, 1918-07-11
THE BOYS OWN NEWSPAPER.
1.-THE Stars and Stripes" Is q Newsy
Publication Put Out by Ameri-
can Boys in the War Zone.

The Sun is indebted to Mrs. Edison
Newman for the opportunity to peruse
a couple OF copies of 1.-THE Stars and
Stripes" a newsy eight-page weekly
paper published by and For the Sol
diers of the A. e. F." in France. The
papers are brim full of interesting news
matter concerning the boys. and their
activities, n columns of their con-
tents might be reproduced to the inter-
est Of u readers.
The paper has been established but
a few months, and these copies were
recently forwarded to the home folks
by Angus England, one of the Platte
Valley boys now in the trenches and a
son-in-law of Mrs. Newman. During
the recent Red Cross drive sixteen
copies of THE Stars and Stripes were
sold in New York City at public auc-
ton and brought about $4,000, an av-
erage of $S12.50 per copy.
From the issue dated May 81 the fol-
lowing article is reproduced, giving an
account of the first assault in force
made by the American boys, at which
time they captured from the Germans
the village of Cantigny, their coup De
ing described by the French authorities
as a brilliant stroke. Their success
full surprise attack was, pulled off on
April %, and concerning it the paper
says:
Our troops made their first attack
in force since Americas entry into the
war when, on Tuesday Of this week,
they stormed and captured the village
of Cantigny and reduced the disturbing
salient in the Allied line northwest of
Montdidier.
''The battle was fought just a year to
a day after General Pershing and his
staff set sail from the harbor of New
York as the vanguard of the biggest
military expedition in American his
tory. 1t was launched on the second
day Of the great German offensive Of
the Aisne.
an length of line involved, in num-
bers engaged and in magnitude of the
detectives contemplated, this battle,
when compared with the vast battle
developing to h east, was but a minor
engagement. But within its limits, Il
was n complete and striking success.
THE attack won the description
'~brilliantin the official French com
munique, and those who took part In 1t
earned the hearty applause of the
French officers, who were full of com
pliments for h work done by their pu-
pills and Allies from overseas in what
they call the American Battle of Can
tigny.'
1.-The village was taken, together with
Its defenses to the north and south, In
an attack pressed to a depth Of a kilo-
meter and a half along a front of two
kilometers and a half. The positions
thus captured were held. The Germans
cOunter-attacked twice before the day
was lone and four times the next morn
ing, but the counter-attacks were fruit
less. In the prisoners pen when the
day raj done could be counted more
than 200 captives, including three Off
GERS and several non-coms.
The Importance of the little village
of Cantigny can scarcely be measured
by its size. Its fall Strengthened out an
embarrassing salient and took from the
enemy an ideal observation point from
which, with its command of the valley,
he could watch what was going on for
miles beyond our lines and could d.
rect his fire accordingly.
Furthermore. it wrested from him
a network of cellars, all linked together,
particularly by a long tunnel under a
chateau In the southern part of the vii
lage which might be described as the
citadel of Cantigny.
The American attack was made with
all the ~new-fangled instruments of mod
ern warfare. Tanks, gas bombs, flame