Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-02
AMERICANS TAKE
PART IN BATTLE
U. S. Men Have Acquitted Them
selves Well.
KEEP ENEMY FROM PARIS
Paris Says Yankees Have Taken UP
Positions on French Battle Front
-122 Are Decorated for
Bravery.
KEEP ENEMY FROM PARIS

Washington, April 3O.-Formal an
nOuncement that American troops,
sent to REINFORCE the allies armies,
have taken part in the fighting is made
by the war department in it's weekly
review of the situation. "Our forces
have taken part in the battle" says
the statement briefly. american
units are in action east of Amiens.
During the various engagements which
have ragged in this area they have &C.
quilted themselves WE'LL
The war department, referring to
the situation in France, says: 'In adj
dition to those already called to the
tonments or already selected for serv-
ice, very large quotas will be re-
quired in the immediate future to fill
the gaps"
Help Keep Enemy From Paris.
With the American Forces in North
ern France, April 3O.-American
troops have taken up positions on the
French battle front. Under the French
high command, in which all ranks have
supreme confidence, the American
forces face the enemy on the line bar
ring the Germans from Paris and AM
lens, where they have been certain
number of days.
1922 Americans Win Decoration.
The French army paid historic
tribute to the United States when
122 soldier sons of Massachusetts
were decorated with the war cross for
bravery displayed in recent fighting.
The ceremony, which was held on
picturesque field a short distance
from the front-line trenches, was one
Of the most impressive in which Amer
lean soldiers have participated since
their entry into the war.
One hundred and seventeen men
from the One Hundred and Fourth
Massachusetts, regiment, who bore
the brunt of the German attack in the
ApremOnt forest on April II, received
medals, as did five men of another reg
iment who had participated in ear
lier fighting around scissors.
Here and there. in the line of he
roes were spaces representing Ameri-
cans who were killed or wounded Sc
riously.
"Audacity and Sacrifice"
1t had been raining in the afternoon,
but the sun broke through the grayish
clouds when the One Hundred and
Fourth regiment, which also was deco
rated as a unit, passed In review be-
fore the American and French gen
erals. Bands played "The Star-Span-
gled Banner" and '"The Marceillaise,"
while she American and French flags
waved proudly and defantly within
sound of the roar Of the German guns.
The French general, in comforting the
decorations, said of the regiment:
"It showed the greatesF audacity
and a fine spirit of sacrifice. Sub
jected to very violent bombardments
and attacks by 'ldrger German forces,
it succeeded in checking the danger
Gus advance and took at the point Of
the bayonet in a most vigorous way
prisoners and some demolished
trenches from which it hads33llen back
at the first assault"
U. S. Men Win in Raid Near Verdun.
With the French Army in France
April 27.-American troops Sunday
made a successful trench raid near the
heights of the Meuse, in the vicinity Of
Vaux-les-Palameix Con the front below
Verdun, nine miles north Of st. Mi
hief). Their French comrades har-
assed the enemy in the same way at a
number of places in Lorraine and in
the Vosges.