The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1919, Page 16

\\\ yy" a Ww Se Was \ an THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1919 Evening World Reporter Who Fought in the Line Tells Vivid Story of N. Y.Guardsmen in Battle First Instalment of of | a MAP OF SECTOR IN WHICH “BIG SHOW” WAS STAGED ‘HOW THE 27TH SMASHED THE HINDENBURG LINE ie we Kat Fai ‘i a \ SN ‘ oe rn ay “- at \ Clip Out and Keep for Reference in~Reading Further Instalments of Sergt. McLellan’s Story. ivid, First-Hand bine It Was the Prelimi Bout he Bi HINDEN BURG A Description of How Our New York Boys, | ine | [ormovs |4¢ Was the Frettminary Bou Before the Big TT Divisn ; vc on Sept. 29, Stormed and Smashed _ | |@rowe me, Fight—Quartered in the Peronne Sector 5 . * | WHERE He HINDEN BURG , the Big German Defense Line Which the ie Se oesies ira Peat ; They Awaited the Order to Move Into \ Garrise OF FIRE ope oO 99 Boche Had Thought Impregnable. | ; Battle Position for the ‘‘ Big Show’’—It - By Sergt. H. H. McLellan. | a Tse | Came Sept. 27. (Evening World reporter who served with the Intelligence Section of the ~ course TAKEN BATTALION | Tth Division). | q pa Af on ers even after a month in Fianders;and bombarding. We pot HE roads that run from Peronne, through Le Catelet to Landrectes, BATHS toe ve DIVISION'S | Miles of abandoned German am-| quarters in th» wood in the valley of the Somme, are broad and chalky, and amid the Nei races | munition dumps gave us an dea ot anny nelghs of t w ruins of fair Picardy's towns and villages serpentine their way Pht ad Aa dll aed Sp ac aekty (LU a Aah ULAR LA to the big railroad centres where the Germany Army massed its troops Ree rh artery mine Be ears hi debe z Hele | Woods, a trysting place for the belles} guns rained const and sent them into battle, On the morning of Sept. 29 those roads were rr 7 land beaux of Albert and Peronne, but (night, as we wendod our w sticky and slippery. By nightfall of that day they THe 277 DIVISION NauRey ,a meeting placo more recently of 12-|the woods amidst a p were red, red with the blood of New York boys who ‘TO BATTLE jinch naval shells, which mado the|the fol fell storming the formidable bastions of the Hin- ae HINDENBURG | woods stick out of a high hill like) Our try oar denburg Line. Line frayed feathers out of a green hat.| units moved into At noon of the 20th they were redder still, for the Tincourt Wood, the village of wound: | gradually and at men of the 27th Division—boys no longer, men over-| |ed—for in the previous battles of the /ocgan to study tt night—had broken through old Hindy at a cost known | si [Somme it was used by both British |on, yes, won only too well in the families where vacant chairs mark | a pang i TRC SERRE ; a" | heard xo much about from the sacrifice. The countryside was crimsoned. Dying! When the line crumbled Hindenburg | would follow, peace without victory] was cemented by ties of battle—were | to be where Persbing was. Perhaysit)tunes of the diy placed the town] aie saat tb ieee ae summer's sun never set upon bloodier ground in this| fell with it and German morale tum-| for them. $o it did. ordered to go ahead, They did.|is just as wll we did not join our| alternately in the British, then tne tis tine, but ou war The crash of that line was a great miltary | bled onto the heap. The m. s of BAPTIZED IN BELGIUM UNDER Clusters of machine guns sputtered at wn forces, for the chan we got 4) German hands—was the centre of our| an 1 earthquake, heard ‘round the world, Men of war who] Allied destiny foresaw the psychologi them as they hopped out of the|Hindy won our division its place in| infantry units. The Germans were | fought at Ypres and Verdun, and talk of them, are not| ©#! effect of such a crash. That was YPRES' GHOSTS. trenches and over the wire. Our boys| history. What a compliment the | still in the “to the rear march y ashamed to mention it In the same breath. The