The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1919, Page 14

Their Baptism of Fire German Trench Raiders Get a Hot Reception —The National Army Men Hold Their! First Line Alone and Obtain Control of Over the Top.’’ By J. M. Loughborough (Pormer vaptain, U, 8. A, and Intelligence Officer, 305th Infantry.) Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World) ‘ HE 306th followed the 806th into line, and then came the 307th and iy 308th. The 307th met with rough treatment. The men were having their first night in the trenches when a “box barrage” was thrown over a company front. A “box barrage” means an almost constant fal) of shells within three sides of a square. The fourth side is left open for the entry of the enemy, while the ' unit thus besieged is unable to retreat or obtain re lief. Trained German soldiers swooped down on the} trench. The Americans fought blindly. Several of them | wero taken prisoner, and the barrage was followed | by a gas attack in which there were almost 200 cas ualties The next to suffer from a German attack was the. 308th, On June 2¢ a German platoon attacked w pla toon of Company B of that regiment. The platoon was commanded by Lieut. John 1, Flood, who after. ward was cited (or bravery displayed after he had! been wounded. The usuil box barrage was thrown be-! fore the raid, and Flood’s platoon suffered heavy, casualties. | These raids, together with the cident of the sign on the observa- H BSc hioon Nedtaed that the Ger. |'%™@* “flopped” and remained there! mane bad agents within our own| ll the barrage was over. Then he’ lines who were keeping them in-| Called to Mongan, who came crawling formed as to our strength and dis |°YC Renee wind cach ‘i retand the situa- is Pla ine, oe ap positions. To unde willintns tion, it must be remembered that tn the Lorraine sector civilians of Ger- n descent were occupying such villages as Hablainville, Mignevil Montigny, Ogeviller and other places where civilians did not belong. There is no doubt that signalling took place from behind our lines toward the German positions, but it took place only when the 77th Division first entered the sector. A week af- terward there was no signalling, and the Germans ceased their activi- “Yes,” repiied Mongan, “but lost | my rifle diving for that shell hole.” Capt, Williams usually was a gentle spoken officer, but he made the air biue in rebuking Mongan for com- | mitting the “unpardonabie sin” of a! soldier—that of losing his rifle. Afte ward ho congratulated Mongan and himscif on having escaped the hail of shelis, some of which burst within five yards of them These incidents are related to show | how New ties, while the Americans, now sea- York soldiers took their’ soned in actual warfare, began] baptism of war, They took it with theirs. grit and a keen sense of humor. ‘The Germans tried only one trencl raid on the 30th, and they received a warm reception, A patrol crept up to within fifteen yards of one of our outposts and began bombing it, while they tried to advance. Four Ameri cans and fuur Frenchmen were in the > outpost “Tenez! Tener!" (Hold! Hold!) cried the French, their purpose being After « few days the French with- drew from the trenchen und left the National Army men there alone. They acquitted themselves as ably as they | had dono with their Gallic advisers, And now they were becoming sea- soned soldiers, No man's land had no terrors for them. They preferred o- ing out on patrols rather than remain- jing in the trenches. The lust for a fight to get help from another outpost. A | was deep in their hearts, but thore was German hand grenade, commonly nothing f be gained by an American known as a “potato masher,” fell on advance. ‘The terrain was such that the edge of the trench, exploded and even though they gained a kilomotre tore away part of the parapet. Gravel |it would not have helped any. ‘The | flew in all directions, and a stone|Germans either did not dare make an struck the helmet of a little Italian-/attack or did not care to. They con- ‘American, who, believing he had been | tented themselves by kee: wounded, became wild with rage, swore loudly in the language of Sunny Itady and straightway began cliinbing over the top, while the other Ameri- cana hurled their hand grenades. The result