The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1919, Page 20

2 ee ee ~~ — ‘ PEN BATTLE { Gen. O’Ryan, While in France, New York Boys Outfought a Ordered It Written for The | and Outgamed Germans i] Evening World Looping the Loop in a Lorry Against Big Odds. on OR THE TRAIL OF THE 27TH, “THE NEW YORK DIVISION,’’ | Was Mysteriously ‘‘Lost,’’ and It Is Here- THROUGH FRANCE AND BELGIUM | Smashed Hindenburg Line, Although at One with Printed for the First Time—The May 30th, 1918—Feb. 26th, 1919 | Time They Had Opposed to Them Twelve 27th Lived Up to the Best Traditions of AIS graphic ohart.of the progreas of the 27th Division from tts port | Beauquesne in which Joffre and his staff planned the Battie of the Marne | Regiments From Four German Divisions— New York Soldiers in the Terrific Fight | of disembarkatton, St, Naxaire, through ity victories at Mount Kem. | @fd in which was a book registering the visite of the Kings of England and | TUESDAY, MARCH 25. mai, Dickebusah and the breach of the Hindenburg tine, and tty | Belgium, and Queens, and eld Marshals, 'a’ everythin” There was room for | In 25 Days They Advanced 13 Miles and “ . a . horses in the stable adjoining. ‘ , ing at the Hindenburg Line. return to the coast to ombark for home again at Brest, 18 done by Pri-|”” At Hola de Buire the attack on the Hindenburg tine was laid out ara| 700k 6,000 Prisoners. ’ ssi vate Robert Howe jr. of the Headquarters Detachment, Beginning at the | Major Gen, O’Ryan, with a few of his staff, went toward Ste. Dmille Quarry, The Buening World herewith presents Major Gen. O'Ryan's review | 1a. iett hand eorner, the picture-travelogue commemorates the third] Which Private Howe, not having seen, does not attempt to picture. At} Infantry, behind a of the engagements of the 27th Division—from Mount Kemmei to the | of the submarine attacks on the vessels carrying over the division, May 29,|Joncourt, which German bombs had laid waste and where the Battie intensity, | made | the ; K, | the 79 ine—Jt was prepared soon after the division had been witht. | 1918, in eight of Belle Isle, at thé very entrance of St, Nazaire's locked-in | of St. Souplet was planned, the German airmen were very, very busy, | Throughout the day and the nigi order that it might rest and veor- i SAGUh HWA Tho iar te’ Montfort hh Evening Worls cabled Gen, harbor. 7” ‘ Headquarters moved on to Busigny, where the enemy artillery had the {the 10 een ae eae tee ieee During thie varie the, sr Vs \ ne able . ‘ i 4 the inv r= | Division — toc se ms i ¥, etoile, U Headquarters moved to St. Rignter Immediately, and from that town| "Ange #0 nicely that it shelled various blocks of the town with the /"No garrisoned ithe inverted for-|Division, took 17 German officere O'Ryan that all New York was swatting for the details. Under Uen. | 1, at ten-day period of training was directed, Private Howe's sketch {Utmost precision, but obligingly timing the tombardment so that it was|'The Ienoll changed hands four times, | uside fcom a number of Held levees i O'Ryan's direction and with his approval the review was prepared, but it | o¢ the church with the twin towers, the Churob in wirich Jeanne d'Arc was | !Ways possible for the New Yorkers to move into a quiet block in plenty |vhe entire region was @ veritable/and innumerable guns. But Ue teas lost on the cables, It ia printed just as it was written in December. | imprisoned, ia not a bit leks accurate because he had an opportunity to] of time to keep out of trouble, Before the German time schedule was | tornado of exploding shells. Fighting | fighting was not of the character ons in, observation, Aftor | Ufficlently understood, however, a shell landed in the big house in the pic- | continued, with the odds first on one| which makes it possible to take tbs rage of great/and continued to go forward, while first attack. | the 27th Division was withdrawn im Gapreiant, WO, We the Freee Pettiening Co. (fhe New Verh Rvvsion World.) ag trom non rhelin Major Gen, O'ltyan moved to Heauval, employ. | tee and wounded Major Austin And nine of his men on the floor above that [side ani then on the other, until| number of prisoners which would in- MONTFORT, France, Dec. ing the chartote with high wheels and trick bumpers which will be known [OD Which Major Gen, O'Ryan was consulting with his staff, garly im the morning of opt, 34, suat/ dicate the flerceness of the struggle ‘6 EN of the 27th Division will have stories moro thrilling than| 1" 2,000,000-od Americans until they die ax “4 hommes--8 chevaux"—tho| With & Jot of its prisoners to do. chores, the division moved