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SWEET CHOCOLATE CARRIED UNDER FIRE # " ' Chocolate Furnished by Y. M. C. A. Arrives Just When It Is Needed With the American Armies in SYance, Jan. ...?Praising the men of Company D, 109th Machine Gun Battalion, 28th Division, Howard R. Keister, a Y. M. C. A. man of Dunnellon, Fla., tells how, when without food, they sent the sweet chocolate which he secured for them to an isolated platoon, which was under severe lire, acress the Vesle river at Fismes. It was during the heavy fighting eastward from Chateau Thierry, that the men of the 109 th Machine Gun Battalion got ahead of their supplies, and I the sweet chocolate which the T. M. C. A. managed to get to them, was specially welcome. The battalion reached the Vesle river on its advatnce. There the German line held. Men were thrown across the river by various units to keep In contact with the enemy. There was terrific fighting all along the linb. A platoon of Company D was hurried over to help in holding the narrow strip that had been taken at great cost by the American soldiers. It was surrounded on three sides by the Boche, who tried every means in his power to dislodge them,?gas, shells, machine gun fire and snipers. It was a difficult matter to get food over to them for men withv supplies had to cross the river which was exposed and under heavy fire. FIGHTING PARSON GETS WAR CROSS W?arifi(i Y M. C. A. willi viiiivim www ? ? ? Uniform'Proves Himself j - Real Hero New York, Jan. '...?There hare many war heroes, but there is certainly no more conspicuously heroic figure ,than John H. Clifford, Baptist minister in time of peace, but real fighter in time of war, who has been awarded 'the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism in action. ; John Clifford, as a Y. M. C. A. -worker, braved the red wrath of war. | He has been in the firing zone as much as the hardiest infantryman and <was decorated for a most unusual ex Jploit. He was one of three men who ;braved incessant enemy shell fire | while rescuing Col. Albertus W.Catlin, (commanding officer of the Sixth regiment of Marines. The trio carried the 'colonel to safety on a stretched, f Mr. Clifford went over the top many times* and came near being killed on (several occasions. He is fifty-one .years old and was born at Oxford, England, and has preached the gospel in rmany parts of the world. When given a chance to serve with the Y. M. C. A. in France, he knew that it was s tgood thing, and he jumped at it. ?. PERSHING SENDS MOTT NEW YEAR GREETINGS, Paris, Dec. 2$.?Many times during the past year General Pershing has taken occasion to commend the work of the Y. M. C. A. for the soldiers .of the A. E. F. and to express his keenest appreciation for the many <- good deeds done by the 'T in this k 'Country. , On Christmas Day the commandei .of the American Expeditionary Forces * sent the following cablegram to Dr.! John R. Mott, head of the National 'War Work Council: . "With a deep feeling of gratitude fox the enormous contribution which th? v :Army Young Men's Christian Assoc!a tion has made to the moral and physical welfare of the American Army, all ranks j<\n me in sending you Christ vmas greetings and cordial best wlshei for the-New Year." / _ m isi ? ? ECLIPSES FOU 1919. V 'J / Interesting Astronomical Events, Scheduled for This Year. The most interesting event of the year 1919 in astronomical circles will probably be the total eclipse of the. sun scheduled for May but unfortuately invisible in North America. The path of totality will cross South America from Uhile to Brazil, then cross the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, crossing Africa from French Congo to East Africa, and ending in the Indian Ocean. In midAtlantic totality will last 6 minutes 50 seconds, an unusually long time, the maximum possible being 7 minutes and 58 seconds. 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