of this display was that the German patrol retreated. The French cited the American Sergeant in the outpost for’ bravery Opposite our outpost and about 200 yards distant from it, was the v of Domevre, occupied by the ( The church tower in Domev the Boche as an observation post, sniper’s post and machine gun nest We directed ping our men bathed in gas, which was sent over in the evenings. For our part, we fgught for and ob- tained control, of ‘no man's land, which is highly important because it | blinds the enemy as to our intentions and movements, National Army pa- trols of not more than twelve or fit teen men went over to the Germ trenches nightly, and frequently entered trenches and approac within a few of the Boche whose movements were heard, ‘They | did not give fight because their mia-! sion was to obtain information, | The Germans would send out , ed toy or first line, age yards rmans. was used by skid be Our gnipers to watch the tower, and) trois consisting of forty men. These! the Germans placed two dummies In) were known as “combat patrois” | Hite draw our fire and thue get the) ang sometimes they would carry | location of our snipers W. Husbang,| With them @ small minenwerfer 0: | One day Capt. Percy W. Husband.) wheets, put the damnge they causcd 4 then a Leutenant, visited an outpost was negligible. Almeat ever. q pe tee a third Agure—@ live on tenance in the 77th received practics n the towe ‘ patroliing, which is the finest Give me a riffle,” sald Li Hus- Giv mee fi higte lee toe method of developing courage, skiil band, wh ‘ormerly wa an ie and resourcefulness in warfare structor ut West Point and is a wee scene But a few weeks of patrolling only - z whetted the appetites of oMcers ani m private handed him an Boned) oo. fora real fight, opt, Blant and he took a quick shot at the figu: ¢ weed | Barrett of Com B, 308th Tar in the tower, A few seconds later a| | J pba try, a former member of The Eve. as waved from one of the ; F eines Tria sewer ning World staf, and an Annapoils man lrew Pa pi » 4, | Bae ot ths maid @Musheua <in m repre up age for a daylight disgust, “He's been in the American | ‘*"" & iaty Beant Sot APRTOTRG, pital He'e waving aj *n4 Con pany wen over the top at Mla as we do in cur rifts o'clock 0” @ Sunday afternoon It t9 believed that the Germans ob tained advance information as to thi rang Capt. James D. Williams, Yale man, man prisoners captured afterward said he was buried by the Germans with military honors, the interment in the village of Cirey (To Be Continued To-Morrow). i barrage their way. It was probably @ practice barage, but it was reulis- * tice for Capt. Williams and Mongan. Quick action was necessary. Mongan _ dived for a shell hole, Capt. Will- being ’ and prominent N Yorker, went on raid, for their trenches in that sector, | 5 am inspection of the trenches early in usually held only by outposts, wore Me the morning. With him was Sergt,| ed with machine gunners and bomb. 3 Stephen Mongan, who in civil life was and Company B was practically an employee of the Brooklyn Kagle,| annihilated. Capt, Barrett died lead- They were going through an open| ing his men, and he accounts) for a stretch when the Germans threw a| dozen Germans before he fell. Ger “‘No Man’s Land’’—Company B Goes| i | ‘O |regulate the manners and morals of STUNNING NEGLIGEE MADE ON STRICTLY lug TURKIGM LINES WITH TROUSERS OF PEACOCK BLUE TAFFETA FINISHED BY HAND IN GREEN |. WOOL, OVER-ORAPE 18 OF BLUE ANO GREEN BATIK, ALSO EMBROIDERED IN vyOOL. EXQuIsITE EXTENDS OVER DIAMONDS. WEODING GOWN OF CRYSTAL BEADED CHIFFON OVER DUCHESS SATIN. Gunceaweee Sue UNormene q 7 EMBROIDERED \ Veit A CORONET OF PEARLS ANO GOING AWAY GOWN OF BLUE POULETTE, HAND IN SAME SHADE AND PANELS EDGED WITH BALL TRIMMING. Sky Ride Over to Europe In Your ‘Air Limousine’ | And ‘Radio Phone’ to Shore | Radio Phone Development Must Keep Pace With Airplane of Future, for Transatlantic Pilots Will Have to Calculate Their Course by It--Radio | Engineers Propose Powerful Land Stations on Both Sides of the Ocean. | Communication by radio telephone has been maintained between two swiftly moving airplanes at a distance of twenty-three miles, is the an- nouncement to-day that ia likely to startle the scientific world, It follows closely the report of