year was fading into| the reason why the strongest poirt| The 27th was in battle position at) went through like one shot taking | Br paid us the world now knows 1 tlons, but were dropping gentle pe Mids diols ba My winter when wo attacked the line and the job had to be done before| "%® Stlected by Foch 1 Haig for pore _Lake in August when| prisoners and leaving four lhe The British Four: Army, in which! minders in the way of 12-inch sh Me fete the German gopher dug himself in to add another year to the great attack, and why our fresh and anxious ei gel adda? hai began to unfold deaa for overy man of rs killed or] we were serving, shot us by trp /and bombs around the edge of po} ‘Vi Arndt: 1C- WOR dohe division was selected for th sk. of] He ae ting for a home run. At wounded, Our losses w a@ thou-|fiom Proven, just outside of Ypre4.| Bois de Buire. Our first night there | hue See Eee secs Cini aah _ that invulnerable spot, preas agented| Advanced headquarters in Douglas) sand, {to Beauquesie, where the barmaid’ | was a nightmare of aerial bombs. He | =Un* ani we can Taye 0 ried hecog lhcb die ladooltaghe pk Wipe Wikiensat eimlaiive tlk sa a Gal alike in Ge rmany and allied counties, Srila ‘ dd Ah be south of Ypr _s uch was our baptism of fire. The] were beautiful and the larks still] woe striking for camps, which were Laeeeranini : hae Sse Wad Gates cL ta Pakscid LAnareciee | FOR Beal) aualtared (Werven: fell the German soldier and those at| he cemeteries many, we| Germans claimed they knew we were| thriving. We stayed there in rest] thick through the valleys. ‘Thou- een aoe : home never would again believe in the| fecelved the news that Peronne and| occupying the trenches, because our| for two weeks refitting and training | sands of “Ladies from Hell" washed shot } and Le Catelet lay Aulnoye and Hir-| ‘The nail filled statue of von Hinden-| efficacy of lines or Hindenburs. St. Quentin were being encircled in] men were restless and always wanted| with tanks for the mission underltneip ynees around Templeaux le UAL Rie seis: son, where the distributing centres! burg in Berlia, no doubt donted now.| ay the world knows, and as the|that preciso way Foch had taken|to pick a fight, The fighting though| preparation at headquarters, Wel posse in the chill of the first water me SO pet eS Cee See great railroad yards, were located. Be-| was not the real monument to him.| casualty lists have told New York,| S°!8sons and Albert. As the lines on] was slow, even after we were well on| were sent to the Peronne area. Wel o¢ the morning and thousands of |°°w'd be seen and heard + heirs: tween the English Army and those] ‘The line, that was the thing that per-|the strongest point in Hindy fell to|th® big battle map on the western|our way and had planted our reg!-| passed through A and Peronne|-rommies scrubbed in their German| We remained in th ctor valued points lay the Hindenburg tine, | sonified him; that made him the idot| the 27th Division, which Just twolve| {font changed, we in Belgium longed | mental headquarters on the northern | ut dusk, through country where|neimets and brewed their “tay."| until Get y map out éesigned to keep Germany in France] of the people who were safe back of}month, before had smiled gheir way | fT ® chance to get in the show; for]slope of Kemmel—the hill of a thou-|tho Australians made their Grst Vateaas ‘troops from Egypt and South | now. u New Yorkers must § at least another year the Rhine because the line towered] gown Fifth Avenue. A fortnight|* (T'P to the historic battle flelds of|#and eyes commanding a view of|dents in the German line Albert Aerica ware billatad there besides cur! DAVE Fra his times i] Military experts who watched the! above and gouged into the uiils| after the battle the armistice was| te Somme, Then orders came for|the North Sea and of Relgium|and Peronne, entirely blotted out.