Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Yankee Soldiers Have Shown Daily That They Think Ahead of Germans [ARTICLE]

Yankee Soldiers Have Shown Daily That They Think Ahead of Germans

By HENRY JAMES BUXTON

have shown dfrily that they have a habit of thinking ahead of the h£, which is an in the big war game. - _ /Corporal Hanan of an American infantry regiment* during the. height of/attack near Soisaons savZa Hun abandon his pachine gun and run into Za cave. Bight away Hanan stationed two private soldiers at the mouth of the cave, and gathering a hunch of grenades elimbed to the top of a hill just over the entrance to the >ault into which the German had disappeared. On the brow of the hill was something that looked like a chimney, and Hanan began tossing his grenades down the shaft Events progressed quickly. Three German officers, one the colonel of a regiment, and 64 privates came out, shouting “kamerad.” Even chaplairis have the Yankee, fighting spirit which was proven by &e action of Chaplain Bingham of Alabama. He lost his way while going - from regimental headquarters to a first-aid station, and wandered into the German lines. The Huns kicked and cursed him. They were leading him to a machine gun nest when Bingham decided that it was his dutyto strike a blow. So he drove both fists into the face of one of his captors, knocking him flat. He snatched up the rifle of the fallen man, and shot the other Hun. In the meantime the Hun, who had been knocked down was on his * feet and made a savage lunge at the American with a knife. . Binghun g»«e the i'un the rifle butt on the head end the Boche fell »»if hit with spiled river. Bingham didn’t tarry any longer. He made a mah for the American lines and arrived in safety. ~-4f >. . . k -