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GEORGIA.
THE MILLEDCEVILLE NEWS.
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Confessions of a
german Deserter
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Written by a Pruaalan Officer
Wbo Participated In the
Ravaging and Pillaging
of Belgium
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or Detroit free Frees
Am j he luugfied.
Lddenly 1"-' st " rt0,, npn,n: " J nN
s ?ll0( ,t nt them until they stop
Sns- Tbnt Is fUn "
‘, ntrnln he laughed, maniacally,
J louder than before.
, rf ,,|| Z oil finally that this mnn had
' n nson. A man passed brlng-
amiMunifion and I asked him to
L t |, 0 commander at once. The of-
’ arr i T e(l. nceomiinnled by an lnfnn-
* lieutenant. 1 met them and report-
Jllmt my neighbor had been firing on
Z wounded, talking nonsense, and
nndoubteillv was Insane. The lieuten-
iDt stepped between us.
"Can you see anything?” he asked.
»«ee! No. But I hear them moun-
, ng and weeping. As soon ns I hit one
be is quiet for he sleeps!”
The lieutenant nodded to me. He
tried to take the gun from the mnn.
but the latt.'r seized it quickly and
sprang hack to cover. From there he
bred while standing among the wound-
nl, until u moment inter, he himself'
fell, riddled by innny bullets.
The drama had only a few specta
tors, rt was hardly over before It was
forgotten. Anything but sentiment.
The blind llrlng continued. The
rrles of the wounded became constant
ly louder.
Why? These wounded lying be
tween the two fighting lines are ex
posed to the firing of both parties. No
one can help them for It would be In
sanity to venture Into No Man’s Lnnd
Ever louder and with more heart-
reading pleadings, the wounded called
for the stretchers, for help, for water.
it the most a curse or an oath la the
only response.
Our treuch wns filled with several
Inches of water and underneath that,
mud. In this morass lay dead and
wounded, thrown together. It became
necessary to make room and bo the
dead were thrown over the ramparts.
At one o'clock In the night men came
with stretchers and took away some of
the wounded, byt for those wretches
lying In No Man's Land there wus no
help.
CHAPTER VII.
To complete our misery, we received
orders during the night to attack the
French at 0:15 In the rooming. We
made our preparations under a pour-
lug rain. Promptly at 4:15 we went
ow tbe top, Jumping over corpses and
wounded men. We were forced to re
tire before n hall of machine gun fire,
and sustaining n large number of un
necessary casualties.
Hardly had we regained our trenches
when the French attacked us. They
came within three meters of our trench,
ami here their attuek broke down un
der our fire. They too had to retire
fearful losses.
Three times In two hours the French
attacked, always with heavy losses
anil no results. We were at our wit's
end. Unless help cnine soon It would
be Impossible for us to hold the posi
tion. We were tortured by hunger and
thirst ns well ns being wet to the skin
and were so exhausted that we could
hardly stand.
At ten o'clock the French attacked
a fourth time. They came on In enor
mous numbers. Our lenders recognized
the danger of o.tr position and ordered
back, abandoning the wounded and
mut 'l> booty. By a superhuman efTort
" e *Hd tnnnnge to snve the tuuchlne
Puns and ammunition. We retreated
We Want Over tha Top.
m * ,er * * nd took a stand in our
‘° r 'fenchea. The officers told us
, 11 bav ® to make a stand under
for, c ri ' un, ®tancea and that the r»«B-
j amenta would or,me aeon.
* “oment the machine guns were
P and soon we were sending a hall
HMtltU^luULthe ranks of our but-
Biting enemy. His - advance stbppedTn-
etantly. Encouraged by this success
we fired harder, so that the French
were compelled to seek cover.
The promised re-enforcements failed
to appear. About COO meters to our
renr were six Germnn batteries In po
sition, but they maintained only a very
weak fire. An artillery officer appeared
before us and asked the commnnder of
Our detachment If It would not be well
to recommend thnt the batteries be
taken back. He said he had learned
by telephone that the Germnn line was
wavering on Its entire length.
Before the commander could reply,
another nttOrk en masse followed
which outnumbered us by from five to
seven times. Our commander now gave
up this position nlso. Completely de
moralized, we retired In flight, leaving
the six batteries (30 guns) to be taken
by the enemy.
The French stopped their barrage
fire because they feared to hurt tiieir
own troops. The Germans utilized this
moment to bring up re-enforcements
made up of all tranches of the service.
Scattered Infantrymen, unmounted env-
alry, detached pioneers, had all been
assembled. Every makeshift was em
ployed to fill the ranks. Complete re
serve units apparently no longer exist
ed on this the third dny of the battle
of the Mnrne.
