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AGOXi: S OF THE WAR. 4 (Continued from page 1, column 4.) a college man. A shell took off both of his legs. He looked down at his plight and then up at me and said, 'Captain, please give me a cigarette. At college I used to be pretty good at football, but I'll never be able to ^ play it again, will I?' I handed him a cigarette and helped him to light it. He was moved to the rear and died ! f almost immediately." w Dr. Stone declared such instances were of every moment's occurrenec in the hell of fighting at Chateau .* J* Thierry and Soissons. "And the pang of it all was sometimes this," he I said. "You had hardly learned to * know a fellow intimately and feel f that he was your friend and your comrade, when, as he fought beside you under the bombs and the high explosive shells, some hellish thing would come along and take off his head in your very presence?or take Off the top of his head?or tear open his chest?or tear open his stomach and scatter his blood and his visera all over his comrades?or merely u spatter him, as it were, out of existence and hang what was left of him upon the twigs of the demolished trees." Dr. Stone declared that one of the wildest scenes of destruction hurled by the second division against the enemy came to light one morning following the putting down by the division of a "box barrage" upon the Germans. "Our artillery put down the barrage over a section of the en emy and we filled the inclosed area with gas," he said. "The wreckage and the terror and horror of the scene that followed the removal of the 'box' and our advance over the * area beggars any attempt to picture [ it. I shall not try." "At Soissons," he said, "the enemy ^ planes had complete control of the air, and there's all the difference in the world when the enemy has the air and when you have it. The ene. , my control of the air at Soissons was the terror which made our advance 90 slow, as compared with other engagements where the air was in the hands of the allies or where the aircontest was more or less divided. At Soissons, the air was alive with German craft. The allies hadn't so much as a foothold in the .ky there. As soon as an allied plane would appear, a swarm of enemy flyers would pounce upon it and bring it down.. The enemy flyers dropped their bombs upon us, and, undisturbed in the air, they could even fly so close over our heads as to mow us down with the machine guns with which their aircraft was equipped. I be ? , . lieve it was there I experienced the , most hideous, hellish and insidious feeling that ever consumed my senses. When sL soldier is being fired at with artillery, he feels that, may be, he can lie down and the shells may pass over him; but when they are coming at him straight down from the sky, he doesn't know what to do. There's nothing ne can ao except advance if he can, and trust to luck that, may be, it's not his time yet to die. About all one would \ see of the things that were after him would be a litle silver streak descending, tearing up our comrades and spattering their fragments to festoon the trees." Dr. Stone said sometimes even the keenest sense of beauty and of l / grandeur was mingled with the scene, r ~-Z to help, as it were, to relieve the -horror of it all. "This was especially true," he said, "when at Seasons the second division artillery opened up against the Germans. It was night. And the ruddy blaze from the big guns belching out red fire along an extended front illuminated the whole of No Man's Land in a kind of wild ecstacy of light. I can't describe it. But I shall never be able to forget the picture of it. In response to our j artillery, the Germans began sending ft over their rockets." The flare of the calcium lights, according to Dr. Stone, glowed upon the wild waste below, mingled with the radiance from the cannon mouths and lent to the whole wild scene a sort of dramatic glamour that almost A J c/v aP ctru o-aln onH OUlweigiieu tiie sciiisc ui onu&biv, uuu wiped out for a moment at least the horror of what was happening. Heroes Are Born. Acts of ill-fated individual -heroism _ stood out like gems in the surgeon's B straightforward talk. He told of a shell that clipped in two the trunk of, a tree, which, falling, pinned down an American soldier. A light-haired bugler rushed to the spot to attempt * the victim's rescue. The bugler had hardly reached the place when an i Austrian "88" came and spattered W, the bugler out of existence and left fragments of him dangling from the boughs of tha tree. "With the rain and the blood ami the blackness of the night there was always mud," Dr. Stone said. "But the worst mud we encountered was at St. Mihiel. The other mud was just mud?ankle deep, knee deep. But the St. Mihiel mud was red mud ?old South Carolina mud. And the % filth that of necessity encrusted the | boys was beyond description. I was forced myself to go as much as six weeks without a change of clothing, and when I did change, I sometimes couldn't find much of the original underwear to take off." "Yes, I had cooties?all of us did," he added briefly. "At St. Mihiel," he said, "the control of the air was with the allies and the Americans. This made all the difference in the world. We advanced > by kilometers instead of creeping forward as we did at Soissons. "In advancing through the night, it was frequently necessary for one of the boys to hold the muzzle of his rifle while his companion behind him held the butt of it. It was a wonder we ever found our position that night, but find it we did and we held it." Dr. Stone spoke casually of numerous incidents, each of which is material for an article in itself, so fast were the big events through which he moved, the majority of which have been stamped past effacement in his