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October 3, 1918: Don Martin, sick, returns to Paris

      On Thursday, October 3, Don Martin was on his way to Paris, a very sick man.
        Somehow he wrote his daily dispatch for Paris on October 3, perhaps while in transit to Paris. It was published in the Paris Herald on Friday, October 6.  
Germans Attack Americans 
After Crying ‘Kamerad!’
(Special Telegram to the Herald)
By DON MARTIN
 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES, Thursday
                       Scores of instances of alleged German atrocities on the field of battle are heard but it is seldom that one is printed because the United States authorities have ruled that no atrocity story may be published until it is verified. Here is one which has been verified.
                       During the fighting in the Argonne forest the Americans attacked the abri of St. Louis, one of the strongest local entrenchments in the forest. The Germans waited till the Americans were about 100 feet from the abri and then one hundred of them came out and offered to surrender. They threw up their hands and the Americans accepted their plea, and as the Germans advanced the Americans paid little attention to them. Presently the Huns put down their hands and hurled a deluge of hand-grenades on the Americans, inflicting severe casualties. The Americans thereupon attacked the Germans still resisting in the abri.

                       The Germans shelled many points along the American front last night and early to-day. The shelling reached proportions of a barrage at five o’clock this morning and the American reply was very intense. Patrols were active along the entire front. A Boche observation plane tried to take photographs over the line this morning. The Americans attacked and forced the Huns to land, the observer and pilot were unhurt and were made prisoners.

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