Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-17
YANKEES HAPPY,
JOB ENDED, WANT
To COME HOME
Correspondent Sees German
Soldiers Trying to Frater-
nize With Americans in
Middle of No Mans Land.
BY Lincoln Eyre.
Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish
ing Co.

With the American Army Near Yer
| dun, Nov. IL delayed, 1.-The frs
| flocks of the 1900 German airplane
| which are to be turned over to tn
| allies by the terms of the armistic,
| were winging across the lines to settlt
! down peaceably in our airdrome
| when ! walked down the road from
! Haumont toward the front.
| The road itself and the fields along
| side it bore evidences in the torn-ul
| soil and slashed trees of the terrible
! strife that had ragged there an hou
| before. In many places the earth wal
| stained with fresh blood psots, though
! all our dead and wounded had already
| been removed.
Germans Anxious TO Talk.
Suddenly among the trees ] caugh
| sight Of barbed wire marking the
German line. Ranged on either side
of it We're groups of men apparently
engaged in amicable converse. AS
drew near | saw that most of them
wore the gray green of Germany and
the rest our own olive drab.
1t was an uncanny spectacle. Fol
four years ] had known no mans land
as a place where one might never
show ones self, never stand upright
without risking sudden death. And
here We're men who little while be-
fore were striving to kill one another
by every known weapon that scientific
warfare has produced chatting quietly
together.
The Germans were all smiles and
were ready TO trade iron crosses and
other trinkets for package of Amer
lean cigarettes. Fifty yards away a
machine gun poked its sinister muzzle
above a low parapet and some Ger
mans who had been managing it were
in group with whom I talked.
They were unfeignedly delighted
that the armistice had come and APP
peared completely Indifferent to the
chaotic state of affairs in the faith.
erland. Most of them expressed the
belief that Germany would become q
republic. one stalwart young machine
gunner disputed this theory where
upon another exclaimed: Zach! But
they've already made a republic il
Munich and assassinated- the king Of
Saxony."
These men said they were to march
| northward Immediately and would bt
aboard trains in a couple of hours.
We will be back in Germany to-
night" they chorused happily.
The doughboys in the group said lit
tie. l caught one of them giving {
particularly husky boche a blacl
| look"
Say he muttered abruptly, "woult
| it bust the armistice if / was to to give
| that guy crack in the jaw
The German officers remained at {
! distance, though their men said the!
! We're just as glad as the rest that tbs
| fighting was done.
| The American soldier is the hap
| piest being alive. for he knows he has
! finished his job right and in sucf
| fashion that it will not have to bt
| tackled all over again in his lifetime
! at least, Now all he wants is to ge
| home.
RainbOws Triumph at Sedan.
To the Rainbow division, which
| was the third American contingent t
| reach France, belongs the glory of as
| surfing the capture of Sedan, the scent
| of the defeat of the armies of Napo
| leon III by the forces of the King o
! Prussia in 1870. That event marked
| the downfall Of the military prestige
| of France. Today Sedan's loss marks
| the collapse of Prussian militarism.
| IN tlOot COMPANY WIFI lilt IAdllibON
/ boys, aces Of the regular army First
| and Second divisions drove hard alont
| the Meuse. East of the river the Tween
! ty-siXth division faced the enemy
swept clean the ridges of the Frey;
| line and pushed on to Stenay.
1t is a fine and fitting climax t.
the epic of our wartime achievement
! that those divisions, whose records are
/ Ol0rip1gI,- syt-a in thn fIli1c n
| Cantigny or the shattered tree-stump
OF Belleau wood, along the blood
! stained banks of the Marine, Ourot
and Vesle, and amid the rolling mead
ows north of st. Mihiel, should shar,
in the final victory
BY special dispense ton, The censor
ship now permits correspondents t,
identify units engaged in this last on
slaught and to tell something of hov
] they rang down the curtain on the BAT
fled might of Germany
/ do not know, nor could I find TIL
time TO narrate, more than the bar
4 outlines of the prodigious feats accom-
I plished by the troops of our frs
army. In field of operations so vast
one dare not dwell upon details of in
dividual outfits or activities lest OIL
4 lose sight of the situation as whole
General Liggett on November re
newed his assaults on the westef
hinges of the German defensive sys
tenn. Within week the hinges wer
smashed and Germany was bowling t
the ultimatum of General Foch
In the thunderous thrust tina
Brought these things about. the Secon
division played a prominent part fror
the beginning. Subsequently the Firs
and Forty-second divisions had thei
turn. 1T was the Second division
mindful of the triumph of its marine
in Belleau wood of its infantrymen a
! VauX and OF both brigades in tn
scissors drive last July, and tn
storning Of Blanc Mont in Cham
pagne month ago-that swept tn
foe from Barricourt woods and b
nightfall Of November l was maste
Of all the Freya positions east of Blu
gancy.
on its left. the Eightieth divisio
from Virginia >and western Pennsyl
vania took Buzancy. Further west
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