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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1919 Going on First Patrol, ——. ‘Seeking a Hidden Enemy, Greatest Thrill of War' Alabama Held the Line Could Control No Man’s Land—An Exciting Ex- perience That Called for Mental Skill, Cunning and Courage and Bodily Strength. By J. M. Loughborough (Former Captain, Intelligence Officer for 805th Infantry, N. A.) Hi greatest thrill cunning and cou. Our division of the war I experienced was going on my first patrol—and there Is no greater thrill than that kind of work. When a man goes “over the top” in an ofdinary advance, he goes to make a certain objective, But when he gves out with or leads @ patrol he {8 on an expedition that requires mental skill, rage and bodily strength. of New York City boys—the 77th— from the wrecked and deserted City of Henbeviller, on the left, to a road connecting up the Villages of Reberry and Vaxs French were on the left of the 305th, and on the right ran the 306th, 307th, and 308th respectively. From Herbeviller to the Village of | Domevre extended the Paris-Strass- | burg road, once a fine boulevard, but | filled with shell-holes and traps when | we were there, Opposite the Village | of Domevre was a stretch of woods | called the Bots-de-Banal, covering | about two miles in length and oye In| depth. It was a veritable hell-tol decause the Germans threw gas shells | there once a day, and it was filled| with old barbed wire placed there by the French, Alongside the Parts-Strassburg road ran one of our communication trenches, which connected with our front line, facing Domevre. The front Mine trenches were used as outposts, and in gome cases there were big gaps Detween these posts. For imstance, from Herbeviller along the Paris | Strassburg road, the communication trench already mentioned had no out-| post for a distance of half a milo. ‘The Germans would “plant” snipers in trees along the Paris-Strassburg road, and along about dusk they would get buay: Then the Germans ‘would gend out heavy night patrols. ‘These explanations and incidents are related just to show what the New York City soldiers found them- salves up against at thelr first entry into the war, New York boys tormod half of the outposts already men- tioned, and French soldiers formed the other half, The French soldiers were brave, energetic and great good friends of the New Yorkers, whose “pop” appealed to them. The French | advised defensive warfare in that sector, while the American soldiers thought they ought to go over to Do- mevre and “shoot up” the Germans every night. Meantime, German patrols were iin- usually active, Evidently it was the idea of the Boche that he could con- tro] no man’s land against our divi+ gion, He would send patrols of from nville on the right. The en = VJAMES LOUGH BORGOGH == munteation trench and about thirty yards from the outpost when the wildest sort of commotion broke out there. exploded, and there was fire from automatic rifles, My first thought was that the outpost mistook us for Germans, ward to give our password, He came wok that a German had been spotted by the outpost, which had opened up on thei patrol Here was the chance we were after.| ang we knew the re We went to the outpost, and I re- member seeing the two Americans standing on the edge of the trench, fully exposed to German firing. One of them was firing nades from a rifle whil was hurling hand bo were uttering language that the air seem “blue,” as snatches of thetr defiance were he. fermans in the Lorraine Sector Had an Idea They, was in the Lorraine sector when this, my first patrol,’ started out. The 305th Infantry occupied the sub-sector La Blette, running! Hand and rifle grenades were! 60 a man was sent for-' in great excitement, reporting ting the Boche would reach us when \\\ \\ \\ UY \\\ \\ \\\ Vere > The Boches Couldn’t Break On the Iarne Salient Front Line Had Been Expected to Yield—It Bent a Little, Then Bent Back, and a Counter Attack Broke the German Waves—T he “‘Overwhelmers” Were Overwhelmed. By Joseph A. Brady (Former First Lieutenant Fifth United States Marines.) Conyright, 1919, by The Prone Put antly, One hour before we had concluded a} dinner given in honor of the Fi National Fete Day. It had been a gay, | rollicking meal, leaving all of us for- getful of the strain of approaching battle, when one of the French otfl suddenly asked for the attention of the crowd. He got it and he held it when they heard his first few words “Gentlemen, in an hour, just at nie