REDSKINS IN ACTION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 2

REDSKINS IN ACTION.

WAR PAINT AND FEATHERS

TRADITIONS UPHELD.

London, Aug. 2. Mr Raymond Carroll, tho "Times' " correspondent at American headquarters, says that Red Men, including officers, gave a .picturesque--touch-to the recent fighting in the forests-north of Chateau Thierry. Khaki and mushroom helmets we're replaced by ancestral warpaint and feathers, bx^t the ■battlecry of liberty was. the same as that of their white brothers. They all adhered to their traditions, were' unexcelled in bravery, and did uot dream ;of surrender.

A full-blooded Indian sergeant, a college " graduate, vividly describes the fighting in the open country towards the Vesle, in which 20 famous scouts from the Dakota reservation fiercely shared in the struggle. The chief fell, and as he lay dying he called out, "Keep on the trail, boys!"

A party of Sioux Indians said the j chief was so active in patrolling that at no time during three months did he use a dug-out, or await tho sewing on of, wound stripes. "We buried him in a blanket without them," they said. Six of these Redskins crept three miles to tho German lines at night and peeped in the windows of a chateau, and saw a par^y of officers enjoying an elaborate wine banquet. With bloodcurdling whoops the scouts dashed grenades througH the Avindows and escaped. They ' laconically reported that there was1 a heap of noise inside, I and perhaps there 4 was a heap of dead.