Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — Can’t Hold Marines [ARTICLE]

Can’t Hold Marines

Forget About “Kamerad” When < They Chase Huns, ♦ Pennsylvania Boy Gives Interesting Account of Thrilling Work at Front ■ -9 ■ : ' ‘ ~ New Castle, Pa.—Byrn Williams, a New Castle boy with the medical corps in France, writes home of the happenings on the front controlled by the United States marines prior to June 28. He says the marines forgot all about the word “kamerad” when they chased the Germans. He writes: “I must say this is a much hotter spot than the other front, for here it is open warfare and you can imagine what is going on here when they put Americans in such a place. About three weeks ago, when the marines first started to advance, they got the fever of going after the ‘square heads,’ and their officers had a hard time holding them back. That kind of business has been going on so long that last -night the marines wanted to go over and get some machine gun nests that were planted on a rocky ledge in a large woods. “About five o’clock they high-balled and so did everybody else. At eight o’clock they had taken all the machine gun nests and, of course, they wanted to chase the Huns out of the woods and away they went, ‘square heads’ yelling ‘kamerad,’ but the ma-

rines could not understand the word. So the only Boche left in the woods now is under the sdd. After ridding the woods of the Germans at the tedge of the Tyoods where a large force of Boches were located, we surrounded a regiment of the enemy and finally succeeded in defeating them after a hard battle. About 800 Huns were captured at this one place.” ,