Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — YANKS MAN FRENCH ROADS [ARTICLE]

YANKS MAN FRENCH ROADS

American Engineers Are Now Operating Practically All the Military Lines. With the American Army in France. —Chicago railway engineers who took over a section of French military railway near Verdun nearly a year ago, are now operating practically all the French military lines from ‘Verdun, westward to St Menehould. At one point big American locomotives puff their way to within three miles of the German lines every night. Denys L. Hall of No. 5318 Maryland avenue, Chicago,, and Joseph E. Gulo of Pope, Miss., were recently awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French for bravery during the bombardment of a railway station near Verdun. Despite the violence of the shelling they remained at their posts. The “two-bit” line, as the system of military railways is known to the Americans, is now manned entirely by men from the United States. Even the station agents are Americans, though their difficulties naturally are lessened by the fact that the road carries no civilian passengers, pnly troops and military supplies.