Once more the command was given
to turn and take a position and the un
equal fight began anew. We saw the
enemy advance, and seize the bat
teries. Then we saw him storming
ahead with fixed bnyonets. We fought
like wild animals. For minutes there
raged a bayonet fight beyond descrip
tion. We stnhhed through the breust,
through the abdomen, and wherever
else we could. This wns no occasion
to employ the bayonet tnctlcs taught at
drill, something which must be left for
drill-ground practice only.
The butts of the rifles whizzed
through the air und any man's head
which they struck wns broken. Hel
mets and knapsacks had been lost long
since. In spite of the superiority of
numbers, the French could not defeat
this little group of desperate men. We
forgot everything nround us and fought
like bloodthirsty beasts, thinking of
nothing else. Part of our men pene
trated the hostile ranks and fought to
retake the lost ennnon. The enemy
recognizing the danger, retreated, and
tried to hold the conquered guns with
all his energy. We continued to stab,
to club, man for man. but the enemy
held on to the batteries. Every can
non was surrounded by corpses, and
every minute new victims were cre
ated. The artillerymen who were fight
ing with us tried to remove the breech
blocks of the guns.
Three Germans fought four French
men at the third gun which was Just
to my right They were all that was
left uround thnt piece. At another gun
70 tnen lay dead or wounded. A pio
neer went to the mouth of this gun and
with astounding calmpess pushed shell
after shell luto the barrel, touched
them off and ran. Friend and foe alike
were torn by the terrible explosion.
Tbe gun was completely demolished.
Seventy to eighty men were killed for
nothlug.
After an hour's fight, all the guns
were once more Id our possession. W4
were now able to approximate the ter
rible casualties. In the battle for this
battery. Head and wounded by hun
dreds. Infantry, cavalry, artillery and
pioneers, covered the narrow atrip of
ground.
Once more we received re-enforce-
inents. This time four regular compa
nies of Infantry hud been taken
away from another detnehment. Even
If a soldier takes part In everything, be
can get only a very restricted view of
whnt Is going on and lias absolutely no
way of determining bow the battle Is
going.
These re-enforcements bad been
taken from nil different nrms and late
arrivals hud been taken from a division
which had been threatened exactly like
ours was. This led us to conclude that
we could only resist further attacks
provided fresh troops reached us. If
only we could get something to ent.
But there seemed no way to relieve the
hunger anil thirst which tortured us.
"Now, horses galloped up to remove
the guns we had left, and at the same
Instant the French artillery opened a
tremendous fire from guns of all cali
bers. The shells fell among the 30
teams comprising the column. Confu
sion reigned. Groups of six horses
comprising each team sprang Into the
air, then ran In all directions, pulling
their carriages with the wheels up be
hind them. Some of the terrified ani
mals ran directly Into the heaviest fire,
only to be torn to shreds with their
drivers.
The enemy now transferred his fire
to the battery position which we occu
pied. For us It was only a question of
advance or retreat Retreat? No! The
order came to retake the positions
which we had lost at tha opening of
the battle and which tha Frenchmen
presumably had made ready to with
stand a new attack. By thla tlm# we
had been re-enforced with more can
non fodder and the Insane fight could
begin anew.
We advanced over a wild field, cov
ered by thousands upon thousands of
torn human bodies. No shot fell; the
only firing was the hostile artillery
continuing to shell our battery posi
tions. Neither the enemy’s artlllary
oor infantry was turned upon us. Thla
made ua suspicious and our apprehen
sion regarding what waa to come In
creased as we were permitted to ad-
finer unmolested.
(To Be Continued Neat Weak)
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 191E,'
H. H. DEM OPENS
RACE FOR SENATE
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In First Address He Pledges
Loyalty To President And
Goes After His Oppo
nents Vigorously
Athens, Ga., May 25.—Hon. H. H.
Dean, well known attorney of Gaines
ville, Ga., made the opening speech of
his campaign for United States Sen
ator here today, before an audience
of many hundreds, including citizens
of Athens and surrounding territory.
3 he people of Athens tendered him
an ovation, lie was cheered and ap
plauded throughout his address, par
ticularly in connection with his criti
cism of certain public acts of the op
posing candidates.
lie said lie proposed to pitch his
campaign on a high plane of loyalty,
dignity, efficiency und respectability,
lie paid his respects to his opponents,
including Senator T. W. Hardwici
Hon. W. J. Harris and Congressman
William Schley Howard, and stated
specifically that his only criticism
would be of their public acts.
Mr. Dean declared that Georgia had
suffered greatly in the past by not
having in the senate men who would
measure up with senators from other
states.
