YANKEES SHOW REAL STUFF UNDER FIRE Many Stories of Heroism and Bravery in Seicheprcy and Aprcmont Fights FACE CONTINUOUS FIRE One American Soldier Surround ed by Fio lioclics Lcncs Three Dead and One Wounded Hy HENRI 1JAZIN Staff Correspondent Flfnino I'mMIc Lctlotr With tho American Army in trance lleaflqtmrtfrn Amfrlrnn Arm In 1 ratur. Mar Completed reports, first Issued lola by th ranking olllcer of nn American unit, demonstrate the stuff American'! nre made of, ns shown by tli'lr actions durlnir both tho Sclcheprey and Aprc mont fights More than a hundred men nre torn mended In orders here, uml n few strik ing examples that fill the heart with" pride should make tho Ameilcan people Klow for their fighting representatUcs Sergeant Robert Dundas, I'rlate Her bart Whiting and slgml corps linemen repaired wires under shell fire, continu ing their work after being repeatedly knocked down by concussions They suc cessfully completed their job and then joined tho lnfantr. each killing two boche automatics en route despite the fact that Sergeant Dundas was wounded by an enemy grenade Private Parker Poison, Infantry, climbed a tree three times In an hour rep-ilrlng the wireless iecellng appa ratus during fire and was wtjmlcd slightly the second time He lefu-ed to retire nnd handled the Job the third and last necessary time Lieutenant Urate M ork Lieutenant Joseph Dals field artil lery, went four times Into the open for fuses during shell fire ami later uent to the assistance of Lieutenant Aers, of the same batten , w ho had been knocked down by shell concussion While Lieutenant Dals with the aid of Lieu tenant Wheat, of the sime battery, was bringing In Lieutenant Ajers, a shell broke close killing Ajers and wounding Wheit Then Pils dragged both dead find wounded within coer Dalss batters of twele men lost ilc wounded with one officer killed and one "rounded, jet kept right on the Job rer Ing guns under Are, three gunners go lrg back for more ammunition after wire communication had been cut Sergeant John Broadhead fleVl artil lery was wounded in two places but re fused to leae his gun, working till killed at his post later in the da I nder lire Twelitt-Mx Hours Lieutenant A Thompson and Donald Wlllard after the boches droe out their guns from their pit continued with the crew serving guns the hours In the open Private Waldo Pnrker. Infantrj, con tinued uninterruptedly commg and go ing bj motorcycle twentj-slx consecutive hours under shell fire being the sole communication at thit time between the battery and battalion headquarters Wagoner Jeremiah Murphy and Pri vate John Median ambulance drivers, when preceding an ambulance, were blown off tho road b a shell They went to the field picked up and brought back tho wounded Thev then watched time-bursting boche barrages (.ending other ambulances at top speed between hostile Hhots Corporal Leo ITmery ammunition train, while driving nn ammunition truck from daylight to G o clock In the evening was followed by hostile shells con tlnously and, although unhurt person alls shrapnel disabled his tires a piece hit the sides of the truck and bored holes In tho canvas covers and when finally the transmission was shelled and engine put neutral he coasted to his destination, delivering the ammunition Then ho looked up another truck to continue the same job Private Domlnlck Polosky driving an artillery limber, was wounded n the knee, and one horse was killed by a shell He detached tho dead animal under fire and continued with one horse to hlR destination Private Vincent Polito was wounded In the lung while driv ng a limber, hut continued to his destination, delivering the ammunition l'rlvnte right Jin Prlvato Mart n Median Infantry act ing corporal fought while surrounded by a group of five boches boring his was through leaving three dead and one wounded boche Then while rejoin ing his command ho was compelled to take cover under a parapet, where he fought his vi ay out again with hand grenades killing two boches, and then continued fighting, finishing tho action unharmed Many other feats were equally meri torious. The striking thine Is that every func tion of the arms, those In front, those behind tho lines 'on food serv'ce, supply and medical fought like heroes, nnd when tho time came for showing co ordination among nil khakl-clad they were united and the esprltc de corps was equal to that of any army In the world RED CROSS MEN HONORED Davison Entertained hv Lord Lansdowne at Luncheon Inmlon, Mnv 4 Henrv P Davidson of the American Tied Cross was the pnet of Lord Lansdowne at luncheon on Friday The Duke of Connsught has sent eulogistic tetters to Malor Fndlcott American P.ed Cross commissioner to England and to Major James II Perkins commissioner to France T9?iU-r-HHfiMI wW-aiaga)U-.i-ilJMttmil.i-tixHi-5 Undivided Responsibility WM. STEELE Airplane Wood Italian Need i Continued from 1'ace One what I ask. But I have great faith In her That Is "what spurs mo on In my hard dally work. "Tho United States oueht to talm l llttlo on trust, Judging us hy what we have accomplished. When last I was In I'aris some raw materials which America had promised Us wero reducnl tn in ler cent This greatly nnlnawi