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Is H@w U. S. Marines Held The Road to Paris vmm ■! , ?■>! " I I 1 I t l-I-H-H-H-4 in fI/* for«*^r; a finer one I Wave TieXef seen—deer would- scamper ahem) and we coujil hyve e./**n ope raw-,. At ten o’clock that hlglrt, without food, we lay down In a pouring rain/ to. sleep, j Troops of all kinds passed up In the uipht-—a shadowy stream, over a half nijlfipn men. Mfdrne French officers told us that the“y had never seen such concentration since Verduft, If then. ‘T|)e next day, ihe ISth of July, we murclwd aholid thrrmgh w^n- jnfn of troops, trucks, etc., and cnmG at last to .st ration dump where we fell to and ate our heads ofT for the first time In Major Denig Paints Thrilling Pic , tore of the Battle of % 18. • LUISIATIC AND IDIOT- KAISER AND SON? Cleveland, O.—Frank li Ho gan, a fdrTner clerk in the court of appeals here, was attending a law class here when the In structor risked the class to tie- tine hntaV^ r 'iim1~ t ri^o( v y ami pive an example of a lunatic and an dipt. ' ' ‘The -kaiser npd the crown THREE FRIENDS ARE KILLED nOCKi)!*-/:* Battalion of 800 Men Cut to Pieces in Two Days' Fighting, but Held Foe In Check—Describes Paralyzing Horrors of the Battlefield. WHS I lopaa’s answer. nearly Fw.o days. When we left there the men had bread stuck on their bnv- onets. I lupped a ham. All were loaded-down. Here I passed one of Wass’ lieutenants with Ids hand wounded. He was pleqsed as Punch, and fold us the drive was on—the first we knew of it. I then ! pnssed a few men of Hunt’s company hrlnplnp prls/ oners to the rear. They had a colonel and his stuff. They were well dress ed, Mean and..- polished, hut mighty plum looking. ... • “We finally stopped at the far end of the forest -near a dressing station, where Holcomb apnln took command. This sliiMon had been a hip, tine stone Wa^hi ngton.—^Details of the par ticipation of' the United Slates ma rines in tlm counter attrick against the Oerinnn forces on tip* Marne on,July 18 are given In a letter written shortly Bfterwimt.fly MnJ. Robert L. I>enip of the United States marines to Ids w ife, who lives at 2181 Porter ' r I’ldl- adelpfiia, and which has been lorward- ed to Washington for the historic tiles of the marine corps. J Tn addition to giving a graphic pic ture of modern war, the letter, cites an instance of Herman treachery In using airplanes painted with the al lied colors in their unfair, methods of aerial warfare. The letter also establishes ihe fact that the marines who helped to stop the .German drive on Paris rit Rellenu wood early in June were honored’by being brought forward from this wood to Vicrzy and Tlgny,'near Soissons, for participation with a crack French di vision in the great counterattack which starfed>the disintegration of the German front In the west. Names that became familiar through the flghi- tnp la Rellenu wood arc metittoned In Major Denlg’s letter as being TTTmnl- nent In the allied counter a’TThek— IJeut, Col. Thomas Holcomb. Lieut. Ool. Renton W. Sibley. Lieut. Col. John A. Hughes, ("apt. Pere Wilmer, and others who took a prominent purt In the fighting when the Hmt'—wtfi* 1 blocked In his drive on 4h|r.ls. The letter follows: -m "Th(‘ day before we left for this‘hip push wo had a most Interesting fight between n fleet of German planes and a French observation balloon right over our heads. We snw five planes circle over our town, then put on, what we thought afterward, a sham fight. One of thTTTr. nftcr manyTapev stuhtS. headed right for the balloon. They were all painted with our colors except .Qpttiiimnncd the machine b*tnb>'mnpany with us. He was hit early & the fight by a bullet, I bear. I e’ri'n g«-t details. At the start he remarked: ‘This looks easy—they do not igeetn to have much artj Hughes’ head-' quarters were all shot up. Turner lost a leg. ’ “Well, we just lay there all through the hot afternoon. It* was great—a shell would land near by and you would bounce in vour hole. Ivlyt; • 1 Class of w omen Tinrking <*n viiIm s in* the hir-bruke rmun m tno scrmol maintained la the-llnooklyn Rapid Transit company. tmw entirely devoted to women. 2—Aerial photograph of-n l’ritish hospital In France shortly after It had been • deliberately bombed by German aviators. 8—Tito prince of Wales and tin* king'of Italy, to whose daugh ter, Princess Yolanda, the Jouhg tiiaii is said to be engaged. - • ' . farmliousc, but was now a complete “As twilight nime_wo stmt pur wa ter particy for the relief of the wounded. Then we wondered If— would get relieved. At nine-o'clock we gut it message -congratulating us, and saying—4ho Algerians would take over at midnight. ' We then began to collect our wounded. ruin—wolinded and dead lav all about. f....... * Joe Murray, came by with his head all done up;Tvls helmet had saved him. The Tines Had gone, on ahead, so we were quite safe." Had a' fine aero bat tle right over us. ! Tin* stunts tlmt those planes did canrmT be described THEY WILL NOT BE DOING THIS MUCH LONGER Algerians’Bad r y "Shot Up “The Algerians came up at Midnight and \ye pushed out. They went over at daybreak and got all shot up. We,made the relief under German Hares and the light from a hurtling town. “That night the Germans shelled us, jind got three killed and 17 wounded. We moved n bit further hack to the crossroads, and after