Secretary Daniels's telephone talk to President Wilson on Saturday, when the Chief Magistrate of the Nation was still 800 miles | sea, By Prof. W. I. Slichter Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University. (Written Expressly for The Evening World.) Copyright, 1910, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World “jae || N @ recent lecture Capt. Ian Hay of the British Army related that on the day of the signing of tae armi tice he was in Paris, and after huving visited various quarters of that city observing the attitude » the French people on the subject, it occurred to him he would also like to see the reaction of the London populace to the news. Hunting up a friend of his who was an aviator, he proposed that they make a London, Within a few hours they visit to were In Londou and had an opportunity of observing the aciions of the British populace. This incident suggests to the imagination the Practical convenience of an aeroplane in the future A similar episode is that of Gen. Kenly making the trip from Washington to Columbus, O., by aeroplane to attend the dinner in Columbus in honor of America's foremost ace, Rickenbacker The main problem in the development of universal aeroplane travel j the establishment of suitable flelds for the landing of aeroplanes in con venient proximity to all cities. While the launching of an aeroplane from a restricted space such as the deck of a ship is successfully accomplished, | the landing is a more serious problem. It is true that a French aviator | Successfully landed on the roof of a building in Paris on a space of very restricted size, but this was a stunt and attracted much attention by its | daring. | It seoms that flying fields may —————————— | have to be established by the State| t*vals, say once hou |or municipal Governments us high-|¢Pator in the acroplane ways have been in the past, In order Means of the well known d that this means of transportation | *Mect of radio receiv j|may be open to all Federal Government should take the thus whole matter in charge is a matter |*¢lf on the map by finding the inte which no doubt will soon be discussed | Section of tWo lines drawn tn tha n - © op. adobe tional de- t him- re apparatt Whether the| termine the direction of any these stations and locate lim pelition! eiretes, | proper direction from the two land ‘The availability of the large aero-| tations, Two stations are all that | planes capable of carrying five or{f¢ necessary theoreticaily, but as the six pasvengers In a totally inclosed | Plane might be tr and protected car, where one may | *tmalsht line conn ride with the same comfort afforded | WOUld not always b by a Hmousine, makes it certain that | ti#tance from his objective without this means of travel is a definite cer- | third , ; tainty in the future. The principal; !* is to be hoped that in the two difficulties to be met with will be|‘f@nsatlantic flights about to be at- those due to the weather, and of tempted in the very near futuro by an weather conditions probably fog iv|E%slish aviator in one direction and an American navy aviator in the the most serious as it makes observa- | 3 tion and determination of position ***tward! very difficult. adadianeledy In transoceanic Might another dit- | ¢9sineers*hav direction still in doubt, as radio not as yet attempted this scheme il: \ficulty will be encountered in that 1) teach great distances to aero- |it is impossible to take an obverva-| Planes’ with their messages, but |in view of the enormous strides tion of the sun from an aeroplane, | as is the universal custom among|0¢!"® made in radio it is quite prob- By Nixela Greeley-Smith Copsright, 1919, vy ‘The NE Czar is shorn of power public tyrants were put out of But the thousand hearthstone, who does not know them Greatest of all mony, the domestic t case as to ul than women for con. playwrights, same thing. men and women we old friend, me as @ nerve tonic ‘ot a doctor, seribe it for There are comparatively fow home: without some similar a hus! an to pre sumptuary and ov \w to established by wi n@te, ‘Phere whero such laws exist | a van be no happine: Another enemy the attitude of picion which many couples maintain toward other, Many w seem to regard their husbands as tot to married peace is semi-humorous