ni ne ie Peoaoner boys have reached the barbed wire midnight, the German offensive to wan detving Was da Ge oF Muretlane and are going through it with the widen the Marne salient and sweep haat Ngcot rman-sounding tanks, Tho fog has lifted somewhat, down on Paris will start,” the F Wins th eh G:Keee MORE OREN. but the smoke screens are still being French officer said. “We are fully in- tus da a panseigar and: wan figuriik thrown out. I have seen the first | formed and prepared. Your bat- that ec ale Wout: walle dtd bAeeS AY man fal in this battle, They full | talion will be in the line of resistance. Phike iiniine ok 64 thine little boulks with upraised arms, holding their The front may break—the Germans thus far have always broken the first N the night of July 14 French and seven American, room of a little house tn a town on the a with eyes intent on their wrist watches they counted off the last minute before midnight. of midnight they line, Then they will meet your line at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning, ac- | cording to their schedule. We know you will keep in mind that your mis- {sion 1s to kill Germans, to kill, kill and kill! May I wish you all bon chance and assure you that the poilu will be at his post?" For an hour we talked and talked and dragged out maps and tried to figure out to the minute just what la sat in looked On Ing 0, (The New York Evening World.) t fourteen officers, seven dining Marti, the the second up and Istened expect: | It came, @ great surge of pounding sound , rolling for miles along the front about three miles “07 ahead of us. A few seconds later we heard the big! wot ones swishing through the alr above the house, then came the dull whistling of the gas shells and finally | the scream and crash on the hills about of the shells and the fleld pleces. | Whipped Three Foe Planes ° ee — Without Firing a Shot | Jack Welsh Was the Pilot, the Writer the Passenger —The Plane Was Old, Slow and Unarmed, but When It Dropped Out of a Cloud Bank and Headed for the Boches They Turned Tail. By Gerald C. Smith. Late First Lieutenant U. 8. Air Service, Copmright, 1919, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Pvening World.) YS ee WAS Just after Gen, Pershing had issued the order forbidding “ferry pilots” to take up ammunition with! them that Jack Welsh ,of Saratoga, N. Y., First Lleu- tenant U. 8. Air Service and ferry pilot par excel. | lence, was given a mission driving ap aeroplane trom! Colomby les Belles to the big American acceptance drome at Orley, near Parts, Saetel. pines trom one feld to another and br x back old | and condemned ones In their places, A ferry pilot accepis all sorts of | risks without seeing anything of actual warfare, but in the early stages | of the many of the pilots en- . - ged in this work used to slip over the lines and have a go with Frits jon their owns. Result; Many avia- tors and machines were lost, and hence the edict in regard to ammuni- | tion, So when Jack Welsh “took off" at vard tables in Paris in two hours, But as I looked at the compass in | the rear seat I saw that the course Welsh was taking Iay not In the di- rection of Paris but due Kast. That meant toward the front, I knew, and 1 wasn't wrong in gucewing that my da at least guing to have a ate bird's eye view of the | ute pri trenches, We came out of the clouds at Ver- | dun and there, to my dismay, no more [than 400 feet beneath us floated three How a Bold U.S. Pilot ' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1919 IN. Y. Guardsmen in Battle; How the 27th Smashed The Hindenburg Line | Zero Hour Was 5 A. M.—-The 27th Went Into Battle ~-What They Did When They Got Going Is Here Told in Chronological Form by Sergt. McLellan —He Describes the Battle Step by Step. By Sergt. H. H. McLellan of the 107th Regt. (Evening World Reporter Who Served With the Intelligence Section of the 27th Division.) Copyright, 1919, by The Pram Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) BRO hour and jumping off place-—such names! At 6.20 the boys from New York would begin to live a ne life, and in some of It many would not live through their infancy An hour before zero they knew what was coming. They were to pause an instant on the tape while the barrage got well under way, The ne up was from Vendhuile on the north to the outskirts of Bellecourt on the south, Four thousand yards ahead Hindy’s black heights loomed up. The 30th Division, always on our south, here, as at home, were flanking us, and they In turn were flanked by the