The Republican journal., 1918-10-17

boy. On TIE way back this squad tool
prisoners Red Cross man and German
officer. In this battle the American
casualties were but twenty men, eight o
which were from the Eastport Company
The number included both the killed ant
wounded. For this magnificent work tht
regiment received special commentator
Under date of June 10, 1918 Genera
Passage, comman ling the 32nd Army
Corps, French Army, issued the follow
ing general order: =
'Translation, Goth Division, June 10, 1918
H. O., June 10, 1918
With Army 30 Corps,
Statf-3d Bureau,
No. 3, 094.
General Orders No 1871.
On June 10, strong detachment, con-
sisting of 600 picked German troops, re-
enforced by S.orm Battalion elements,
attacked at daybreak the front line of the
10th American Division at Xivray and be-
tween Xivray and Seichpray. The enemy
was everywhere repulsed by Immediate
counter attacks and left numerous bodies
on the terrain, and 10 prisoners including
one officer.
! This brilliant action does the greatest
/ honor to the 10th American Division, and
in particular, to the l03d Regiment Col
onel Hume.
! 1t demonstrates the unquestionable
! superiority of the American soldier over
the German soldier. Ii indicates clearly
what can be expected from these magniti-
! cent troops when, in its turn, the .ntente
resumes the offensive.
GENERAL PASSAGA,
Conmandip0 The 91nd rmv COrnS
! This was the first time that an Ameri-
| can regiment ha been so cited, MENTION
ing an officer by name
| The regiment remained in the Toul sec
tor during April, May and June. AS the
! Yankee Division were leaving General
| Passaea's Corps for another sector, he
issued another General Order, in which
he said: "Under the distinguished COM
mand of their chief, Gen. Edwards, the
high-spirited soldiers of the Yankee Di-
vision have taught the enemy some bitter
lessons, at Bots Brule, at Se'chsprey, at
Xivray Marvoisin; they have taught him
to realize the staunch vigor of the sons
of the great republic fighting for the
/ world freedom"
The first of July the regiment started
as they supposed for Paris and rest. They
expected to take part in the great Fourth
of July Celebration in that city. They
/ arrived in sight of Eitfel Tower and were
then turned northerly and sent to the
Chateau Thierry front, most important
sector
About a month previous, on June I'd,
the French in this sector, being hard
pressed, had been relieved by the Marines
of the Fifth and Sixth Regiment, and
by the Ninth and Twenty-Third regi-
ments of American regulars. In the lat
ter regiment Edward Allen Whitney of
Augusta was serving with distinction as
a first lieutenant. On June 4th, the Ger
mans again attacking, the French retired
through the Marines and Regulars, and
the latter received, and stopped the Ger
man attack. The next day, the Ameri-
cans counter-attacked and hurled the
Germans back. From the sixth to the
nineteenth of June, this Sec ond Division
of Marines and Regulars made six at
lacks and received nine counter attacks,
two, and sometimes, three, German Di-
visions. Among these troops were the
crack German regiment, the 18th and the
5th Prussian Guards.
Belleau Wood was taken and held, and
has now been christened Bots de la 5ri-
gade de Marines" 1t is the fight for
these woods which George Patullo so
wildly described in the Saturday Even
ing Post of August 31st in his article en-
titled fleetwood"
During this struggle for Belleau Wood
two battalions of the Third American
Division were sent in to support the Sec
ond Division. 1t was their first time in
line, but they held the position through
Belleau Wood and until the Marines had
taken a much needed rest. The Marines
then went back into position, and held until
relieved by the Yankee Division This was
accomplished on July 5th, when our New
England boys of the Goth Division took
over the line held by the Marines and &C.
cupied sector extending about five and
a half miles, from Torcy on the north
to Chateau Thierry on the south. The
French were operating in articulation on
the right and left flanks
On July 18th, as they took up their
position in the Chateau Thierry line, Gen
Division, issued the following order to
his troops:
Headquarters 10Th Division
American Expeditionary Force
General Orders France, July II, 1918.
/ No. 20.
! l. At the moment that the Goth Divi-
sion taxes up its position on it's third sec
tor in three months it is fitting and proper
! that the division commander should take
! this opportunity to thank and congratu-
late the officers and men of the Yankee
Division on the record that they have
achieved since the Division actively took
it's place in the fighting lines OF the Allies
for the common cause.
2. You have been taken from sector
where in three battles you have shown
that the blood of New England has not
attenuated and that the same spirit and
traditions which your forefathers made
glorious at Lexington and at Bunker Hill
survive in the generation which at Bots
Brule, Seicheprey, Humbert Plantation
and Xivray have met and defeated the
picked troops of the enemy. His -four
years Of experience in active warfare and
the ferocity of his methods have not
daunted you, and ON every occasion