Arizona republican., 1918-12-28
GENERAL MACARTHUR GIVEN MUCH PRAISE BY DIVISION CHIEF

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-A strik- ing tribute to the courage and skill of Brigadier General Dauglas MacAr- thur, commanding the S4th brigade, of the And (RainboW) Division, was given by Major General Charles T. Menoher, formerly in command of the division, in a letter to General Persh- ing urging for a second time the pro- motion of General Macarthur to the rank of major general.
 A copy of the communication has just reached Washington. It reviewed the record of General Macarthur and disclosed that the young officer, a major of engineers when the United States entered the war, had been twice wounded, had been decorated by both the French and American gov ernments for personal gallantry in ac- tion and in addition had been twice recommended for the French Legion of Honor.
 T do not feel that I am free to assume another command" General Menoher wrote to General Pershing. on the eve of his transfer to the com mand of the Sixth army corps with out recording the services rendered by General Douglas Macarthur. The contributions made to our military es-
 tablishment by this general officer
 have already had far reaching effects
 He has stood for the actual physical command of large bodies of troops in
 battle, not for a day. but for days
 duration, and I believe has actually
 commanded larger bodies of troops in
 the battle line than any other officer in our army with, in each instance, conspicuous success.
 He has developed, combined and applied the use of infantry and cor
 related armies with an effect upon the 1 enemy, husbandry of his own forces and means and a resourcefulness
 which no other American commander
 in the field has. His efforts have been
 untiring, uninterrupted and without the
 least regard for his personal safety at each of the many times when he felt his personal leadership required his presence in the thick of the strug- gle
 The itemized account of General | MacAfthur's services included the statement that the 42nd division "sus-
 taineG the full brunt' of the German drive in the Champagne last July. and that it was the skill and personal l supervision of this officer which made possible a great victory. Later, during the Aisne Marne offensive, the 42nd
 was driving toward the Vesle when an incident occurred which General Menoher described as follows: At the end of this phase of the divisions employment, when it had labored night and day for over a week l and was brought low in numbers by l vigorous resistance to the assaults from exceptionally powerful positions, occurred an example of leadership and the high qualities of command which I consider as unique. General Mac Arthur, himself on the advanced line at time when the American first army corps had not ordered the di-
 vision to advance, accurately diagnosed ! the situation as one in which the en-
 emy had but an hour before broken | contact In advance of orders and
 without delay, he, with my concurrence
 at an early hour galvanized the entire division into a prompt pursuit which l soon brought it on the very heels of 1 the enemy and gained possession of | the great massif of the forest of l Nesles.'
 General Menoher shows that it was 1 General MacArthurs brigade which ! broke the kriemhilde position in the 1 fighting north of Verdun with the cap 1 ture of Cote de Chatillion and adjacent
 heights and adds:
 Tn fairness I wish to say that after having attained the Cote de Chatillion
 by three days constant fighting, Gen.
 eral Macarthur had so husbanded and
 controlled his brigade that with un-
 used battalions he stood ready to iex- 1 ploit this success immediately, in case
 that had been ordered"