uch Tenth Army, which, by the way, was the first time our corps had fought with the French. The Third British Corps took care of our north- Now a ferry pilot's Job, be tt known, 1s dodged by|ern flank. ‘The mettle of our men was the best. The damp night in their all aviators, It means that he must spend his ex-| pup tents failed to dispirit them. ae ee istence—-which may not be a long one—ferrying new! From 6.20 on J will leave to my diary, Je at the time and therefore reli- able: 5.20—The barrage ts boiling. There is a slight fog and smoke s‘reens which are helping our men. The suc ceasive waves are advancing, men rushing In between the tanks and be- hind them, fring they run. The tanks are preceding them. 6.40-The German counter barrage ts falling and the noise of the ma chine guns cannet be heard. Tne funds, Blue Cross gas is being used by the enemy and our men do not | adjust thelr masks, They fasten the | hose clip and insert the mouthpiece }and go ahead with eyes unfettered, ‘The stretcher bearers are there, 5.50—Every five minutes our men dis- appear in small gulleys, and all that is left to show our line are the tops of the iron turtles, A tank ts lifted | Very poor, and the Germans do not centre of the advancing line # is perfect An reconnaissance machines, To another miné and is lifted off the . ‘he line does not advance the front line would be over-| me it seemed that the game was all earth but does not go on, Stretcher |{7,0"405" Shape. The mutual protess |whelmed. We knew the front line Gp Wa Ware 1A. a inlbwol weracont earcra go tp it and carry out the men Hoa) tiey a9 Riving each other 4s mission to kill, the same ag ours, neared the earth they stralehtened | 7@¢hine and to run would mean that while the tank next to it stops stock iC did. ‘They are running and fall. line BOOB} oct ana made straight to the Boches would easily overtake us stil and bursts into flames. Ute men | sisted agen but it. eee eae jwhich he was to be stopped was fur- On balloon over cur heat: Tea {and then, without a round of ammu- throw their rifles out of the ports | 10" i bona but it lasts only & Italtan-‘ ther back, so we were just to hack RAW Glas coGanan ean tion, we'd I “turkey.” and leap into the open, their clothes |(ynn® When it stops the tanks ad- him to pieces and weaken bim fF | nao of game und smoke the ba The same thoughts were flashing ablaze, ‘They Join the doughboys, | j.1 Aa ea ti he Goce the attack on the real line in the] yin! 0 0 1998) rough Welsh's mind, but with them those who do not remain where they (9 0h ueatn ome anene nome | Te &re-jrear, And then as midnight came WO) goo jity the batterie ime another, Without hesitation he hit the ground and burned. One vf |, Sy tii teriiean-ena tice ae the other grew silent, and maybe a few of us|, eae @ Opened Ch) ved forward tis joy-atiok,. the cur heavies strikes a ittle knoll, and|trained their machine pag ney aye ine ie : s|them as they darted away. One of ae ie PP 5 , chine | Aispsopiglt aeinial acapella oats bs, and both just wondered where we would bl in .m few 300 toot over my head as 1} 0% Of our machine fell suddenly German gunners and machine guns! smoke. ‘The no -Suns into. vee made the next night, looked up in ianeieat, Gt Jown and with a rush of air that jo Up In the alr, A small party Of] wn. waite SORE Pe eee bed j And then it came and through the |i uring balloon and I saw bis so: threatened to tear the struts and Germans, mostly wounded, steal out sate at Camp Wadsworth for their chance Into the alr by a mine, but stilt it} *e™ to care much for the outer lines * goes on while another tank tn tho| °F defense kes 6.00—The Haison between our lads “urd between night we hugged the telephone and wires from the plane we dived right of dugeut led by an officer, wh if : face as ho looked over the side. As plane sh ‘ dug y an WhO! int twenty-five to forty men lumbering | bombs, Tho Germans were in the waited for news, waited tor the word | ns at” Fe ver the side, A®) tor the trio of Germana comes out holding ia his hands, which |e War” across the apace between his line and | Woods and returning the fire, ‘that was to send our men rushing | wien mach haan) i the rsd] qne brave gentlemen In charge of| server had nectectod to do so and aro stretched out in supplication, al senty ext = bore sow fighting of a Fs A 4 . gun and I dove for | ,, i ea oatly kind. By noo ours, and they would shower the Interesting Party While In\fon the woods to the tronches We] shelter, We watched them ue the machines saw us coming and when