| men, imbued with the bigger things | Yu will easily pick out Tincourt, St battle and afterward surveyed the] of Picardy and would surely svop the] presented to the German envoys at| fo" U8 to occupy Vierstrat Ridge and|for miles around, No wonder the /told us enough of the “d rs” bat-| ony stranathened by thE relurn yi p, 1 y, Tenpleanx Gerard 4 fields added to their praise the great] Allied armies. It was like his face,! La Chappelle, a little village which Chinese Trench and keep a weather| German clung to it for three years. | tle ot a wall was standing. The | wounded. and Little nS around th Itwas’ ¢ fact that thes breaking of this con-| heavy jowls and brutal chin, tecp set] was to have. twen included om ouc|¢%¢ 0M the northern slopes of Mount|Woe ached for something big to do.|broken trees, the shattered church |™ oe” |there we were quartered aw oT crete barrier was the most effestive| eyes and war god's massiveness, His| itinerary to Berlin via the line, Cap- Kemmel. No sooner had we made real| We wished for a big show. But how]wails, the splintered babies’ cribs| NOCTURNAL MUSIC FROM THE | bie show. tt woe here we xot our assault made upon the mo: of the] line, like his face, was massive and] tured rmans told us that when| fiends of Flanders trenches when|many of those who wished in Flan ried for vengeance, Well, we were | AIR. orders (0 move into battle positions, German soldiers and their civil backers} complex. Anything the brain behind| Bellicourt and Le Gatelet fel! instinct | "WS came back to us that the Boche|ders died in Picardy! n our way. They'd pay, Soldiers] There ts a difference in Gerry's) ( morale which was looking to a| these features puilt satistied the Boche.|obligingly told. them that peace} tetiring from Mount Kemmel|HE WANTED TO JOIN PERSHING | will continue to be idealistic crusad-|aerial activity. Thero is bomb ng} (To He Continued To- Morrow.) — % very quietly, Col, Taylor, our opera- AND HIS CREW. ieee eerie ——— —~——-——-— ~ — : a = |tions chief, damned the whole Ger-| When the order for our relief Harvard Infant Prodigy a Bolshevik e man army, for a day or so later we|came on Sept. 2 we gave way t — 4 ~ , f ’ | were scheduled to drive the Germans|the 41st British Division, which had 9, aaa", J A there for the winter, Their with-| through the mud from Mons and ha te. ed rodigies Rarely Achieve Big Success ‘: Jrawal upset that much of the plan. | stood at Ypres. They were not as| ze e sets | That might old Kemmel, his summit anxious to get in the Flan qaiped t on. “A Manual of Moral, Religious and Domestic A Jagged and flattened by four years of | trenc as we ere to get out ’ } The Ordinary Boy the One| ving its wars, discovering or adapting {choot mathematics and completed scandin Sy enran eae th|away to the b Dae tilieee ears Duties,” Written Seventy “Six Years Ago Who Makes Good in the|''* vsivavie and hidden truths [the secondary sehoot's entire course | sides, stood out against the reddened | we were going fo un American secto ° “You argue for p witout y {eae ‘ in five months ten he passed suc- | s he ¢ was being| where that big s ; » yo World —Sidis Announce-| iia.’ pienom LeARaAiIG: Wii Gano vit ATEROULECONE | UEIibel GOR CT Hes ALC tare ree Meccan CHR ARE Autay tne sla On the Peculiar Tempers of Men: plies yeue on eeaimwenty | ment Recalls Cases of Two)‘ {0 8 [teksse. esgniinailons, of, the. Hoslar mn, Neuve Elise and Locon and rice and hot cakes ag: And the Comments by a Modern Husband. minded church, 1 yuaintain that wou ivi ; : eM | Institute of Technology, and at eleven nyriad of corners were burn-|We would sec our own people, We subject to accidental ill or oF | an's position to-day proves Other Child Wonders, Nor - at litet electrified staid Boston and Cam-ling, Our men, together with the had learned aay Ara ant ‘ Si BY, Zoe Beckley. leairey ol eae ate ies tles enti fi u : broking on ete bert Wiener and Winifred ae oy of bridge by giving Harvard professors | Rebels