down t0| Ccmpoued of the ith ald 108tu in: | cess ateained, Hy: mid-October tee those of fiction to tell when they arrive home among their| French box car, The Boche planes had, found the whereabouts of the} (oi a tient aiong to the debarkation area at Montfort And thon oh [@aey, relieved what was lett of | division was in the line again, After o friends in New York and adjoining States. ‘There ts nothing in| 27th Division by this time, and here bagan an effort to blow Gen, O'Ryan |/O 0") ‘hoyt—came the last of the O'Ryan ylotories, the suecess of tte |e poet Aud continued the struggle| ten days of purauit the enomy nad h to retain tue foothold secured on the reach th of Sel! ¥ campaign to get the New York division home just as quick as it couid | three strong pointa and to zuin the | aed eas livers phepaiee: Raa oa march abourd the boats, The chateau of the Count de Nicolai at Montfort |Jumping off tine fixed for the attack | mined resistance, | was where Gen, O'Ryan entertained Gen. Pershing and Senator Wadsworth |Of the next day. At dawn on the| “On the night of Oct. 18- Passed. The records of the division show that its men have fought in| training and sexeoming. More were went from Niourfet, near St. Omer, | Nerore the division hit the trail for Brest, crossing ity vietors-bound trait [zt both American ‘dlvistons at-lortyan's Munconranee tis pare three big battles, three engagements and two minor actions. where many ihe ae i ree seven che Fad rah HR eriaeee At from Nazaire, cked behind the heaviest barrage'dominate no man’s land, and on the “ fi eth celebration by dropping a » whic \ chine. i - — - ere The division had traditions before sailing for France, and these have | Chudezeeio the bombs happened every night, One of them, Which was a _ er deen magnificently sustained and many new successes have been achieved | 4144, dropped on the hut of "G2," otherwise known as the Intelligence Sec- which will place the division among the foremost in the history of Ameri-| tion, and caused Private Robert Howe jr a rising young artist, and his | can fighting units. It was the first division to fight on Belgium soil. To- | immediate commanding officer to hasten out into the dark and recline in} <\ or with the 80th Ateerican Division, it formed the $4 Corpe and was|® ditch for several hours, Besidce the bombs, the division was visited here , ‘ | and his staff off the map which did not relax until the armistice was signed. Robert Louis Sievenson, in Balzac, or even Dumas, which can touch the} 7, only vioulme of the first attack wore seventeen horses, real experiences through which these city boys and country boys have From Beauval the division sent its first men to the front lines for by King George V. and Elsic Janis, King George reviewed the troops | r Drigaded with the British in June, 1918. ____ialthe troops reviewed Miss Junin, a “Its first experience in the line was | ————~— ie . The plans for the assault on Mount Kemmel were made in this town. | ~~ A We a F & trying one for young troops, It was |!n three days and nights the 27th Di- | prom this battle the division moved on to Douglas Camp, a cantonment | th ? i ML Kemmdl 5 placed in the reserve line known an | Vision reversed this condition of at-| wagen in the trees, to preparo for the Dickebusch action, after which the eee 4 pews hia the East Poperinghe linc, behind | firs with such marked aggreasive- hh went back for a rest before taking the Hindenburg line apart and | & ae k REM op es a ut what made it tick. Headquarters rested in n chateau at - ¢g Dickebusch Lake, in Belgium, and at|"¢#* that the enemy put opposite a} anding out What Mace Ut Nek T's wy yaw number of new Givisions,emong which | —-—— was the 8th German Division, conn'd- group of armies under Prince Rup- y = fart een lasendea aikbers ered one of the finest in the Gorman y Army. This crack organization of determined drive against the northern | |, enemy's army = immediately Part of the Lys salient, with the showed its mettle by making a ruid {Channel ports gs their objectives. Atlin broad dayught behind a moving é that time it was felt that the British | curtuin of steel. The barrage fell upon holding the front line would be unable |the leading elements of the 1luith to stand the shock of such an assault peeeyy, Renda hol pend ‘ 7th 2 of New York, but did not in the least and that the deluge of Germans | Yomoralize oF disturb the spirit ud i ‘would roll up to the Bast Poperinghe | determination of the mon. The raid , lime, There, however, it would stop. | aa 0 failure. The on ae 2th re Division met their assailants, who