m . . ...VJ ,:,.,! ting back my work again, losing time,' minima, UUl UUIJ1UU To Hcnil New Comtnlmlon "In a few dajs I am to send nn aeronautic commission to America com Ksed of several officers who will strengthen tho relations between America and Itndls, bringing a friendly greeting from this sldo of tho ocean Perhaps It cun he demonstrated that. iilthough ours Is a small nation, It can 00 great in av latlon I asked his opinion of the American aviators In ltilj His face beamed and he said Tlie nro daredevils nnd don't know what fear Is Sometimes they are rather exacting In their demands, which, alas 1 can t alwass satlsf) ' One of the greatest pleasures for mv. self and the Italian supreme command, even our minister of foreign Affairs Baron Sonnlno. will he the presence of an American aviation squadron on our front It will bo a great element of strength, especially among our touthrrn men who know sour countrs well nnd sen with their own eses Americans In the firing line From their pri-icnio they can draw greater strength and greater faith. "Tho bett news 1 have had lately, which has given me greit pleasure. Is this telegram received from Washing ton " Here Slgnor Chlcsa picked up u cable dispatch from nmong his papers and lnnded It to me to rend The messiiga Informed him of the construction of air planes in Amerlci I asked hlgnor Chiei what he thought about the question brought up In the Stmte the other li about the Insuf ficient aerial defenses of Naples at the time of the recent raid He said 'I do not glvo much Importance to such occurrences, the enems's sole aim being to Induce us to remove us many airplanes from the front ns possible, but the bht answer which I inn make Is to repeat the patriotic words of the Mas or of Naples 'If to safeguard my city It wero necessary to remove a single gun or airplane from tho front defense, my mother countrs 's need must como before that of Naples ' 'I visited the locality of the disaster nnd was struck with admiration nt the calmness and fortitude with which the population took the bombing Their only feeling was one of deep hatred and re resentment against the Germans " SIgnor Chlesa showed me a photo graph of a German advertisement used as propaganda for aviation depleting a German nlrplane bombing Venice 'Thes are worse than barbarians," he said 'and take pleasure tven boast, of the vandalisms accomplished In a city which for Its historic interest and artis tic value belongs to the whole world" Germans Bombard Allies Flanders Line oners weie taken In both these opera tions American troops apparentlj did not participate In the engagement, although their trenches arc not tar oft Correspondents In Holland and Swit zerland report a distinct drop In German confidence, due to the long lull In the of fensive At the same time all Allied spokesmen of prominence are full of op timism regarding tho course tho cam paign Is taking A representative of tho British War Office gave out a statement saving tho fnr Virirl nsfl h l.irirer number of fresh divisions than tho-lllcs So far In the J Flanders fighting, he said, tho foo had used thlrts-flve fresh divisions, besides nine already there ALLIES ALERTLY WAIT NEXT ENEMY THRUST With the llrltlhh Armies In Marnier. May 4 The Allies are alertly awaiting Hln denburgs" next mighty blow The first nnd second drives failed, even If hy narrow margins, Just as did the first dash toward I'aris nnc the sea In 1914 Tho third already Is delased by the sound thrashing ndminlfcTercd by tho Franco-British forces, necessitating n far more complete reorganization of Hlndenburg'a hosts than was at first supposed The situation today Is better than seemed possible during the early stages of tho offensive The Allies have Btopped every attempt of Von Hirtler to edge toward Amiens, fighting tho Germans to a standstill On the Lvs, both Von Armln am Von Quast have 'butted' their heads against a brick wall. That the enemy has made serious gains on both battlefronts Is not dis puted, but the outstanding feature Is that neither on the Somme nor the L)s has ho been able to exploit his suc cesses Badly mauled, Hlndenburg's armies already have been forced to rest, when time is tho most precious element. Realizing the colossal stakes tho Ger man high command today Is perfecting Its next stroke which may decldo tho German chances This blow may come at ans time Mnny stories are heard regarding tho magnificent stand of the French In the Flemish hills Despite one of the most terrific bombardments of the war. fol lowed by repeated assaults, Von Armln failed to gain an Inch around Schcr penberg Ten big shells fell every second, not counting tho smaller ones One battery was forced to wear gas masks virtually all the time Whenever tho Germans advanced the French simultaneously charged with levelled bayonet Veterans of the Verdun campaign declare the flrrfitlni (hara wnu ti a a ct hnt n n la ' has been In the Flemish hills. '!lP"!i One contract, one intelligent planning of tfie entire operation, one responsi bility from start to finish -all the anxiety and risk of error is instantly removed by Steele Service. & SONS CO. EVEiTCftG- PUBLIC FAMOUS AS WAR " JV Philip Gililis wlio't writing