New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-22

ned way and carried specified fags;
II one steamer a week each way were
sailed, and II the United States govern
ment guaranteed that no c0ntraband
was carried.
The immediate answer Of the United
States was given February 3-the sew
erance Of diplomatic relations with
Germany. April 6 the president signed
4 joint resolution Of the two houses
OF congress declaring a state of war
to exist with Germany. In quick L.
cessiOn came the Selective service act
for the raising Of an army; IL war
appropriation Of 5 3.OOO.O OO. 600; the
sending Of an expeditionary force of
regulars to France under General
Persling: the registration Of nearly
1C,OOO,OW men for military service
the closing Of the first Liberty loan
with - large oversubscription; the
drafting of the state militia into the
federal service. October q formal an
n|ounceinent was made that American
troops In France had fred their drst
shot in war.
Nevertheless, the spring OF 1918 saw
three huge drives on Paris by the Ger
mans. BY June ! the Germans were
within 4G miles Of the French capital,
in thateau-Thierry. Unless they were
speedily stopped Paris would he under
their guns. The plan Of the French
was to delay them as long AS possible
by r%rar-guard actions until reserves
could he brought up.
Yankees Stop Huns.
And then took place the thing
which all good Americans were prayer
fully expecting: American soldiers
got into action In American fashion,
under American leadership, with
American artillery and machine guns.
The French commander sent to
Chatean-Thierry an American division
made up Of marines and Of infantry
from the middle West. June 2 the
leathernecks and doughboys moved
into support positions back Of season
ed French troops. The French were
forced back and filtered through the
Americans; the support positions soon
became the front.
June 4, about Ave O'Clock In the AFT
ernoon, the Germans attacked In force
through n wheat neld. 10 platoon col
umns. in perfect order, supremely con-
fident. The Americans raked them
with shrapnel and machine guns. Then
they opened with rife IRE. Cool, I'M
hurried, they picked their shots as II
at target practice. Military experts
will tell you that the American ma
rines are the most effective fighting
men In all. the armies Of the world cer-
tainly they have no equals with the
rife.
The Germans wavered. then came
on again. Twice more they stopped;
twice more advanced. Then they broke.
Flesh and blood could not stand that
rife FIRE. They crawled of through the
standing grain. The Americans sent
bullets wherever the wheat stirred.
That was the end.
Days and nights OF heavy lombard
ment followed. Sleep was impossible.
LIE hIHtTlCuHS HNVu VII imohAey
meat" bread and water. Then they
went on and took the town Of BOures-
ches, cleaning out the nests Of machine
with rife hre, bayonet and
grenade.
What They Have They Hold.
Next they took the Bots de Belleau.
1t vas a jungle. 1t was every man for
Indian fashion, from tree to
tree, from rock to rock. The battal-
ion of l~eathernecks which took the
wood went in with 95S men and 20
officers. They came with $40 men
and seven officers. But they took
the wood. Then they dug themselves
in and fought of counter-attacks for
Ave days until relieved, constantly
and gassed, not II hot meal
all that time. What the leathernecks
have they hold.
This one division used up FIVE crack
divisions OF the Germans.
There are those among the allies
who say that the Americans at Cha
EMU Thierry saved Paris, just as the
Canadians saved Calais. When the
military history Of the Great War II
Chateau hierry is likely to
,e called the turning point Of the
struggle. For its moral force was be-
Tond estimate. II put new heart into
he war-worn French and British. All
france famed with JOY. The Ameri-
ans ha dstopped the Hun, had driven
lin back. had beaten him OF. And
thousands upo thousands of just such I
americans were in plain sight pushing !
o the front! !
General FOch In supreme command y
# the allies on the western front. o o !
fterwnrd launched the allied offensive
nd victory followed victory all along
he fighting line OF $50 miles from the y
iorth sea to Verdun. It was the be- y
inning of the end. 4,
BY early October the Hun was beat. 4
n to his knees and asking for peace. D
81 the Italians utterly routed I
he Austrians. The same day Turkey =
urrendered. November 3 Austria 1,
lgned nm armistice virtually amount K
NJ to unconditional surrender. No n
Q Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated n
nd Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Z,
pnounced the throne, both fleeing to o.
Iolland to escape a people In revolu-
So the mad ambition Of Emperor
VILLAIN ii Of Germany to conquer the
'orld and his 30 years Of debauching !.
Is people end in defeat. revolution. ;.
bdication and flight from Justice. =,
This arch criminal against civilixa. :,
on will be lucky II he fares no