at. .H Orders were that the enemy must be | racked with bombs, rifles and knives, stopped at all costs. This situation) So fierce was the fighting that some was changed, however, during the | squads of the 107th were almost en , ; tirely wiped out, but not one prisouer #reat Germun drive toward Chateau- | b FY taken by the enemy. Th einy Thierry, which at first met with such | “"* AKC? sob nee eit te Ee success that the Germans postponed attacking in Flenders in order to ex- Plott to the full their southern drive As the world knows, the Germans were stopped at Chateau-Thierry and were @riven back, and these conditions mecessitated the withdrawal of a part of Prince Rupprecht's group of armies for service in the south, and oe Te the drive.to the sea was abandoned. t “Immediately upon this informaticn ‘ 4 being received through prisoners and Escarbotin. captured documents the 27th Division | 4 i* Q time when it was expected that the ¢ f Joncovrt was selected to attack and capture \ \ \ Mount Kemmei. There was confi. 4 cueing ; \ i lot the war, ‘These divisions were| following afternoon under tho dires- supported by forty tanks, and the/tion of the division commander a jattack was synchronized witb that of raid was made on the cnemy for the | the British divisions on the right and | purpose of identifying opposing divi- left. This was the attack on tbe/sions and for the further purpose of main Hindenburg line. reconnoitring the Selle River, This | “The New Yorkers advanced despite | raid way brilliantly executed by a |incredible amounts of metal thrown | smat! detachment of the 108th Intan- [into their midst by the enemy, and |try,which captured twenty-seven prise rring nations have! in the rear of this formidable serics| despite millions of machine gun bul- |oners, Preparations were immediately 4 again, of outworks was the main Hind lets fired through the barrage, and !made for forcing the stream and as- » to attack the Ger-| Ure system, bused on tho under-| despite the smoke, which was 60 saulting the heights beyond, and the which the w | tought again a “On their we 1h ‘aul : WAY tO BtBOk Ine OOF. | eround! unoel ol s the St. Queu-| thick that nothing could be seen. |diy headquarters “of the 27th. iy 4 shell of its former self, and| troops lived in canal boats in the|iM the tunnel ourying the St. Quoa- |which at that time was the furthest ine Bomme where the baaks | tunnel under the hilis, sare from el| tin Canal attacked fle on three jeast of any divisional headquarters weied with aell holes und strewn | fire, while und und passazes ted { sides, front, rear and flank, while @)and also the closest to the enemy's i Pee eet Boies One eee team the eto, the warious| tereitic counter attuck was launched !line, which was only approximately pieces of fhe machinery of war trenches «points gainer the left flank of the divisio 2.100, Yardy distant. nl ef tom, makiog itjérem Ver 1 an eft o V0 ous i wllnAaa: | "On the 26th ot September the divie | Maln defenaive sysiem, oe MU Up this funk und crush the whole 24: | tions the supporting artitene oor | sion took over from (he Hritisa a wee) TS any part of the system should |tack. One battalion of the 107th Infan- | special feature, It was Australian ar- [tor 4,000 yards i widib. ‘he doen ee td Ted therein, "he{tfy and one battalion of the 10h, | tillery placed ‘under orders of Gen, jee at ie itite tea divis (entire main defensive vybic.n bristled] With machine gun battalions, were | O'Ryan. On the morning of Oct, 17 cupied a similar fron i WG MIVie | LY malin weancie put in to stem this counter attack, {the 105th and 108th Infantry crossed sions faced the great tunnel system und descriptions, wi which had come unexpectedly £ the Selle River and successfully of the Hindenburg line. ‘The sector] pou und Ges kiptiony, with a mano of Me 6 the British had been | assaulted the heights beyond, All the occupied by the New York troops Was] "SG ticors and inen understood wh unable to come u The unter ut-| bridges of the Seile River had been ll ainstae peau 1D confronted them und what was cx, | tek was defeated and renewed, ‘Phe | blown up by the enemy, but the 102d entin and Can pected of them. — Thocunits of the| casualties Were terrific and the Engineers, “advancing ' immediately drawn connecting WO Troy we hot new. ‘They had| {ighting was as heavy as any during |back of first wave of the infan- jetties, it will be found that the po MF | faaditiona 6 uphold and the deter-|the war, But despite the odds ele- trymen, succeeded in constructing of the wedge which was to be foreed] mination and training. to uphold| Menta of