from the weletn war front, now appearing in the Evening Public l.edfir, arc jtlrjclinp uiilcprrad attention, An appreriation of thn noleil corrcpondent's work Ii Christopher Morlcj will he fount on the editorial pare of this edition of the Evening L'tililir Led get ' Courage of the French Supreme at the Continued from Puce One V comrades at Locre and southward be cause both their flanks were threatened They did heroic things to ifiBUinl their light and left, which again and again the enemv tried to pass I have al ready told in a previous message how a gallant French ofllcer nnd a small compam of men made a counter-attack nt Dranoutro and held the post there against all odds Up b Loeie the commandant of the left battillon found machine-gun fire sweeping his left flank, and his men had to face left to defend their line Small pirttes of Germans with machine guns kept filtering elown fiom the north nnd established themselves on the rallwav In order to lake the French with an enfilade fire One French companv led bs devoted officers, counter-attacked there five tiinn. with the bavonct Into the sweep of those bullets, and bs this sacrifice saved their flank Another company advanced to hold the hosplco Thero was desperate fighting elas after daj, so that Its ruins, If any bits of wall are left, x 111 be as historic as the chateau at Vermelles or other famous houcs of the battlefields French and Germans took It turn and turn about, and, although the enems i-ent great numbers of men to gairlson this place, thes never were able to hold It long, because alwass some voung French lieutenant and a handful of men stormed It ngiln and routed tho enemy When It was taken last on April 23. tho day of tho enems severe defeat, the Trench captured 100 pris oner's In the cellars there and they be longed to fourteen battalions of four regiments of three divisions, hhowlng the amazing way In which tho enemy's divisions have been flung Into confu sion by tho Trench fire. I'.leht Attarks a Day On the morning of April 2G French companies made six attacks and In tho afternoon two more, nnd though their losses were heavy that evening both the village nnd hosplco of Locre stajed In their hands That night, their men be ing exhausted for a tlmo after so many hours under fire, they withdrew their line a little to the Locrc-Ballleul road by the chateau of Locre and west of Dra noutro In order to reorganize a stronger defense Tho German bombardment slackened on the morning of- April 28 owing to fog, and those few hours on that day and ono other were tho only respite these French troops had from tho Incessant and Infernal gunfire when, For Last -Minute Subscribers When you sign a partial payment subscription to the Liberty Loan, go at once to your bank and make the initial payment. The banks will remain open until 12 o'clock tonight to receive subscriptions, and the initial pay ment should be made before 12 o'clock midnight where possible. LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE - Third Federal Reserve District LINCOLN BUILDING PHILADELPHIA, PA. HfrXffiR-PHILAbELPHIA, SATUKDAlf. MAY 4, 1918 CORRESPONDENT Soldiers Battle of Kemmel Hill owing to open warfare, 'en rare cam pagne,' .is th French call It, as In 1114, without a complete svstcm of trenches or dugouts or other artificial cover thes were much exposed There wero ten big shells a second,' one of these officers, told me "nnd that lasted with onlv two short pauses, for six davs all through the battle, und other shells were uncountable ' The enemv had brought up light ar tlllers' and tiench mortnrs almost to his front lines In Drnnoturc Wood and other places nnd attempted to take (he French In enfilade fire from Kemmel but bv this time mans French guns were In position, re-enforcing the British ar tlllerv. and on the 28th thes' opened up and killed grrat numbers of the ononis'. Allied aviators saw long columns of Germans on the loids bv Neuve l.'sINc and In Dunoutro Wood and slgiulcd to the guns to lange on these human targets The guns answered Masses of Germans were smashed bv the flic and panic-stricken gtoups were Ecen lun- nlng out of Dranoutro Wood That night the Gemmis firmed to he relieving their troops and ng.iii the French' ind British guns flung shells into them, and for the enems It was a night of death nnd horror but the next dav tho 21th, the enems- made reply bs ,1 prolonged bombardment more Intense even than before, and then attacked with new troops all along tho line But the French also had mans' fresh troops In line not those I met w ho nt 2 o clock In tho morning went forward Into attack and took back tho village This de feated the enemy's plan of turning the French left .ll through that day the enemy's des. perato efforts to break through were shattered, and that night the French held exactly tho same ground as before nnd had caused enormous loe-scs to the German divisions, as least 40 per cent of their strength, as It Is reckoned on closo ev Idence That night oven tho German guns stopped their drumfire, as though Slxt von Arnlm s army wero In mourning for Its dead It was a night of strange nnd uncanny silence after tho stupendous tumult, but for those French regiments who