Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — TELLS OF BIG FIGHT [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF BIG FIGHT

Canadian Sergeant Describes Third Battle of Ypres. Man Who Participated Gives Thrilling Account of Sanguinary . Conflict. Chicago. —The thrilling eye-witness story of the third battle of Ypres was told here by Sergt, Reginald Grant of t j First Canadian field artillery. “We were in Sanctuary woods about a mile southeast of town. We were the Micrlflce battery and were to stay tiehfnd if there should be a retreat. WeU, our boys went out of the trench and were met by the Germans in mass formation. “They were smothered —but not before they had wreaked frightful havoc. They died to a man. The Huns came *n yelling with all their lungs and as

they neared we blew great holes in that formation. But we didn’t stop them. They came on running and yelling like fiends of hell. “Our ammunition was gone. We grabbed parts of the guns and our rifles, and retreated with the rest, stopping now and then to drop one or two of the enemy. 1. “The battery to our right didn’t have a chance to use all their shells. The Boche was upon them too quickly with smoke shells that started great fires. The boys there were burned alivp. "Yes, they are fighting, the Germans. But so are the British.”