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entered the court yard. He wan n close comrade of the two rholizlot was fighting Seeing that the buttlo was going against his friends the newcomer ran up behind Phellzot and swinging by its lenthorn 6trap Ids two-litre metal bldlon, which w-m filled with wine, struck him n crashing blow on the head and Phellzot fell unconscious.The following night, although for twenty-four hours he had Buffered intense bain in his head. Phellzot marched back to the trenches with his company. The pain Increased, and the next day his sergeant ordered him back to the regimental Inflrin-nry. Phellzot must have suffered Intense agony, but he made the live kilometers back to Cuiry alone and presented himself at the Infirmary. There the doctor examined him and said he could find nothing wrong and Phellzot walked out of the hospital nnd started up tho road to Chateau Bianc Snbion and the trenches.LcacBI Am An American.'A little later In the day a lieutenant of the legion noticed u man lying by the roadside, just outside Cuiry. Thinking it some weary soldier having a rest, he passed on without saying anything. Coming hack an hour Inter he saw that tho man had not moved. He called to him and the answer was a low moan. The lieutenant turned him over. It was Phellzot, partly paralyzed and with lockjaw setting In. He was rushed to the nearest base hospital, seventeen k Horn tern away, at Flsmes. There everything possible was done to save him, but It was too late.The Inst days of August. 1914. when we were preparing to leave Kouen for Toulouse, Phellzot had each American volunteer write his name in lndelllble Ink on n largeAmerican flip. This flag ever since that time he had worn wrapped about his waist as a kind of sash. At the close of a February day. Phellzot. who had lain for hours unconscious, slowly raised himself in his cot, unwound the flag from his waist, cried out. I am an American!” and Tell back dead.No Mercy to Foreign Legion.ME phis Ing s other tlan | the 1 i one r ' becut | pllmc ants.I tain j Ident social | Mr I gro t have years invite ploye Assoc W1 i Assoc ! parly of it. Into i to thc-ns o lng I'Tl.a I... 111.. f* If It II tiltil n a inrushe Irene In he What or th captu nnd t
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The Sunday Telegram
Clarksburg, West Virginia, US
Sun, May 07, 1916
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