su each men ter always on the edge of infidel ity, and some men—usually those who are as the Rock of Ages are immensely flattered by Once1 forget for what reason—I' suggested to a sedate young husband as steady in the idea Prom Publishing Co, and one Kai business before the war was ended rs of the home, the multiple overlords of the ea safety razor suffrage The New York Evening Work er has abdicated. enemies of the yrant is just as 1 of Matr apt to carry a vani Jugal bankruptey orators and Popular autho politicians say know, we shall These To be sure, any Judge who deals with the tribulations of the unhappily mar- | ried will declare chivalrously that men are more to blame the But if we consider the question ourselves and®base the answer on our own personal observations of | obliged to admit there are quite as many despotic wives as domineering The wife of a jealous man is al- ways in the wrong. So that if h.s|tutional amendment against growing|sea very accurately and then make WO ferryboats started from op- best friend or business partner | hirsute excrescences on the face. Yet|yery complicated calculations. | posite sides of the river at the should ask her to elope she would} what man does not long to make| ‘That is why radio engineers are same instant and met 720 yards never dare to mention the fact to her | himself hideous in that way | so intorested in the problem of trans-| fom the nearest husband, because Le would say “I won't allow that magazine to|oceanic flight: because they have a| Shore. They ro- must have encouraged him or jcome in the house.” “If you bring | scheme by which the aviator may de-| Mined in_ their l-\ would never have thought of such a/that man here to dinner I'll not be|termine hia position at any time of | TesPective slips 10 tY | thing.” at home." Who has not heard these |the day or night, in fog and cloudy| nutes and on We all knew bhusbands—generally}and a hundred other expressions of |weather as well as sunshine. In this| the return trip much younger than the women they {domestic tyranny? jit has an advantage over the present | ™¢t 400 yards marry—-who do not venture to stir} Yet home should be a sanctuary | practice of the mariner. | from the other \ten feet from the side of their wives, |againgt all the tryannies of life, the| ‘To assist the transoceanic flyer itis |*hore. How wide was the river? ‘|and who would rather be caughtJone safe retreat from every form 9f| necessary to have two or three pow- Answer to a Puzzling Score." stealing the spoons at a party than | aPeb ie ; The he plest home | erful land radto stations, such as at ae Giants were the victor » because - nag etty woman, ch has the laws, the | w, : 7 4 if they, first at the bat, had the 2 C. A. when I mect such men, muzzled and leashed and needing only a red ands of men contented in them, actually revelli in the fact that their wives distru them, And there are even women who are flattered by t ead such lives and are more busbands. flannel blanket about their middies Considered in the abstract, man is a tyrant, if you like; but viewed as jto be complete poodles, an individual and a husband, he is® —— Jealousy is the most common form pretty t to be a meek, long-suffer that he take his wife a bunch of flow- | of d estic tyranny, but th e are ing creature whose patience and do- | ers V'd like to, but TF don’t dare,"| many other varieties. ‘here is, for clilty astound his friends. he replied, “I can't even take her al instan the food dicta who in M sis an ardent Prohibition. | POX of candy, for she always suspects| sists on having only the fried atro- Eig Walls tea Hil Minha <<alG t nin of atonement, If f took] cities of native cooking served in his} ee ine : fused to allow | Per flowers she'd be unhappy for] home Sometimes, to be sure, the erie 1 Pr nti 1) aes. food dictator is a wife who from me to have beer In the house until 1) “www oss ite: t thought, Yetthou-|long reading of the Ladies’ Home Journal has come to believe that the ary ingredients of a meal are a ed lemon and a Mexican pepper, ‘Then there is the sartorial arbiter who knows to a half inch how ng | most nec ust he veaseless cross-examinations of jeal-|jong a skirt should be and to what ous husbands, depth a moral decollete may be cut A certain degree of Jealousy is, as|There are the wives who refuse to 1 have remarked before, one of the |allow the shackled fanctes of tired most agreeable amenities of civilized | business men to find expression in mart and I suppose a woman| waving whiskers. Many an honest would rather live with Othello him- | husband has been tempted to crime cident without censoring it self than with an altogether indiffer- ecduse bh would not allow him jent huvband, But she can have no to grow sideburns or a Kaiser mus- real peace of mind while living with | tache. 