the division reached the | bridges in an incredibly short time, }through what has been called the tom” pathers and grandfathers of| main line and ocoupied part of the | However, it was necessary for the in- mpreghable line of Hindenburg’ was] AL ber of these men had previous-|St. Quentin Canal. Some of the cle- | fantrymen in thelr inittal attack to | just back of this connecting line at al j\ PYmoet of R This—-th |ments of the 107th Infantry, when! ford the stream and to climb up the ‘(own named Ronssoy. This-—the point ¥ i| | Sreatly ‘outnumbered and reduced to high, slippery banks beyond, these same regimen which in other wars bore differen | of the wedge~was the sector ass'ene.t| were bound by. the|sheletons of their former selves, ve-| "On the 17th of October the 27tp (ee scupapenssnanengaem ROLL Malt Ser ea enae ame erable spirit, *rnese|tited to the support troops, while ele. | Division, captured inora than 1,i@ oners were taken, and a new line w however, hs iAapeg fa bi by Manhattan, Brooklyn. [ments of the h held « »>mbi prisoners, oO war Jeatablinhed ‘on favorable. ground. in| from four to eight hundred y mM Valley, the’ Canadian |dugouts and positions on th character continued for four days, place of the old line which for months | “f the line occupled by the yth mm part of New! fensive system and capturing during which the already heavy losses |had suffered under direct enomy ob- | sion. Orders were given tx All were in. their chosen| prisoners than their 01 of the diviston wero auemented by | servation jand capture tis line of outer d welded toxeiher by tocality| » they hept in sith hundreds of cusualt The results, | “Ag soon as the division had ac- | fenses. A » the pride of organization, |they fought off a counter at however, ware almost incredible in complished. ita purpose It, together| “This defense system consisted of! and a rigidity of discipline surpassed }one of the most sanguinary )|the number of prisoners, field pieces with th Oth Division, was with- | several lines of (renches protected by| by no fighting unit in the American {on t ern fron nd machina guny that were cap. |drawn from Flanders and prepared | an elaborate system of wire supporiet/ Army. ‘They had had hard training “When at lost the division was re , nd the enemy were pushed > battle which was destined to|py three fortified strong points Know)! for ‘this crucial tests They were| lieved by the Australians a natnix their line at the Canal de sull refused { la Sam Hiemont Farm and] skilled in the uso of their weape ot the men In this fighting the 27th 4s the Knoll, t I n ‘arm. Picked’ G faced the Hindenbur | ing and con } fo , Divis on was opposed by twelve regi- 4 See oon The training of a division before it| t held these positions | fens ‘ lack of ,con- | their comrades in arms, The resuit of | tents from tour different divisions ence among the men in their own|left a large number of dead an. ‘ stire from Mount| extreme The 27th, in the vicinity of | with light and he E that they could do what] outls fons at the main ays» |? Ision, whieh, te ©. 2 fighting avility. In late August the /¥eunded on tho fied Kammel und trom the territory to the | Doullens, manoeuvred and rehearsed | minenwerfers of sit picked troops of the Allied armies had| tem’ of the Hindenburg Tine vere |the 30th, took 6,000 prixonery and ad- divis! . iy U t many details which it was believed| tank guns and con failed on numerous occasions to ac-| broken and the great G vanced thirteen miles between Sept, on moved into the front Jine, re- ‘As @ consequence of this sample of) south. Upon the receipt of this in- y was e a ry bs H une Bae linvad they ‘gould | atiack crushed and headed off, and Onl. 91, having accomplice the fight! ualities of the New| t ation orders were romptly| would arise, in preparation for the| From the rear 4 vast amount of ar-| complirh. y bel y pi Meving the éth and dist British D'-|Yorkory the enthusiaam of the Gere| given to the division to attack Vier. | battle to come, The division was then | tilléry supported the defense, At|break the Hindenburg line. “Through the break made by the|what was convidered by the enemy wisions. At that time no man's land| mans ned. Shortly thereafter in- | staat 5 1 Wood, Petit}moved by bus, train and m*em|/ Quinnemont Farm “On were power, oe. Sbe Cy of a sflow eb the 200% Perce diyigions uy rest, a the Lapessibiowne breaking of the Mise Me dominated by the Germans, til, was recelyed that the Ger-! Bois and Farm. Many pria: | through desolated area (ec! fu) fame taro rising ground’ Infantry and on Tallon tab senburs - wath { i RT pe