Newark post., 1918-11-27

after them the Americans ant
reverses started.
81 thoroughly believe" s.
the speaker. 'that if one of
Channel ports or Paris had
taken, the war would have
prolonged at least five years
you know what stopped it? II
10000 American boys landin
the shores of France every
The French and the American
diers saved the day and thel
Allies started a drive on Ju
that has been going every
since" He related how the A
cans in their first fighting hel
lines against seasoned Ge
shock troops and the Ger
could not get through again.
He told of General Bull
analysis of the Italian stu
and Germany's plan to redu
to a second or third class T
and the withdrawal from
front of a sufficient force fro1
Austrian armies to break th1
the western lines. The arriv
the Americans turned the It'd,
forced the Germans to cl
their plans.
He paid high tribute tc
Americans who held fast at
tigny despite eight counter
-tacks; to the marienes at CHI
Thierry who held their line
though nearly decimated an
the soldiers Of the 22nd and
divisions who virtually sto
the drive started on July II.
He outlined his itinerary
1000 miles from the port OF
barkation to the front and to
personal observations at Dun
Ypres, Verdun and Rheims,
along a 300-mile front in Ital,
The Smelling of Dunkirk
In Dunkirk there is hard
building that has not been st
and some have been hit from
marines, airships and land {
While in Calais, he stated, {
night at sunset the whistle
she'll probably 10 miles in tn,
fired by Big Bertha" coulc
heard going over the town.
shell was directed at Dunkirk
| for weeks and weeks shell
big Bertha" more than 26 n
away, was fired into Dunkirk.
soldiers in Calais as the S
passed over each evening Woul,
mark there goes the Dunkirk
press" When the approach of
she'll was first heard it was fla
to Dunkirk and it would give
inhabitants of that city just
minute and a half to get to t
cellars before the shell would
"The lame, the halt, the blind
the bed-ridden," he said, ex
enced no difficulty in gettin
places of safety in that time.
The Belgian army, he said,
actually been on the increase e
day since the war started and
four and half years the Bel
army is stronger under all hs
caps than it was at the start.
means that the Belgians one
and another have been get
over the Dutch border and joi
their army to defend their coul
The speaker also told of Sc
a wonderful air battle Will,
was at Calais. He said he
three others watched the fight
two minutes after it was owe
one of them told the same thir
to just what happened in the
To him he said it looked as thu
three Boche machines were att
ing one English plane. He tho
. he saw the English plane "
, the other three were circ
around it, stand on it's tail, n
, some other wonderful turns in
, air and get one of the Boche
chimes which dropped in the o.
and disappeared. The next da,
: went to the English airdome
far away, and on meeting the t
, mandant expressed a desire tc
3 the man who had charge of
/, machine that was in the fight
S got one of the Germans. He
= when he was introduced to
S man he proved to be a 22-year
\ Canadian lieutenant from Van
= yer.
S The lieutenant told him actu
e what did happen, which was
g tirely different from what ei
e he or his three friends had thol
d thev saw. He said the fioht