Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-13

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hold them back so that they can be
greeted in a proper manner. Not un-
til some time this afternoon, there
fore, will the exact hour be known.
But when they do arrive the city
will tear loose in honor of the vet
Grams of Verdun. Whistles will be
blown on all the mills and factories
A large crowd will be at the station
If Governor Brumbaugh is in the city
he will probably be in the receiving
line, and Mayor Keister at least will
be on hand
In Harrisburg the blue Devils"
will be quartered at the Civic Club,
in Front street, the entire building
being placed at the disposal OF the
men, every one of whom has won at
least one decoration on the field OF
battle.
Captain Stine and William Jen-
nings are making arrangements for
their reception. A guard of honor is
10 be furnished. consisting of the
local company of the Reserve Mill
tia, while the Spanish-American War
Veterans and the Foreign Service
Veterans and members of the local
posts of the Grand Army and other
Grand Army men residing here
will also appear in the pa
rade from the station through the
principal streets to the Civic CLUB.
There will be a band, of course. y.
At night all of the Blue Devils
will be found in the auditorium,
where their officers will be among
the speakers. These officers are:
Lieutenant Albert LeMoal, Second
Chausseurs, who is in command OF
the unit; Lieutenant ]. Cavel, of the
I4Sd Colonial Regiment; Lieutenant
r. Cruzeau, of the 4th Zouaves, and
Lieutenant Marcel Levie, of the
Chausseurs Alpines.
Concerning the appearance of the
Blue Devils" in Philadelphia yes
terday the Inquirer said this morn
ing:
direct from the battlefront of France,
bringing with them undiminished
and unchanged the dauntless spirit
that won for them in the savagery of
battle the name that tells in two
words of the part they have played
in the great game.
"Picturesquely uniformed in hori-
zon blue, their legs wrapped in gray
puttees, a mountain of field equip
ment strapped to their strong, broad,
muscular backs, their Alpine hats
cooked jauntily to one side and with
bouquets OIL FOSeSt SdlAdtiOiiS oHN
yiolets sticking in the muzzles of
their long rifles, a hundred of them
detrained last night at els o'clock
in the Broad street station from an
Atlantic City train" =,
Exactly what the Blue Devils, ="
officially the Chausseurs Alplnes
really are, was explained by Lieuten-
ant. LeMoal
First they are the storm troops of
France. They are the picked men
drawn from the first regiments of
the French Army. They are selected
from among the bravest of the
brave. To be drawn for service with
the Chausseurs Alpines indicates to
all France that the man has proved
himself not only a fearless fighter,
but one who thinks while he fights.
1t has been the selection of men of
such exceptional fighting qualities
and their mobilization into single
battalion which has led to their be-
coming the most efficient troops on
the battlefront. With their special
drills, their months of training, their
vigorously enforced habits of moder-
alton, they become the pick corps
of the allied armies.
They were organized to meet a
need. Germany early demonstrated
that she had her picked corps of
shock troops" and to meet them
France developed her Chausseurs
Alpines. To-day they are the SHOCK
troops of France. In service they
are held back for the hour when
the desperate storming charge is to
be made.
They they are massed and sent
smashing against the German posi-
tions. Sometimes they are sent to
smash the German "shock troops"
and then a gladiatorial contests re-
suits in which the Chausseurs AL
pines have proved themselves the
masters of their German foemen so
often that they won for themselves
the name by which they are known
throughout the world, the Blue
Devils" of France.