had been holding tho line for nearly a week It had Ween a day of supreme ordeal It was a triy also of devoted suffering by men who laid down their lives with exalted courage, by men who wero In solent to danger bs' simple pollus who that day wero great heroes Take those runners who went through this inferno day after day until that worst day car rying orders where telephone wires hie) been smashed and there was no other way of getting through a message, than when a man could get through with his lire. "They .Need V" Tho colonel, with grizzled mustache nnd somber bluo eses, whom I met, took pity on the men and said: 'Tako a rest for an hour or two ms' sons. You havo eXjnu well and nre very tired ' But thee men said- "Sterol, Mon Colonel mals lis ont besoln do nous " ('Thank sou Colonel, but thes have need of us") And they set off again through the drumllro along tho tracks whero mans of their comrades las' nnd where nt last thes. too, perhnps, stumbled nnd fell with bursts of flame bringing death to them So It wus with the slrclcher-bearers tho heroic brnncnrdlers, who for six dnss went up and down the road to tho rescue of the wounded up nnd ttovvn with some lonundi, less ono ambulance man One of tho Infirmlers tended wounded In nn udvanceeJ dressing sta tion until ho was killed by n shell Tho French transport men did xv ell generously well nnd all through this fighting from April 23 to April 30, each regiment had good meat ami good drink. The Germans added one terror to the battle, which was taught them bs the British In the battles of Flanders last S'ear from the nlr Thes f-ent over swarms of low -rising airplanes from icn to a hundred vards above the ground Their pilots fired on the French Infantrv III the open with machlno guns and dropped henv y bombs "I counted some seventv-nlne airplanes In tho sks nt one lime over two battalion rronts, slid one of the officers whom I met, and his friends bore out this fact Thes' told me nil these things frankly nnd shnpls with fine modesty and open- heartedness Slost of them were amateur soldiers before the war but now thev seemed tb me verv wle In the science of war, understanding the strategy and tac. tics of tho enemv s attacks on them nnd quick to see nnv weakness In their own position Thev v ere cool-headed fellows without bravado, and utterly sincere onlv men who have fnced death often are sincere because to live nnr death strips tho soul of its (onceltaiid foolishness Keverrncc for Xlen Tl.elr great pride waH In the glory of their men Thev touihed the papers which had been delivered by l miners with reverence ns relics of the brave deed and stood verv silent when tho old colonel who was like a father among them took another paper out of his pocket, smoothed It out and -clearing his throat a little, said ' I had this from it voung lieutenant of mine commanding n plitoon, and would like to read It to sou " It was a message from a soung French officer who, with n little partv of men was isolated foT two davs with the enemv all around them For two davs thev kept the Germans iu b iv with machine-gun fire fighting north and south facing both wuss nnd he hid the honor to report this boy of France that he had not lost a foot of ground nor one man as prloncr There must hnve been nianv things done Ilko tint,' said the colonel 'But the men who did them did not come back nnd we shall nevpr know " Mnee the beginning of the war 1 have been recording heroic acts bs T.ngllsh nnd nil British tinops things done hv them Hi it make one's spirit big with wonder that vouth should be so brave and so IIipv will not begrudge the things I have vviltten about tho Trench todas for thev will like to know hove those comrides In blue were fighting last Mon dav when the British lines from Vor- mezeelo to east of 'iprei held linn against nil attacks, end on the davs before, then when thev were gladdened hv the news that the French were com ing to their relief nt the crittial hour, when things looked worst It ii good that the British people should know the facts I have written and get this glimpse of the spirit of Frence, which Is now mingling with the spirit of their own men on the. same battlefields and as their bodies touch when thev pass ench other on the same roids It is a lesson of comradeship which should draw them very close New Troop Jlrave fin tue same das as tho French were holding firm between Dranoutro and Locre the men of the Twents -first Fortv -ninth and Twenty-fifth British divisions were sustaining the same or ile il nnd afterward between Vornie zeele and nidge Wood I have already given mans details of this fighting, de scribing the colossal bombardment, the attacks of the enemy In waves and the slaughter of his men Ho was never able to get Into nidgo Wood nnd on the previous night when he tried to ndvanco on a big scale but was prevented bs the British gunfire, which broke up his as semblles, the South Africans attacked and drove him back hy machine gun and rifle fire The Yorks nnd Lancaster shires and Duko of Wellingtons received tho enemy with fixed uasonets and In flicted heavs' losses Ono fine fcaturo of this battle, which was a defeat for the Germans, was the extraordinarily gallant