The sun., 1918-10-10
YANKEE 'NON-COMS'
HONORED BY BRITISH.
Private Included in Three Who
Get Medals for Conspicu-
Gus Bravery.
ENEMY MORALE EBBING
Armies Exhausted, Is View
Troops Take Of the Peace
PrOffer.
ny FERRY ROBINSON.
Special Gable Despatch to Tns suN from, fAs
London Tsmss Service.

Special Gable Despatch to TEE suS from Ms
London Times Service.
Copyright. 1878; an ripAts reswved.
WrrH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE.
Oct, s.-The British military medal has
been conferred on two American nom
commissioned officers and one private
pr conspicuous gallantry In action. Be
sides these instances Of unusual bravery
It came to light that an American Ser
geant Reader Waller. q Norwegian by
birth and technically a Norwegian clti-
zen. since he has only his first papers
for American citizenship. had shown re-
markable gallantry.
Sergeant Waller brought back to our
lines seven men, an American Sergeant
and six British infantrymen. These men.
all wounded. were crawling from she'll
hole to shell hole under heavy FIRE.
Waller. seeing thepsz.went out with two
of his men and helped them in. Once
back Of our lines these rescued men
told Waller they had left three COM
rades in disabled tank, and not wishing
to expose any Of his men Waller started
off alone to rescue the trio in the tank.
When he got there he found the tank
had been set afire and that the wounded
men inside were in grave danger OF
being incinerated. Hastily dragging
them out he found the clothes OF one
already In flames. He extinguished the
fire and then began the journey back to
the lines. Two OF the men were SC
severely wounded they could not wall,
and Waaler had to carry Thorn In relays
Finally after long effort ~ brought
them all to safety.
Waller was formerly o member OF
Squadron A. New York Cavalry. He
bears the reputation OF being q remark
ably fine soldier and the officers OF his
regiment say he would have been com.
missioned long ago except for the fact
that he Is not a full hedged American
citizen. He Is an American at heart
however. and the men and officers OF
his company as well as his British com.
rades cannot honor him enough.
We continue TO get a large number OF
| documents showing an ever greater de-
cline in enemy morale. Most Of these
documents speak of characterization and
desertion. One army order threatens
that deserters and those who refused to
obey orders will be punished with the
hardest kind Of labor on mat part OF
the front where the bullets aSe falling
thickest.
The Germans on this part Of tho front
seem more depressed than ever. They
have been acquainted. apparently, with
| the new Chancellor's peace proffer. In
some regiments the men were addressed
| by their officers. who told them the
Kaiser wished peace. and that peace
| therefore, would come. The impression
| made on the troops by the news OF the
peace offer seems to have been profound
Some OF the more Intelligent among thS
prisoners talked freely of the erect. say
| ing the first immediate result would b.
an immense stride toward the democrat.
ization Of the empire. with a responsible
Government. In order that Germany
| could speak with a voice to which the
Entente Powers would listen.
One officer said frankly: "This II
| the end Of the war. Germany does moi
| have men to continue the war. and nov
| that she has shown her weakness BY
proposing peace she could not get ar
army to fight even II she had one"
The Americans had hard fighting abou'
| Brancourt but distinguished themselves
as always. They are known to >hav,
| taken 1900 prisoners and come guns
When last heard Of them they wer'
| through Fraicourt Wood and 2.o0t
yards east of Brancourt. They ar,
probably much further by this time. a.
there Is no stopping them when the,
| get to going. Our one great difficult,
with the Americans 10, to hold then
back