1 fellow being to whom she dares| You see, men pretty much not repeat the most casual compli- | muzzled by civilization. ment, the most trivial special in-| Among many things that they yearn to do only one is really safe , E MAKES COMMON ISSUE.—NO. XII. and legal. attempts to | ! OL ple couldn that made for mous, ft to honor more substant | lectablefoundations pies made by | 8 in her home at apple pies, for a Y if it were banting, ts not worthy of| ound of flour and half a pound of|making perfect apple pics, it ought the sacred name! Not such was the pie of “Aunt' water enough to make it sufficiently ' apple does cost ten cents to-day, So far there is no consti- | introduce i t aunt, ly President fa claims M 'Here’s How to Make Th Worth a Ten-Mile Walk to Mr. it of inction rest not more ) the apple| bury, and who was the inspiration of | requires that 1 Delia Torrey. | sever But the recent death of that “grand old lady" at the age of ninety-three|who could make delicious ple ever/ satisfaction, pare anc Milibury lly the country-wide interest in her bite of which former President would have walked ass., ten miles. Of cpurse anybody who! in the happy days before he began to|and nutmeg to taste, Then put on the ever lived in New England knows | “reduce,” and, presumably, to subst!-| upper crust and buke in a ve that a GOOD apple pie, chaperoned | tute lettuce and spinach for forbidden | quick oven.” [by a amall slab of cheese, Is worth a | pastry? Inspiration, that, rather than in lten-milg@ walk--whether said pie be “Good pie making,” Miss Delia Tor- | stinct, animates the successful pie served hot with whipped cream or ice | rey was quoted as saying several/maker, never can be wholly ex jcream, or cold with a glass of cool, | years ago, “is a rare instinct, but still | plained. ‘The above rule is by no creamy milk, The pale, anaemic New |it has to have some foundation, | means fool-proof, But as a challenge ork pie, cut so thin that It looks as} any |Ireland and France, send out signals | |mariners in order to determine their |4b/¢ @s It is merely 4 matter of size | position at sea, The reason for this |4%d weight of equipment Aifficulty js because the mariner | . TMS 18 one of the many cases where measures the angle between the sun|'"e developmental work in preps and the horizon to determine his | ‘1M for war may be put to permi position, and the horizon is a definite huts in the arte of peace, a edteaee ah| BVBNING WORLD PUZZLES. an observer in an aeroplane the hort- | zon changes with every change in By Sam Loyd. How Wide Is This River? ‘a ot J altitude, and in order to make a care- ful calculation the observer would | have to know his height above the! would not ing 3 point have continued after of a definite str ngth at definite in-| at Apple Pie Taft the) Delia,” in whose pleasant Colonial| moist, and then [ roil and bandle. The , home Mr. Taft used to spend his va- | dough is made as light as possible so Mr.| cations when he was at Yale, on/that it may make a flaky erust. L on whom he never failed to pay # call|is knowing just how to handle and de. when anywhere in the vicinity of Mill- | just how much handling the dougi kes the perfect crust, of his charming tributes to /and this is where instinct comes in “old maids.” Of course no woman! “After made to you 1 slice the ap jwould be an “old maid” if men could] pies, filling the pies very generous! heip it! Add a pinch of salt, sweeten with the How did “Aunt Delia” make the ap- | finest granulated white sugar, add ple pie that enchanted a President—|\iberal pinches of butter, cinnamon the crust re- the “Here is my pie crust. I take one|to perfect oneself in the perfect art of shortening, @ liberal pinoh of salt and|not to he forgotten—even though one