The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-06
A N ERICAN
BRAVERY WINS
MUCH PR AISE
Gun Battalion Accounts for 1000
Germans at Chateau
Thierry
OFFICER SWIMS THE MARINE
Rescues Frenchman Wounded on
Opposite Bank-Gets
War Cross
OFFICER sWIMs THE MARINE

~ Wal NIOSS
With the American Army in France,
Wednesday, June 5.-fBy the Asso.
ciated Press)-An American gun bat.
talon accounted for approximately l.
900 Germans while holding bridge q,
Chateau Thierry during the recen,
fighting
The Americans lost only one man
killed and few wounded. At the
same time French troops wiped out a
force Of 300 Germans who had obtain.
ed footing on the southern bank Of
tie Marine.
While the Germans dominated the
town from Hill 204, the Americans
and French set up machine guns IN
the windows and doorways or houses.
Great fierceness marked the fighting
which ragged for several days. One Of
ficer told the correspondent today that
it was all the commanders could do
to keep the Americans from crossing
the river in the teeth of the enemy
fire and assaulting the hill position.
Many American officers and pri.
Yates showed great daring and forti.
tude in withstanding the German at.
lacks along the Marine at Chateau
Thierry and Jaulgonne. /
John r. Mendenhall, captain, Of
New Rochelle, n, Y, went without
slsSp for three Gays and remained
steadily at the head Of his company
during tina thine Corporal jules
AiangOld OF Mcdonald, Pa was sent
out to investigate German snipers
under heavy fire from the American
line. He found the snipers, pointed
them out to his comrades and the Ger
mans fired no more. ,t#
The first American to receive the
French war cross for bravery In the
present battle was Lieutenant Walter
r. Flennery of Pittsburgh, who SWAMI
across the Marine and rescued .
wounded French SOLDIER Lieutenant
John r. BiBssell Or Pittsburgh has
been cited for thaklyq4Sh. war cross
for leading his N1PcbtRff syn, command
to the north Xiaes qf fhs Marine tn al
attempt to st3pothe H11haRo Attack. q
Captain Geo. KaKkerine, the French
liason officer rHYith the American unit,
of the fight. encouraging and z cheers
ing them. The, Americans he said,
showed most wonderful fighting spirit,
and were jolly even laughing and jok.
ing while perfect hell ragged around
them.
BRITISH PRESS COMMENT.
London, June 8.-The behavior OF
the American troops at Chateau
Thierry has demonstrated more than
anything that has yet happened on
the American front the splendid initia.
tive and enterprise with which thte
American army is endowed and moth
ing has aroused the keener enthus>
iasm Of commanders, says the Daily
Mail correspondent with the American
army In France He quotes an un.
named French general as saying that
the American spirit and enterprise at
q critical moment served to maintain
the morale of the French troops
ab0u Chateau Thierry.
Amang the incidents of the engage
ment the correspondent mentions is
the steadiness and persistence. OF the
American machine gun fire in the
streets of Chateau Thierry. Company
after company of the enemy, marching
four abreast, repeatedly tried to ad.
vance, but recoiled sorely shattered
before the fire of the American gun
rers The streets were strewn. with
German dead and wounded and the
American officers estimate they In
flicted a tleast one thousand casual
ties. When bridge across the Marine
was blown up. the correspondent adds,
the Americans were left on the north
ern bank with the enemy in front OF
them and the river at their backs
Carrying their guns, the Americans
descended to the lower banks OF the
river, and, under enemy machine gur.
and artillery fire, succeeded in reach
ing the next bridge.
The correspondent predicts that
muc wilbh card of the deeds of the
Americans in the next few days and
adds:
american troops fresh from tho
United States continue to arrive with
regularity and. numbers more than
sufficient to justify renewed conf.
dence in the ultimate triumphs Of the
entente. The Americans at this mo-
ment are distributed over a very wide
front indeed.
'Tn some sectors entire American
divisions form one unit, holding a GER
tain extent of line while elsewhere
they are brigaded with French and
British regiments. d
In the Luneville and Toul sectors
the Americans hold very difficult sail
ents dominated-in the Toul sector
completed dominated by the German
artillery on iMontsec-by the enemy.
The Germans recently have been
drenching these positions with gas, but
the Americans stood firm and won the
ready appreciation Of all observers
1874 SICK LANDED.
Washington. June 6.-During the
week ending May 81, 1874 sick and
wounded soldiers of the American ex.
peditionary forces were landed in this
country. For the week ending May "a,
sixteen arrived The soldiers have
been sent to various army hospitals.