from Tennessee and the Caro-| mies and their admirable plodding Nak A eed irr pga “To be sure, blemishes of this kind | discussion by fi in Mrs , " mM Sidis. PM @ lecture on that nebulous mathemat-|linas—aod our friendship for them|and tenacity in battle, Rut we wanted are Neen Men ee ten |often shade the brightest character, | spotlight “ f ‘ Sackville Stoner Jr. Surely he might | Jeal mystery, the fourth dimension, — | — = at e wanted yours day a book may be written lout they are never destructive of ; : civil nave posed as|} He finally entered Harvard at thir ee tice OTR Tee e for the “Young Husband” tolling | i Yetcity unican made #0 by heartily with the book tha meek : Marguerite Mooers Marshall. us Hone 2 ne teen, had Somplsten Ee : b 208 es solos and wan ives’ to heavy. phil. and having weak oy t. Winifred Miah ithe; oe coe bie young | fesentanent or opposition by the wife. |can never be seen in a more vidicue sosto: n and received his degree sophica ding. he t}on the contrary, is the picture o ; 2 ontradictior erefol hol “ cop 1919, by The Prom Pubitehing Co. boy, who lisped F later, in 1914 And then—what? | Tufte, in 1808, he bad pone further|health and nermal ehiaiet ares Witole Hoch of] nse are rene hi nly Raecaaeat Sars eee sands | tev The New York Ryening World in nothing less He went South to teach, and the Jast|!n chemistry and philosophy than the/and apparently devoid of unpleasant 1848 there fs no}, ties in tho temper should] it a nae ci husb. i Cae j ILLIAM JAMES SIDIS, Har-| than quadrisy) blished record of his activities 1s/4Verage senior, He took the four] self-consciousness and conceit. Her evidence that th0ls ocied in the lenderemt widunen” lauometimes, it pute ceac hike the vard's former infant progidy | lables summarized in the first paragraph of |¥¢ars" course in three years, recelving| mother is a charming and most en-| word had any Ma8-| Crore, there, darling, you havelcompulsion of tong ; Me ate and youngest A. B, has just | He n of thie axtitle. his A. Bat the age of fourteen andlergetic woman who asserts that culine application | snattered tho coffee pot upon mylequal of his wife mentally a been announced | Dr Sidia, Norbert Wiener, Harvard's—ang/® half, Then he entered Harvard's] Winifred's precocity is truly “Natur- whatever, “Reslg-|ieaq; but I loved it, dearest, [ feei|character. | envy the nu ee Me 4 us one of the for probably the world's—youngest Mh. D, hool, and at cighteen was|al Education." Yet one wonders if ia nation “duty,” |honored to have had the coffee pot] 1943! qn) eee chief lecturers in | Professor ¢ Titinbward:lccina ta the AAAs alt a Doctor of Philosophy. this learned little girl is likely to a “forbearance,” “pi- | broken on my head because it was| “What huppens ¢ ha erudite Boston's | University StHaE AE canny le iRiver Bro: | That was six years aso. In 1915} complish any really original achiev N YT tence,” “meckness.” |thy adored hand that did tt. Try stead of listening semnonncny newest educa: | books dealing with his chosen field | fessor, Dr. Le ol lhe was appointed unt professor! ment in her adult life. If she does,| § ‘ renunciation " —lthe sugarcbowh Light of my Lifet)—luron, morigee oe varentially to me tional expert- [of study. William James Sidis was | Wicner of the de-| of philosophy at Harvard, and he }sho will not follow the precedent laid! qoy-wacacey— these Were feminine |wyyt jf they be Ho habitual as not} my wite comes hi lip lrg ment—a group of {torn in this city, and, by one of] partment of Sla-| was one of the Harvard men enlisted | down by most infant prodigies! legion virtues, to be prassleasily to be altered, let them pass, I opinions of her own, bac Alene schools for baby ure’s {ronies, his birthday | vonic Languages by Archie Roosevelt for the 1916] Perhaps you had better be glaa|tised faithfully by the woman who|conjure you, unobserved, ures, statisiies, author te d a: polenevike, |Was All Fool's Day TPeeoe hensaned| Plattsburg Military Camp, that YOUR boy or girl is Just an or- | Would preserve peace in the conjugal] “Should the painful task of dealing} cial reports. 