Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-19
AMERICANS END FIGHTING
hi WITH CAPTURE OF sTENAY
Wrist Yankee Company to Engage in
War at front When Guns
lt Cease Firing.
ssaERMANs CELEBRATE DEFEAT

Show Moro Vociferous Joy at Return
of Pace Than Victorious L. 5.
Cigarettes.
s'wITH THE AMERICAN FIRST
ARMY IN FRANCE. November II tDc-
iayed).-On the dot OF II o'clock this
morning Band Sersean, Herman c.
Miller led all that is left of the band
of the One Hundred and Twcntysccond
~, Field Artillery into grove OF trees on
III Che battle field of l.aunevillc and Ste
l7s.,nsy. There were about eighteen men.
I, Ill come from Chicago. Miller himself.
in time Of peace, lives at 26l5 Payne
e street. Evanston. With switch for
20 baton, he gave the signal. The band
5ssmarch. written by w. c. Wight. The
echo Of the last shot had scarcely died
s..a!away on the American from, as the
srartillery bandsmen struck up the mu-
assic- hundred yards from the grow
ist G en nc hr.frs
baby into the German limos from =
French l5millimc;er niece
probably bc ntrMinsh!c argument as
tL tho dist;rc.iNI = hrin= tho las. a.
4--rlair1 .icd unti 1899 before
cutti In ono battery. rushed
Il into with tho intsnti',I cf FIR
Ing sdlvc, the big guns were
6i.- because they could not
res position in time.
= the front lines. Ameri-
car rs rather dejectcd.y
VA no Germans in wild ccic-
brati". inc German soldiers ere or
ing the SKY with rockets and l;rcs
fr,Thc Americans arc not permitted ="
yceleh.atc in that fashion
.Hf,ares were set off and oo"asional
.sfishot was hoard hut the front, -liir reg
had when hen" Il hos, fin ceased Thc%
have patrols out usual. During the
day. at several places ;,,; aions TIC hn",
..tSermans came over TO tho Amct'c can
outpos,s WITH outs,rctehed hands, The
r sTn Iron sm croaEcs knves and Ecl
rats and other belongings for Amer
an cigarettes. Americans talked with
,,.:Tn frequently. hut no Americans left
iieiv lines to go 10 tho Germans. They
'swerc not allowed.
~sBOTH SIDES GLAD
i,.as FIGHTING IL OVER
fpua 1T was curious situation. with tho
Motors quiet and the losers so fever
ishiy celebrating their defeat, one
by sunday. They were all unu,tcrably
and sincerely glad that the business
OF killing was ended SO are The
Americans for that matter; but the
men in the front lines were no, giving
a much vocferous expression 10 their
gladncSS to-day az the Germans lhcS
KS eemcd to take it as matter OF course
~ Company L. sixteenth Infantry.
.;hich had the frs engagement OF any
init in the American army in ,his war.
marched out of the battle line this
morning with the rest Of the regiment.
rast the place where Milisrs band n, was
Veterans OF that first engagement.
which was jus, raid. \ fresh divi-
rev men. They knew hsh,ing. had
Battery {. sixth Field Artillery
which AIRED the first shot in the war
-ES FAR as the Americans are concerned
mas not in the line when tho finish
came.
Sergeant Arch was the man who
pulled the lanyard on that occasion,
AS far rs is known he is still alive.
The mon o; The Eighty ninth Divi-
sion were walking through Stcnay in
sliiTmsh line when il o'clock came
this morning. Stenay was about the
largest town along the American front
10: which the Yankees were lighting
when the hour for the cessation of
hosti!itics arrived |, was the head
1.uarters, of the German Crown Prince
yuurihS the campo ign around Ncrdun.
The Eighty-n!nth is the division
which the chief Of operations of the
broken the German line when il took
the Bois de Bar!icourt, insuring the
success OF the. american operations
iiha; day. Ii is crack division OF
drafted mon made UP o: whole rcei-
ncnts from Kansas and Missouri and
units from .ScbTa sfIa Minnesota Colo
RADIO New Msy;c6 and other midwest
crn Rocky Mountain States. They knew
last night, with the rest OF the Amer
lean forces. that hostiiitics would end
a, II. but they went right on after
Stenay. The Germans had opened the
foodgates OF the canal there and Wild
CHed the Mcusc TO ! 600 yards The
E:Ehty-ninth crossed the foo; bridges
On that particular front the Germans
nut up terrific fight to the last. Their
artillery fire was vicious and quite ac-
curate. They threw over heavy stuff.
The las, shell came along about s
THIS morning. Il looked As If they had
made an effort 10 hold StcnaY until IL
o'clock Eu, when the American pa
;EalS Got n thc.' found only four Ger
mans. They Wer" made prisoners. but
ici roam around for Il time al VIII
GERMANS ORJECr 70 REI.G
CAPTURED roo OFTEN
~ Every fresh detachment o! imcri-
.l-nS that entered the town rccaptured
Them. Finally, one became quoru!ous
"a oout the matter and said he Vas SICK
OF being taken prisoner.
At II O'Clock sharp the platoon com.
"r'Snders Teassembicd their men IN the
nstreets of the town. in column forma-
ton They scattered out and began
finding quarters for themselves That's
about the only formality there was al
tho stopping OF the war Oh that front
Stenay was city OF old folks \