they got ral thousand feet} gold watch and tron cross, The whole | nq tive . user ee ‘i ess Franco-American outposts with gre~ | Lasted {hac and camouflaged to stay | ood back to the Ges 2 were In all corners of the |in the air he red to his sor-| party gives up. Our men are aheal @| yong lay I pease oeines nades and automatic rifle fire, At the| . pasted, there and kill Germans until they | Ve saw the black once, ; a} sky t headed, genorally, for the|row that he had no fire ex-| thousand yards, and the going has|ang in 7 rem) Mone An a same time he would send gas shells} Our patrol went over after them,|qioa thonsclves Major Kayser alone | Ne iW [0 biel cross c 1 Fatherla Before we had | tinguisher, been very good except for the tanks, | Quennomont foreground Gu tio the Village of Migneville, where | Cautiously, of course, and every man giept, He was husbanding strc Preemie a Sacer tio od and resumed our journey to| He had onty made this discovery} which seem to run amack into inines| Over sue} and Knoll: Fars. Pattalion headquarters of the t0Gth| {0 tho outft was kcon for the most for the morrow. James H. Loge nae aa te Irley they were ks in the|atter one of the front gasoline}or tho fire of German artillory| were up but shee mie ee one een cate jdelicate kind of fghting—that of |tormer Princeton football player and povoesie ar Hee ia on th u ern sky. |pu wpa bad broken, and gas was} brought into thelr very front lines. | cause _ bs Mey ue see little be- Gen. Edward F. Wittenmeyer, com- | Seeking a hidden enemy, An expert'then Major Kayser’s adjutant, and really a, And again German us we had pouting all over him. ‘The observ-| All in going well and better than ex-|,- ne Machines were hov- grenadier, wi h treachery was to the fore uigitesd won a victory with- a ering over us ves and the sput- manding our brigade, would utter vig- | ‘adler, who used to be a motion, myself, Scout Officer, waited at the) "7 Si Mit Ot Neg : A round of ammunition and, of [@P® cockpit In thts particular ma-| pected, ‘The resistance at times :s|tar in the told Lee orous language whenever ho heard of | Picture actor, crawled along under! phone, We wanted the Major to] |, P {NC BIERE we marched out under} me BmnUAlHon BORE cnlaa' la gome <slathnce tron | the a BA 1a he alae ae that the Boche a 3y1,| the barbed wire, while } ' “ ees b © canopy of shells that we " sa pee Hs ‘as being back the activities of these patrols. Col. wh the others de-,sleap, for we knew what a gem ho id ' ; ans which he had so| # nd ie Val p Sania dita a Bmedberg of the 205th, who now Js | Ployed just as the rehearsal had called ‘on the field of battle and we glee over our heada ¢ ene wl the gasoline a EVENING WORLD ait ~The show is going on well. Brigadier General, felt the same way | for them to do. They were cool and! wanted to seo him strong, quiet and | 1° "0 BT - ad sup) 1 ng the] Ately crawled f ve PUZZLES. (div vatasieans) canine Mia ‘ ° por of | had theirheads with th Haas New |oont ehen men most needad | ° mad song: the: f SOE ate MAGE SONG. ae about {t. Being Intelligence Officer of hem, these New|confident when Marne wa ¢ : fi aes » th 2G pful Son’ rz the Boches are mass: the 305th I drew up a plan for a com- | Yorkers on their first combat patrol, him in the morning, $ ues n th | The G rateful Son's Puzzle. she aaee rey nassing ie a counter bat patrol. There was a little strip of |The Germans evidently did not like, Attabout 6 o'clock tm the morning | coven ves n| F fire extinguish | By Sam Loyd. Vetehapelv cedars hace clin obs: woods jutting out from the Paria-| the medicine they had beon getting,|wo got the first word. The Germans | : | y pilot t and AID a grateful son to his old daf:| tration on the spots descrit oe Strassburg road, and {t was directly | for they retreated through the woods. [had come o} in thousands and had tft i t nose down] S “1 have fiyrured out that I have! neavies just Ay nia shad 4 in front of one of our outp: | We followed and got into an old/djed in thousands. ‘The line was giv- |, zu 1a ¢ t ; : 9 ; eal coat yous Jum G4459 wines I onal nt cate ct quarry pit Two New York City Fighting bs I had gone, with) ing slightly yal 7 a 1 r that ‘ \y M v tery of six-inch howitzers and eights 4 tramping through high grass} An hour later the ine was being t I noand at t. | ane « p Italians | f mon | ‘ t . “ neh nay ’ ray and this tans, | and shrubbery. It was an | stingi forced back a@ little further, "CG epee i ut ef 1 the t} mont bea once blow down th ors of our Two New Y City Italians and