1 pine—am sre offs where children | His father had strongly defined edu hat Norbert en-| Winifred Sacky Stoner jr, is the |dinary fair-to-middli scholar tak- |S¢tfdom of her day, Every husbandiy | with a morose or tyrannical temper |other modern husbands eae know veeecn four and [eational the Baleoinie inwe: the l tare cyte pretty brown-eyed, —red-checked|ing learning in digestible mouthfuls |4¢reliction from “peculiar tempers’ |be assigned to you there ts little|~for the old-fashioned wine n learn to | education ¢ 6 averago child 1s be- | t¢ wile a. oe ster who startled New York]and not according to the technique of 10 absolute desertion must be “met|more to be recommended than pa-| “And yet—and yet". Sy ; intors| sun at too Inte a dnt tbat th Saeki r unchild turning Strassburg geese Into pate de|and overcome” by the m. of a| tient submission to an evil which ad-| Spotlight — paused vivaose Red Fla the onetime |typical public school tem braeda|tonly siscen atthal e learning four foie pras. weet, sweet smile, Oh, maudlin mush; | mits not of a (Do not e+! poratchod bis head, “eee ns tee cere hte hag PEN iiss “Aull puppsin. We: wavol lime so voun) years ago. Herf >_—_—_. oh, sacred slush! Oh, a | Nate for the coffee pot with the|riettu did deliver that lecture f Hene nae emer ttle W Aree MU tinokaCca plow that Tecan nother beer Reme r.” peeps the “Young|andirons, It is best to have a broken|the other night at the Pronhcee } See ane etna in reeent years |he could read, apell and write English | hin, ‘The reat er. an the fathers} “PU ZZLES. are sometime a inconsistent, They are | Whe re di W E, Henle y get that stuff homie Bvolution Fa sie boiet Dee eae Ha we nerine Hat E the Harvare | . ; driven by sudden starts of passion|about “under the bludgeonings of], He tapped an impatient foot upoi mens # ; Pee ‘ a how jue: all called ‘hint | ies taught! What's This Date? nto words or expressions ahier their | f my head is bloody but un-|[ {he Persian rug. tha underlay’ “hia aaate oa intelle a typewriter and had mom. "the infant.” 1 had plenty of op- | inom, Mrs. Stoner c vipa ngs may |bowed?") A woman can never be[Aesk: "Dear old ten, bless her ual achiever wo child ovis reds of fairy stories. At|portunity ARORA REG a Bee | By Sam Loyd, ieee! FU) SAMAR 2) be- | a more ridicuichis | than | peeuty tanens Gul and hustle for tied 1 ne wh ive he was an accomplished arith 4 : fi a ie . | have m or, some nen she attempts to I se. last year when | hud the pip: Js Harvard's youngest Ph, D.; and} speak I Polis and read | plum red cheeked, but not at a a ce | Laan ee wake -AND THE MODERN HUSBAND'S THEORIES Do you know''—Mr. By tiene mesa Winifred Sackville Stoner jr, who at} Latiy lane ume, and, Lt quite | she calls “Natural| | who was study PON these cholce morsels of ads) ously. “Angelic scntiment! ‘The wife|uetually at mene ty) enrietta is the age of twelve had written ten| W took him to} the me ery ange person of | Kxtucatior ] N | the cale U Vice T decided to permit #| of to-day 1s much more likely to call 1 OF courha ale ee, Tita: hea Looks and could speak eight lan- | scho well known leither sex 1 have ever met. Hi theia are acral . | plied: "1 modern husband to comment,| it ‘incompatibility of temperament’| At deal about ‘the technique “of guages, besides passed | skyr compared | han Piaishicacenl ci tue | that if we add up Proceeding to the sanctum of a prom. | and run to Reno with her phrase, Wetlog Tom me; she's very teach= through the equivalent of a college | w uthful Willie ‘ nia of h were | Winifred showed * |the dates that enwich Village nove sy’ “It is upsetting to come home and]inortal in quality. Hut (edo) sme course. “And still the marvel grew, | Sid primar antly twit He had ideas! New