mind. "Perhaps the bloodiest field I saw was that slope of the hill at Mont Blanc." he said. "There the French had tried three times to establish their position and drive back the foe. When the Americans went finallv( over it and took it, nearly every soldier had* either to step over or step upon a blue coated corpse." He described briefly the horror of the thousands of German corpses buried by bombardment in their dugouts at Soissons. "The stench of the bodies of the men and horses was appalling," he said. "Often it was absolutely necessary for the Americans to sleep beside putrefying corpses, if time for sleep at all was available. Of course, we did what burying we could of the Germans, but the orders to move forward frequently interrupted the burying. "In the Champagne sector we drove a wedge five kilometers deep into the German lines, and the French to our right and to our left could not advance. In our plight the orders came for us to hold. We held all right. But, let me tell you, our boys paid the price of the holding." The speaker pictured scenes where the dead and the wounded were piled hurriedly in shell-torn orchards?Instances again where the supply of morphine ran short; times, again, where there was nothing the surgeons could do except to mix the scant tablets and administer doses in the thick of the fight and under such con- ^ ditions of general storm and disintegration as to offset the effects ol the morphine, even had it been prop erly given. "But I did the best I could," he remarked, "au"d when it couldn't be done any other "way, I made the solution, mixing it with my finger and gave the maimed one the 'shot,' hoping that in some way it might get him for a time out of his ' agony. And in all of it the boys ( with their faces half torn away, with their legs and their arms swept into , nothingness, seemed fully to realize ] that they were merely the driftwood , of the fight and that all their suffering was necessary to help keep things moving. And, if, of necessity, they were left without care for hours and hours while the battle raged, they rarely groaned, provided they were still in possession of their senses. "I have seen fresh troops thrown suddenly into the hell of the fight go suddenly crazy under the nerve strain. It was not fear. Their nerves had merely gone to smash under the strain of it all. At times it seemed that I, myself, was about to go to pieces." Besides a gassing, Captain Stone's only wound of consequence consisted of the stripping of the ligaments of his left shoulder. He was riding in a side car attached to a motorcycle during the Argonne engagement. He had just cautioned the cyclist not to drive so fast, so as to avoid any accident that might arise under the bombardment. A shell exploded directly in front of them, tearing a hole in the road. Into the hole the machine and the two soldiers dived. Aside from the injury to the surgeon's shoulder and the fact that he found his mouth and his eyes and his hair buried in the mud, he declared he escaped unhurt. "And, strange to say," he added, "it did not put the motorcycle out of commission, but we were able to get up and go right ahead." Dr. Stone has laid aside the uni " 5 T5n + form tnat ciotnea tayiam ciuuc. be still wears the croix de, guerre and palm, the individual decoration bestowed upon him by the French for the services he rendered at Mont Blanc in the Champagne sector, where t the shell-torn limestone "whitecaps" seemed once in the sunlight to toss under the flotsam of battle?under the dead and the dying? pupon the hard stony face of the unmoving "sea" of pale stone. The decoration was awarded him for caring for the French and the American soldiers and for establishing and operating three dressing stations by the side of the stony "sea." \ yeggmex blow open safe. Bob Office in Greenville, But Are Made to Drop Loot. Greenville, May 3.?Officers here and throughout the surrounding territory are searching today, unsuccessfully so far, for four yeggmen who early this morning blew open the safe in the office of Lipscomb Russel company, wholesale grocers of this city, and after securing money, liberty bonds and checks worth over $2,000, made a bold attempt at a getaway, but were forced to drop the loot after they were fired on by a policeman who arrived on the scene as they were about to make good their escape. The officer engaged in a running pistol duel with one of the gang and believes he hit him, as the money box was dropped. All the stolen valuables were re3 A ?xl E/\liAtyA C0V6r6Q. Autuorilies iicic ucucvc safe crackers to be the same ones who blew open a safe in the office of C. and W. C. Railway at Spartanburg Thursday night, and it is also their belief that they are amateurs owing to the crudeness with which they went about entering the safe here. A vigorous search is being made for them. What Overwhelmed the Hun. Not the actual strength of the American army iL France, says a writer in Power-Plant Engineering, (Chicago, March 1,) though that could perhaps have forced surrender of large numbers of German troops, but the preparation under way which insured overwhelming defeat of Germany in 1919 was the cause of the sudden ending of the war. He goes on: "If the Germans had not known of the great stream of shells, gas, tanks, and other munitions that was ready to flow forward they might have fought on through'1919, and the bat^ nnot 1ivoe r\ f 9 H H - Lies W UU1U 11 ex v C tuot iu^ Aif vo V*. ? V V, 000 American soldiers. But we were making more mustard gas than Great Britain, France, and Germany combined. Our tank programme called for one tank for every 75 feet of front; artillery and shells were under way that would have blown the German army off the face of the earth. And they knew it. 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