The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-06-28
j. 5. SOLDIERS
LANDED SAFELY
ON FRENCH SOIL
SECOND CONTINGENT DEBARKS,
FIRST APPARENTLY HAVING
LANDED YESTERDAY.
Third SECTION IS Due TODAY
POPULACE WILD WITH DELIGHT
AND UNNAMED CITY is BE-
DECKED WITH us. FLAGS ".

A French seaport, June 27.-The
second contingent OF American troops
arrived and dlsembarked today.
NJ The troops landed amid the
r. frantic cheers of the people, who
mad gathered for hours before in anti
cipation of duplicating yesterdays
surprise.
Enthusiasm rose to fever pitch
when it was learned that the trans
ports and conveys had successfully
passed the submarine zone. The port
was speedily beflagged in honor of the
occasion.
All the troops now arrived were
transferred today to camp not dis
tant from this point, where Major
General William L. Sibert is installed
Thence they probably will go on to a
point near the front.
All the troops are in excellent shape,
enthusiastic over the successful trip
and their reception and are eager for
action.
Major Gen. J. J.. Pershing, the Amer
lean commander, is expected tomorrow.
The harbor is dotted with conveys.
The streets are filled with soldiers in
numbers of trucks are transporting i'm
mense supplies to the camp in which
the troops are concentrating.
Washington, June 27.-The epochal
landing of American troops in France
cannot be fully discussed at this time
for obvious reasons concerning the
safety of other contingents.
1t is entirely permissible to say they
are part of the force which will be
under command of Maj. Gen. Pershing
and for whose arrival the general and
since they landed on the other side.
The American troops will be an en-
tirely independent command just as are
the British troops, working, of course,
with the French at the head Of opera
lions as they are on French soil. When
the troops have had their period of
preparation behind the lines they will
take a place on the battlefront to be
arranged by Gen. Pershing. in consul
tation with the other military chiefs
there. They probably very soon will be
carrying the Stars and Stripes in the
assaults which steadily are driving the
Germans out of France and Belgium.
All the troops under Gen. Pershing's
division which President Wilson direct
command are regulars and comprise the
ed to proceed to France "at the earliest
possible time"
Information - of what other troop
movement may be made is surrounded
by secrecy to insure, far as posi-
BILE, a safe-Eoyage through the submar-
inc zone. 1t is not permissible to say
what precautions were taken to get the
American troopships past the waiting
German submarines, but there is no
doubt the precautions were carefully
worked out, as it is believed generally
that some time ago most of the German
st1bmari fleet was withdrawn from
its attacks on commercial ships to
make it ready to ambush the American
troopshfps in force.
. The successful. landing, while a
soure9uf great qualification to officials
here:-vfewed from the point of being a
military operation, is regarded with
added significance for its moral effect
in Germany
The-refefence in cable dispatches to
a publication of yesterdays surprise
iptimating there was also a landing
Yesterday passes without comment here
but obviously discloses landing or
contingent not recorded in yesterday
dispatches.