behavior of some of the men of the new drafts who came into action for the first time They stood the ordeal of Intense shell flro with wonderful stoicism and showed n gallant spirit In attack, Ono party of them actually attacked ns a scparato unit nnd did splendid work Thnt perhaps Is tho most Important news that any of us may tell, because If nil the drafts aro so good tho enemy will be gravely disillusioned In believ ing they will not bo of tho snmo fight ing quality ns the men they have already met with longer training In tho fields of wnr Big Political Crisis Faced by Germany Cnntlnurtl from I'mie fine of tho military authorities made a very had Impression, while the astounding deeds of tho German commander In the Ukraine surprised nnd angered large sections of the Itelchstag In both houses, then, the excited war like hordes face one nnothci and the recent debates have shown how high the feeling runs Added to that Is the had food outlook It Ins he-n olllcl.ills announced that the breid latlon must bo reduced unless ndequite supplies nre forthcoming from the l'kralne A re duction In the meal ra'Ion Is ecrtaln Indeed, In Saxons the ration already Ins undergone a reduction of 200 to 150 grams and the retention of tho potato iHtlmi nt the present stand ird is a tint- , ter of doubt I Ills lirlte Dlsiipiinlnl I hen comer the question of the offen sive After six weeks of costly, Inde iesei struggle the feellngof the public is none too satisfied Correspondents land critics lately have been much more I sternlv held In rein, and I am assured there Is no little restlveness in political circles regarding tho western effoit I Information which Ins reached me provides me with ground which I think ' must be regarded as a good basis for the bHIef thit something in the nature of a time limit was realh set for the of fensive Tho mllltarv party plaved the simo trlik before the offensive ns It elld before the war The democratic parties I were presented in the davs before tho war began with a chotce of opposing or supporting the war. wiilch thev were as I sured would be short nnd triumphant land the dangers to themselves and tlnlr I future of opposing such a step won them I over I With regird to the offensive thev iwere placed before a similar choice and I were assured the offensive would be completely successful within a so-called I reasonable time On this occasion pcr I suasion was not so difficult In neither case was It hard and the One jllillM "I want to show you the barbarous methods of tho fo2 not in a few isolated instances, but in cases typical of thousands of similar atrocities. "I want to tell you of Prince Eitel Fritz's pleasure house, of the sinister burning of St. Quentin, of the fate1 of the poor girls of the villages. I will write as it comes to me rushing from my heart for I am still under the spell of a great overpowering loathing!" So writes Jj JLa JL in the first of three articles detailing what she found and1 what she saw in the burned and outraged, country where the heel of the Hun had trampled. What Prussian domination meant to the old men and little children of Noyon and Mesnil the blind insensate rage of the conquering hosts the fate of the women and young girls all are detailed frankly, vividly and without exaggeration by the woman whose writing has become a' synonym for realism. The first of the Glyn articles will appear in the Mag azine Section of the , PUBLIC PLEDGER Tomorrow result was the same. In the second cam, as In the first, It wilt bo remembered tho Vorwaerts took Its stand on the belief that only a western victory could btlno about peace The limit In question, I understand, was In the nature of a casualty limit. It extended to ns much as 30 per cent of the effectives, though tho military de clared thnt was the. maximum, nnd would not be reached Bj it was that the official reports at tho beginning of tho offensive sei greatly Insisted on a small number of casualties As for time there can bo ntv doubt, my Informant snss, that tho military planned for 'all earls- a very early tri umph This was the point on whle-h the financial Interests weie anxious, nnd I think this view Is supported bs a re mark which I reported nt tha lime riy Georgo Bernhnrd In tho Vosslsche Zcltung Discussing tho prospects nf pi ace In that paper on March 4 he said there was no hope that Knglnnd nt that moment would give Germnnv acceptable terms but he added "Perhaps It will be pi.sslhle In four weeks ' Bernhanl Is not onls political editor of the Vosslsche Zeilting, but also as editor of the finan cial weekly Plutus, he Is the mouth- plce of financial circles Though tho nillltais- partv expected a quick victors thev were prepared for Him other 'vcntunllts, .and their limit of cisualtles. thes reclaimed, would cover a period of effort extending to three months We are lie irlv h ilf w iv through that period, half wnv toward that mo ment when some one In Germanv mav begin to demand a bilance sheet If thnt Is the situation and I have the list leisons to believe such an outline is eoi reel tin n the Allies pcsltton is vers favorable nnd their task is to stand firm r dojwwi Pent Bros. 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