burying a Yew Germans, some of whom showed signs of having been wounded before, we settled-down for a short stay^ “It looked like rain, and so Wilmer and I went tjo an old dressing station to ’salvage some cover. We collect ed a lot of bloody shelter halves and ponelios that-had been tied to poles to.make stretchers, ami were about to go when we,.stopped to look tit a A rude cross made of two a box had, written on It: ar \N aSy,~ Ca pita in Ur S. Ma ly. M. r.'M.’ 1 crowd at St. Maatripejnl Wass and Sumner^killed, me tip tlnd said-we were to attack. The regimerff'tt'HS soon under wnv, nmTwe picked our way under eov’er of ii gns- Infestcd valley to a town, where we got out* final Instructions, and left our pack’s, I wished Sumner good luck, and we parted “We formed up In a siinkeu road <>n two sides of a valley that was perpen dicular to-.thc enemy’s front; Hughes right. HolconjJ) left, Sibley support. We now began to geUn few wounded; one m'an; with ashen fncny rKme chnrglTTg to tin- rear with sl|dfshock. He shook all over, foamed at the month, could not speak- I put him under a tent, and he acted as If he had a fit. “1 heard Lieutenant Overkin call to one of his friends to send a certain pin to his mother if he should get hit. “At 8:80 wc'jumped off with a line of tanks in the lend. For two kilos the four lines of marines wen* ns straight as a die, and their advance over tin* open'plain In the bright sun light was a picture I shall never for get. The fin* got hotter and hotter, men fell, bullets sung, shells whlzzed- hnngod, and the dust of battle got thick. Overtoil was hit by a big piece of shell jiml fell. Afterward ! heard he was" hit In the heart, so his death was without pain. He was hurled that night and the pin found. * Lost 17 Out of 20 Officers. “At 10:80 we dug in; the attack just died out. I found a hole or old trench, ami when I was. fiat on my hack I g<»t some protection. Hol comb was next me; Wilmer some way off. We then tried to get reports. Two companies we never could get in touch with. Lloyd came in and re ported he was holding some trenches near a mill with six men. k Gates, with his trousers blown off, said he had 1G men of various companies; another officer on the right reported Ire had and could see some 10 men, all,told. That, with the headmiarters. Was all Wt* ••*-;'<! timl OUt nlioiil' the httttallod <■! non3! { 5T th> 20 company officers who \\;ehf "in, three came.out, ( jim-l Gate's.’ was Mfghtly wounded. “From then on to about N p. m. lift* was a ehanee, and mighty uneoinfort* aide. It was hot as, a -furnace, no wa- tef\ tjoid they had our range, to a ‘T.’ Wo lirid-n machine gun officer with fines i habit tl. t-AviU bt This seem* orv the deck of an Atlantic liner shows the pu><, ngers all wearing their lift* belt discontinued now. EDLTH CAVELL MEMORIAL CONVALESCENT YANKS IN ENGLAND iHi f n) WmIitii N>wypm»f Cnlttw Tlii' 'memorial statin* has been, erected to the’ nnuribry of Edith GavelI. who lived a patriot ami died a niartyr. The memorial was unveiled by Queen Alexandra at Norwich,, where her majesty opened a home for the district nurses. Tills home 4vns named the Nurse Ga\el,l r ., Memorial nund.ti ■: Amerie. ns uire sjioun liviv-'lmving tlo* proverbial-English tea at a hospital in Englund. T1m*m* men wt-re 111 tie* irenclit s a week previous*to the taking of this pb;tutte. - | YANK AMMUNITION DEPOT-BLOWN UP BURIAL OF THE OTRANTO VICTIMS niiimiNiin was were Hot Air. Ti was ' s* anew here In France I cse eommati-tlani’s, vvhcre'clfstut I arts, came from the !1n»'*T' ’ “A \t*ary r ronimy, etunihg down-' ■ breather,” wnsi acepsteij \Cith • mark: - twice hut is alnuir again. That no-- 1 counts f«*r all, the "Hirers In the eta h pany that I bnaight over. In the first fight ld8. 4 the men In that outfit were killed or w mipfcd. Tlic second ligl.t must have ■rh-nP cba"'«l out the nh( crowd. . — ’“To pbdtjr- ri fight, mix up a lot of hlfn^rv. dl> tfi a jfTTTdbc ..'!y iuei. with iliist. nbi> ■. and • smoke.-’.’..Forget the elean swen-ls,-peahring horses, im* (lapping thig*--: At ’ night, a j:as-fi»h>«|. woods, falling • > and In igiiT."b1TTtv‘; lug tinshi*s- you can't see your neigl. bor -iliat Is war. 1 , file rear it-Is n't; eon fusil •p. The g* m : ! 'old me ‘'Tltrrr,. jo swell a place, all g.ats well, we • r advancing !’ ills stafT^miies,,:; . a t «Jean -tvm* was shavi’hg, ano-.irr-r-a ing. lmi cakes—-we .had hot I uni ii ho “Nothing to worry : he warrior.. And then nddenlv repe -nibererl bout the new gas Pf ■ver now s -VoU 7TT ) Cut Out for the Job. " l wan led tnj ...isi.•;,* : ,, - utiutry." said hired Trotb sharp-eyed woman at IlnL Ohb.kllL-licarted an’--4e- orfleer turnetl me down, got any' light work dat jumping-ofr. place, woumierj men, killed men, horses Mown to bits—tin contrast | ' . - .“We advanced ten kilometers, with youso Q, af- prisoners ami guns, and the hells ram t) H>»crn'y*»»pi'ptr tlWiun dieted niaip^’ Yes, Indeed replied the fanner's wife. “One of my sitting bets ha*0u*C abandoned her nestful of eggs.’*-- . . The impressive burlul service, that took place in Scotland, near the scene of the disaster, of the men who perished in the collisionurf the Rrttlsh trans port Kushmlr and the American troop ship Otranto .between Scotland and Ireland In the North channel. ' , . - ! • & IttllMli astu h com . M rvt jif. wt. '’v