a] party, and we proceeded through the 4y to your posit ‘ mnd di \ at |e ote hile pit nd eis shacks and oy at leigh A Sergeant, 1 New Yorker, were| trench aad woods looking for| was the r , and then @ long] q one of t ‘ ha cearsieh ta eptislny fiver | pr serial boinh intended for the batt : among those wh d the outpost. | more trouble but couldn't And it | wait \ Penal : a one.a nant k | act he was finiehe every. | years, 1 ae ene i Gh th a erie Tho Italians we atfigncing,! Just wefore daylight we started! Division a regiment of ; Magia hing, for his nerves were gone ana| enot ih A NO damage, The as will n Those New York City soldiers |Division were counter attach wi Wa wee ; he wan goon on bis way back to the| birthday tof bal cont amou- tomat ny, two ext DT OehKiwOMRGuies hee sence bean OF k A t man Any aviator in France wil! tet! you | cout." overhead > ack yacks ¥ i whe mis- p Tw t 1 1 4 craft) t away at ig two Title WANDS" | inke uss tan Gonmann fen ee hieverapanineciin shia hin last aad incider a doing] How much will the young man|(/\')) Hansiurcaraogirbs ur nar lemen, awled back to warn them that we) CUP at lines, Alabama wouldn't ny hen be ate ae eyes, For/have to earn? balloor r 1 sy wa irry ammunition for oa ‘Z ; , et the ‘ the principal was one of the most ms ; ig “an : returning, and jt was well they ;¢t th | it nt low The pilot in question was ordered to | popular t nih ii Answer to the Dinner Was Cold |by the | who dives out ther I 1, One of the men just managed to| We were glor the news mie han in wohe. Aaa) a canilent eiah aves tha lt Aine tiki cin. 3 ak Pus ft th ud, 1 nists drop pax ay, word in to avoid ajand wondering if we would he hoved serial range, The observer was to) pilots we rn Der Our guests travelled 200 m nust Dep Fea ce I aed , up. , to relieve the + Lewis machine gun at| In a air at N papas ey had gone 50 miles before Joes not drop, The balé wa : oe : pbc kL In our outfit probabl ps that had } under the first a ground. During th 1 Be th t f his com. blowout, and travelled the rema t parachute by aes : : r w of the attack when our next v rth er the gun became | : 1150 miles at 3-6 the former spe and ns in an ins M, p jeasales ; j ar, f | surpr ne, i ght w w t to We 1 t w about to fall from the |t formation f! | Phey could have gone 831-3 miles a 4 sid out of tt lyn before entering | 1 ' for camiona® wae the ie out’ of the f t teaue | p pean eect rad awn (nee ana ngiths an oe i speed in the same time that it|!mbs a man, He and hij Army. ; es a ft lord p Headquarters Thierry and Beitea n few short wun by t t 4 ; to that flow,|feauired to go 60 miles at ed, | Cor go again within half ap In € third 8 a | we 4 the n ea lt s'we W ft pei a ga is thee 4 have saved hour of th well feel 1 of thelatl day wt rt 1p f Ve 1 af the aeroplane, | t ml intles, 1 samo time, 1 P M.—Going well still. ‘The losses were given a : ve ‘ x : They en planes were t up rt fra . la and 1 “" ach aved 40 minute hen 331-3 divi uite the information go “over ps w a smile t ne w fiehting nord , to 40 gives 11-5 minutes as their The Boche dead are ‘ at 10 P. id AW OF AVERAGES ASSERTE , | muni 4 ‘ 0 F v 1 themselve reg ves and a at |o IN H Yo Anns re 8 n " me per m ng at full speed. | Yhe men have not had proceed along the ¢ the w Si proc “ tatit BSERVANC : | oe nnet stop. ¥ > : Hn , : ie | 1 p. The Red and U \ ~ gut : oO r cen it was the ' | ONE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE, | cd with them ang ing any t of German p USE FOR PAPER CARTONS, in the a , i akaee deaie y to dl he takes great pride in ber ar | kets. are filled aaa might happen ab » start Save t fi rard tons in aoft Kr nar 1 w f h and | tt ‘ an ch nd cigarettes as he rung made from t itpost with the twolwhich cereals, ete, are purchased painted on them, It w - RA Xx es Th tor uns the f A ¢ supposed to see that| extent. Wit 1 1 ven hi he story runs the same unt ¢ New York City lialiang and the Ser- | They will come in handy for the dried | to see those fricndly planes, Sudden! “Lm fter w h r cock-pits contain everyth: tr a r P j, ar De “ enous man lam o'clock. geant on duty, vegetables or you can keep them for| they started dropping all tog ie eoultn'e tat a ees that should be there, fire extingulsh- its pilot got the clean death he ap-|oaughters of the Gusclinelees Bune hte * ia a walking through the com-' the cookies, Swiftly they came, and as they Washington Star, ers, &c. This time, though, the ob- pa y war ays, '~Louisville Courier-Journal, (To Be Continued Monday) ‘ t \ — \ h Le apf Paes Lee