Referring to America's part In the
war, Mr. Dean said:
“We have a great commander-ln-
chief of the Army and Navy, Presi
dent Wilson, and we all feel safe la
following his leadership and direction,
Should I ho elected to the senate, it
will be my purpose to co-operate with
him in every plan and purpose to bring
the war to a speedy and successful
determination. There can be no di
vision while the war is in progress.
We havp but one flag; we can have
but one leader, and all loyal citizens
must obey his command."
Wants Honest Politics.
Mr. Dean then read his platform,
which is published in full elsewhere
In this paper. His declaration In fa
vor of "honesty and Integrity in the
political world,” brought prolonged
applause. He stated that the cor
ruptness in politics had more to do
with bringing him Into the race than
anything else, and in this connection
he called attention to the Macon con
vention of 1914 concerning which he
said:
“We saw the Tammany Hall methods
practiced there, introduced by W. J.
Harris and T. W. Hardwick, which
resulted in debauching and buying up
a large number of the votes by trades
and corrupt manipulations, resulting
in the defeat of the choice of the
people of the state.
“W. J. Harris now undertakes to run
for the senate, and states he is run
ning on his record. All of his record
in Georgia has been to put T. W. Hard
wick in the senate In the Macon con
vention of 1914, and to step in and
prevent the people oh Georgia from
laying In their usual supply or coal
at the usual season, and causing Geor
gia alone and her people the loss of
.illllons of dollars.”
Mr. Dean denominated Senator
Hardwick the “bantam” senator, and
referred to the fact that Mr, Hard
wick had refused to meet him in joint
debate at Carrollton. He criticised Mr.
Hardwick for voting against all meas
ures proposed as necessary to carry
on the war against Germany, naming
among others the bill to raise an army,
the food control bill, the air ship bill,
the ship producing bill, the bill to
make it unlawful to make liquor from
grains and sugar and the sedition bill.
He declared Hardwick had voted for
and demanded the privilege of "insult
ing our flag, our president, our gov
ernment and our constitution, the
navy and the army.
Again referring to Mr. Harris, Mr.
Dean said:
"When Hardwick came to Carroll
ton, Harris knew of it, hut stayed
something over two hundred miles
away. When the battle was over and
1 had driven Hardwick out of Georgia,
he comes forward, stating, 'I won a
great victory.’ ”
Declaring that there is something
truly amazing about the method of
Mr. Howard’s entrance into the cam
paign, Mr. Dean challenged Mr. How
ard to tell where he got the $4,L’55
which he admitted he had received as
campaign contributions, lie spoke
also of Mr. Howard's refusal to meet
him in Joint debate.
Sued for Liquor Bill.
Mr. Dean next referred to a suit
brought against Mr. Howard in De-
Kalb County by R. J. Park, a certified
ropy of which he presented, R. J.
Park was formerly in the whisky busi
ness In Chattanooga nnd this suit, ac
cording to Mr. Dean's statement, was
brought against William Schley How
ard on a bill for whiskey amounting
to $61.90, cn which there was a bal
ance due of $39.90. The suit was
brought In 1916, five years after the
alleged purchase, and Mr. Dean charg
ed that Mr. Howard defeated the suit
by pleading the statute of limitations.
Mr. Dean charged that Mr. Howard
bought the whisky for the purpose of
defeating Congressman Livingston,
making this statement:
“You will notice Mr. Howard post
poned payment, claiming he was
broke, until after the account was
four years old, and then took advan
tage of the statute of limitations to
defeat paying the debt he had incurred
for the purpose of defeating old man
■Lon' Livingston for congress."
Mr. Dean thanked bis audience and
promised that If elected he would give
the whole state his best and most ef
ficient service as senator.
Following his Athens speech, Mr.
Dean went In the afternoon, by spe
cial Invitation, to the Goshen Picnic
grounds in Oconee County, where
more than a thousand citizen* of Oco
nee were gathered for the 44th Co
ition anniversary. He was most en
thusiastically received, and Judge H.
M. Saxon, a former Hardwick leader,
who Introduced him, stated at the con
clusion of Mr. Dean's address that
after what bad been said of the other
candidates, he did not feel he could
support them.
SAMMIES MAY VOTE IF
THEIR STATES SAY SO
askington, June 4.—Members of
the American expeditionary forces
may participate in the elections "back
home provided the various states pro
vide the machinery, Secretary of War
Baker announced late this afternoon.
The War Department, he stated, would
make every effort to facilitate the
work after the states had taken the
initiative.
“The War Department, obviously
can not take the responsibility of tak
ing, collecting and returning the vote,”
said tho Secretary. “If it is possible
for us to work out a plan to facilitate
the states doing it through their own
agencies—agencies of their own crea
tion, we would be very happy to do it.
If the states provide machinery which
Is practicable, wo will do o .r utmost
to help them work It.”
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