Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, December 05, 1918, Image 2
Is H@w U. S. Marines
Held The Road to Paris
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■! , ?■>! " 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. ' , . - ! •
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