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Doughboys Sit With Ward Greene a
and Tell How the Boch Was c
Driven From His Stronghold ^
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I will never forget a cold January s
night in the little town of Larrette,j
France. We had come in out of the' j.
muggy, sloppy darkness and poked p
up the fire in the decrepit stone grate j j.
under the high French mantel. Some-, t
body tosed some fresh faggots on the j,
embers so that the flames leaped I ?
high. Somebody else got real ex- a
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travagant and bought a real bottle f
of real champaigne. And then we
sat there and toasted our toes and v
sirroed our wine and talked. j n
Or rather, the others talked. The {
boys who had been with the All-Am-,
erican division through the Argonne ?
and Meuse, who had seen it all and ^
suffered it all and come through it $
all alive, began to tell of it. And as
one reminiscence led to another, as";
their eyes sparkled at one incident ^
and their teeth set at the memory of f,
another, those days were pictured as 0
never they could be on paper. * j
It's a pity there wasn't a dicta- ^
phone handy to take a record of that 0
conversation, with all its "Do you re- tl
member whens" and all its "When w
we were at Sommerance", and the:
rest. For it would come nearer be-j^
ing the real story of tne Argonne j
than anything that could e written, i w
It with other conversations fired by. i?
memory, held in the long .winter J
evenings throughout the division. j;
Strange what things men remember: jr
of a battle. In that one hour I heard j;
Of how the fever gallops through | w
tho fio>ht.pr's veins until his* hardships j hi
are as nothing in that supreme mom- h,
ent when the Boche breaks, the Boche
flees, the Boche goes galloping across d<
the land ahead like some grlat lum- jr
bering bear; t(
Of how a man, knocked silly by v<
a shell, leaped from his litter as he g
was being borne to the rear, simply tl
because he dimly realized that a Ger- w
man was near at hand; and of haw he
set upon his prisbner, beating him m
with his bare fists; la
Of a Boche who let an American
doctor dress his wounds and then, j
as the latter turned, tnrew a nana
grenade at him;
01 an Indian in the division who
sat on the brink of the parapet when tc
they machine gun bvUlets were whis- w
tling by his head, sitting there, stoic, ai
impurturbable, like all his race, gazing
out across "No Man's Land". tc
Of how the poles and the Italians, fc
,and the other men of foreign birth'P
fought, with a ferocity and heroism li<
that won the undying admiration of. fi
their American buddies; j tc
Of men who had not an atom of
fear, leading charges against the j
enemy with the gusto of the quarter-!
back of a football eleven trotting on
the field before the game; ?*
Of other men who were scaerd til
trembling down to their toes, yet!n<
conquered their fear and fought on!*11
?white-faced and tight-lipped?Ger-!a
mans and themselves as well, a dou-j ^
ble battle; ' iSl
Of men wounded who refused to! tc
be taken to the rear; of men so hor- j UJ
ribly nauseated from gas that;
they were dizzy with vomiting, yetj
fought the friends who would have|b<
made them go back to the doctors, j ?<
And these were only come of the jm
stories. Some of them were grew-j^
some, too horrible to tell. Some were] Pi
heroic. Most of them were funny, jtli
for even in the blind heat of battle,:a
things happen that send men into!
convulsions of laughter, and some-1 a^
how, after it is all over, it is those!a
things, the humorous things, which J tl
men prefer to relate. J lo
Mostly the things they remember-!
" ed were little things, just glimses that1 Ui
were impressed on their brains like' st
the snapshot is caught on the cam- ol
era's film. One had an indelible:
- - - picture
of a big German rising out of P
a shell hole with his hands at the tl
kamerad sign just as a little Italian jp
drove him down with his bayonet. | 0
Another could only remember the, 0
severed leg of a German, just the d
severed leg in its boot, standing up, Oi
by the side of a road. Which brought o1
to his mind the memory of a German j
sitting up-right by the roadside, dead, Oi
for days, in his hand a letter from hisj al
loved ones, which he was reading, w
when he knew that death would soon I hi
come from the gaping wound in his bi
side. oi
There were tales of how men dared 0<
death for souvenirs. A little Italian w
saw a German crawling across No is
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lan's Land. The German had on an,
xceptionally fine helmet. The Ital-1
in wiggled over the top of the trench j
,nd crawled, too. Pretty soon he
ame back, wiping his bayonet. "See,"
e he called to his lieutenant, holding
ip the helmet and grinning, "Bon
ouvenir."
