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AMERICANS TAKE
BIG PAGE IN IDE
CANADIAN IW
BY F. A. M*KENZIE
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD. Bay 7. —The battle of the
Scnune brought several Americans to
the fore. A lad from Dennysvlle.
Maine, Corporal W. H. Metcalf. who
bad been through much fighting and
was several times recommended for
gallantry, won his Military Medal for a
deed of quiet courage.
Metcalf’s colonel told me the story.
One afternoon during the heaviest
fighting on the Somme, the Germans
were making a barrage on our front.
A man hurried into the battalion dug
out to say a soldier was lying
outside the trenches in a very exposed
position, with his leg shattered. He
was bleeding heavily, and if anything
was to be done, it must be done quick.
“Can anyone put on a bandage?” the
Colonel demanded.
“I can, in away, Sir,” Metcalf re
plied, and, grabbing the roll, he rushed
out.
The whole place was humming and
roaring with the noise of shells. The
machine guns were beating their dev-,
il’s tatoo. The Colonel showed him the
way through. “Go and do your best.”;
Metcalf found his man, bound up his
wounds, and, since it was impossible to
move him, sat by him until he died.
A young telephonist, D. A. Keeble,
from North Dakota, attached to a ec
tion of the Canadian Field Artillery,
has done some very gallant work. At
Courcelette, one of our planes was
shot down a little way from him. Now
as a rule immediately a plane falls, the,
enemy artillery concentrates on that
point, and prudent men stay away. I
Keeble ran up to it, cut away the fusil-'
ade to enable the airman to escape, and '
then calmly took out the two wicker
seats and carried them off as trophies.
He had barely got off before enemy
shells rained down all around the
plane.
Newspaper Fighter.
Major John Lewis, editor of the Mon
treal Star, was an American who be
came a British subject before the war
Professional soldiers, who take mere
deeds of courage for granted, are loud
in praise of his conduct in the attack
on Regina Trench, on October 21st,
1916. His party of three officers and
twenty-six men overran Desire Trench
and reached Grandcourt Trench. Here'
they maintained themselves all day.)
against attack after attack by strong.
bombarding parties. Major Lewis sent
back telling his exact position, and say
ing that they could stay there. A box
barricade was put around them, and
then while defending themselves
against companies of Germans in front,
they passed back 200 German .prisoners
they had captured. Unfortunately
Lewis himself was killed, just as he
started to come back. But he had
earned a permanent place among Can
ada’s heroes.
In the costly fight of May Sth, 1915,
a regment which has from the first had
a number of Americans in its ranks,
(ccwpied a long line of shallow trench- >
es, was exposed to hours of merciless
fire, and was repeatedly charged by.
the finest troops of the German army. ’
Sergeant Pemberton of Philadelphia
did well. The battailion was losing
very heavily. Every officer save two or
three was killed or wounded. Supplies
of ammunition were almost exhausted,
there was no artillery behind and re-,
serves had not yet arrived. Pemberton
h' lped several wounded officers out of
the firing line, including the
of the corps. Then he took command j
of his own section in the trench, and in'
the hours when heroes might have
faltered, stood fast until the German
fury of attack had exhausted itself and
the baffled enemy retired J. C. Richard
son of Des Moines was wounded in the
same attack. When he recovered, he
was given a commission, and after
wards transferred to the Flying Corps.
Lieutenant Birseye, of Orange, N. J.,
an American college boy who quitted
classes for soldiering when the war
broke out. early earned the coveted
Distinguished Conduct Medal. He en-
I tered the army as private, but won his
decoration and officership by going ov
er the parapet during heavy fighting
and bringing in wounded men.
The big raid of December 2nd
brought the Military Cross to a Port
Huron, Michigan boy, Lieutenant A.
P. McCormick. Previous attempts had
been made to raid one part of the Ger
man lines, and had failed. Then a bat
talion, to which McCormick was at
tached volunteered to make another at
tempt. McCormick was reconnoitering
officer. His business was to investigate
No Man’s Land, to find away in and to
work the lines for the others. The
, raiders were in three parties. Those to
■ the right and to the left reached tne
German trenches, after heavy fighting.
, They rushed and captured a machine-
i HE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
] COTTON MARKET |!
AMERICUS, GA.
May 7. 191".
The Americus spot cotton market
was quoted today at local warehouses:
Good middling 20c
Strict middling 19 3-4 c
Middling 19 l-2c
The Futures Market.
The futures market at opening and .
noon was quoted: Open Noon
July 19.35 19.51
! October 18.70 18.68
December 18.74 18.70
Monday Closing.
'January 18.61
March 18.75
July 19.35
‘October 18.54
December 18.58
Optimistic Thought.
He who plays a trick must be pre
pared to take a joke.
gun just as it was about to open out
on them. They held either end of a
considerable stretch of trench, and a
party of Germans it could either ad
vance nor retire.
Meanwhile the centre party was held
up by very strong wire entanglements
which could not be broken through.
The officer gave the word, and his
men stretched out in front of the wire,
threw their bombs right along the
line of cooped-up Germans. Then the
side parties rushed up. The trench
was heaped with dead men. A hundred
Germans had been blown to pieces.
McCormick’s work that night won him
the Military Cross.
Lance-Corporal F. F. Worthington,
of Coopertown, N. Y., was a civil en
gineer. He came from Vera Cruz to
join the Canadians. On January sth
the Germans tried to raid one of our
advanced posts. There was very heavy
shell fire and the little garrison was
shaken by it. Just then Worthington
and a Lieutenant Griffiths, arrived.
They rallied the men. Worthington
took a gun, and when the Germans |
tried to storm them they were swept
back. Worthington received a Military
Medal for his conduct that day.
MOORE PREACHED THREE
TIMES ON HORRORS OE SIN
(Continued frqm Page One.)
Ibemselves where books will be open
'd and all hidden sins will come to
light. It will be a day of justice and ,
not of mercy. God has a victrola re- (
cord of all those wrong things that'
you said, those lies you told, and those
angry, cutting remarks you made. He
has a film of the times you went to
places where you had no right to be,
of the time when you pinched that five
dollars from the boss and he never
missed it. It is a place where the
moral man cannot stand, where the
drunkard loses out, and where the
gambler is sent to hell. By a gambler
To Close Out
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I mean as much the man who gambles
in futures and the woman who gambles
at her party, as I do the nigger who
gambles for a dime. If I thought that
God would damn a negro for shooting
craps, and let oae of you society wo
men go free for gambling for a bowl,
an umbrella or a pair of silk hose, I
could tear up my Bible right now and
quit preaching. You women have got
to quit. You are just as low down,
mean gamblers, and deserve to be tot
ing water on the county chaingang.
There is no difference between you and
any other gambler, and there is not a
lawyer in the country, but what will
tell you the same thing.” When the
proposition was made a large number
came forward to be prayed for, and
from now on, it is believed that a great
number of people will find the Lord at
each service.
The singing of the choir was a great
factor in the services of yesterday.
There is a fine aggregation of voices
and their work is greatly appreciated
MONDAY, MAY 7, 1917.
by the congregation. At the service
last night, and the choir sang a chorus,
"All Hail, Emanuel.” Mr. Stapleton
sung “The Judgement,” and at the
close of the service, sung “Where
Shall We Spend Eternity.”
Tonight Mr. Stapleton will give his
famous candle sermon to the child
ren and young folks, and it is especial -
ly urged that both old and young avail
themselves of this opportunity to see
this interesting as well as instructive
sermon.