct. 16.—Twelve hundred Villans were found in, the city of when the British and French reached the piace Monday ording to the Mail's correspondent at British headquart ‘8. They had been living more or less normal life there during the Gorman occupation of the city, MS KEOGH ‘WOULD BAR GERMANY FROM PEACE COUNCILS a IKONDSERG: Rudol h, 390 State St.) Hannes, F coming} Punishment for Outlaw Nation nd despateh," said | n denied that is believed necessary to carry | ll international 000,000 men, | Jelghty divisions in France and eigh- t, is what the new programme Mit) Internationa dis sought ih addition to $17,500,000,000 provided by | ever highly place assumption that nite maximum perform- oral ef- AMERICANS HELD PRISON - | prison camps, innounced t Shipping Board] ased so as to author- HENNESSY, William Francis, WALTHER, Frank. 407 East yriations and authorizations Seek Millton- was nge this | LIST OF 436 FROM THE FRONT | _ SWELLS TOTAL ROLL TO 52,430 10,275 Have Met Death in Action, 15,099 Are | Wounded Severely, 3,256 Injured, Degree Undetermined, and 6,441 Are Missing. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The latest KULAC, Julian, Harrower, N. Y. army casualty list of 426 names given | KUPSICK, Harry, Saranac Lake, N.Ve out to-day by the War Department |HGONARO, Clarence T, Glendaley makes the grand total of casualties | LEWIS, Frank E., 38 North Third Sty suffered abroad 52,430, of which 10,27 Newark, N. J. ‘ Lwin Weinert, Te have beon killed in action. MARTY, Charles, Woodbridge, N. Je ‘The list is divided as follows: Killed | L\RCLAY, Wiliam Bae E. ‘oth Ste In action, 62; missing in action, 26; |OWOPRIO. Baul, 248 Wounded weverely, 182; died from FIERMONTE, Giuseppe, Syracuey wounds, 31; died from accident and N. other causes, 4; died of disease, 26; Ovi, nm A. AM ta. Mion wounded, degree ur dertermined, 106. bah le DISEASE. In addition to 10 killed in ac- erneante, tion, 15,099 have been wounded ee-|Kalm ‘itenty “Ghieceeot™ Pe verely; 3,266 wounded, degree unde- | 'AMON. Alm termined, and 6,441 missing in action. ifton, ‘Tex Corporals. IRAN, Sidney J., Millerton, N. ¥. he List follows rf INNOR. Lawrence 9. Lancaster, O, | KILLED IN ACTION. SHON, Marry Wh (Dattind. Cal | Lieutenant. rn cn a TOWHLA, William Arthur, Aron, Pe, ele: —— "ei ak, ing Sergeant. . es mance Rg Beth FISHER, William, heranere, Pe aw om, rivate Corporals, BAKER, Biljad Boykine, Va BRTAN, Guy M., Spokane, Wash BLUMENTHA ; DOUGHTY, Christopner, F. Ro vane ares Se Ore Haven,| Av., New York City. N. J. RRR eee if Hofan nd, Mich. , ONSERIN Wenjamin, Philadelp FRYE, Daley R., Sapulpa, Ota, BUTRIN, Athert fe Chicago New Gtiitond, Pa {harioue Cour Howse, Va, in WATKINS, Emerys M., Fallandee, CLARY. vA 1, Follandiee, W, Va avin COOPER,. Merle ©,, Sand Springs, Olde, x HENDRIX, James E., Hoy. Ala, OPMLEI, Pred G., Unricheville, 0. Vai Mechania CUNNINGHAM, ‘Harold B.. Mam CHAPMAN, Leslie Kellogg, Auburn,| neck, N. Y. | NY, EMERICH, Clarence J., Webster, N.Y, ‘. Wagoner. GOODALE, George F., 135 Milton Sty SATTLER, 1 et Brooklyn. | _— jeburgh. GREEN Joe Z Mount Boterprine, Tex, Privat HACKERT Andrew M_ Buffalo, Wyo. HALLDORSON. Tealoh E., Ohicamo, HAMAEETON. HE F) Lancaster, Pa DIED FROM ACCIDENT AND BASTIAN, Antom C., Wayne, Neb, WaltKDS, Helmer L., Gewantown, Mian, OHEESTUE, Maynard Lae a, M CLARK, Merlin H,, Potteraville, N. Y. OTHER CAUSES. Oe aes Aniello, 260 Jackson Sergeant. Jersey City, N. de BLLAS, Fife W., jr, Chattanooga, ‘Tene FERRARESE, John, Nyack, N. Y. Privates. Sk ry HEAVEY, Harry, 65 Clinton Av. Jers i sey City, N. J. Mista ebay Sal i MANE CU ICEL Niet J. Woremgter, Mana f clay VANTIN OK Wirmin ©. Mishawaks Ind. WOUNDED SEVERELY IN ACTION | Lieutenants. LANOUETTE, Kenneth PFEIFFER, ite Sere |" Perth Amboy, N. Bonnisse"s | MARONA, George, 223 Mott St, New| frais n i ST Bari, ob Petit See IMIDE oan Cs Pixtemouth, 0. SHTELDS, Lex. Mienville, La OOLE, John L., 280 10th St., Brooke THOMPSON, Willa: J. 43 Taft Av. lyn. iF, wit -§ as Va eons — - on (Continued on Fourth Page.) | a eee M., Burlington, Vt. ROUSE, Clare, Galena, ti ‘Ale | SANDSTORM Arthur, Rockford 11. HURLEY, Alon S RIPE, 6] xrutiuon Ala STEIN an Antonio, Tes. PILLATA taly THE XWAFFER, Willle, Tupolo, Obl Beg eietee, | | NEW CROP | WOODRUFF, Jam | DIED FROM WOUNDS. | Captain. MANTIN, William HL. Haslehurst, Mase | rie To i (e} | Miuweat, nugar'P. Mout Corporal ALLISON, & is Gr p f; i GOLOBERG, Isaac, 135 Chrystie St. apefruit |” New York City. | LASHER, John K. jr, 396 Palisade | MOLTZEN, Geo “Watle Ohi Privates. ‘Jaiciest Fruit in the World”” ALVATER, Clayton Ca: Pittstown, |_'M, 3 x ‘ Every golden globe Re et "i bursting with lus- cious juice! Vest icatna CROMARTY, ‘William. Orchard %.,/ The name “TROPIKO” is on Liberty, EMMONS, Lawrence, 434 Berger, 8t., every wrapper M your desler is unable to supply you, write Newark, N. J. Porte Rice Freit Exchange, 202 Franklin St,, New Terk City GAUGHN. Thome J. St 60800, “William, 8 andaken, N.Y. GUILEFUSS, Clarence F., Athe: N.Y. HOFF, Cleon T., Binghamton, N. Y. (From the Diary of a Real American) Oct. 16th ‘Last night, I saved elec- ‘ricity by turning off all the lights—but one! And I ate a 2c Tootsie Roll instead of smok- ing a cigar.” ¢ Sweets Company 416-422 W. 45th St., New York