York she [te ulready ht, 1 showed him the| find instead of a nicely broiled chop|!" the kale-—1 mean ee ae that one small head could carry ali jand grammar vet up he | of his own, howey ne Was NO Mere} could do at the age of twelve: She |? cares this mont fo soing paragraphs, It seemed to} a nicely inscribed note upon the table | oan) Sale: She's w med and he (or she) knew.” rst year of the high schoc t 1 waa fac (rain apoke flueniy cient inn awoeciane land subaal os me that Mr. Spotlight was digesting | expressing sentiments so at variance] children supertls eee up the Bo far, no record shows that little |this period an atta typ diMdent in plact ein bie ne linoma Latin Llahun archer Gectnan: cae) Ene al the sentiments of the “Young Wife's} with the traditions of centuries, yes.” he wald, “Henristee i. Miss Stoner or young Wiener has |laid him up { me time nstructor and t . He wore | sp: inenceantoand Hoslahi eha Jsum total of the dates to come this| Book” with something very like satia- jodern troubles arise from the|!shtful companion. If only she were tuugtt in a school for feeding Bol-|actually put in about half a school! knickerbo and had,!yead and wrote nine languages; she|MeAth, the difference will be the date} faction, (1 have been obliged to in-| modern theory that the ruling spirit WENSPerM ADR Thee wis Ones teas ghevism to the young vertheless, |year in prc ny to the stage of |} remember Dlunt-fne played five or mix musical instea. [Of Me day after the day after to-|troduce Mr, Spotlight under a nom de| of the home is two-headed, Anything| though resttul, would’ oF 1848 no one of these three juvenile we he freshmar mare, tater fat a HE AAGER ATEN Gate Sisue sata choad cae, | morrow | plume.) two-headed {# a monster, Ask any{0f ® bore, Like Prohibition tom mar? ders scems likely to set the Hudson| Even at that proud and preceden she had taken the equivalent o¢| What was the date upon which yh, T clocuted, contirming| military man 1f two minds can order) (itle ,{rinker,” ud hoUBL= on fire, as they increase in years. | breaking height for an cight-year-old en months old | punt ¢¢ course: whe waa the| Bobby made his my wo ons, “turn backward] a regiment, or any cook if two salt-| stimula geet ot Something agrecably(” , Does it really pay to be a child | young found much i thred Snemias Buuighed Leow ie lin thy flight! Give us long suffering| ings wilk improve the broth. Or any| tion. After all, one can't nereee prodigy? Does it pay the child, or} work familiar to tudy ing bait | shames sad Answer toa Butcher's Profits P Jhusbands with modern wives the | preacher if two factions will lead hia| °Yiything.” a the child's parents, or society atjaom, “i iuuw a> iu a H 1/ 1 know that Norbert Wiener was| He invested his $100 in 9 chick-| placid paragon this book describes! | church into smooth paths! Am I not Modern Hucband aoe aed that the large? Are prodigies, grown to man- | years old,” he told « questioner in a |e, He canta Wrremen ang |& Most nervous Young prodigy, andens, 86 ducky and 5 turkeys, which at} ‘Peculiar (of the hus-! right?" demanded Mr, Spotlight, rump-| thing, He wants. tho uncombative, hood and womanhood, in the habit of | voice the latter described as “pitiful.” | Russian; at nine he could 1 son in his Shildhood William Sidis was seliing prices netted him a profit ot] band) ialalehe waeied ta ine tna ling his hair triumphantly, pliaul meekness of Liv old-tashiuned writing the world’s great books, win-|He tqvk six weeks to Anish high|problems in trigonometry and cal- described as being frail and nervous $21.26. derest manner,” he quoted unctu-| “Yes, you are not right,” x bupped.| Oe tne ena! the #1P and helpfulness ‘ 0 MINDENBURG . , <A \\\ \ THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, How the Division Lost ‘ | 1,000 Men in the Advance; | They Got ‘Four for One” In Their Baptism of Fire ¥ a = east 1919 { As- ee of the new, Voila!