The sun., 1918-09-14
SAW YANKS ROLL.
FOE FROM SALIENT


mighty drama II opened. with care
fully trained actors waiting the call OF
prompter Generals upon WIDE stag
behind footlights the limit of whose ra-
dance was the sky.
We from the wings knowing the lines
as they were to be spoken-there 10 tei,
fathers, mothers and wives OF the part
their loved ones took in the production.
realized with deep national pride ,ia,
our artillery was In carefully seiec'eu
positions. its forest OF guns trained upo"
the enemy trenches and batteries, Prev
ously located by airplanes and photo
xraphed. that our infantry ana ar
mored trains for the attack had peeh
carefully moved up by night marches
and only waited for the zero hour
o'clock-to begin their advance.
| We realized that when that hour came
the artillery would shift from destruc,
tive fire and roll a curtain OF IRON anu
steel ahead. We knew that series OF
obiectives had been set beyond which
no troops were to pass we were, In ract.
conscious Of all that depended on
Americas ffst large scale plunge into
the European war. We stayed awake
and whispered among ourselves VIVA.
this division had done or what tna'
division might do. 1t was not criticisH'
just anxiety - All
Perhaps as good way as any 10 teil
of the composure of Our army VIII oe
to relate exactly how l found Some
the American Generals occupied atter
q o'clock Thursday. when the first phase
OF the attack had been passed. One was
coolly shaving himself and was grinnlhg
from ear to ear when i entered MS aug
| out Another was sitting cross legseu
| before a cracker box, upon wnlcn re-
posed mess tin with ham ana eggs,
He said to me: This is the hrst mea
7 have reljshed in six weeks. BY COD
our infantry is good! Notice the wa.
they went after those macnine guns
Guess we have the German people THINK
ing"
Fritz Trying to slip His Collar.
! Another put his head through the
curtain acting as door to MS quar-
tiers long enough TO remark:
Have this moment had my artillery
concentrated upon the enemys pacK
areas. Fritz is trying to slip his collar.
We must not let him make the linden
burg line without paying dearly"
Another American General in blue
overalls and a gray sweater l FOUND
walking up and down in the woods
whistling. Our artillery belched from
every side He said:
This division has been lighting con-
tinuously since March Is last. except Tor
twenty-five days, during which time we
shifted locations four times. Yet our
boys trod upon the heels of their own
: barrage all morning and reached their
detectives ahead of schedule.
am told that the ST. Mihiel salient
has been successfully pnched." Per
haps 80, and even more. / only saw our
| l,.,. Al. nj ndt ~ n
so happened that one Of the places
where we attacked was location
knew could be observed from a high
. point well In the rear. I got there IN
the thin gray mist of the early morning
. 1t was on ridge marking the town OF
BEAUMONT. from which was clearly visible
. the great valley out of which rises
Mont Sec or dry mountain. an eminenoe
held by the Germans. and from which
they gave us a multitude OF trouble last
January in the Toul sector. where many
American divisions took their baptism OF
, FIRE.
In the distance. upon an autumna
: carpet OF brown. our khaki clad boy,
| looked like so many brown ants. The,
+ have little to give ones eye in the way
Of color, for they fade into vista o
, dropping leaves and harvested fields.
re" IN
Watch them CO." said an American
Colonel at my side; take my glass
4 From my platform and with the magni
{ fed vision l saw details. OF what other
- wise would lie only intimated-saw mel
!. crawling along like things earthly, thei
v suddenly rise into the splendor OF god
n and leap toward bursts of white patches
e tree clumps or heaps OF stone. Occasion
I ally there would be an outline lost iron
o ! the animate picture. whereupon the spo
81 in the landscape would take the forr
d of two posts with a hammock swun
e between This was not often, for W
= lost but few ,r our attacks
e have never seen field dressing sta
/. tons so free of wounded. Our men di
d not charge Mont Sec, for these days the
e dc not make war as they did at Col
$ Harbor. We crept along the east sid
CT large hill, while other American
y were driving eastward from north OF tn
e elevation. Nothing remained 70. tn
r enemy TO do but evacuate, which remind
4 ne that last January one Of our Gtr
= erals, when visiting Toul. remarked:
: Il want that little hill" 1t was jus
t, as II he was ordering breakfast. Te
s day he has it.
t Roads that run along pleasant valley
e between the Meusc and Moselle are t
e day streaked with two columns paSsn
e in different directions Our boys. nc,
world crusaders into the old world goin
It up, and others, more old, more tired an
e many crimson stained with war ar
It dragging heavy footed from the confiic
y to the refuge of defeat and our rea
It ! think 1t is $500 or more prisoners W
" have taken. but enc can never be certai
t, OF these matters in the confusion an
= rush OF war