"HGAN DAILY BY MAJOR U. S. DEVILHOUNDS CAPTURE GERMAN TRENCHES BY STORM Washington, Oct. 26.-To advance seven miles against a hurricane of German fire, machine gun bullets and big shells, is not all glory and ex- hilaration even for a United -States marine. This is disclosed in a series of vivid pen pictures of the tremend- ous fighting in which those American boys participated on the Marne salient written by Major Robert L. Denig, of the tmarines, to his, wife in Philadel- phia. Major Denig and his battalion took part in the great Allied counter- attack on the Marne salient, July 18, that started the Hun backward toward Germany and began the disintegra- tion of the German western front. "To picture a fight," he writes, "mix up a lot of hungry, dirty, tired and bloody men with dust, noise and smoke. Forget the clean swords, prancing horses and flapping flags. At night, a gas filled woods, falling trees and bright, blinding flashes, you can't see your neighbor, that is war. In the rear it is all confusion. The general told me "Hurry to such aplace, all goes well, we are advancing!" His staff miles away, all clean-one was shaiving, another eating hot cakes, we had not had a hot bite for two .days. As I reached my jumping off place wounded men, killed men, horses blown to bits, the contrast! ', Advance Without Food Describing the marines' advance, Major Denig goes on: "We were fin- ally, after 12 hours' ride, dumped in a big field and after a few hours rest, started our march. It was hot as hades and we had had nothing to eat since the day before. We at last en- tered a forest, a finer one I have nev- er seen. Deer would scamper ahead and we couldhave eaten one raw. At 10 o'clock that night, without food, we lay down in a pouring rain to sleep. "At 3:30 o'clock the next morning Sitz woke me up and said we were to attack. The regiment was soon under way and we picked our way under cover of a gas infested valley to a town where we got our final instruc- tions and left our packs. We now be- gan to get a few wounded; one man with ashen face came charging to the rear with shell shock. He shook all over,- foamed at the mouth, could not speak. I put him under a tent and he acted as if he had a fit. "At 8:30 o'clock we jumped off with a line of tanks in the lead. For two "kilos" the four lines of marines were as straight as a die, and their advance over the open plain in the bright sun- light was a picture I shall never for- get. The fire got hotter and hotter, men fell, bullets sun, shells whizzed- banged and the dust of battle got thick. A man near me was cut in two. Oth- ers when hit would stand, .it seemed, an hour, then fall in a heap. Germans Set Trap "About 60Germans jumped out of a trench and tried to surrender, but their machine guns opened up, we fired back, they ran and our left com- pany after them. That made a gap that had to be filled, so Sibley advanc- ed one of his to do the job. Then a shell hit in a machine gun crew of ours and cleaned it out completely. "At 10:30 o'clock we .dug in-the attack just died out. I found a hole or old trench and when I was fiat on my back I got some protection. From then on to about 8 o'clock in the eve- ning, life was a chance and mighty uncomfortable. It was hot as a furn- ace, no water, and they had our range to a "T," Three men lying in a shal low trench near me were blown to bits. { "I went to the left of the line and found eight wounded men in a shel hole. You could hear men calling for help in the wheat fields. Their cries would get weaker and weaker and die out. The German planes were thick in the air; they were in groups o: from three to 20. They would look us .over and then we would get a pounding. One of our planes got shot down; he fell about a thousand feet like an arrow, and hit in the field back of 'us. The tank exploded and nothing was left. "Well, we just lay there all through the hot afternoon. As twilight came. we sent out water parties for the re- lief of the wounded. Then, we wond- ered if we would get 'relieved. At o'clock we got a message congratulat- ing us, and saying the Algerians xvouM take over at midnight. We then be gan to collect our wounded. All the time bullets sung and we prayed tha shelling would not start again whilE we had our wounded on top. "We are now back in a town fo: some rest and to lick our wounds. A I rode down the battalion where one( companies 250 strong used to march now you see 50 men with a kid seconm lieutenant in command; one compan: commander is not yet 21. In the figh 103 of the men in the compan: that I brought over were killed o: wounded. The second fight must hav( about cleaned out the old crowd. WE advanced 10 kilometers, with prison ers and guns, and the bells rang it New York for the victory, while well dressed girls and white-shirted mei no doubt drank our health in many f lobster palace." SEVERAL NEW FEATURES MONTHLY PUBLICATION GIVES I RESUME OF MICHIGAN IN r I WAR TIMES College Women Join W. S. T. C. woman students' training corps at faculty, the women took th Chicago, Oct. 26. - Seven hundred the University of Illinois. After the corps and were givet women have been inducted into the speeches by various members of the naires to fill out. CZECHO-SLAVS TO RECEIVE FREEDOM Philadelphia, Oct. 26. - Gathered about Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, presi- dent of the defacto Checko-Slovac na- tion and chairman of the mid-Euro- dent of the defacto Zhecko-Slavoc na- pean union, were representatives of 18 nationalities, numbering 65,000,000 people, all bent upon the same mis- sion-the absolute crushing of the dream of Mitteleuropa and the de- struction of absolutism that rules in the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. The conference was held about a rough table in the banquet hall on the second floor of Independence hall. It was decided to send a motion to the Allied governments and to the Presi- dent of the United States stating the nationalistic aims of each of the sub- ject peoples represented at the confer- ence. A hope was expressed that au- tonomy would be granted to a state comprised of these people in Hungary beyond the Carpathians. One of the principal features of to- morrow's gathering will be the arrival of the new "Liberty Bell," a full-sized replica of the old memorial that stands in Independence hall. In ad- dition a number of smaller bells will be cast, which will be given as a token to each of the peoples that throw off the yoke. The words of this new declaration of independence will be inscribed on each in the language of the respective races. You will viways find satisfaction by adveritsing in the Daily.-Adv. The Alumnus, a University publica- tion that came out recently, forms a link between the University of the present and the University of the past. The frontispiece is a picture of the American University Union in Paris in which are located headquarters for Michigan men. The issue contains many cuts. There are editorials on a wide range of subjects among which are the new Michigan Union, Bel- gian relief, the fraternity situation, the Law school, and the navigation course. Prof. Claude H. Van Tyne, head of the history department, gives an ex- tensive account of his activities in the educational campaign of the National Security league. A department has been inaugurated containing letters from the front. Among the letters is one from Prof. Charles B. Vibbert, Michigan's repre- sentative at the American University Union in Paris, giving a vivid descrip- tion of a night raid on Paris. There is also an athletic column edited by Coach Elmer Mitchell. The former editor of the Alumnus, Mr. W. B. Shaw, resigned just after the August edition appeared and went to Washington, where he was asso- ciated with the commodity section of the shipping board. He was transfer- red in October to a California univer- sity, where he is serving as assistant to the director of the S. A. T. C. Prof. John L. Brumm ie acting editor. The Alumnus makes a special ap- peal to the subscribers to send their copy to someoneain active overseas service after reading it, or to sub- scribe for a couple extra copies to be sent to France. Special rates of $5 are given for three one-year subscrip- tions. . . 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