"The machine guns were so thick
hat I've heard one bullet whistle
iast one ear and another bullet whisle
past the other ear so close that
hey seemed like they pressed my
iead together. When we'd dig in
he bullets would churn up the ground
11 around us, throwing dirt into our
aces.
"And the smell?it was awful. It
rakes me up in the middle of the
ight sometimes, thinking about it?
hat ghastly stench of the dead".
"Once in the Argonne just before
he zero hour, we were standing in
he trench about to go over, just
hen a rabbit jumped up from somewhere
and beat it across the open.)
That's a good omen', said the officer
rho was with me. He was killed a
ew minutes later when we jumped
ff. ,
"We were so short of officers that
le same lieutenants were going out
n patrol every night, when ordinarily
ieir turn would come only once a
reek."
"But the spiit of the American solier
is wonderful. They threw away
ieir raincoats and their ovecoats
hen they went over the top, so that
iter they had nothing at all to pro;ct
them from the cold and the wet.
hey went for days and days, sleepig
in foxholes filled with ice water,
ving on nothing but bully beef and
ater, and then at the last to get
mimed off. But never once did I
ear a man whine".
Thus it went, incident after indent,
the real story of the Americans
i the Argonne. I wish that I could
?U all of them, but it would take a
Dlume vaster than the whole- Conressional
Record, for every may in
le army has a story and they ae all
orth the telling.
Of stories of heroism there are a
mltitude.?Ward Greene, in the Atmta
Journal.
O SEEK APPROVAL FOR
S-CENTS BREAD PLAN
The "nickel loaf" may soon return
> the market basket of the house
ife, food administration officials
mounced recently.
They are working on a plan said
) be nearing completion and ready
>r submission to Herbert Hoover and
resident Wilson ti utilize the mil3n-dollar
wheat price guarantee
md for decreasing the price of flour
> breadmakers and allow the world
lortage and the great need of wheat
> keep up its price of $2.26 for the
inner.
The tentative plan, according to
ficials, embraces the taking over of
le flour supply of the country at a
jminal prifit to the millers and sellg
it to the public at a loss of $2.00
barrel. They have no doubt that
ie foreign demand for wheat will be
ifficient to keep the wheat price up
? the government's guaranteed figre.
Officials state that with wheat at
2.26 a bushel, the flour can be
jught fairly by the government at
1 a barrel, after allowance has been
ade for all the by-products saved
i aking the flour and for a fair
rofit. But to insure th? 5-cent loaf
te flour must cost not more than $6
barrel to the bread-makers.
The plan considers the government
osorbing this loss of $2 a barrel at
total cost of $500,000,000. Thus
le consumer would ge tthe 5-cents
>af, the farmer the $2.26 price and
le government's appropriation be
sed to decrease the bread price in;ead
of boosting the wheat price,
tficials point out.
The food administration and deartment
of agriculture in estimating
lis year's stimulated wheat crop!
lace the figure at about 1,200,000,00
bushels. Of this probably 650,00,000
bushels will be needed for
omestic use, allowing about 550,00,000
bushels for export and carry
irer.
The world wheat reserve of _00,00,000
bushels which was unavailble
because of shipping needs and
hich has since been pouring into
ungry Europe will be exhausted long
efore the present crop is marketed,
fflcials say. In addition about 300,00,000
bushels in various localities
hich has been held as a carry over
1 already used up. Many of tha
large wheat districts in Russia, Germany
and parts of Italy and France
this year will produce only a small
portion of their normal nop, it is
stated.
S officials have no doubt that the
American export suppty can be sold
at any figure asked for it. Greal
Britian is now buying some wheat at
about $1.25, but this i?-on contract;
which have been held up because oi
lack of shipping. The Liverpool
market cannot again control the
world wheat price until there is a
world surplus of wheat, officials
lieve.
COMING HOME.
News has been received from here
Lieut. Roddey Devlin that he hopes
to arrive in America about the 20th
of March. He has received his discharge
and will be glad to get back
to quiet old Abbeville and to see his
friends in lively little Due West.
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Street fighting has broken out with
snewed violence in Berlin, according
> a delayed dispatch dated March 6.
After the rebels appeared to have
een crushed and radical leaders adlitted
defeat, the Sparticans rallied.
The gereal strike, which almost
ickered out, seemed to be gaining
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